Accessibility is a holistic practice, essential to some but useful to all. It is a practice that touches on many aspects of good web design and development, especially performance. This talk will highlight opportunities and techniques to improve your website or web app’s performance by embracing an accessible, inclusive mindset.
Please note that there the following information may no longer be accurate if testing with newer versions of browsers and screen readers than the ones note...
Accessibility for Vestibular Disorders: How My Temporary Disability Changed
Developer Facundo Corradini shares how his temporary disability taught him about why accessibility testing is so important. Focused on vestibular disorders, he both shares best practices to create …
Semantics to Screen Readers · An A List Apart Article
As an extension to our From URL to Interactive series, designer and front-end developer Melanie Richards takes a deep dive into how our content is accessed by a wide array of screen readers, which …
There are certain situations where ARIA is a good (and maybe the only) way to go. But if done wrong, usage of ARIA often leads to even worse accessibility. Especially accessibility novices tend to misuse ARIA to "optimise" smelly code.
I Used The Web For A Day Using A Screen Reader — Smashing Magazine
A sighted user puts himself in the shoes of a non-sighted user. Chris Ashton experiences first-hand difficulties that visually impaired users face and describes what we can do as web developers to help.
Einstieg in den Screenreader NVDA | Inklusion umsetzen
Sie finden im Folgenden unterschiedliche Informationen, welche Ihnen den Start mit dem freien Screenreader NVDA erleichtern sollen. Alle Texte sind auf dieser U
Nutzung von Screenreader oder Hilfstechnik erkennbar? | Barrierefreiheit –
Mit iOS 12.2 hat Apple eine Funktion eingeführt, mit der Webseiten mitgeteilt wird, dass ein Anwender Hilfstechnik, insbesondere den Screenreader VoiceOver eins
A web application is a computer program that runs in your browser. It is hard to expand the general definition further. Wikipedia says: > The general distinction between a dynamic web page of any kind and a "web application&...
Common pitfalls and misunderstandings in accessibility auditing
At Hassell Inclusion we deliver a huge amount of accessibility training to organisations all over the world. Our Head of Training, Jon Gooday, has had the honour of training over 70 accessibility auditors over the last five years. In this blog, he gives an overview of some of the most common mistakes and pitfalls that auditors tend to get wrong that impact the quality of their findings...
Easy ARIA Tip #6: Making clickables accessible › Marco's Accessibility Blog
It often happens that designers and web developers agree on the fact that they do not like the standard buttons or the styling capabilities of buttons in browsers. To work around this, they then resort to what’s called clickable text. It is in many cases a simple span
Labels and text alternatives | web.dev
In order for a screen reader to present a spoken UI to the user, meaningful elements must have proper labels or text alternatives. A label or text alternative gives an element its accessible name, one of the key properties for expressing element semantics in the accessibility tree.