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.
Designing Accessible Text Over Images: Best Practices, Techniques, And Resources (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
In this two-part series of articles, Hannah Milan covers the best practices when using various accessible text over images techniques for designing your web and mobile app content.
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.
Find and fix accessibility issues with Polypane | Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers
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