A11y Cat: digital accessibility resources

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Specialized fonts for students with dyslexia are gaining in popularity. But they’re based on a key misconception, experts warn.

This third volume in the Do No Harm Guide series from the Urban Institute seeks to provide in-depth lessons on how to create visualization products that are more accessible to disabled people.

An innovation that revolutionises the ease and speed of creating accessible documents in Microsoft Word, the Document Accessibility Toolbar (DAT) supports individuals and organisations to embrace accessibility as ‘business as usual’ at no cost. The DAT puts the power of accessible functionality into the hands of content authors, for the ultimate benefit of consumers with disability or age-related impairment.

In summary: yes, WCAG applies to kiosks. Overview of Kiosk Accessibility Rules Kiosk accessibility is largely guided by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA sets forth hardware requirements...

Equal Entry audits hundreds of web pages, from retail shopping sites to news aggregators to custom web apps that solve custom problems. We manually navigate your sites with a keyboard and screen re…

Do you find yourself avoiding conversations on disabilities? Worried you'll offend a disabled friend? A disability rights activist shares ways to be a better ally and to destigmatize disability in America.

When many devs, testers, and authors first start listening to content through a screen reader, they are surprised to hear dates, pricing, names, abbreviations, acronyms, etc. announced differently than they expect. With the best of intentions (or branding panic) they may seek to force screen readers to announce content as…

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 …

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A new typeface – greater legibility and readability for low vision readers Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson.  What makes it different from traditional typography design is that it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability.  We are making it free for anyone to use!

This group is for people who are interested in making the web more accessible to everyone. We want to bring together people who work in design, development, product, research and other aspects of the

A review of which dyslexia font, styles, colors and word presentations are actually best for the dyslexic reader.

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

A series of training programs developed by the National Disability Co-ordination Officer program to explore ‘disability’.

Introducing the eBay MIND Patterns

Every online retail business or ecommerce website today looks to reach the maximum number of users with a goal to showcase their products and convert them into paying customers. While...

EDUimages is a free library of photos celebrating students—and the educators who teach them—in seven schools across the United States.

Accessibility testing is the testing of a system to determine how the system will perform when accessed by persons with disabilities. Testing of all ICT products and services is important to determining what issues exist and what risk any accessibility issues create for the organization. In my experience, the majority of testing efforts are undertaken …