Accessibility

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.

A post on performance and assumptions made due to location

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…

We're rolling out accessibility updates to the Vimeo player. Read on to learn what's new.

There's a growing demand for designers to make their interfaces accessible to all users. It's important to accommodate users with disabilities...

A small collection of accessibility checks I perform in every site I audit and build.

In this post, we focus on how to make technologies accessible to people with cognitive disabilities, a type of disability that is often overlooked.

How we designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast.

In 1998 the US Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act to require Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. Section 508 was enacted to eliminate barriers in information technology, to make available new opportunities for people with disabilities, and to encourage development of technologies that will help achieve these goals. The law applies to all Federal agencies when they develop, procure, maintain, or use electronic and information technology. Under Section 508, agencies must give employees with disabilities and members ...

This section of the Rehabilitation Act required federal agencies to develop, procure, maintain, and use information and communications technology (ICT) that is accessible to people with disabilities, whether or not they work for the government.

Information about the Section508.gov website, GSA’s Government-wide IT Accessibility Team, and guidance to Federal agencies on accessible information and communication technology (ICT).

A website redesign offers a clean slate to build accessibility into your site from the beginning. Learn more here, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

A list of 9 unexpected tips for testing digital accessibility and inclusive design

UserWay is a pioneer in innovative website accessibility technologies. We provide helpful accessibility plugins that work without refactoring your website's existing code and will increase compliance with WCAG 2.1 , ATAG 2.0 , ADA , & Section 508 requirements.

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Throughout 2018, the UsableNet research team has been monitoring all major web accessibility-related Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuits. See why website accessibility is important internationally and across all industries.