Accessibility

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.

I have a condition called aphantasia where I can’t visualise things. When I try to picture my daughter when she’s not there, I see nothing

Designer Eric Bailey makes a case for leaving key accessibility features to the browser to ensure the most accessible experience.

Website and mobile apps accessibility ruling suggests you may be liable under ADA if you fail to ensure it. Valet explains why in this must-read post.

The Website of the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Accessibility Initiative.

Updating alt tags and creating friendly URLs and file names are just a few ways to maximize the accessibility of your organic search presence.

There’s no good design that isn’t accessible. In partnership with Dribbble, we’ve put together a series of Q&As with designers on the forefront of accessibility and inclusivity—this time, Cat Noone—for their thoughts, stories, and helpful hints.

You may think of layouts has being a primarily visual concern. Let's rethink that.

Rachel goes over what semantics are and how to use the button element versus using a link instead. Code examples and samples included.

A California father set up a company where his sons could work - and now employs more than 150 people.

HoverSeat Website & Online Store. We created the patent pending HoverSeat to solve the problems of hoverboards. We know that hoverboards are unsafe, so HoverSeat created a new, fun & safe mode of transportation that virtually anyone can drive. The HoverSeat is comfortable, versatile and has many practical uses.

I'm diving into React a lot more, and I'm specifically focused on making rock-solid, dumb presentational components that can be ingested by other applications. Part of making these components rock-solid is providing some definition and guardrails for the props associated with each component. E

I'm glad to see that WCAG 2.1 is being adopted so quickly. It was released on June 5, 2018, WCAG 2.0 took a while to be adopted as the standard. 2.1 does

How does a colorblind designer work with color? Not with his eyes! Instead David relies on reading color hex codes. He shares his process into understanding those six-digit codes and related insights into human vision, computer history, and digital color.

Laws can change attitudes, and changed attitudes can change how we act.

Quickly check and adjust contrast in realtime in your browser to meet the standards of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) requirements.

Brandon Gregory considers how to design accessibly for cognitive differences like anxiety disorders, inattention, and depression.

Web content is filthy rich and often inaccessilbe. How a technology of the future could look like to keep the web accessible?

When websites are not accessbile, it can be a frustrating experience. But it's even more frustrating when it's dismissed by an influential figure.

On Monday October 8, I gave a talk at edUI Conf about accessibility, as one is wont to do. (I had a fantastic time and I strongly recommend this conference to anyone who’s working on the web for a…

Style guide and pattern library promoting accessible components and WCAG compliance criteria

Practical approaches to Universal Design for making your website/webapp accessible to everyone

In the new book Mismatch, designer Kat Holmes demystifies the buzzy design process embraced by companies, from Microsoft to Google.

After 6 years of working on WordPress and accessibility and being part of the accessibility team, I have decided to leave the WordPress accessibility team.

The accessibility inspector provides a means to access important information exposed to assistive technologies on the current page via the accessibility tree, allowing you to check what's missing or otherwise needs attention. This article takes you through the main features of the accessibility inspector and how to use it.

Free color contrast analysis that will display the color contrast issues of a web page per WCAG 2.1 Guidelines