As journalists, advertisers, producers, and creators, content is at our core at Vox Media. We want to ensure that everyone—regardless of ability, situation, or context—can access it.

As a UX designer, it is important to build empathy and celebrate accessibility requirements as a set of design constraints to build a…

Accessibility can benefit your users and also improve the brand of your product. Learn how to plan for, and focus your efforts on, designing for accessibility.

What’s the difference between accessible design and inclusive design? Both aim to lower interaction barriers for people with diverse backgrounds and abilities, but key differences remain. #business #product #accessibility #inclusion #ui #design #ux #infographic

The internet is a primary source of information, entertainment, and communication. Yet, for people with disabilities, there are barriers in place that make these things inaccessible, as many websites don’t consider their needs.

Simulating disabilities promotes distress and fails to improve attitudes toward disabled people, undermining efforts to improve integration even while participants report more empathetic concern and "understanding of what the disability experience is like." (PsycINFO Database Record

ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications—attributes of elements of HTML. Use with caution, in regards to accessibility.

Keyboard-Only User The keyboard-only user relies on the keyboard to navigate the website pages and activate elements on the page.  This user does not use a mouse.

Agile development relies on user stories to define the work that needs to be done. Accessibility requirements must be included at this stage to ensure accessible websites. See examples and tips.

by Alwar Pillai, CEO and Co-Founder, Fable I started Fable, an accessibility platform powered by people with disabilities because I wanted to change the status quo around accessibility. While creat…

The Digital Services Georgia Team made all its themes consistent with WCAG 2.0 (AA) standards, making all state agencies hosted on Digital Services Georgia platform more accessible for elders or those with disabilities.

Karwai Pun is an interaction designer currently working on Service Optimisation to make existing and new services better for our users. Karwai is part of an accessibility group at Home Office Digital, leading on autism. Together with the team, she’s created these …

Ramps can sometimes present challenges for designers and architects. They are useful (and sometimes required by law) for strollers, wheelchairs and any device with wheels for that matter. Ae…

Visualizing user attitudes and behaviors in an empathy map helps UX teams align on a deep understanding of end users.

If you live in an American city and you don’t personally use a wheelchair, it’s easy to overlook the small ramp at most intersections, between the sidewalk and the street. Today, these curb cuts are everywhere, but fifty years ago — when an activist named Ed Roberts was young — most urban corners featured a sharp

In many ways, the built world was not designed for you. It was designed for the average person. Standardized tests, building codes, insurance rates, clothing sizes, The Dow Jones – all these measurements are based around the concept of an “average.” The modern use of averages was pioneered by a Belgian mathematician and astronomer named

Given the popularity of digital forms, it's important to design them with accessibility in mind. Read on for top tips to build an accessible form.

In this talk Hector will dissect the structure of an eCommerce website and highlight the areas were are potentially creating unaccessible experiences by design. You will learn what you need to watch out for when creating accessible eCommerce experiences, identify which components are unintentionally unaccessible and present some ideas on how to make them more usable.

Accessibility is often overlooked or bolted on to the end of a project from the experiences in my career in web development and design. The case for accessibility is something we as people who create and build things for the web should be implementing and advocating for from the inception of a project to the release or handoff and beyond.

Getting Started Content Writers Designers Developers Evaluators, Testers Managers Policy Makers Trainers, Educators Web Users, People with Disabilities, Advocates

Provides a breakdown of WCAG 2.0 accessibility responsibilities throughout the Web production chain.

Developing WCAG 3.0 Jeanne Spellman I’m Jeanne Spellman, one of the leads on the WCAG3 project. I have been a web developer specializing in accessibility for over 20 years. I have been working on accessibility standards since 2008. I am one of the founders of the WCAG3 project. These slides are o...

This Style Guide provides principles that can help ensure that written material considers the difficulties experienced by some dyslexic people and allows…

Best Practices We constantly update our compendium of knowledge that designers, developers, and content editors should know to fulfill their role. [view:accessibility_concepts=block_1]

Accessibility guidance for DWP and the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018

There’s a saying in the music industry that the easiest way to ruin a song is to keep working on it. Add enough effects, extra guitar parts, or more cowbell, and you’ll turn Woody Guthrie into Guns N’ Roses. Knowing when a piece of art is “done” is subjective and often difficult to define. But...