Hiring Accessibility Consultants, Staff & User Testers
Many accessibility consultants are available for hire to help build and fix accessibility issues, and to provide staff trainings.
A11y Cat: digital accessibility resources
Staff Training Resources - Peatworks
Communicating Your Commitment to Accessibility: Tips for Employers - Peatworks
Play 1: Build a business case - Peatworks
Accessibility: Making the Business Case for Employers
Developing a business case can significantly help in your quest to advocate for an accessible workplace.
Business Case for Equitable AI
Digital Accessibility Experts
Whether you call it Inclusive Design or Digital Accessibility, whether you're an individual with a passion or an organisation wanting to know more, this podcast explores a range of topics on accessibility. Hosted by Jonathan Hassell, its aim is to share inspiration, expertise, and hints and tips to help speed you on your digital accessibility journey.
Future of Work Podcast by Peatworks
A Survey of Autism Spectrum Disorder Friendly Websites
In this paper, we evaluate six hundred websites for autism friendliness across four primary categories including: (Autism Focused, U.S. Federal, Google Autism Search, and Alexa Rating).
We show that font and animation are significant features with respect to the Website ASD Rating score.
Testing with speech recognition
A guide to testing your web content using speech recognition, looking at the ways in which speech recognition users interact with content, and the accessibility considerations these imply.
Quick Start for Evaluating and Testing Web Accessibility
This WebAIM Workshop presented by Jared Smith and Jonathan Whiting at the 2022 Web Accessibility In Mind Conference provides a quick start for evaluating and testing web accessibility.
Shell Little: Accessible Roots Grow A Healthy Framework
Shell Little presents Accessible Roots Grow A Healthy Framework at the 2022 Web Accessibility In Mind Conference.
Accessibility Convincing
Lainey Feingold presents Accessibility Convincing: Putting ethics, people with disabilities, and civil rights at the center.
Shop Accessible: Concrete Strategies for Procuring Accessible/Inaccessible Solutions
A designer's guide to documenting accessibility & user interactions
A talk on where and how to document accessibility.
From Projects to Programs: Accessibility in Digital Strategy
Getting to the Core of Data Visualization Accessibility
Sheri Byrne-Haber presents How (and why) to 'shift-left' your accessibility testing
Sheri Byrne-Haber presents for the 2022 Web Accessibility in Mind Conference hosted by WebAIM and Pope Tech.
Designing for people who use a mouse - Web Accessibility In Mind Conference
Reginé Gilbert presents Inclusion and Accessibility in XR: Exploring experiences - WebAIM Conference
Text Display Aspects that Users Need to Customize
Understanding Users Needs - TAdER Project on Text Adaptability
The TAdER project encourages developers to include specific text customization functionality in their products to meet the needs of people with low vision, dyslexia, and related conditions that impact reading.
One Font Doesn’t Fit All: The Influence of Digital Text Personalization on Comprehension in Child and Adolescent Readers
The current study aimed to investigate the effect of character width and inter-letter spacing on reading speed and comprehension.
The Equilateral Triangle of a Perfect Paragraph
One of the most important things in typography is to shape a seamless reading experience that invites the reader and presents the content in an objective way. To do that, we need to be able to shape perfect paragraphs. There are three keys to doing that.
Accessibility through the eyes of impaired users. Literally
15% of all users are impaired. However, there’s no shortage of accessibility fails online. Here’s how it actually feels to see bad designs as a user with a disability.
Disability Visibility Project
The Disability Visibility Project is an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture.
Disability History: An Introduction
Go on a journey with disability rights activist Lawrence Carter-Long as your guide in this video overview of the rich history and culture of the disability community.
Interacting with People with Disabilities
Some people are uncomfortable talking with people with disabilities. This article gives you some basic tips to help you be more comfortable interacting with people with disabilities, and to help people with disabilities more enjoy interacting with you.
Neurodiversity Resources For Employers
We’ve compiled a list of helpful resources for employers to develop greater awareness of neurodivergent talent in the community and develop strategies to access their special talents.
I learned to love my disabled body – why can’t my non-disabled friends love theirs?
For years I blamed my disability for my adolescent unhappiness. Then, as an adult, I learned to embrace and celebrate my body. I wish others could do the same