A11y

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.

It was late 2020 when I last tested how browsers use CSS display properties to break the semantics of elements. I had been waiting for Safari to fix how it handles display: contents for four years now, and was excited when the announcement came in June. Then I started testing…

If a state is important enough to indicate visually, it's probably important enough to expose to assistive technologies. Here's how we can use that to create more robust styles.

Die Richtlinien für barrierefreie Webinhalte (WCAG) 2.1 decken einen großen Bereich von Empfehlungen ab, um Webinhalte barrierefreier zu machen. Wenn Sie diesen Richtlinien folgen, dann werden Inhalte für eine größere Gruppe von Menschen mit Behinderungen barrierefreier sein. Dies beinhaltet Vorkehrungen für Blindheit und Sehbehinderung, Gehörlosigkeit und nachlassendes Hörvermögen, eingeschränkte Bewegungsfähigkeit, Sprachbehinderungen, Photosensibilität und Kombinationen aus diesen Behinderungen sowie einige Vorkehrungen für Lernbehinderungen und kognitive Einschränkungen; es werden jedoch nicht alle Benutzeranforderungen für Menschen mit diesen Behinderungen abgedeckt. Diese Richtlinien beziehen sich auf die Barrierefreiheit von Webinhalten auf Desktops, Laptops, Tablets und mobilen Geräten. Darüber hinaus wird das Befolgen dieser Richtlinien Webinhalte in vielen Fällen für Nutzer im Allgemeinen benutzbarer machen.

Now that we had a look at all the possible ARIA properties let's do the same for all of the...

“Should I use pixels or rems?”. In this comprehensive blog post, we'll answer this question once and for all. You'll learn about the accessibility implications, and how to determine the best unit to use in any scenario.

An attempt to raise awareness of a topic that should be important to anyone building user interfaces for humans.

Konstantin thinks accessibility is a topic that anyone who builds user interfaces for humans on the web should be aware of. In this talk he's answering the "...

Google’s built-in testing tool Lighthouse judges the accessibility of our websites with a score between 0 and 100. It’s laudable to try to get a high grading...

Solve 30% of the web's accessibility defects with just the help of a calculator!

Let’s talk about disabled buttons. Specifically, let’s get into why we use them and how we can do better than the traditional disabled attribute in HTML

Keyboard interaction note for just one control from the entire panoply of HTML controls: A native button fires on key down when that key is Enter. If you hold down the Enter key, it continues to fire for as long you hold Enter (or something crashes). A native button fires…

A checklist for creating accessible websites and web applications.

Leitfaden zur digitalen Barrierefreiheit. Contribute to RZ-BY/Leitfaden-Barrierefreiheit development by creating an account on GitHub.

A foundational overview of how to build a color adaptive and accessible loading bar with the progress element.

Find out how the accessibility monitoring methodology is used to test websites and mobile apps under the Accessibility Regulations

Last year, I worked on a project which contained a reorderable list component – essentially, a group of items that users can rearrange in any order. Though I…

Accessibility Path is a collection of resources that can help you to learn web accessibility and inclusive design. - conedevelopment/accessibility-path: Accessibility Path is a collection of resour...

The accessibility acceptance criteria testing checklist generator by T-Mobile - Accessibility Resource Center

The title of this post is pretty specific. It relates to the meme on Twitter where users identify a trait or preference that they see as problematic, and identify it as a red flag. The emoji represents the red flag. For example: A stylized red flag Blaming Screen Readers 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩…

Let’s take a look at the following markup snippet, shall we?

When you’re designing a page, it’s essential to think about who your audience is — and that your audience may not have the same abilities as you. Making your documents accessible is not just about adding alternative descriptions to images; it’s about thinking through all the ways you can make your design work for as many people as possible. Join me as I explain the choices you can/should consider in an accessible visual presentation using text, such as font, color, contrast, size, column width, spacing, kerning, and more.

Why, what and how designers should document accessibility requirements and user interactions to make product better and more inclusive

User experience designers guide - How to document the screen reader user experience for web content. Using your visual as a starting point, we’ll take you step by step through how to document the screen reader UX introducing concepts along the way.