Accessibility

When it comes to disability, a lot of ableist language and tropes are perpetuated by the media. Here's what experts have to say about how to talk about disability.

This document summarizes considerations of accessibility that arise in the conduct of remote and hybrid meetings. Such meetings are mediated, for some or all participants, by real-time communication software typically built upon Web technologies. Issues of software selection, and the roles of meeting hosts and participants in providing access are explained. Relevant W3C documents are referred to, where applicable, as sources of more detailed and in some instances normative guidance.

Firefox has become one of the best tools for accessibility audits. Let’s go over Firefox’s accessibility features that you can use today.

An up-to-date collection of accessible front-end components: accordions, form styles, dark mode, data charts, date pickers, form styles, navigation menu, modals, radio buttons, "skip" links, SVGs, tabs, tables, toggles and tooltips.

The Ad Hoc Accessibility Beyond Compliance Playbook

Meg Miller, lead designer, developer and accessibility specialist discussed how to productively write website alt text for photos.

Until recently there was no dedicated method in HTML to identify content as a subheading, subtitle, alternative title or tagline. Now there is.

In this article, we’ll see how to make our sites friendly for Windows High Contrast Mode by using a good set of practices, including the media query `forced-colors` and its toolset.

Programmers who are blind pioneered accessibility software.

With my pen hovering over a form, there is no easy answer: better to provoke stigma with support, or resist classification?

5 illustrations to evangelize accessibility: understand disabled people's needs, reach compliance levels, connect design decisions and needs, rules of the forms, design accessibility and innovation

Accessibility literacy must be a goal for any kind of sustainable, scalable accessibility program.

There seems to be a confusion about the relationship and how to test for the WCAG 2.1 Success Criteria 1.4.4 Resize Text and 1.4.10 Reflow. While these two success criteria seem related, they cover different use cases.

In this episode of Allied Podcast, Elisa chats with Dr. Joel Snyder about audio description and his career as a professional describer.

The text-overflow property can be used to show visual indication of truncated text. I'm not a fan, and take every opportunity to discourage its use.

During the previous United States presidential administration some very committed disability rights lawyers hunkered down in the Department of Justice (DOJ). They did what they could to protect the Americans with Disabilities Act during that challenging time. But there were very few proactive develo

Colors are always a tricky topic to address for many reasons. First, it’s a key pillar of a brand’s identity and has a clear impact on the…

Calibrating contextual colours to be readable and recognisable anywhere.

The Department of Justice published guidance today on web accessibility and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  It explains how state and local governments (entities covered by ADA Title II) and businesses open to the public (entities covered by ADA Title III) can make sure their websites are accessible to people with disabilities in line with the ADA’s requirements.

An open letter about accessibility overlays.

Our mission is to foster collaborations in the technology space that build inclusive workplaces for people with disabilities. Our vision is a future where new and emerging technologies are accessible to the workforce by design.

Why, what and how designers should document accessibility requirements and user interactions to make product better and more inclusive

APCA (Accessible Perceptual Contrast Algorithm) is a new method for predicting contrast for use in emerging web standards (WCAG 3) for determining readability contrast. APCA is derived form the SAP...

WCAG 3 will use a new color contrast method called APCA (Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm). It's a big improvement over the current system but there are a lot of changes to get your head aroun…

The Department of Justice published guidance today on web accessibility and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  It explains how state and local governments (entities covered by ADA Title II) and businesses open to the public (entities covered by ADA Title III) can make sure their websites are accessible to people with disabilities in line with the ADA’s requirements.

An open letter about accessibility overlays.

Our mission is to foster collaborations in the technology space that build inclusive workplaces for people with disabilities. Our vision is a future where new and emerging technologies are accessible to the workforce by design.

The XR Access Initiative is a community committed to making virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (XR) accessible to people with disabilities.