Accessibility

Who the new accessibility regulations apply to and why accessibility is important.

When designing for accessibility, there are six key areas of disability to consider: visual, hearing, mobility, cognition, speech and neural.

In 2008 I heard that Jim Thatcher was coming to Berkeley as part of his role as the expert in the Target web accessibility case. I had been working in the digital accessibility legal space for ten years. Of course I had heard of Jim, but we had never met. I called and asked if he would be willing to

If a college education should be available to all, higher ed websites should be accessible to everyone

Resources on web accessibility and assistive technology.

Alan Dalton uses this, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, to look back at where we’ve come from, to evaluate where we are, and to look forward to what’s coming next in the future of accessibility guidelines.

Number 4 Will Give You a Seizure The title is written as a so-called clickbait title and meant as a tongue-in-cheek joke. Often clickbait titles deceptively present tips as a form of powerful secret knowledge. In this case, accessibility specialists don’t want you to know these tips because they’re bad practice. These are tips you …

CSS resets are a collection of CSS styles that undo the default browser styling of many or most HTML elements. Recently I have seen cases of developers using display: contents on lists and headings to remove the margins and padding, and generally to visually do what a CSS reset might…

Safari removes list semantics

Someone recently asked me about how accessible the Beaver Builder page builder is. Beaver Builder is a very popular page builder for WordPress that lets user

Plan to skip mobile accessibility testing? Consider these five smartphone stats showing how important it is, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

Paying homage to OXO, Eames, GOV.UK, and more

Ben Nadel demonstrates that both anchor links and button elements can be identically styled in an Angular 7.2.15 application. The major difference being that a button element creates a naturally accessible and intuitive experience.

In this article we’ll examine an overlooked accessibility problem that mainly affects users with hand tremors. It’s in almost every interface out there, but barely ever highlighted in accessibility guidelines or discussions. It’s also super easy to fix! We’re writing this together with Erik Zetterström of ICT Enablers. Erik has worked with accessibility products, services and …

Let’s talk about making your site’s external links open in a new tab. First we’ll consider if this is even a good idea, then we’ll look at ways to improve the accessibility of these links. Somewhere […]

Accessibility isn’t a burden in design, but a defining feature of enduring design.

At the November 2019 Chicago Digital Accessibility and Inclusive Design meetup last night, Fen Slattery highlighted steps you can take to give an accessible, inclusive presentation. Slattery shared…

Microsoft believes accessibility and inclusion are essential to delivering on our mission to empower everyone, everywhere.

Adobe is an industry leader in accessibility and supports the creation of outstanding web experiences by encouraging developers to produce rich, engaging content that is accessible to all.

Document management applications — Electronic document file format enhancement for accessibility — Part 1: Use of ISO 32000-1 (PDF/UA-1)

Document management applications — Electronic document file format enhancement for accessibility — Part 1: Use of ISO 32000-1 (PDF/UA-1)

I’ve enjoyed Accessibility Scotland since it started in 2016. I was highly anticipating this year’s event. It was so popular that the conference sold out 5

We have done our best to work with our speakers to ensure the slides are as accessible as we can make them. Please note the following: The file size of some the slides is large, as such we recommend downloading prior to the event as we cannot guarantee WIFI quality in the venue. The talks… Read more Slides

This document provides readers with an understanding of how to use WAI-ARIA 1.1 [WAI-ARIA] to create accessible rich internet applications. It describes considerations that might not be evident to most authors from the WAI-ARIA specification alone and recommends approaches to make widgets, navigation, and behaviors accessible using WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties. This document is directed primarily to Web application developers, but the guidance is also useful for user agent and assistive technology developers.

PDF file format accessibility features combined with Adobe® Acrobat® and Adobe Reader® allow universal access to documents. Learn more.

The great news is crafting a web accessibility policy isn’t too difficult but it’s really important to have one (the DOJ actually mandates…

WCAG is flawed. A new alternative improves upon it. The Web Accessibility Standards (WAS) are cleaner, easier, and simpler.