Accessibility

In this article, we will explore how an accessibility-first approach can lead you down the path of creating a better visual design for charts. Throughout the article, you’ll learn to use the Web Content Accessibility Standards and how this approach leadd to an unexpected yet better outcome for everyone.

Accessibility overlays are a peculiar approach to accessibility problems. They make many assumptions that demonstrate a failure to understand assistive

Semantic code in HTML is still important in modern web development. It can improve accessibility, SEO, maintainability, cross-device compatibility, future-proofing, collaboration, and page load times. In this post, I explain how you can ensure your code is semantic even if you are using a framework or website builder app.

Nick Croft explores the six levels of accessibility maturity, guiding organizations to improve their accessibility practices.

The Web Content Accessibility Guideline’s (WCAG) Success Criterion 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast is one of the harder to understand requirements. Here’s a deep-dive into the details of it, including practical examples, concerning only its “User Interface Components” section.

WCAG was not originally written for mobile and it still shows. How do current guidelines fall short and how can it be fixed?

Analyzing the ways fediverse apps handle image descriptions.

An update of the notable digital accessibility legal cases this month and their impact

The Department of Homeland Security is committed to providing free online training resources to assist with creating, validating, and remediating accessible electronic content for conformance to the Section 508 standards.

Check if your project is displaying any of them.

The first ADA regulations for accessibility of web content and mobile apps have been approved by the Attorney General. This post summarizes the regulations and discusses the implications on digital accessibility efforts in the United States and beyond.

The Department of Justice published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on July 20, 2023 explaining how we propose updating the regulations for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to add more specific requirements about web and mobile application accessibility. This fact sheet gives a plain language summary of the technical standards that state and local governments would have to follow to meet their existing obligations under Title II of the ADA.

An update of the notable digital accessibility legal cases this month and their impact

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland today signed a final rule under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to ensure the accessibility of web content and mobile applications (apps) for people with disabilities. This final rule clarifies the obligations of state and local governments to make their websites and mobile applications accessible. Every day, people across the country use the web and mobile apps to access public programs and services, including emergency information, courts, healthcare providers, schools, voting information, parking, permit applications, tax payments, and transit updates. If these technologies are not accessible, it can be difficult or impossible for people with disabilities to access critical services. Consequently, individuals with disabilities may be excluded from accessing public services that other people routinely use.

Hidde's blog about web accessibility, standards, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more.

I wrote this article on the default accessibilty properties (some might say ‘semantics’) of the popover attribute with Hidde de Vries.

Digital designer Yichan Wang has put together this collection of strategies and selling points to help you encourage and advocate for accessibility in your place of work, including useful scripts you can use as starting points.

Learn about the new success criteria in WCAG 2.2 and how to test for WCAG 2.2 compliance on your WordPress website. Pass/fail examples.

Read about the 10 most common issues our teams discovered using both automated and manual testing in 2023.

An interactive guide on designing better target sizes on the web.

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.

The CSS `clamp()` function is often paired with viewport units for “fluid” font sizing that scales the text up and down at different viewport sizes. As common as this technique is, several voices warn that it opens up situations where text can fail WCAG Success Criterion 1.4.4, which specifies that text should scale up to at least 200% when the user’s browser reaches its 500% maximum zoom level. Max Barvian takes a deep look at the issue and offers ideas to help address it.

With things to keep in mind, strategies and practical techniques to convince stakeholders to support and promote accessibility efforts.

After 5 years of research, much deliberations, constant feedback, several drafts and edits, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 has arrived as

When I asked in The Admin Bar Facebook Group what accessibility topics people wanted to hear about in Accessibility Weekly, there were questions about secondary or other na...