Practical approaches to Universal Design for making your website/webapp accessible to everyone

This document provides readers with an understanding of how to use WAI-ARIA 1.2 [WAI-ARIA] to create accessible rich internet applications. It describes considerations that might not be evident to most authors from the WAI-ARIA specification alone and recommends approaches to make widgets, navigation, and behaviors accessible using WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties. This document is directed primarily to Web application developers, but the guidance is also useful for user agent and assistive technology developers.

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Accessibility of web content requires semantic information about widgets, structures, and behaviors, in order to allow assistive technologies to convey appropriate information to persons with disabilities. This specification provides an ontology of roles, states, and properties that define accessible user interface elements and can be used to improve the accessibility and interoperability of web content and applications. These semantics are designed to allow an author to properly convey user interface behaviors and structural information to assistive technologies in document-level markup. T...

Sr. Accessibility Strategist Becky Gibson reviews W3C's new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 success criteria.

Automated accessibility tests are a great resource to have, but they can’t automatically make your site accessible. Use them as one step of a larger testing process.

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Shows how different HTML elements behave in commonly used screen readers

Curated list of recommended resources for frontend-development

The Web Accessibility Initiative's Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (WAI-ARIA, or just ARIA) is a set of tools and guidelines for making web content and applications more accessible. Most notably, it includes a suite of attributes we can add to HTML elements to embed in them more semantic information that

While the science behind color blindness is pretty complex, the gist of it is that color blind people have difficulty seeing color clearly or differentiating between some colors. With this in mind, in this article, we’ll share some tips on how you can improve your site’s accessibility and the experience it delivers for color blind people.

Sie finden im Folgenden unterschiedliche Informationen, welche Ihnen als blinde Person den Start mit dem freien Screenreader NVDA erleichtern sollen. NVDA-Anlei

Knowbility is a nonprofit organization with the goal of improving technology access for millions of youth and adults with disabilities all over the world.

Hoping to get an award? Recommended as a resource? Used as a case study in some important book? Ask yourself, ‘Does my site deserve recognition?’

How to test your service to make sure it's accessible to users with disabilities.

If you want to learn more about designing and implementing fully accessible websites, you've come to the right place.

Overlooked features with powerful results

Best Practices We constantly update our compendium of knowledge that designers, developers, and content editors should know to fulfill their role. [view:accessibility_concepts=block_1]

Many of us are taught to make sure our sites can be used via keyboard. Why is that, and what is it like in practice? Chris Ashton did an experiment to find out.

Empathy. It’s the latest buzzword circling around the industry as more and more companies strive to improve their customer experiences. At…