Accessibility

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.

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.