A11y

I lived in China before I was 16. When I was 5, I took a drawing class at my kindergarten. My teacher asked us to draw a rooster and paint…

Lists of lists of accessibility related issues. Contribute to mgifford/a11y-lists-of-lists development by creating an account on GitHub.

I’ve been thinking recently about the nature of my work and which aspects of it I enjoy the most. In a role that will often straddle the realms of design

Beth Raduenzel covers the official guidance on color contrast from WCAG, then goes over and beyond to cover aspects that truly consider usability.

We hope this article has given you a good amount of detail and understanding about the accessibility issues surrounding CSS and JavaScript use on web pages.

Tips on how to improve the accessibility of your JavaScript components and provide users with more and better ways to interact with your…

Grundlagen barrierefreier Web-Programmierung

We regularly write about accessibility not just on this blog, but on blogs across GDS and across government. Here's a selection of some recent accessibility blog posts we've published.

Marcy Sutton explains how automated tests for accessibility can help free up your team of some manual testing while preventing regressions into production.

How do you let your users chose any color, but still make sure that the colors make your app useful and accessible? You create rules.

Sean Massa and Melanie Sumner illustrate some core accessibility best practices that developers can take to make their work more accessible.

Seren Davies reminds us that unlike Christmas, accessibility testing should not come but once a year with a look at how to apply automated testing. By configuring tests to run against each commit, you can ensure that your site’s accessibility compliance need not be left to chance.

Follow these web accessibility guidelines and techniques to make it easier for people with disabilities to use (and make purchases on) your site.

In dealing with role="presentation" and aria-hidden="true" you may find that they both have deceptively similar functions when it relates to how they interact with assistive technology (screen readers). Before we dig into the difference between these two attributes we first need to learn a little bit about how accessibility in a Web browser works and…

Useful resources dealing with web accessibility

This article has by no means covered all that's available in WAI-ARIA, but it should have given you enough information to understand how to use it, and know some of the most common patterns you will encounter that require it.