Accessibility

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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

The BoIA Web Accessibility Certification Program delivers online accessibility training with 24/7 access and flexibility to study anywhere, at any time.

The ongoing delay in the release of federal accessibility guidelines has contributed to the giant increase in website accessibility lawsuits in 2018. With the lack of a federal directive by the DOJ, law firms are actively pursuing suits.

Presented at the Cowichan Valley WordPress August 2018 Meetup. This presentation was all about web accessibility, thinking about the users affected, technology involved, creating accessible content…

On 24 July 2018, Intopia launched WCAG 2.1 Map, a visual rendering of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1.

I’ve been working on this for a couple of months but it can be for Blogging Against Disablism Day 2017 I’m disabled. So are both my partners. And most of my siblings. And 85+% of my fri…

The internet, like most activities on the planet, has a barrier to entry. You need at least one brain—conscious and functioning at a level high enough to tap or click on stuff—and a working Internet-enabled device. You need access, in one form or another, to an Internet service provider. And that's really about it. In an ideal world, that's all you need. People without functioning eyeballs can use screen readers. People without hands have other input devices for their computers. People with crappy computers have... access to an ever-shrinking percentage of websites. Wait... what? Here's the...

Accessibility to everyday products and empowering user experiences is a right, not a privilege—and designers have the opportunity to make this happen.

Guidelines to help teams create accessible products and services

Many of us are taught to make sure our sites can be used via keyboard. Why is that, and what is it like in practice? Chris Ashton did an experiment to find out.

Design for the Color Impaired

Seven easy-to-implement guidelines to design a more accessible web ❤️