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The International Day of Disabled Persons aims to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and development.
Intopia Webinar: Annotating Designs for Accessibility
Digital Accessibility Consultant Claire Webber delivered a webinar in February 2023 on annotating designs for accessibility.Note about captions: The captions...
Intopia Webinar: Annotating Designs for Accessibility - Intopia
Intopia’s free webinars are back for 2023! Our first webinar will focus on annotating designs for accessibility. The webinar will be held on Thursday 9 February at 1pm AEDT (GMT+11), and will be presented by Digital Accessibility Consultant Claire Webber. Registration is not required and you can join through Zoom…
Director and Co-founder Sarah Pulis, along with Senior Digital Accessibility Consultant Julie Grundy, hosted an Intopia webinar on July 2023 on testing for t...
Intopia Webinar: The value of measuring your accessibility maturity
An Intopia webinar presented in September 2023 by Principal Consultant Andrew Arch, and Senior Consultant Neil Jarvis on the value of measuring your accessibility maturity.
Figma Community file - Annotating designs with accessibility information is a powerful way to focus on accessibility early in the design phase, as well as communicate your accessibility requirements to developers and testers. Update: Now includes dark mode annotations to ensure your annotations are highly visible on d...
Denis Boudreau, a UX accessibility expert at Deque Systems, walks you through the fundamentals of heuristics as a design evaluation tool and will introduce a set of accessibility-focused heuristics that can help you assess accessibility during the design phase.
Hey folks! Accessibility is a topic very near and dear to my heart. And as I've spent the past year speaking about it I've realized that so many developers WANT to build accessible apps, but they're just not sure how to go about it. To help teach those fundamentals I thought it would be great to have a series dedicated entirely to the art of accessibility. Meet A11ycasts!
A11ycasts is short for AccessibilityCasts (a11y is a common shortening of the term accessibility because there are 11 letters in between the ""A"" and the ""Y""). The goal of A11ycasts is to teach developers how accessibility works all the way down at the platform level, while also demonstrating real world accessibility problems and solutions to fix them. If you want to follow along be sure to click the subscribe button to be notified every time we roll out a new episode.
Thanks and enjoy the show! -- Rob
Watch all A11ycasts episodes: https://goo.gl/06qEUW
"Over a billion people, about 15% of the world's population, have some form of disability." source: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs352/en/
Accessible typography considerations start with choosing type. When selecting typefaces, seek out designs that have legibility built in alongside the other attributes you like. There is no single answer about which fonts are most accessible for everyone, but there are some things that can make a typeface more accessible to some people.
As part of my work on practical methods for integrating ethics thinking into your design process I am producing a set of templates and worksheets. My intent is to encourage ethical, sustainable and inclusive design in all organizations by providing clear and simple guidance on how to get started and
Learn what alternative text is, where it goes, what the alt attribute is, and why the alt attribute is important. Check out our other two alternative text videos and resources below. Share questions, feedback, and experiences on Twitter using #accessibilityFocus.
Alternative text video playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTPhJnJ6SZs&list=PLl4N9bkQPE8708fUPfZM1xYWfrlMVBAn4
Alternative text article: https://blog.pope.tech/2022/04/05/alternative-text-alt-text/
HTML alt attribute: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_alt.asp
More alternative text articles and videos: https://blog.pope.tech/2022/04/06/alternative-text-training-resources/
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:21 What alternative text is
0:42 Where alternative text can go
0:56 The alt attribute
1:19 Alt attribute read by screen reader examples
1:37 Why the alt attribute is important
Introduction to Developing Custom Components with ARIA 1
ARIA can be difficult to understand and learn, but it is absolutely essential in order to provide a rich and interactive experience on the web. Gain the skills and knowledge of the core principles that will guide you to develop your own accessible components using ARIA.
Introduction to disability and accessibility - Training
This module presents the core ideas and definitions needed to understand accessibility concepts. You will learn what accessibility means, how to be respectful and inclusive of people of all abilities, and why it's important for technology and materials to be accessible to everyone.
This asynchronous course is designed to help educators at different levels and contexts explore basic concepts related to disability, accessibility, and Universal Design for Learning, which serve to lay the foundation for building bridges towards a more accessible world.
WAVE is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many access...
Get a strong foundation in digital accessibility to make your websites and apps work well for people with disabilities, meet international standards, and provide a better user experience for everyone.