Accessibility

You may have heard that when defining the size of things in your website, you should be using em or rem units, rather than good old…

Prioritizing web accessibility has always been important but it should likely go up a notch or two on your to-do list. Learn all about the Winn-Dixie case here.

The select2 library makes it simple for anyone to add full-featured, good-looking dropdown menus to their site. According to Wappalyzer, at least 850,000 websites are currently using select2. WooComme…

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…

We put together a list of ten web accessibility guidelines that will guarantee access to your site to any person, in spite of their disabilities.

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…

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…

I thought my eyesight was beginning to go. It turns out, I’m suffering from design.

Léonie Watson on giving a damn about what you're building and who it's for.

Hello, are you interested in joining the Make WordPress Accessible team? Or are you just interested in finding out what we’re up to? This page explains a bit about what the team does, and how you c…

As Americans age, interface and product design itself will transform.

This post is just a stub for now so that you can access my slides during my talk. Later on I will add some links, tweets, and some of the animated GIFs I use in the slides (since they do not display i…

“If you have a disability, what’s the hardest thing about browsing the web?” The answers to Safia Abdalla’s tweet are truly eye-opening and shows us what web accessibility should really be about. The …

With over-50s making up an increasing number of the digital population, you need to know how to make websites age-friendly. Here's how.

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WebKit now supports the prefers-reduced-motion media feature, part of CSS Media Queries Level 5, User Preferences. The feature can be used in a CSS @media block or through the window.matchMedia() inte…

Layout is a design and WordPress blog covering thought-provoking topics that show you the next step for your business, improve your process, and inspire your designs.

Layout is a design and WordPress blog covering thought-provoking topics that show you the next step for your business, improve your process, and inspire your designs.

We often think about accessibility in the design and build process, but content is always king. These are some ongoing considerations to keep your text and media accessible.

So you want to make an accessible WordPress website? Congratulations – your site will be available to the widest possible audience! Not sure why acce...

Smooth scrolling (the animated change of position within the viewport from the originating link to the destination anchor) can be a nice interaction detail

A comprehensive visual guide to making web technology available to a diverse world.

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Over the past several years, accessibility has become one of most-discussed topics in web design. And that’s a good thing. As more of our daily lives are moved online, making...

Removing CSS outlines without proper fallbacks can make it impossible to navigate your site with a keyboard.

Accessibility testing for color palettes or sass variables, built by The Scenery.

Accessibility enables people with disabilities to perceive, understand, navigate, interact with and contribute to the web.

Designing for inclusivity not only opens up products and experiences to more people with a wider range of abilities, it also reflects how people really are.

Web Accessibility means making your content available to all users. Here are some common misconceptions about web accessibility.

Learn how to create a WooCommerce store that is accessible to shoppers regardless of their location, ability or how they access the internet.