Accessibility

This document is for people who make Web content (Web pages) and Web applications. It gives advice on how to make content usable for people with cognitive and learning disabilities.

The podcasting company Gimlet Media now faces a class-action lawsuit for failing to make its podcasts accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing. In the complaint, filed today in New York, plaintiff Kahlimah Jones argues that Gimlet violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide closed captioning on various podcasts.

One man's story on how social and shopping safety with blindness would be improved with awareness, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

Why do we develop accessible websites? And what does it even mean for a website to be accessible? The answers lay in a complicated 60-year history of disability activism and in 30-year-old legislation created before the web. It’s a story of U.C Berkeley wheelchair renegades who took sledgehammers to sidewalk curbs, a visionary architect who designed an illustrated guide to accessible building codes, and an ongoing attempt to define how the legislation that brought us wheelchair ramps applies to website design. This is the first in a series I’m writing on accessible web experiences. In the articles to follow, we’ll […]

Forcing users to browse PDF files causes frustration and slow task completion, compared to standard webpages. Use PDF only for documents that users will print. In those cases, following 10 basic guidelines will minimize usability problems.

It's encouraging to see a company quickly own up to an oversight, but let's be reminded that prioritizing accessibility can prevent it in the first place.

An experiment that tries to help you understand how bad accessibility affects users and their daily experiences on the web.

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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…

An equivalent experience is one that has been deliberately conceived of and built to be able to be used by the widest possible range of people. To create an equivalent experience, you must understand all the different ways people interact with technology.

In this article, we will review the different types of images, dive into some real-world examples of inaccessible public service announcements, and discuss which elements matter most when critical messages need to reach everyone.

While it is still Wednesday here in the U.S., some parts of the world are already awakening to the third Thursday in May, which is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of the even…

Is your WordPress website accessible by all audiences? Read our guide on accessibility considerations for themes, plugins, & content on WordPress websites.

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 …