The pandemic’s disruption shows how much academia could learn from the disability community.

The first global pandemic of the digital era is upon us. We're living in unprecedented and uncomfortable times. For our senior citizens, these past several weeks have been particularly discomfort

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), an organization that defines standards for web content accessibility, does not specify a minimum font

Thirty years after the historic passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the landmark legislation that transformed the US's workplaces and common spaces for the better, so much of our live

Helping colorblind developers find accessible environment themes which work best for them. Search for themes for your preferred programming environments based on your colorblindness

I've been afraid of touching accessibility for a few years now. This fear magnified when I began writing the accessibility lessons for Learn JavaScript. Today, I want to share with you why I became afraid of accessibility, and how I overcame this fear.

An accessible PDF is a PDF document that can be read and accessed by people with disabilities, primarily for the vision-impaired that may use assistive technology to read the file through text-to-speech or a Braille printout. A PDF document is considered accessible only if it meets a set of accessibility guidelines.

The goal of this post is to highlight a handful of useful HTML elements for improving a page's accessibility, and show that every developer can learn about and…

Video can be a powerful tool, but it's not enough to embed a YouTube player on your site and call it a day. Here's what to do to make video accessible.

We Can Access is for parents of special needs and disabled kids, People with disabilities & carers. Share, talk and shop all about accessibility and access.

Sometimes it takes a huge event to understand the importance of accessibility. Learn about one of those here, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

Twenty years ago this week (on March 14, 2000) Bank of America became the first company in the United States to sign an agreement to make its website accessible to people with disabilities. The agreement referenced the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 at a time when the standard was

How to design forms with the user in mind

An exploration into how to make inputs more accessible.

TL;DR: Stop using the word drop-down. Instead choose a term that accurately describes the control you want. I have worked both with native platform developers and web developers. While control names might differ, if a control was functionally the same then it was not an issue. A TextBox, for example,…

Make your next project a little bit more inclusive and usable by not removing or changing some default browser behavior. When we have to develop a complex system, we have to pay attention to shockingly many things. Just on front-end, we have to choose a proper CSS methodology for a long ride, optimize our assets …

We take a look at why the GOV.UK Design System changed the element it uses for inputting numbers, making it more accessible and easier to use

TL;DR: Regardless of what accessibility conformance level you target, do not arbitrarily open links in a new window or tab. If you are required to do so anyway, inform users in text. Overview Throughout this post I am going to use the terms browser window and tab interchangeably. While they…

In this article, I share some of the things you need to keep in mind when conducting usability tests with disabled people.

A three-way color contrast checker for when you remove underlines from links.

What should you do when you get a complaint about the color contrast in your web design? It might seem perfectly fine to you because you’re able to read

How CSS bleeds into content and influences screenreader announcements.

Let's explore which accessibility issues browsers could fix automatically!

And some color tools to design for accessibility

Automatically comply with the WCAG 2.1 at the AA level, the ADA, Section 508, and the EN 301549.

Solve accessibility issues before they reach your customers.

Ignoring social or relying on automated testing? You're compromising your own efforts, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.