A11y

Accessibility expert Denis Boudreau shared his best practices for creating accessible content in this series of posts on the Deque blog.

Do you know when to use and not to use ARIA roles, states, and properties? Follow these 5 rules of ARIA use and you will.

Das tabindex-Attribut kann für fast alle Elemente eingesetzt werden, abhängig vom Wert.

It's within the Document Object Model (DOM) that we find one of the keys to building accessible things for the web: the document.

The rationale for organizations to address accessibility. It includes tangible and intangible benefits, and the risks of not addressing accessibility adequately.

A primer on appropriately using aria-hidden='true' and role='none/presentation'. They each do very different things to elements, but their purposes are somet...

How does a colorblind designer work with color? Not with his eyes! Instead David relies on reading color hex codes. He shares his process into understanding those six-digit codes and related insights into human vision, computer history, and digital color.

Sometimes the thing that makes a website difficult to understand for a screen reader user is the absence of information, and that is a problem that is not identified in automated scans.

Scott O’Hara returns, not with prose, but with a little history on the title attribute, it’s unintended misuse by developers, and where it can and should be used to improve the accessibility on your website.

The Tenon.io blog

Improving accessibility for web pages

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As designers, we need to remember that the same is true of color, and all visual abilities. UX Booth author and visual UX designer Nick Babich has a list of how-tos, to help make every design both beautiful and usable.

Another message to my past self, this time on the importance of accessibility, how to achieve it, and how to test it.

You’re wrapping up a web project and just as you’re putting the finishing touches you get sent a list of accessibility errors forwarded to…

» Screenreader support for text-level semantics

A guideline to accessibility testing, from tools to workflows, by Rian Rietveld. This talk was originally presented at WCUS 2017, as 'Accessibility testing, tools and workflow.'

A community-driven effort to make digital accessibility easier.

While most browsers work all right with the new semantic elements of HTML5, they don’t add the ARIA accessibility attributes that the specification demands. This small JavaScript adds those attribu...

The ARIA switch role is functionally identical to the checkbox role, except that instead of representing "checked" and "unchecked" states, which are fairly generic in meaning, the switch role represents the states "on" and "off."