Accessibility

Some WordPress themes are more accessible than others, but learn why that isn't enough, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

The W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 provide a wide range of recommendations for making web content more accessible to users with disabilities. Following these guidelines will address many of the needs of users with blindness, low vision and other vision impairments; deafness and hearing loss; limited movement and dexterity; speech disabilities; sensory disorders; cognitive and learning disabilities; and combinations of these. These guidelines address accessibility of web content on desktops, laptops, tablets, mobile devices, wearable devices, and other web of things devices. They ad...

Screen readers are an essential part of using the web for people who are vision impaired, illiterate or have a learning disability. Today’s screen readers traverse web pages and applications and read out user interface elements, content and allow users to navigate and interact with the web. There are many screen readers available for different devices and platforms, each with differing levels of…

Compilation of official disability statistics relevant to website accessibility (reading difficulties, color blindness, difficulty seeing and hearing).

We’ve all been kicking off 2021 in a myriad of ways so far, and next Monday, I’ll be kicking mine off again, this time with my monthly…

Knowing the Accessibility Tree, and its history, is key to understanding accessible applications and to ensuring that every user can access them equally.

A dive into table and grid semantics, why they matter so much to screen readers, and your options for repairing or augmenting basic table markup.

One day I decided I wanted to add anchor links to each of the sections in my blog posts. Over the past few months, I'd seen these links on a lot of pages—from …

As Microsoft Edge prepared to re-platform on top of Chromium open source, we recognized our responsibility to continue supporting those who depend on Windows h

Describing images with the alt attribute and figcaption element.

Shipping accessible features is as important for a frontend developer as shipping features without bugs, learn about tools and techniques that will help you achieve that.

Top three takeaways for the Online Accessibility Act, new legislation proposed in the house to clarify accessibility standards for websites and apps.

With Serenade, you can write code using natural speech. Give your hands a break without missing a beat.

Adaptive computer accessories can make it easier to browse the web. Learn about some common technologies, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

Color is a foundational element in any creative work. When I took the challenge to design the Color Accessibility feature for Adobe Color, it wasn’t ...

Now you can keep an interpreter pinned on the screen, no matter who is speaking.

Autoplay can be confusing, cause unintended physical reactions like seizures, and more, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

It’s true, web animation can be accessible! Sometimes it just takes a little extra effort to make sure that it is. There are strategic things we can do to

Thanks to the wide support of the prefers-reduced-motion-media feature, we now have more advanced ways to design motion that can be creative and innovative while also being safer for those with motion sensitivities.

An insight into my own personal journey and experiences of being confident in a sighted world, as well as a few tips for others

Geri Reid, UI and UX Designer, London

The website of Hidde de Vries, freelance front-end developer.

In a not too distant past, we experienced the "responsive revolution", where all websites underwent a sea change of moving from static, desktop oriented layouts to fluid layouts that adapt t

In early March, Steve Faulkner shared this nugget for making sub-headings: 👉If you want to semantically identify a heading subtitle, look no further than role="doc-subtitle" w3.org/TR/dpub-aria-1.0/#doc-subtitle #HTML #ARIA #WebDev pic.twitter.com/uaHcVRp6oz Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) March 7, 2020 On its surface it looks pretty handy. Handy enough that Chris Ferdinandi wrote about…

In ordinary times, people with disabilities are regularly confronted with ableism, or in the words of Disability Rights Lawyer Haben Girma, "the widespread assumption that...

A new rollout of Chrome will have automatic PDF tagging, which may be very useful, but shouldn't replace manual revisions, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try

Frances Ryan always knew life could be more accessible. But as everyone became housebound, seeing it happen was a joy