Accessibility

One year ago, the popular government policy magazine Open Access Government stated, “Accessibility for all is not an option – it’s a fundamental right.” Creating equal access to digital content, regardless of age, size, ability, or disability, has always been a priority for 10up; it is inseparable from our mission to make a better internet [...]

W3C Note 7 August 2000

We’ve been working with SVGs a lot recently, which has led our developers down a rabbithole of discovery! Here are some things to consider when it comes to SVGs and accessibility.

Why your coolest scrolly features can cause problems, and what to do about it

I'm sure you know about alt text. It's the attribute on the image tag that has the important task of describing what that image is for someone who can't see it for any reason. Please use them. I don't want to dimish the please use them message, but some interesting alt-text-related things have come up in my

Accessibility in emails is getting more and more press in the past few years, which is a good thing.

A list of accessibility testing tools for websites and online applications.

Is your website accessible to those with a disability? Approximately 56.7 million Americans have a disability. Unfortunately, the majority of websites, even newly built ones, do not meet accessibility standards. If you haven’t considered accessibility until now, your site most likely has barriers that make it difficult for anyone with a disability to view and …

Written by Andrea Fercia & Joe Dolson WordPress 4.2 is shipping with a useful new JavaScript method: wp.a11y.speak(). This is a utility to make it easy for WordPress core to create consistent m…

I’ve been thinking recently about the nature of my work and which aspects of it I enjoy the most. In a role that will often straddle the realms of design a

285 million people worldwide are visually impaired. We need to make sure we're designing for them.

Laura Kalbag takes us back to basics to make sure we consider accessibility when structuring our HTML. The Christmas tree needs to be standing firm before we drape it in lights and tinsel, and until you lot start doing it, we’re not going to stop preaching it.

Discover how the Inclusive Design Principles make apps and sites more usable for disabled users.

The Functional Accessibility Evaluator (FAE) evaluates a website or a single web page based on the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level A and AA requirements.

Automated testing is the first step toward determining if your website is accessible to people with disabilities, including those using assistive technologies like screen readers, screen magnifiers, s…

AChecker is a Web accessibility evalution tool designed to help Web content developers and Web application developers ensure their Web content is accessible to everyone regardless to the technology th…

How do you know if your website is compliant? Start with a free graded report of your website. At no cost to you, The Bureau of Internet Accessibility (BOIA) offers a graded report using our A11Y® pla…

Check your website for 508 compliance. Learn what is 508 compliance and see best practices

Alan Dalton takes a detailed look at WCAG on this UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Remember, Christmas is a time of good will to all, no matter if you have difficulty seeing, hearing, reading, or just have a very shiny nose.

Seren Davies reminds us that unlike Christmas, accessibility testing should not come but once a year with a look at how to apply automated testing. By configuring tests to run against each commit, you can ensure that your site’s accessibility compliance need not be left to chance.

Web accessibility is the degree to which a website is usable by as many people as possible - Laura Kalbag

Carie Fisher discusses approaching our digital work with an Accessibility First mindset, ensuring inclusive design principles are considered,

Accessibility enables people with disabilities to perceive, understand, navigate, interact with, and contribute to the web. Imagine a world where developers know everything there is to know about acce…

Learn how to use WordPress with a screen reader

According to Colour Blind Awareness [4.5% of the population are color-blind](http://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/). If your audience is mostly male this increases to 8%. Designing for color-blind people can be easily forgotten because most designers _aren't_ color-blind. In this article I provide 13 tips to improve the experience for color-blind people – something which can often benefit people with normal vision too. There are [many types](http://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/types-of-colour-blindness/) of color blindness but it comes down to not seeing co...

As designers, we like to think we are solution-based. But whereas we wouldn’t hesitate to call out a museum made inaccessible by a lack of wheelchair ramps, many of us still remain somewhat oblivious to flaws in our user interfaces. Poor visual design, in particular, can be a barrier to a good user experience. Whereas disability advocacy has long **focused on ways to help the user adapt** to the situation, we have reached a point where users expect products to be optimized for a broad range of needs.