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UsableNet is a driving force in the world of accessibility and digital transformation to deliver inclusive experiences for websites and apps.

Domino's has petitioned the Supreme Court to hear the case, where it could prove to be a landmark battle over the rights of disabled people on the internet.

In theory, performance, accessibility, and inclusive design all have similar goals: Provide the best, most consistent experience to all people using the minimal amount of resources. In practice, this often falls apart. Product creators define what it means to be performant from where they stand, which is typically from places of privilege with unseen biases, struggling to find true empathy with their users. Through this talk, we'll examine how to build conscientiously, looking within to resist systematic problems in order to create more truly performant, accessible, and inclusive systems fo...

You’ve heard it before: there is not enough diversity in tech. But Carie Fisher offers one solution you may not have heard: that focusing on accessibility may be key in making the tech world …

The web was designed with built-in features to make accessibility possible; these have been part of the platform pretty much from the beginning. In recent times, inspectable accessibility trees have ...

An experiment that proves that automatic accessibility testing is only a first step and that manual testing is vital.

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Forms are a really important part of the web experience. They catalog requests, complete purchases, assist signup flows, and play a crucial role in your business’ key metrics. Here are some best...

WHO suggests that 1.3 billion people all around the world have some kind of visual impairment – which includes 217 million people with moderate to severe vision impairment; 36 million people are blind worldwide; 15% of the global population have some kind of disability. With the advancements in adaptive technologies, such as screen readers, magnifiers, eye-tracking, joysticks, and sip-and puff technology, visually impaired and disabled people are able to use computers, tablets, and smartphones. Emails that are designed taking into consideration only people with a normal range of vision, hea...

All the tools, tips and resources your need to build and check the color accessibility and color constrast of digital products!

A Mini Case Study on Color Contrast

A sighted user puts himself in the shoes of a non-sighted user. Chris Ashton experiences first-hand difficulties that visually impaired users face and describes what we can do as web developers to help.

A modern tool for exploring and finding accessible colors. Make sure that everyone can see your creations.

I read something depressing last Monday, and I can’t stop thinking about it.

When I first started learning web development I thought hiding content was simple: slap display: none; onto your hidden element and call it a day. Since then I’ve learned about screen readers…

A tool that evaluates the ADA compliance of your brand’s color palette.

Series part 1 of 5: Accessibility testing for the impact of visual disabilities helps ensure that people with visual impairments or blindness can access the same information that is available visually. Here's what we look for, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

By testing according to WCAG, we account for the experiences of people with a variety of disabilities. In this article, part 2-of-5 in the series, we're discussing how we test for the accessibility impact of auditory or hearing disabilities, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

Series part 3 of 5 shows how we perform accessibility testing for the impact of cognitive, learning, and neurological disabilities. This series is dedicated to highlighting testing for different disability types, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

Series part 4 of 5. When testing websites and apps for the accessibility barriers that people with disabilities may encounter, what do we actually look for? Learn how we test for the accessibility impacts of people with physical disabilities, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

This series highlights how we test websites and apps for the accessibility impacts people with different disability types may encounter. Check out what we look for when we test for barriers to people with speech disabilities, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

Screen readers are diverse and complex: front-end developer Melanie Richards breaks down how they access our content step-by-step.

Apple has become the target of a new lawsuit, one that claims the iPhone producer's website is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by not being fully accessible to blind or visually-impaired consumers, due to the way the website itself is coded.

Her technical expertise launched a billion phone calls, yet now she is routinely thwarted by one of the most accessible UIs on the planet.

In this Smashing TV webinar, join us with Léonie Watson as she explores the web alongside some unexpected properties of HTML elements that have a huge impact on accessibility and performance.

To truly achieve inclusiveness, we need to first look at who we’re excluding.