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20 Tips für zugänglichere Web-Apps | marcus-herrmann.com
20 Tips für zugänglichere Web-Apps | marcus-herrmann.com
Der Beginn des neuen Jahres ist es eine gute Gelegenheit, sich mit der Barrierefreiheit Ihrer Web-Applikation auseinanderzusetzen. Deswegen habe ich im folgenden 20 Startpunkte gesammelt, die Ihnen helfen können, Ihre App im Jahr 2020 zugänglicher zu gestalten.
·marcus-herrmann.com·
20 Tips für zugänglichere Web-Apps | marcus-herrmann.com
The Customer is Always Right - 24 Accessibility
The Customer is Always Right - 24 Accessibility
In the mid-’90s, I saw an TV ad for hearing aids. The most ironic part was this concluding screen: If you are the target audience of this ad, then you have difficulty hearing. Lest I remind you, using the telephone requires ample hearing capabilities. So for the prospective customer to go through a challenging experience […]
·24a11y.com·
The Customer is Always Right - 24 Accessibility
The intersection of markup, content and context in accessibility - 24 Accessibility
The intersection of markup, content and context in accessibility - 24 Accessibility
You’ve heard of this inclusive design thing, and know that a11y is a numeronym for accessibility. It matters to you, and you try to make the people and projects around you better for it. But you’ve conquered the basics. Now what? I have good news to share: going beyond the basics isn’t as hard as […]
·24a11y.com·
The intersection of markup, content and context in accessibility - 24 Accessibility
Who Can Use
Who Can Use
Find out who can use your color combination. Whocanuse is a tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect different people that have visual impairments.
·whocanuse.com·
Who Can Use
How and why to use aria-live | Go Make Things
How and why to use aria-live | Go Make Things
Yesterday, we talked about screen readers (and why you should use one). What happens if you have a piece of content that changes dynamically on your page? How do screen readers let the user know that content has changed? For example, imagine you had an input for users to type their name. Below it, you have an element that displays “Hello {user’s name}!” in real time as they type. How does a screen reader user know about the message in the #app element?
·gomakethings.com·
How and why to use aria-live | Go Make Things
The Myths of Color Contrast Accessibility
The Myths of Color Contrast Accessibility
There’s a growing demand for designers to make their interfaces accessible to all users. It’s important to accommodate users with disabilities, but there are many myths to color contrast accessibility being perpetuated by misinformed people. They often parrot these myths to discredit a design, without understanding in which situations a color contrast standard applies. Not […]
·uxmovement.com·
The Myths of Color Contrast Accessibility
Sara Soueidan on Applied Accessibility: Practical Tips For Building More Accessible Front-Ends at SmashingConf Feiburg 2019 on Vimeo
Sara Soueidan on Applied Accessibility: Practical Tips For Building More Accessible Front-Ends at SmashingConf Feiburg 2019 on Vimeo
As front-end developers, we are tasked with building the front end of a Web site or application — in other words, we are building the user's end of an interface. This is why it is crucial that we ensure that the front-end foundations that we build are as inclusive of and accessible to as many users as possible. To do that, we must build with accessibility in mind from the get-go. This, in turn, means that the way we approach writing HTML, CSS, SVG and JavaScript *might* need to change as we take into consideration many factors that affect how (in)accessible our UIs are. This talk is a pract...
·vimeo.com·
Sara Soueidan on Applied Accessibility: Practical Tips For Building More Accessible Front-Ends at SmashingConf Feiburg 2019 on Vimeo
The future of accessibility for custom elements
The future of accessibility for custom elements
When users of assistive technology, like a screen reader, navigate a web page, it’s vitally important that the semantic meaning of the various controls is communicated. For example, if a screen reader visits a login button: Sign in —it would announce, “Sign in,
·robdodson.me·
The future of accessibility for custom elements
Meaning without markup: Accessibility Object Model
Meaning without markup: Accessibility Object Model
Proposals for the Accessibility Object Model include a new way to convey semantics: without markup, directly in JavaScript. This post looks at the proposals and their current status.
·hiddedevries.nl·
Meaning without markup: Accessibility Object Model