A11y

For those of us who use screen reading software such as JAWS, NVDA, or VoiceOver to access information on...

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This tutorial describes how to build an accessible main navigation of a website. You learn about semantic HTML, accessibility, and how using ARIA attributes can sometimes do more harm than good.

In this article, Andrew Somers, a 35-year veteran of the Hollywood film and television industry, shares his experience about the hard-fought battles and lessons learned designing for illuminated presentations.

A starting point for questions to ask someone that wants you to give them a job - scottaohara/accessibility_interview_questions: A starting point for questions to ask someone that wants you to give...

I’d like to show you some hacks to aid your web development workflow and how to convert those hacks into time-saving bookmarklets.

Generate colors based on a desired contrast ratio.

The text-overflow property can be used to show visual indication of truncated text. I'm not a fan, and take every opportunity to discourage its use.

Ist meine Internetseite barrierefrei oder bietet sie Hürden und Barrieren für behinderte Menschen und Senioren? Barrierefreies Webdesign, PDF, Dokumente oder Formulare für den öffentlichen Sektor (eGovernment) entsprechen den offiziellen Richtlinien der WCAG und der BITV. Außer dem Schnelltest und dem Barriere-Check bietet anatom5 Lösungsansätze um der Zielgruppe von Menschen mit verschiedenen Behinderungsarten das Internet zugängig zu machen.

Mit Einführung der EU-Richtlinie 2016/2102 zur Barrierefreiheit von Webauftritten und mobilen Anwendungen öffentlicher Stellen (EU-Webseitenrichtlinie) und deren Umsetzung in nationales Recht, ist der Bedarf an Barrierefreiheitskompetenz enorm gestiegen.

Tipps für Online-Redakteurinnen und -Redakteure, Best Practice: So könnte der "perfekte Alt-Text" laute, Alt-Texte: die wichtigsten Punkte

Color & Contrast is an interactive guide to color for designers.

Web page evaluation with a focus on accessibility.

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

Easy and digestible digital accessibility cheat sheets that will help you design, develop and test to achieve ADA compliance/accessibility compliance

A complete guide to WAI-ARIA 1.1. The only WAI ARIA cheat sheet you would ever need

Links to various Understanding WCAG success criterion documents & code snippets.

An as-close-to-a-single-paragraph-as-I-can-manage summary of each rule in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.1, level AA.

We can all agree that abbreviations like acronyms usually need to be defined, but what if the HTML method we use isn’t accessible to all users?

Emphasis and other text-level semantics are normally ignored by screen readers, so it you’re relying on them for meaning you could be in trouble.

In this article, Olushuyi explores a mental model that helps you decide between the `` and `` elements when writing documents. You will explore how grouping content affects accessibility and how you can make it all count for users.

Firefox has become one of the best tools for accessibility audits. Let’s go over Firefox’s accessibility features that you can use today.

Once again, the advice is in the title of the post. But I will ramble anyway since you scrolled this far. First run with the advice, and then review some background on ARIA and how navigation and menu items are defined. This way you can tap out quickly when it…

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

With that bit of additional CSS, we are able to return the list semantics for VoiceOver users without needing to touch the markup.