The euphemism Special Needs, after many years of service, has filed for retirement. Nondisabled people receive countless supports, so why should supports for disabled people get treated as something extra? The only difference between accommodations for nondisabled and disabled people is ableism. That’s why the overworked Special Needs decided the time had come to move on. The video is an excerpt from the White House #DisabilityPride Month Convening. Descriptive Transcript: Haben Girma speaks on stage, sitting with a Braille computer on her lap. Also sitting on stage are, from left to right, Gene Sperling, Mychal Threets @mychal, and Eric Harris. The camera also shows a lively, diverse group in the audience, including people with wheelchairs. Haben: The biggest challenge, in schools, medical centers, workplaces, is ableism. Ableism is the system of belief that treats disabled people as inferior to nondisabled people. When I arrived in college, I discovered the menus in the cafeteria ...
Design & Interactive Experiences
Ableist interactions
Hidde's blog about web accessibility, standards, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more.
Apple – Accessibility – Sady (with Audio Descriptions)
View this film without Audio Descriptions: https://www.youtu.be/XB4cjbYywqgWe believe that technology should be accessible to everyone — including Sady Pauls...
The Greatest | Apple
At Apple, we believe accessibility is a human right. Innovative features like Door Detection, Sound Recognition, Voice Control, and more are designed to let ...
AR for everyone: How to build accessible augmented reality UX
Explaining accessibility guidelines for AR apps
How tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India
Vegetable carts, flower shops, mom-and-pop stores: Small speakers that read out digital payment receipts are making fintech companies big money.
WhatsApp voice notes are revolutionizing farming in Senegal
For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world of collaboration across the industry.
Changing the lights at an intersection with a remote control?! (coolest blind crosswalk in Spain!)
#Shorts #BlindGirl #Accessible
Web Accessibility Specialist | International Association of Accessibility Professionals
Diablo IV Blind Accessibility Review: So Much Progress, but So Much More to Go.
You can watch the video version of my review here. Background Diablo has historically been one of those games blind gamers have gravitated toward for many reasons. First being its top down isometri…
Diablo IV Blind Accessibility Review: So Much Progress Made!
...Diablo Accessibility Article: https://rossminor.com/2023/06/08/diablo-iv-blind-accessibility-review/Send accessibility feedback to Blizzard: https://us.ba...
Conversational Semantics for the Web by Aaron Gustafson
Over time, your users will become more accustomed to and reliant on voice-based interactions with their computers and, thereby, the web. Enabling them to complete critical tasks without a visual user interface will be crucial for the long-term success of your website. In this session, Aaron Gustafson will discuss how smart markup choices can improve the overall usability and accessibility of your projects without disrupting your current workflow.
Progressive Enhancement: Where Do I Begin? by Aaron Gustafson
“Progressive enhancement” is a philosophical approach to web design and development that centers users, with the goal of enabling everyone to access the content and complete core tasks, regardless of circumstances influencing how they access the web. In this session, I set the stage for why progressive enhancement is the gold standard for developing web projects before diving into a host of practical examples of how you can apply this practice to a range of interfaces. Along the way, I also show you how your entire team can (and should) get involved in the ideation, development, testing, and evolution of your interfaces and components.
The A11yCats Game Design Process: An Irreverent Reverent Adventure in Accessibility by Carie Fisher
The Digital Accessibility Lab team at Iowa State University has been designing and developing the A11yCats Game. The team embraces the disability community concept, “Nothing about us, without us.” The games impetus is to embrace disabled characters as playable characters and to form a research study of how disabled players want to be represented in games. Too often, players with disabilities are not included in any phases of game design and development. While disabled characters sometimes appear in games, they are nonplayable characters (NPCs). NPCs devalue and “Other” disabled persons. Further, the game is being created with accessibility in mind from the beginning with art, design, and code.
Dissecting websites through the lens of accessibility by Hector Osborne Rodriguez
In this talk I use my experience as a Front End Development Manager & Accessibility Lead to dissect the structure of a website. You’ll learn a 3 step process to evaluate designs & code to make decisions across disciplines to arrive at more accessible product experiences.
Inclusive Thinking for BAs and PMs by Hala Anwar
Accessibility bugs have long been thorns in the development team’s side since accessibility testing traditionally only took place as an afterthought near the end of the product life cycle. However, inclusive thinking really starts long before the first wireframe is sketched out or a single line of code is ever written.
Accessible Typography Essentials by Carie Fisher
When you’re designing a page, it’s essential to think about who your audience is — and that your audience may not have the same abilities as you. Making your documents accessible is not just about adding alternative descriptions to images; it’s about thinking through all the ways you can make your design work for as many people as possible. Join me as I explain the choices you can/should consider in an accessible visual presentation using text, such as font, color, contrast, size, column width, spacing, kerning, and more.
Tiffany Yu | disabled & well on TikTok
Thank you @MadeWithMud for introducing us to your collection of accessible mugs! #AntiAbleism #Disability #DisabilityAwareness
The Contrast Triangle
A three-way color contrast checker for when you remove underlines from links.
Don’t Override Screen Reader Pronunciation
When many devs, testers, and authors first start listening to content through a screen reader, they are surprised to hear dates, pricing, names, abbreviations, acronyms, etc. announced differently than they expect. With the best of intentions (or branding panic) they may seek to force screen readers to announce content as…
Accessibility Support
Accessibility checklist
The accessibility acceptance criteria testing checklist generator by T-Mobile - Accessibility Resource Center
https://raindrop.io/ping
Surface Adaptive Kit – designed with accessibility in mind and in collaboration with the disability community
Disability Accommodations: My Dialogue with YNAB
Sorry this is a Wall o' Text, but I want to be thorough especially since I've been working on this for awhile. Please let me know if anything is...
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How to design websites for blind and partially sighted people | UserZoom
A comprehensive guide to improving accessibility for people with visual impairments, looking at assistive technology, UX testing with blind people and creating content.
See What I See: Virtual Reality Eye Disease Experience | National Eye Institute
The National Eye Institute’s (NEI) virtual reality (VR) experience lets you explore life with vision loss from common eye diseases, including age-related macular degeneration and cataracts. Download the “NEI VR: See What I See” application to your smartphone or browse virtual reality videos and images.
Standards for Writing Accessibly
In this excerpt from Writing Is Designing, Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle discuss critical accessibility considerations for content authors, including reading order, references to additional cont…
Building the Woke Web: Web Accessibility, Inclusion & Social Justice
From banking to civil services to education, the internet intersects every part of our lives in a way that was unthinkable 20 years ago. And yet the web remains inaccessible to vast swathes of peop…