How to find website icons for your consulting firm in 2021

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• "courts and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have continually referenced the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA success criteria as the standard to gauge whether websites are accessible."
• "Instead of the pretend-to-get-stuff-done maneuvering above, start by diving into WCAG 2.0 AA and taking care of the biggest obstacles to accessibility and most common lawsuit complaints."
• "What the flexibility language is acknowledging is that although WCAG is currently the best solution for determining whether a website is accessible, it’s an imperfect standard."
• "#3 Don’t Pay for Automated Scans The way you get started with accessibility is typically you 1) audit and then 2) remediate your website."
• "And while you figure out your plan of action and are in the process of making your website accessible, you might get hit by a demand letter or lawsuit."
• "Get my WCAG checklists and sign up to get my plain English guide on what all of WCAG 2.0 AA + 2.1 AA success criteria actually mean (free): Sign up free at Accessible.org Read more of my articles on Web Accessibility and ADA Compliance: Lowering your risk of a demand letter Why accessibility toolbars/widgets/plugins aren’t compliant Does every website need to be ADA compliant?."

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• "Led by BSR’s Healthy Business Coalition, in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and member companies, our new strategy aims to help companies address these conflicts to improve health and drive business success."
• "Data privacy concerns aside, employees are more engaged and committed to companies with strong cultures of health, and they expect health-related benefits."
• "Companies will increasingly see political and civil society pressure to change their ways of working and will potentially be forced to accept lower levels of profitability to make health-related products, services, and programs more affordable."
• "In light of this context, BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) and the Healthy Business Coalition are partnering with our member companies in consumer products and retail; food, beverage, and agriculture; healthcare; and information and communications technology to advance a coordinated strategy on health."
• "The Healthy Business Coalition aims to bring clarity to the issues, helping companies define their scope of responsibility and then drive improvements in a way that promotes business success."

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• "Underscoring the urgency, here are a few assumptions from technology research firm Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019[i]: “By 2021, organizations that bypass privacy requirements and are caught lacking in privacy protection will pay 100% more in compliance cost than competitors that adhere to best practices.” “By 2022, at least 40% of new application development projects will have artificial intelligence co-developers on the team.” “By 2023, 20% of organizations will be budgeting for quantum computing projects, compared to less than 1% in 2018.” These assumptions have implications that can affect your business faster than you might think."
• "Thanks to recent advancements in cloud computing technology, you now have access to highly secure data centers at companies like Microsoft and Google for a fraction of the cost of maintaining a data storage server at your office."
• "If your company files are centralized and stored on Microsoft’s cloud servers, each person on your team can use their local, powerful Word, Excel or Powerpoint applications to edit the same document at the same time."

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• "Once the customer’s health examination records are passed to the blockchain-based authentication system, the data provided is made immutable being stored on the blockchain.” While the system itself is being implemented by ICONLOOP, there were hints of how it might integrate into the ICON public chain: “J.H."

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• "For instance, this report gives recommendations for choosing good set preview colors and also shares our golden rules for approving icons for our marketplace."
• "Check out the full list here: Search keywords with no results Another interesting data piece to look at are the searches with few results, ordered by the number of searches between March 1st, 2018 and March 1st, 2019."
• "We start by looking at supply and demand data for Q2, then we continue with identifying more general opportunities in the Iconfinder marketplace and we finish by answering two questions that are relevant to icon designers: firstly, what are the best practices for icon set previews and secondly, what are the criteria that Iconfinder follows when approving icons."
• "We touch upon the topic of colors for icon set previews and we also present the criteria Iconfinder follows when deciding which icons make it into our marketplace."
• "Background colors look good if they make the icons stand out, as in the case of the two sets below."