Some Background I had the privilege of creating course material to teach accessibility testing for work this past quarter. I agonized over…

The A11Y Project is a community-driven effort to make digital accessibility easier.

An experiment that tries to help you understand how bad accessibility affects users and their daily experiences on the web.

A video series on in-depth technical accessibility. Next episode: October 07, 2020, with Helen Burge. Register now!

Want to maximize consumer accessibility to your app? We share some basic tips and tools for inspecting, evaluating and improving the accessibility in major browsers.

So what is POUR and why should I care? POUR is an acronym in reference to the WebAIM WCAG...

We are fortunate to have robust patterns to choose from when optimizing accessibility in SVGs — but most people stop there, focusing on code compliance and not actual users and their needs. If true inclusiveness lies beyond patterns — what other factors should we consider when designing and developing accessible SVGs?

The goal of this post is to highlight a handful of useful HTML elements for improving a page's accessibility, and show that every developer can learn about a…

Accessibility axioms: Basic truths about building an inclusive digital world. - accessibility/Axioms

Are you wondering how to make your website more accessible? This web accessibility checklist covers common issues and best practices to overcome them.

Best practices of making draggable elements accessible for visually impaired people

Guidelines to help teams create accessible products and services

Der Beginn des neuen Jahres ist es eine gute Gelegenheit, sich mit der Barrierefreiheit Ihrer Web-Applikation auseinanderzusetzen. Deswegen habe ich im folgenden 20 Startpunkte gesammelt, die Ihnen helfen können, Ihre App im Jahr 2020 zugänglicher zu gestalten.

In the mid-’90s, I saw an TV ad for hearing aids. The most ironic part was this concluding screen: If you are the target audience of this ad, then you have difficulty hearing. Lest I remind you, using the telephone requires ample hearing capabilities. So for the prospective customer to go through a challenging experience […]

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Accessibility and aesthetics are not in conflict, despite the claims of some.

You’ve heard of this inclusive design thing, and know that a11y is a numeronym for accessibility. It matters to you, and you try to make the people and projects around you better for it. But you’ve conquered the basics. Now what? I have good news to share: going beyond the basics isn’t as hard as […]

Find out who can use your color combination. Whocanuse is a tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect different people that have visual impairments.

Yesterday, we talked about screen readers (and why you should use one). What happens if you have a piece of content that changes dynamically on your page? How do screen readers let the user know that content has changed? For example, imagine you had an input for users to type their name. Below it, you have an element that displays “Hello {user’s name}!” in real time as they type. How does a screen reader user know about the message in the #app element?

There’s a growing demand for designers to make their interfaces accessible to all users. It’s important to accommodate users with disabilities, but there are many myths to color contrast accessibility being perpetuated by misinformed people. They often parrot these myths to discredit a design, without understanding in which situations a color contrast standard applies. Not […]