A11y

As journalists, advertisers, producers, and creators, content is at our core at Vox Media. We want to ensure that everyone—regardless of ability, situation, or context—can access it.

Getting color contrast right is crucial for making sure people are able to read and use our content, but understanding how to choose the right colors can be tricky. In this episode, Todd Libby will show us how it's done!

Original photo by Kevin Hale (photo no longer on Flickr), text added. CC BY-SA 2.0. The pun in the title is that some people pronounce the a11y numeronym as “alley”. That makes the full title sound like uncanny valley, the concept of human-looking things seeming almost, but not quite, human…

Access Guide is a friendly introduction to digital accessibility based on WCAG 2.1 (web content accessibility guidelines).

To celebrate and contribute to Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we at the UX Collective have partnered with our most prolific accessibility writer, Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC, to bring a more candid take on the topic.

A non-exhaustive and in-progress list of people and resources in Accessibility and Data Visualization - dataviza11y/resources

I've released the code I use to generate WCAG conformance reports using the Eleventy static site generator. Here's some context.

If I had a TARDIS and could travel back in time to 2005, which is when I founded the BBC’s Digital Accessibility Team, what would I say to…

Inclusive design considers the full range of human diversity with respect to ability, language, culture, gender, age and other forms of human difference.

Quickly discover and identify issues with the Logical Content Flow of the heading elements on any page.

I often talk about adding alt text to images, but I never actually talk about what makes good alt text, for people who are unsure. So here's my perspective as a sighted person who sometimes uses a screen reader.Tips for writing alt text for images and gifs:— Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) (@whykristenburns) May 8, 2021

The AccessAbility Playbook is part of a broader commitment to make Canada’s public service the most accessible and inclusive in the world.

Spectrum provides interface components, resources, and tools to help teams work more efficiently and to make applications more consistent.

Style guide and pattern library promoting accessible components and WCAG compliance criteria

An Accessibility Checklist for Designers

The Accessible Usability Scale (AUS) is a free tool to measure the usability of a digital product for assistive technology users.

Discover the world’s best accessibility resources, curated for you.

I am speaking at axe-con on the issues around CSS Grid and content re-ordering.

1. Not always2. Obviously mostly yes, but in hn people just assume that you’re a somewhat good person who wouldn’t knowingly restraint internet access to people with disabilities

Over the past year or so, I’ve learned a lot about accessibility, mostly thanks to working on Pinafore, which is a Single Page App (SPA). In this post, I’d like to share some of the hig…

I originally created Accessible Web as a sarcastic reaction to a developer changing his website to require users to disable JavaScript to use it. The reactions on Twitter were hilarious! So many angry developers didn’t get the joke that they do the same thing when they require users to have JavaScript enabled to do anything … Continue reading "The web is inherently accessible"

Tech is always political. The way data is collected and handled is often biased, and many products are neither accessible nor inclusive. Ethical Design Guide is made to share resources on how to create ethical products that don't cause harm.

The introduction on web accessibility that I want to give every single web developer.

Guidelines and documentation about designing products at Meetup HQ

Web accessibility testing services to reach your compliance goals faster. Digital product testing, powered by people with disabilities.