The Contrast Triangle
A three-way color contrast checker for when you remove underlines from links.
A11y Cat: digital accessibility resources
The Critical Role of Web Accessibility in Health Information Access, Understanding, and Use
In this issue brief, AHIMA Foundation shares key insights from an audit of top U.S. hospitals’ website home pages and a survey of older adults and patients with disabilities. Web accessibility, or digital accessibility more broadly, involves designing content to be inclusive of people who have visual, motor, auditory, speech, or cognitive disabilities. Learn more.
The Curious Case of “iff” and Overriding Screenreader Pronunciations
Markup hacks to override screenreader pronunciations can get a little iffy. Here's some techniques to try instead.
The Described and Captioned Media Program
DCMP provides accessible educational media to students with disabilities, for use in classrooms and remote learning, as well as training resources for families, educators, and support personnel.
The difference between keyboard and screen reader navigation - Tink - Léonie Watson
The Digital Accessibility Legal Summit 2022: ONLINE
The premier annual event for digital accessibility legal practioners. In-depth talks and panels featuring leaders from the digital accessibility and legal fields, tackling the bigggest issues in current practice. November 1-2, 2022. ONLINE.
The Digital Accessibility Maturity Model™ (DAMM™): Overview of DAMM |Level Access
The first in a series of posts on the Digital Accessibility Maturity Model (DAMM), which will cover an introduction to DAMM its terminology, and reviews!
The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
DREDF is dedicated to improving the lives of people with disabilities through legal advocacy, training, education, and public policy and legislative development.
The effect of a specialized dyslexia font, OpenDyslexic, on reading rate and accuracy
A single-subject alternating treatment design was used to investigate the extent to which a specialized dyslexia font, OpenDyslexic, impacted reading rate or accuracy compared to two commonly used fonts when used with elementary students identified as having dyslexia.
The End of Average — Todd Rose
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.
The five stages of grief, AKA accepting accessibility - AccessibilityOz
Recently I spoke on a panel at the M-Enabling Summit about Accessibility in SaaS (Software as a Service). This is basically what I do, all day, every day, and I’ve been doing it for many years (so many years that it’s starting to get embarrassing—unless I started in accessibility when I was five years old!).
The four hammers of accessibility
How to influence a reluctant stakeholder
The four pillars of accessibility overlay marketing - Sheri Byrne-Haber's Blog
Accessibility overlays are tools that detect and dynamically repair HTML accessibility issues in non-mobile environments. And what accessibility manager or product owner WOULDN’T want a solution that does that?
The Future of Technology Runs Through Accessibility. No, really! - Joe Devon
Accessibility NYC Meetup - July 18 2023 TRANSCRIPT https://isoc.live/a11ynyc/a11ynyc_jul_2023.txt (TXT)https://archive.org/download/a11ynyc0723/a11ynyc0723_...
The Game Awards: Innovation in Accessibility
Recognizing software and/or hardware that is pushing the medium forward by adding features, technology and content to help games be played and enjoyed by an even wider audience.
Recognizing software and/or hardware that is pushing the medium forward by adding features, technology and content to help games be played and enjoyed by an even wider audience.
The Geeky Gimp - Disabled, nerdy, and wordy.
Disabled, nerdy, and wordy.
The Gender Spectrum Collection: Stock Photos Beyond the Binary
The Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. This collection aims to help media better represent members of these communities as people not necessarily defined by their gender identities—people with careers, relationships, talents, passions, and home lives.
The Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs (G3ict)
G3ict's objectives and global outreach are aligned with the dispositions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the accessibility of Information Communication Technologies and Assistive Technologies.
The Home Collection — AllGo
Free Plus-Size Stock PhotosThe Home Collection These photos are available for all uses and feature plus-size people at home. From looking at their phones in bed to having a glass of wine with friends, this collection is powerful because the emphasis is on what the models are doing, not how big they are while they’re […]
The IDEA Accessibility Pack
The IGEA Inclusion, Diversity, Equality and Accessibility (IDEA) working group is excited to present our IDEA Accessibility Pack. Accessibility in
The inclusive future of virtual events: crafting accessible spaces for all - Inklusiv Communication
While the world of virtual meetings and events buzzes with dynamism and rapid innovation, there’s an area that, to this day, remains largely overlooked and
The Inclusive Speaker
Through this book, author Denis Boudreau, a 22+ year web accessibility and digital equality veteran, shares his perspectives on systemic exclusion as being one of the greatest communication threats to face businesses today, and how brands can be more successful, simply by doing the right thing by their audience and empowering them to truly connect.
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 issue of diversity in icon design
Do we have the right icons at hand to represent all humans?
The JAN Workplace Accommodation Toolkit
Building Your Inclusive Workplace
The journey begins - Why accessible content is everyone's responsibility
To improve digital experiences across the board, we must use our expertise to help those who don't know what they should be doing and that there are many things they can do to improve their content without any technical expertise.
The Last of Us Part II - Accessibility
The Legal Case: Why Your Kiosk Should be Accessible - TPGi
Why should you consider kiosk accessibility in your kiosk project? There are many reasons to make your kiosk project accessible. One reason is because it may help to avoid litigation and costly settlements.
The little book of accessibility
If I had a TARDIS and could travel back in time to 2005, which is when I founded the BBC’s Digital Accessibility Team, what would I say to…