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Throughout the research and design processes, our unconscious biases are the greatest risk to delivering inclusive experiences. From who we include and exclude in our research to how we plan and conduct research to how we analyze findings, it’s crucial that we understand how our unacknowledged biases can perpetuate systems of exclusion.

How to properly turn a div into a button, so the result will be accessible and useable by everyone.TLDR: Use a native button.

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

Our digital journalism style guide of inclusive language is populated with more than 1,000 terms spanning containing descriptions, usage examples, related terms, and additional resources.

Ich habe meine Hände an ein #iPhone14Pro bekommen und konnte mir die neuen UI-Änderungen mit ein paar Bedienungshilfen anschauen. Natürlich klappt das gut, aber es gibt noch ein paar kleine Unstimmigkeiten. Dazu mehr im Thread - falls es euch interessiert 🧵 #Barrierefreiheit— Casey (@conesible) September 16, 2022

Inclusive Design is a methodology, born out of digital environments, that enables and draws on the full range of human diversity. Most importantly, this means including and learning from people with a range of perspectives.

My notes from Julie Romanowki's Intro to Docs and PDFs Knowbility online session highlighting PDFs created from Microsoft Word and Google Docs.

You can use your keyboard to quickly accomplish many tasks with keyboard shortcuts.

Many users find that using an external keyboard with keyboard shortcuts for Outlook helps them work more efficiently. For users with mobility or vision disabilities, keyboard shortcuts can be easier than using the touchscreen and are an essential alternative to using a mouse.

With keyboard shortcuts, save time navigating YouTube.

When you turn on keyboard shortcuts, you can press keys to make changes to your Google Calendar and quickly navigate to certain pages.

Keyboard shortcuts save you time by letting you explore Remember The Milk quickly.

Save time navigating in Gmail by using keyboard shortcuts.

Facebook verfügt über Tastenkombinationen für Nutzer, die nur mit ihrer Tastatur auf Facebook navigieren möchten.

Ich lieb es, beworbenen 1000000ten Workshop zum Thema "Barrierefreie Webseiten" eben im Internet gefunden, von Riesen wie Öffentlich Rechtlichen mitgestaltet, von "Sozialorganisation" finanziert, ABER der Workshop selber ist nicht barrierefrei zugänglich. Was sagt uns das?— Lela Finkbeiner (@LelaFinkbeiner) August 29, 2022

(Anmerkung: Website erfüllt _nicht_ Kriterien der Barrierefreiheit.)

Wie nutzen Menschen mit Behinderung das Smartphone und die Sozialen Medien? evangelisch.de hat Heiko Kunert getroffen. Er ist blind und Teil der Initiative #barrierefreiPosten.

In this article, Catherine Houle and Ilknur Eren share how their organization “Understood” removes barriers for people who learn and think differently by combining accessibility and usability in their processes. They also cover basic steps on how to fix common accessibility issues.

For users with color vision deficiencies, certain color combinations can have detrimental effects on their use of the Bloomberg Terminal.

UX is about function, but also delight, whimsy, wit and beauty. But when it comes to accessibility, we tend to take the term literally…

We are surrounded by a world of motion and I would like to get off of it

Before color-contrast(), stylesheet authors needed to know accessible colors ahead of time. Often a palette would show black or white text on a color swatch, to indicate to a user of the color system which text color would be needed to properly contrast with that swatch.

WP Accessibility fixes common accessibility issues in your WordPress site.

In this Make WordPress Accessibility Handbook you will learn what the best practices are for web accessibility, the many great accessibility tools, the testing we do to improve WordPress, themes, a…

Eine barrierefreie WordPress-Website zu erstellen ist einfacher als man denkt. Es sind nur wenige Regeln zu beachten, die wir euch hier erläutern.

In this article, we will explore how an accessibility-first approach can lead you down the path of creating a better visual design for charts. Throughout the article, you’ll learn to use the Web Content Accessibility Standards and how this approach leadd to an unexpected yet better outcome for everyone.