Accessibility-First Design
Typography in Inclusive Design Part 2: Choosing typefaces and laying out text content
By taking an inclusive approach and designing with people with disability at the centre, we can create more accessible typography for everyone.
Social Media Accessibility: Inclusive Design Tips for 2023
Alt Text as Poetry Workbook
Our workbook consists of written introduction about alt text and alt text as poetry. A series of writing exercises.
Our workbook consists of:
Written introduction about alt text and alt text as poetry.
A series of writing exercises.
Building UX research practices for inclusion
Join Maureen, former behavioral researcher turned UXR, and Josh, an accessibility lead at Veterans Affairs, for a deep dive into the common pitfalls of inclusive UX research from the projection bias of expert testers to the unequal distribution of power during analysis.
Join Maureen, former behavioral researcher turned UXR, and Josh, an accessibility lead at Veterans Affairs, for a deep dive into the common pitfalls of inclusive UX research from the projection bias of expert testers to the unequal distribution of power during analysis. They’ll share actionable guidance on how to further mature an inclusive research practice from purposeful sampling strategies to intersectional awareness and equitable hiring practices.
360° Accessible Book Publishing
In this talk, we will go through some accessibility actions for everyone in the publishing industry.
An inclusive design workflow for teams
In this talk, Scott Vinkle will share his experience while working with Shopify's Flagship Themes team. Scott will explain how he implemented a new team-wide workflow which included accessibility in each aspect of the product creation lifecycle. This resulted in the team shipping highly accessible themes by default.
Removing Bias with Wizard of Oz Screen Reader
Learn about our process, trials and errors, and successes we’ve had in adapting the Wizard of Oz method for screen readers.
Learn about our process, trials and errors, and successes we’ve had in adapting the Wizard of Oz method for screen readers.
Trauma-informed Website Design
If a doctor, therapist, or police officer can communicate in a trauma-informed way, why can’t a website?
In this session, you'll gain practical tips, free tools, and places for further learning. Walk away with concrete plans to make your website more trauma-informed.
Making the web a more welcoming place for minority languages
In this talk I will instead focus on some of the smaller steps that we as designers and technologists can take to make the web a more inclusive and welcoming place for our minority language users.
The technical challenges for minority languages can seem insurmountable; research & development is often market driven, and by definition, minority languages can’t promise large profits to Big Tech and so are overlooked. However, in this talk I will instead focus on some of the smaller steps that we as designers and technologists can take to make the web a more inclusive and welcoming place for our minority language users.
How to be inclusive to neurodiverse people
First there’s an overview of the different neurodiverse conditions, then we talk about why inclusion is important, then finally you’ll be given 7 tips on how you can be more inclusive. Interaction is optional and if you’d like to join in, please bring a pen and paper.
The indisputable truth about accessibility
Almost 50% of 1.5 million Dutch people use one or more of digital accessibility settings. In my talk I will share the insights and learnings from this research. This helped me to convince others to focus on a11y from the beginning. Now it will help you, too.
The UX of accessibility checklist
There are many different accessibility checklist you can find on Internet. But what makes a great one? And how can you integrate it to your process? These are the 2 main questions I will cover in this talk.
Really inclusive online conferences
In this presentation I'll look at the decisions that went into our efforts to make our conferences as inclusive as possible, with particular focus on our accessibility efforts–including our ARIA Live Region based accessible slides system, that makes one of the least accessible aspects of any presentation, slides, as accessible as possible.
Inclusive Persona Extension
I would like to introduce "Inclusive Persona Extension", a tool to facilitate the consideration of accessibility in the web design process.
Empathy is broken - Moving from cognition to compassion
Join a designer with a devoted nonviolent communication practice to learn about practices that will help you expand your empathy practice to reduce harm and address needs.
Examining the Deceptive Practices of Accessibility Overlay Tools
This article intends to examine the user interface (UI) design strategies of accessibility overlay tools, and their implications on the access of internet for people with disabilities.
The Recipe for Making Accessible Widgets
In this session, we will explore the distinct layers of making an accessible widget and go through its design considerations.
Web Accessibility for Speech Recognition users
In this session, we’ll figure out how speech recognition supports different accessibility techniques and what coding practices we should avoid. Additionally, we’ll learn about best practices for enhancing user experiences for speech recognition users.
Web accessibility design recommendations for people with cognitive disabilities
This article conducts a review of the current understanding of experts in the field as exemplified by Web design guidelines. It provides current Web design recommendations that have achieved a high degree of agreement as well as four recommendations for implementation.
Designing Accessible Learning Content
Considered the ‘standard work in our field’ and ‘a must read for all eLearning professionals,’ Designing Accessible Learning Content by eLaHub Director Susi Miller is a comprehensive guide to ensuring learning content conforms to best-practice accessibility standards and complies with legal requirements.
Designing Accessible Learning Content
Helperbird
Helperbird is a browser extension that gives you the features to make the web more accessible and you more productive. Providing you with dyslexia fonts, dyslexia support, text to speech, overlays, dyslexia ruler, immersive reader, Reading Mode, annotations and more.
Born Accessible Publishing
Below are a few resources to help publishers and the myriad of other new, digital content creators understand the basics of how to make content born accessible. These resources highlight the challenges that images, interactivity, math equations and other complex features pose, but also demonstrate how they can be addressed.
Accessible Math
Making math accessible means providing multiple ways for students to interact with math content, including equations, graphs, and other notation.
Creating Accessible Google Slides
Use the built-in accessibility features of Google Slides to create accessible presentations.
Adobe Acrobat Accessibility Evaluations
How to make sure PDF documents are accessible using Adobe Acrobat.
Accessible Books Consortium (ABC)
The ABC aims to increase the number of accessible (braille, audio, e-text, large print) books worldwide for people with print disabilities.
Annual Accessibility Awards
The Advisory Committee on Accessibility (ACA) celebrates and recognizes Calgarians who are improving the quality of life for persons with disabilities through the ACA Annual Awards program.
Accessibility in Action Awards
In recognition of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), ADCET now holds annual Accessibility in Action Awards to recognise passion, innovation, good practice and leadership in accessibility.
Accessibility in Action Awards
FCC Chair's Awards for Advancement in Accessibility
The FCC Chairman’s Awards for Advancement in Accessibility (Chairman’s AAA) recognize outstanding private and public-sector ventures – by individuals, organizations, academics, companies and government agencies – that advance accessibility for people with disabilities.