Accessibility

Accessibility display modes are are pre-defined display configurations you can tell your device to use to read and take action on content.

OUR MISSION It is the mission of Accessible-email.org to promote email marketing accessibility and usability. In that be the voice of users and the email marketing community. For years the...

If you want to learn more about designing and implementing fully accessible websites, you've come to the right place.

Digital accessibility lawsuits can hit any industry, including adult entertainment. Learn more, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

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…

Accessibility stats are best used to show opportunity, improve customer experience, and demonstrate commitment, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

I created a fictional service called ‘Record a goose sighting’ using the GOV.UK Design System. I then broke it to introduce accessibility issues based on real issues I’ve seen, such as missing alt text and broken heading hierarchies.

In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of lawsuits filed in response to inaccessible websites. As a developer who works primarily wit...

What is inclusive design? It is simple. It means that your product has been created with the intention of being accessible to as many different users as possible. For a long time, the concept of accessibility has been limited in terms of only defining physical spaces. However, change is afoot: pe...

So you’ve read Eric Karkovack’s post on WordPress accessibility, and now you want to make future sites you work on accessible. Great! The WordPress

A list of plugins, websites and resources for accessible web design

A few years ago I didn’t know what the term “accessibility” meant. I built Web sites that were partially inaccessible because I didn’t know better. Fast forward to today, I know enough to be able to write, speak and run workshops on accessibility, helping others build more a accessible and inclusive Web. Much like everyone …

Long live the modern browser! Browsers are getting better these days. We seem to be in a golden age where there’s a never-ending stream of new features added for the benefit of the users accessing the page, and really great tools for those creating the page. It hasn’t always been the case, though. Earlier versions …

There are no definites with color. Sure, you have your red, your green, and so on — but even that is relative. Try to describe a specific red color to a friend. Chances are the description will settle on, for example, is the color more of a brick-red or a fire truck-red? Describing a color …

» Checklist to avoid the most common accessibility errors

tl;dr - is a button and buttons eat semantics

Beyond Binary is dedicated to the discussion of inclusive UX design practices for gender-fluid and transgender people.

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