Accessibility

Breaking down the 9 new WCAG 2.2 criteria, what they mean for your team and your products, and how you can seamlessly integrate them into your process.

by Logan D. A. Williams

Google recently added Inclusive Sans to their font library. It is a text font designed for accessibility and readability by Olivia King (www.oliviaking.com).…

Stories from inside Microsoft’s journey to design a more accessible world.

00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:32 - Microsoft Accessibility video 00:05:29 - Let's meet Rory 00:15:35 - Accessibility is about improving everyone's quality of life 00:20:28 - What is Accessibility? 00:22:48 - The Hydra 00:25:42 -Disability does not equal personal health condition 00:28:44 - How legislation impacts Accessibility 00:31:41 - Persona Spectrum 00:35:42 - Tools for improving Accessibility 00:36:39 - Demo time 00:41:36 - Shifting left with DevOps 00:45:50 - Immersive Reader Demo 00:51:57 - Enabling better image recognition 00:54:42 - Conclusion This week on AzureFunBytes we're talking about how to create applications for everyone. Accessibility is the design of products, services, and devices that focus on making environments the most welcome and usable to any user. Different people have different methods they may interface with the applications you create. By focusing in on accessibility earlier in your software development process, you make for a more available product to everyone. What software deve

Andrew Leland takes us through the fascinating history of alternative reading technologies designed for blind people and discusses his fantastic new book The Country of the Blind, which is out today!

Installation: https://www.cursorless.org/docs/user/installation/Talon alphabet practice: https://chaosparrot.github.io/talon_practice/lessons/alphabet.html

Have you ever wished you could do a thing that you already could do, but by using an expensive gadget? Now you can.

Interested in the science and accessibility of typography? Professor Sofie Beier is a great person to follow.

Measure accessibility at enterprise (or any) scale

In this video we cover what ARIA is, the number one rule of ARIA, and examples of how incorrect ARIA impacts assistive technology users. Check out our other ARIA resources below.- What you need to know about ARIA and how to fix common mistakes: https://blog.pope.tech/2022/07/12/what-you-need-to-know-about-aria-and-how-to-fix-common-mistakes/- How to review your website’s ARIA: https://blog.pope.tech/2023/07/03/aria-can-hurt-or-help-web-accessibility-how-to-review-your-websites-aria/- ARIA resources: https://blog.pope.tech/2022/07/12/aria-training-resources/0:00 Introduction0:33 Number one rule of ARIA0:47 Impact of incorrect ARIA1:10 Introduction to examples1:29 Button example2:27 Aria-expanded example3:16 Aria-label example4:13 Aria-hidden example

A list of different tools you can use to build an amazing usability lab.

I reviewed 1800+ resources on digital accessibility. Here are 33 free tools for UX/UI designers, front-end devs, QA engineers, and a11y pros to design and…

In this article, Carie Fisher outlines which CSS media features are available for detecting user preferences and how they are used to design and build more inclusive user experiences.

I've looked through 1800+ links related to accessibility and inclusion and want to highlight these 49 amazing sites that offer inclusive photos and…

ComicA11y is an experiment that aims to achieve an all-inclusive online comic experience. Because comics should be universal.

Disability rights advocate Haben Girma shares the benefits of designing for accessibility and increasing representation of disabled people in the workforce.

This is a repost of an old article on the Tenon blog. Since that's being sunsetted, I'm reposting it below. There are many ways to perform testing for accessibility, each one with their own strengths and weaknesses. Testing with assistive technologies is a great way to get a clear understanding of how your system behaves

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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including accommodations for blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, and combinations of these, and some accommodation for learning disabilities and cognitive limitations; but will not address every user need for people with these disabilities. These guidelines address accessibility of web content on desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. Following these guidelines will also often make Web content more usable to users in general.

Here is another common myth people make about deaf and hard of hearing people when it comes to accessibility. Myth: Folks think captions and sign language… | 71 comments on LinkedIn

In this kick-off training you will learn the basics of accessibility. You will receive a certificate upon completion. The training takes approximately 45 minutes to complete.

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.

Inclusive design may seem like the domain of UX designers and web developers. But social media marketers should practice it, too.

A free resource hub for marketers, communication professionals, and digital creators who want to learn how to make accessible social media content.

A lot of accessibility issues can get caught already in the design phase. Great documentation helps teams implement accessibility and interaction requirements the right way. This kit is based on my article and conference "A Designer’s Guide to Docume...