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A dive into table and grid semantics, why they matter so much to screen readers, and your options for repairing or augmenting basic table markup.

Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion. We can help you with knowledge, experience, strategy, assessments, and development.

Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion. We can help you with knowledge, experience, strategy, assessments, and development.

Let’s take a look at the following markup snippet, shall we?

A foundational overview of how to build a color adaptive and accessible loading bar with the progress element.

Konstantin thinks accessibility is a topic that anyone who builds user interfaces for humans on the web should be aware of. In this talk he's answering the "...

An attempt to raise awareness of a topic that should be important to anyone building user interfaces for humans.

“Should I use pixels or rems?”. In this comprehensive blog post, we'll answer this question once and for all. You'll learn about the accessibility implications, and how to determine the best unit to use in any scenario.

If a state is important enough to indicate visually, it's probably important enough to expose to assistive technologies. Here's how we can use that to create more robust styles.

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

Web page evaluation with a focus on accessibility.

The text-overflow property can be used to show visual indication of truncated text. I'm not a fan, and take every opportunity to discourage its use.

In this post we provided a roundup of accessibility linters available

A comprehensive list of accessibility tools and resources for designers to achieve accessibility from start.

Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion. We can help you with knowledge, experience, strategy, assessments, and development.

A complete guide to WCAG 2.0 contrast accessibility requirements and contrast tools with examples to help you apply it to your own website.

Automated web testing, especially at an integration level, saves time, money and effort. It ensures...

As a follow up to my previous post about common accessibility issues, I have written out five more issues that you could fix today.

On the downsides of constraining content through CSS.

TL;DR: Description list support is generally good (with Safari being the outlier), even if you may not like how it is supported. This post builds on my 2020 tests when iOS 14 finally added (partial) support for description lists (VoiceOver on iOS 14 Supports Description Lists). The dl has existed…

Outlines the current principles and work needed to improve the accessibility of the GOV.UK Design System

In this first Deep Dive into Accessibility APIs installment, we'll start from absolute scratch and recount the widely available basic story. It's written for beginners, but the fact that I describe web accessibility in the broader context of software accessibility might offer a different twist for current practitioners as well. Parts 2 and 3, on the other hand, are more technical. Although those discussions may largely be of interest only to "inquiring minds that want to know", understanding the history and variety of the specialized protocols at the heart of this process sheds light on why screen readers sometimes perform differently in the same application or on the same web site while also providing a glimpse of a likely future.