A11y

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) does a good job of providing supporting techniques to help reviewers determine if a specific case would violate a given Success Criterion (SC). WCAG 2.0, which became a recommendation at the end of 2008, has carried these techniques over to WCAG 2.1, finalized in…

Diving deep into three attributes that bring clarity to elements in assistive technologies.

Describing images with the alt attribute and figcaption element.

In this article, Uri Paz explains how a site complying with accessibility guidelines may still present usability issues when testing with real users. Find out how weaving accessibility best practices with usability testing, can help as many people as possible to fully use your site.

Making a website accessible for everyone is easier than you may think. We discuss 10 foolproof tips that, when implemented, will improve the accessibility of your website.

Originally published @ fossheim.io. In the days around the 2020 US presidential elections a lot of p...

In the age of technology, data is everywhere. The volume of data we encounter can be overwhelming, especially if it relates a concept that is new to us or comes without context. What’s more, the rate of data being collected is doubling every two years!

How choosing the right colour and scales can make or break your message

Learn more about disability and accessibility in the business and educational settings from the expert in the field - Sheri Byrne Haber.

With the rising popularity of the game, I attempt to explain the need for colorblind-friendly design, to make the game more accessible.

Documenting everything through the journey of learning web accessibility.

Automated tools like Lighthouse are great, but if you want to really understand accessibility, you’ll need to get your hands dirty.

Long live the modern browser! Browsers are getting better these days. We seem to be in a golden age where there’s a never-ending stream of new features added for the benefit of the users accessing the page, and really great tools for those creating the page. It hasn’t always been the case, though. Earlier versions […]

Calendar controls, date pickers, date widgets, whatever you call them, however they are described, they follow the same basic principle — present the user with a calendar to enter a date (and sometimes a time). Chris Blakeley, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The native implementations come from browsers when authors use

Duet Date Picker is an open source version of Duet Design System’s accessible date picker. Try live example at https://duetds.github.io/date-picker/ - duetds/date-picker

Checka11y.css is a pure CSS stylesheet to highlight accessibility concerns and is lightweight, modern, accessible and easy to use.

With the start of the new year, it is a good opportunity to look into the accessibility of your web app. Here are 20 starting points to make your web app more inclusive in 2020. Covering the basics is 90% of the way ...

Painfully slow demonstration of the example table resizing and different media queries kicking in. After writing (again) that it is ok to use tables, and after providing quick examples of responsive tables, I received questions about why I used some of the code I did. I am going to attempt…

This post has two separate but related things going on. One is an example of one of my responsive tables with ARIA added, and the other is the Twitter conversation that started this along with some generalized responses. Responsive Table with Semantics Retained by ARIA The Tweet What You Can…

Web page evaluation with a focus on accessibility. Contribute to darekkay/evaluatory development by creating an account on GitHub.

Shipping accessible features is as important for a frontend developer as shipping features without bugs, learn about tools and techniques that will help you achieve that.

Van11y, for Vanilla-JS Accessibility, is a collection of accessible scripts, powered by ES2015

A growing list of accessibility tools and resources

An approach for structuring color palettes to prevent contrast ratio issues.

We are a virtual meet-up group that features speakers and conversations around the topic of digital accessibility. Find us a11ytalks.com and on Twitter @ A11...

The title kind of says it all. WCAG 2.1 has been the standard for over two years — it was published in June 2018. If you rewind to when the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) was asking for feedback on its near-final 2.1 draft, many of the Success Criteria in…