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The Accessibility of Data Visualizations on the Web for Screen Reader Users: Practices and Experiences During COVID-19 | ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
The Accessibility of Data Visualizations on the Web for Screen Reader Users: Practices and Experiences During COVID-19 | ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
Data visualization has become an increasingly important means of effective data communication and has played a vital role in broadcasting the progression of COVID-19. Accessible data representations, however, have lagged behind, leaving areas of ...
·dl.acm.org·
The Accessibility of Data Visualizations on the Web for Screen Reader Users: Practices and Experiences During COVID-19 | ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
In iOS 17, Siri can make the web speak
In iOS 17, Siri can make the web speak
On a Safari page where Reader is available (right), tell Siri to “read this.” Within Accessibility settings (left, center), you can enable Speak Screen or Speak Selection, choose from a expanded nu…
·sixcolors.com·
In iOS 17, Siri can make the web speak
Designing Accessible Text Over Images: Best Practices, Techniques, And Resources (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
Designing Accessible Text Over Images: Best Practices, Techniques, And Resources (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
In Part 2 of the series, Hannah Milan reviews in detail various accessible text over images techniques for designing your web and mobile app content, including framing the image, soft-colored gradients technique, text styles and text position, solid color shapes, and use of colored backgrounds. And finally, the emphasis will once again be placed on the accessibility aspect, which needs to be “baked in” right from the start rather than being an afterthought in your design process.
·smashingmagazine.com·
Designing Accessible Text Over Images: Best Practices, Techniques, And Resources (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
Toggles suck! / Axess Lab
Toggles suck! / Axess Lab
You’ve all seen them, tiny switches that let you toggle a setting. And maybe, just like me, you sometimes pause, thinking “...Is it on or…
·axesslab.com·
Toggles suck! / Axess Lab
Jumbo’s journey towards an accessible webshop
Jumbo’s journey towards an accessible webshop
Learn all about the steps we took to improve the accessibility of our webshop and the challenges we still face in 2023 and beyond.
·medium.com·
Jumbo’s journey towards an accessible webshop
Continuous Accessibility
Continuous Accessibility
By @a11yMel@front-end.social
Comprehensive accessibility conformance for digital products represents an unsolved, complex problem and known to be without a reliable, transparent route to success. Further adding to the complexity, standards are still being developed for native applications on devices such as mobile phones and wearables.
deconstruct a WCAG success criterion into a subset of accessibility quality-control mechanisms: action steps that can be taken to comprehensively achieve an accessible experience.
We should determine which line items from TCC currently require manual testing but could reasonably have automated tests. This can help to determine future work.
·continuousaccessibility.com·
Continuous Accessibility