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IDI Web Accessibility Checker : Web Accessibility Checker
IDI Web Accessibility Checker : Web Accessibility Checker
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…
·achecker.ca·
IDI Web Accessibility Checker : Web Accessibility Checker
Automating Your Accessibility Tests
Automating Your Accessibility Tests
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.
·24ways.org·
Automating Your Accessibility Tests
7 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about Accessibility
7 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about Accessibility
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…
·blog.marvelapp.com·
7 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about Accessibility
Improving The Color Accessibility For Color-Blind Users
Improving The Color Accessibility For Color-Blind Users
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...
·smashingmagazine.com·
Improving The Color Accessibility For Color-Blind Users
Stop Designing For Only 85% Of Users: Nailing Accessibility In Design
Stop Designing For Only 85% Of Users: Nailing Accessibility In Design
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.
·smashingmagazine.com·
Stop Designing For Only 85% Of Users: Nailing Accessibility In Design
Using this Tutorial
Using this Tutorial
Welcome to the Teach Access Tutorial! This resource is part of the Teach Access Initiative, and provides best practices for making accessible mobile and web apps. This tutorial currently provides basi…
·teachaccess.github.io·
Using this Tutorial
a11y.css Introduction
a11y.css Introduction
This CSS file intends to warn developers about possible risks and mistakes that exist in HTML code. It can also be used to roughly evaluate a site's quality by simply including it as an external style…
·ffoodd.github.io·
a11y.css Introduction
Writing Accessible Content
Writing Accessible Content
Good start for accessible site is using accessibility ready themes and plugins. I have written technical overview how to build accessible themes. But that alone is not enough. Writing accessible conte…
·foxland.fi·
Writing Accessible Content
Heading headache
Heading headache
A snippet of HTML I found made accessibility experts laugh. I explain what is wrong with the code, so the error isn't repeated.
·incl.ca·
Heading headache
Architecture & Accessibility
Architecture & Accessibility
The history of the wheelchair dates back to 300 BC in China, where records show wheelbarrow type furniture was used to assist people with disabilities. It wasn’t until the 1970’s that the ramped cu…
·lireo.com·
Architecture & Accessibility
R.I.P. REM, Viva CSS Reference Pixel!
R.I.P. REM, Viva CSS Reference Pixel!
The web is full of resources telling you to use the relative lengths “em” and “rem” over pixel, because they would make your design more accessible. Almost all Front-End Developers I know (including m…
·mindtheshift.wordpress.com·
R.I.P. REM, Viva CSS Reference Pixel!
Making Websites Better through Accessibility
Making Websites Better through Accessibility
Making your website accessible means making it available to the largest number of people possible. It's already a Herculean task to get people to your website…
·nystudio107.com·
Making Websites Better through Accessibility
Accessibility
Accessibility
How to be “Accessibility Ready” This is an optional stage of the theme review process. Submitted themes (or theme updates) that use the tag accessibility-ready will undergo an accessibi…
·make.wordpress.org·
Accessibility
Links are not buttons. Neither are DIVs and SPANs
Links are not buttons. Neither are DIVs and SPANs
Quick: what is this? If the word “Button” comes to mind, you might be right. Unfortunately we’ve been seeing a lot of instances in our testing where an image or CSS styling is use…
·karlgroves.com·
Links are not buttons. Neither are DIVs and SPANs