A11y Cat: digital accessibility resources

Here are ten ways to be a disability ally. Keeping these in mind will go a long way to creating a kinder place for everyone.

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Creating a network of accessibility champions is key to embedding a culture of accessibility, say leaders:What does it take to build an accessibility network?How to build a network of championsHow to

Color is a major factor in creating effective charts.

How to choose diverse and inclusive photos? Selecting photos for your brand in a deliberate and thoughtful way makes your organization more inclusive.

Over 11,000 ADA lawsuits were filed in the US in 2019 and 26% of Americans have a disability. How do we get our leadership to take action?

How to create inclusive visual descriptions of speakers and other people for blind and low vision audiences, from a person with low vision

How to create accessible map charts for blind and low vision audiences, with tips for visual and nonvisual access

How to create accessible pie charts and donut charts for audiences with vision loss, including visual and nonvisual accessibility

How can we create emails that are easy to read for everyone? An important step is giving subscribers the autonomy to configure their own inbox experience to their needs. There are built-in solutions in most operating systems to adjust the text size and contrast, but most don’t work well inside the inbox. So as email marketers, we have to take the matter into our own hands. Email developer Paul Airy shares how an Accessibility Switcher™ lets your subscribers increase the font size or change the color contrast of your email, making it more accessible to a wider audience.

Learn what a heading hierarchy is, tips for when to create a new subheading, and accessibility mistakes to avoid when creating heading structures. For more, ...

Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I'll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

Learn how to describe and write image descriptions for celebrity looks from red carpet awards shows and galas for people with vision loss (low vison/blind)

Bryan Gould of the WGBH National Center for Accessible Media takes novice and experienced image description writers alike through concrete examples of the ki...

How to use accessibility principles to design email newsletters that everyone can use.

How we use accessibility thinking to design experiences that everyone can use.

This used to be the color scheme for Envoy’s web dashboard.

This guideline will introduce accessibility thinking and how to design usable experiences for everyone.

How we design for touch devices, making responsive sites that are easy to use.

New from Deque: Learn how to design effective focus indicators that are accessible and comply with WCAG standards for website a11y.

An organization held a training session for more than 400 attendees. The purpose of the training was to educate attendees on digital accessibility. In the audience were a few digital accessibility …

How to review your site for accessibility issues.

When I first started working at Qualtrics two years ago, we were a team of 16 UX designers, and no one was really talking about software…

User experience designers guide - How to document the screen reader user experience for web content. Using your visual as a starting point, we’ll take you step by step through how to document the screen reader UX introducing concepts along the way.

Download this guide with step-by-step instructions on how to fix the 40 most common errors encountered when remediating PDFs.

It’s not realistic to expect everyone attending meetings will speak the same language. That’s why it’s important to discuss how to make events accessible in more than one language…

Including accessibility in the DoD is an effective way to integrate it into your product. It helps you spot and tackle accessibility issues before they’re make it to production.