https://rietta.com/tags/accessibility/ Recent content in accessibility on Rietta Cybersecurity Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us 1999-2026 Rietta Inc. All Rights Reserved. https://rietta.com/blog/threat-modeling-ada-wcag-compliance/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://rietta.com/blog/threat-modeling-ada-wcag-compliance/ Why Accessibility Belongs in Your Threat Model Most organizations treat digital accessibility as a content problem: someone finds a missing alt tag, fixes it, and moves on. I think that’s the wrong frame entirely. Digital accessibility is an organizational risk and governance gap, and once you see it that way, the right tool for the job isn’t a content checklist. It’s the same discipline we already use for application security: threat modeling and continuous technical monitoring. https://rietta.com/blog/five-pillars-infosec-ada-accessibility/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://rietta.com/blog/five-pillars-infosec-ada-accessibility/ Rietta is a cybersecurity firm. So why have the last three posts on this blog been about missing document titles, undefined languages, and metadata fields in government PDFs? My reasoning comes down to this: accessibility failures are security failures, specifically, they’re availability failures, and detecting them at scale is exactly the discipline our industry already practices. To explain why, it helps to back up and lay out the actual model we use to reason about security in the first place. https://rietta.com/blog/metadata-in-wordperfect-ada-wcag-compliance/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://rietta.com/blog/metadata-in-wordperfect-ada-wcag-compliance/ Courts throughout the United States still use WordPerfect. So why is metadata still being ignored? In our work with State courts, we have come across WordPerfect files, or PDF documents generated from them, with metadata deficiencies: no title (or subject), no author, and so forth. Now that WCAG 2.1 requirements are enforced through ADA Title II, documents without sufficient metadata to assist a user with disabilities using assistive technology are non-conformant with federal law. https://rietta.com/blog/real-ada-title-ii-findings/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://rietta.com/blog/real-ada-title-ii-findings/ I recently wrote about the upcoming ADA Title II deadline for governments with 50k or more residents in their jurisdiction. Overview As we continue to work with Government organizations, Rietta is providing plain language reporting on the issues and tying them directly back to the requirements. Our reports cover a lot of ground, some of which is not talked about in accessibility circles quite enough. For example, we have a very strong argument that using the same title over and over again is not compliant even though accessibility vendors will do that as they seem to be looking at documents one at a time and not corpus wide. https://rietta.com/blog/real-ada-title-ii-deadline/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000 https://rietta.com/blog/real-ada-title-ii-deadline/ As a government agency, do you know how many of your documents will soon be a litigation risk under the ADA? In our cybersecurity work, Rietta has the pleasure of working with a number of government entity clients. In the last few years, a new risk has appeared linked with web content accessibility. Last year, we worked with one particular client to ensure their thousands of PDF documents were ready by the deadline with appropriate alternate content and an accommodation workflow.