Accessibility

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.

How do you make your website ADA compliant? Here’s a quick list of the most important things to do as summarized from WCAG 2.0 level AA.

Find out who can use your color combination. Whocanuse is a tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect different people that have visual impairments.

Test your background and text contrast ratio based on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and automatically find the closest accessible colors.

A list of accessibility recommendations, tips and resources.

Lydia X. Z. Brown is a lot of things — writer, advocate, organizer, strategist, educator, speaker, and attorney. Why do they spread their time and expertise across so many arenas? Because Lydia cho…

Page Content CSS: Relative Font Sizes Nine Point/Pixel Minimum Beware CSS Sizes X-Small and XX-Small There are two main concerns here. One is ensuring that default font sizes are not too small. Ano…

Table of Contents How Browsers Zoom and Resize Text Avoid Clipped, Truncated, Obscured, and Overlapping Text Avoid Horizontal Scrolling Development Best Practices How Browsers Zoom and Resize Text Users with low vision may prefer to have their browser resize text or zoom into page content to make it easier to read.

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A few considerations, like offering a text transcript, can go a long way toward making your podcasts accessible to more people. Brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

Page Content Synopsis Text Description Using Tables Color in Charts Charts, graphs and maps use visuals to convey complex images to users. But since they are images, these media provide serious acc…