“accessibility” Archive (4)
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- Overlapping Interactive Areas (by) · · design
- Fluid Typography: Predicting a Problem With Your User’s Zoom-In (by/via) · · typography, css, zooming
- User Stylesheets Are Still Pretty Great and Should Be More Widely Supported (by/via) · · css, user-styles
- An Inclusive and Planet-Friendly Digital Style Guide (by/via) · · design, documentation, dei, sustainability, ethics
- What Is the Difference Between Alternative Text, Long Description, and Caption? (by/via) ·
- Top 10 Accessibility News of 2022 (via) · · retrospectives
- Obscure CSS: Restoring Visibility (by) · · css
- Aligning Jakob Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics With the WCAG 2.1 (by) · · wcag, usability, heuristics
- Quick Start for Evaluating and Testing Web Accessibility (by+/via) · · videos, testing
- Building an Accessible Theme Picker With HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (by) · · html, css, javascript, theming, functionality
- The Intended Consequence of Inaccessible Digital Ads (by+/via) · · videos, monetization
- Accessibility Convincing (by/via) · · videos, ethics, legal
- Foundations: Target Sizes (by/via) · · usability
- Useful Accessibility and Usability Examples to Help Improve Your Designs (via) · · usability, examples
- Bad Performance Is Bad Accessibility (by) · · performance
- Prevent Focused Elements From Being Obscured by Sticky Headers (by/via) · · usability, css, focus
- How to Find and Fix the Top 3 Accessibility Issues (via) · · videos, how-tos, auditing
- 5 HTML Elements, and a Partridge in a Despair Tree (via) · · html, semantics
- Accessibility Starts With an Organisation’s Culture (by/via) · · culture
- A Guide for Making Apps Accessible · · guides
- Top 5 Accessibility Issues in 2022 (by/via) · · retrospectives
- State of A11Y (via) · · videos
- Federal Web Accessibility Focus Has Private Sector on Notice (by/via) · · legal
- Accessible Front-End Patterns for Responsive Tables II (by/via) · · tables, responsive-design
- WCAG 3.0: Are We There Yet? (by/via) · · wcag, standards
- Five Myths About Digital Accessibility (by) · · videos, myths
- WCAG—Priority of Constituencies (by) · · wcag, prioritization
- W3C Publishes WCAG Testers Consistency List (by/via) · · wcag, testing
- Meaningful Labels Using ARIA—or Not (by/via) · · html, forms, aria
- Accessible Front-End Patterns for Responsive Tables (by/via) · · tables, responsive-design
- Accessibility: The Land That “Time to Interactive” Forgot (by/via) · · videos, performance
- Website Accessibility Is Not an Afterthought ·
- The 411 on 4.1.1 (by) · · wcag, standards
- Swearing and Automatic Captions (by) · · multimedia, captions
- Reading the Meter (by/via) · · html, semantics
- Brief Note on Description List Support (by) · · html, semantics, assistive-tech, support
- Landmarks and Where to Put Them (by/via) · · html, semantics, aria
- You Don’t Need ARIA for That (by/via) · · html, aria
- Accessibility and MVPs (by) · · principles
- Which Images Need Descriptive Text? (by) · · writing
- Making Microservices Accessible (by) · · microservices
- HTML Semantics and Accessibility Cheat Sheet (via) · · cheat-sheets, html, semantics
- Shadow DOM and Accessibility: The Trouble With ARIA (by) · · dom, shadow-dom, aria, html
- Making Accessibility Simpler in Higher Education and Beyond (by) · · videos
- Addressing Concerns About CSS Speech (by) · · css
- Positioning Notification Messages With Accessibility in Mind (by) · · notifications, positioning
- Setting Up a Screen Reader Testing Environment on Your Computer (by) · · user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, testing
- Preparing for WCAG 2.2 (by+/via) · · videos, wcag
- Accessibility and Inclusive Design Systems (by/via) · · videos, design-systems, dei
- The Value of Accessibility (by+/via) · · podcasts
- Page Title Conventions (by) · · html, seo
- Incorporating Accessible Design Elements Into Your Web Site (by/via) · · design
- DOJ and Congressional Updates on Digital Accessibility (via) · · legal
- Analyzing the Top 100 Retailers for Digital Accessibility (via) · · studies, research
- A Guide to Keyboard Accessibility: JavaScript (by/via) · · guides, keyboard-navigation, javascript
- Brief Note on “aria-readonly” Support (by) · · html, aria, assistive-tech, support
- Using Automated Test Results to Improve Accessibility (by+/via) · · automation, testing
- Accessibility Is in Style—Styles and Style Guides (by/via) · · writing, design, documentation, consistency, quality
- 5 Insider Tips to Make Accessibility Part of Workflow (by/via) · · tips-and-tricks, processes
- Significant Improvements for Screen Readers Now in Nightly Firefox (by/via) · · user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, mozilla, firefox
- Your Accessibility Claims Are Wrong, Unless… (by) · · communication
- A Guide to Keyboard Accessibility: HTML and CSS (by/via) · · guides, keyboard-navigation, html, css
- Don’t Disable the Zoom Functionality (by) · · zooming
- The Anatomy of “visually-hidden” (by/via) · · css
- What’s New in WCAG 2.2 (by/via) · · videos, wcag, standards
- Are You Using an Accessibility Overlay to Help Disabled Users? Don’t! (by/via) · · overlays, legal
- Designing for People Who Use a Mouse (by/via) · · videos
- Accessfuturism: Digital Accessibility in 2032 (by/via) · · videos, visions
- Dialogs, Modality, and Popovers Seem Similar—How Are They Different? (by) · · html, semantics, modals, pop-overs
- Accessibility Contrast Requirements Explained and How to Fix 5 Common Low-Contrast Issues (via) · · colors, contrast
- What Designers Can Learn From Apple’s New Accessibility Features (via) · · design, apple
- Why You Need to Monitor and Report on Accessibility—All the Time (via) · · monitoring, compliance, legal
- Responsive Accessibility Using “visibility: hidden” (by) · · responsive-design
- A Simpler Approach to Document and Web Accessibility (via) ·
- Accessibility “Gaps” in MVPs (by) ·
- 5 Takeaways From Screen Reader Usability Interviews (by) · · user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers
- Caring About the World Wide Web (by/via) · · videos, dei, web
- A Deep Dive Into Accessible Notifications (by/via) · · videos, notifications, deep-dives
- Progress Over Perfection: A Better Way to Accessibility (by) · · processes
- Why You Need to Involve Deaf and Hard of Hearing People in Research and Testing (by/via) · · videos
- A Testing Strategy for Accessibility in New Apps (by) · · testing
- 7 Tactics That Benefit Both Accessibility and SEO (via) · · seo
- Next Steps for the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (by/via) · · videos, w3c
- Complexity and Caution (by) · · usability, complexity
- “aria-label” Is a Code Smell (by) · · quality, technical-debt
- Do We Need an Interop for Assistive Technologies? (by) · · user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, interoperability
- 5 Visual Treatments that Improve Accessibility (via) · · design
- Why You Should Never Use “px” to Set “font-size” in CSS (by) · · css
- Getting WCAG Color Contrast Right (by/via) · · wcag, colors, contrast
- Accessibility Beyond the “Obvious” (by) ·
- Web Accessibility: ARIA 101 (by/via) · · videos, aria
- Twitter Reminds Us About Alt Text, but How Good Are We at It? (by/via) · · writing, alt-text, twitter
- SEO and Accessibility Are Symbiotic (via) · · seo
- Digital Accessibility—Ask Me Anything (by+/via) · · videos
- Why We Need CSS Speech (by) · · css
- How to Build the Foundation for Digital Accessibility (by/via) · · how-tos, policies, processes
- Google on Alt Text SEO and Accessibility (by+/via) · · google, seo, writing, alt-text
- Designing for Users With Disabilities: 10 Factors to Consider (via) · · design, usability
- Common ARIA Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (by) · · html, aria, mistakes
- New Brutalism and Web Accessibility: What You Need to Know (by/via) · · design
- Accessibility Checkers—a Good Start, Not a Solution (by/via) · · testing, tooling
- What I Learned About SVG Accessibility (Among Other Things) From NBC News’ Senate “What If” Project (by) · · svg, images, lessons
- Some Things I Took Away From an Event Apart 2022 in Denver (by/via) · · web, css
- Intro to Why Accessibility Is Important for Good SEO (via) · · introductions, seo
- Representation in “alt” Text (by) · · dei, writing
- WCAG 2.2 Success Criteria (by) · · wcag
- How to Write Good Alt Text (by) · · how-tos, writing, alt-text
- 4 Required Tests Before Shipping New Features (by) · · testing
- Five Months Worth of Takes on the Digital Accessibility Space (by/via) · · testing, tooling
- 3 Things to Consider Before You Implement CAPTCHA for Accessibility (via) · · captcha
- Where Are the Accessibility Statements? Digital Accessibility Shouldn’t Be a Surprise (via) ·
- When Going Somewhere Does a Thing: On Links and Buttons (by) · · html, links, buttons, semantics
- A Beginner’s Complete Guide to Form Accessibility: The 5 Things Accessible Forms Need and How to Fix Common Errors (via) · · guides, forms
- Learn Accessibility (by/via) · · courses
- Yes, Accessibility Is Also a Backend Concern (by) ·
- Intersectionality, Accessibility, and Inclusion (via) · · videos, dei
- Websites Need to Be Accessible to Be Inclusive (by+/via) · · dei
- A Deep Dive Into WCAG 2.2—and Beyond (by+/via) · · podcasts, wcag, deep-dives
- Accessibility (by+/via) · · studies, research
- The Indisputable Truth About Accessibility (by/via) · · videos
- Blind People Need to Be Considered More When Making Data Visualizations (by/via) · · information-design
- Attitudes to Digital Accessibility Survey 2022 (via) · · surveys, dei
- A Designer’s Guide to Documenting Accessibility (by/via) · · videos, design, documentation
- It’s Good to Make Mistakes (by) · · design, mistakes
- Clarifying Color Contrast and Font Size Guidelines (by) · · colors, contrast, readability
- Accessibility Is Systemic (by) ·
- A “details” Element as a Burger Menu Is Not Accessible (by/via) · · html, semantics
- How to (Not) Make a Button (by) · · how-tos, buttons, semantics, html
- Brief Note on Super- and Subscript Text (by) · · html, support, assistive-tech
- Accessibility Is for Every One (by) ·
- Why the Number Input Is the Worst Input (by/via) · · html, forms, validation
- Five Things You Can Do to Be More Inclusive (by) · · dei
- Designing for People With Cognitive Disabilities and Everyone Else (by/via) · · videos, design
- Buttons and the Baader–Meinhof Phenomenon (by) · · buttons
- Accessibility in Times of Headless (by/via) · · content-management, headless
- When Is It OK to Disable Text Selection? (by/via) · · css, usability
- The State of Digital Accessibility: Three Key Challenges (by/via) · · legal, web
- On Better Browsers: Arbitrary Media Queries and Browser UIs (by) · · css, media-queries
- Making Sense of WAI–ARIA: A Comprehensive Guide (by/via) · · guides, aria, html
- Disability Is Not a Dirty Word (by) · · communication
- Better Accessible Names (by) · · naming
- The “details” and “summary” Elements, Again (by) · · html
- Justin Yarbrough Talks About Alt Text (by/via) · · podcasts, writing, alt-text
- Are Modals in Web Design a UX Disaster? (via) · · design, user-experience, modals
- W3C Accessibility Maturity Model (by+/via) · · w3c
- The Realities and Myths of Contrast and Color (via) · · contrast, colors, myths
- HTML Markup Tips for Developing Accessible Websites (by/via) · · html, aria
- The Accessibility and Usability Journey of Drupal’s Primary Navigation (by/via) · · drupal, usability
- Focus Appearance Explained (by) · · wcag, forms, focus
- Don’t Overwrite Visual Labels With “aria-label” (by) · · html, aria
- Comparing JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver (via) · · user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, comparisons, jaws, nvda, apple, voiceover
- Accessible Lists and Tables (via) · · html, tables
- Small Steps: Celebrating Four Accessibility Wins (by/via) · · communication
- Neutrality Isn’t an Option When It Comes to Accessibility (by) ·
- An Argument Against CSS Opacity (via) · · css, colors, contrast
- Communication Around Digital Accessibility Must Improve: How Users and Businesses Alike Are Failing to Advance Digital Accessibility (via) · · communication
- What Is Closed Captioning? (by/via) · · multimedia, captions
- Short Note on “figure” and “figcaption” (by) · · html
- Accessibility and Supporting Internet Explorer (by/via) · · user-agents, microsoft, internet-explorer, support
- Why Every University Needs an Accessible Standard Website Template (via) · · content-management, frameworks
- Does Accessibility Stifle the Creative Process? (via) · · processes, creativity
- Prepare for WCAG 2.2 and Beyond (by/via) · · videos, wcag, standards
- Mac VoiceOver Testing the Simple Way (by/via) · · testing, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, apple, voiceover
- Bring Focus to the First Form Field With an Error (by) · · forms, focus
- Inclusion Beats Optimization (by) · · dei, optimization
- Outline Is Your Friend (by) · · css
- Introduction to Screen Readers (Desktop Edition) (by+/via) · · videos, introductions, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, desktop
- Building Accessible Select Components in React (by/via) · · components, react, forms
- Check Heading Accessibility Using the WAVE Tool (via) · · videos, headings, assistive-tech, tooling, testing
- Accessible User Experience and A/B Testing · · user-experience, testing, optimization
- Automation and Accessibility—What You Need to Know (by) · · videos, automation
- Results of Quick Testing of Documentation Tools’ Accessibility (by) · · documentation, tooling
- SEO Links Obfuscation and Accessibility Problems (by) · · seo, links, obfuscation
- Brief Note on Calendar Tables (by) · · tables, assistive-tech
- Accessibility Is Writing (by) · · writing
- What Are Best Practices for Creating Alt Text? (via) · · writing, alt-text, best-practices
- AI-Generated Images From AI-Generated Alt Text (by) · · images, writing, alt-text, ai
- 5 Heading Accessibility Issues and How to Fix Them (via) · · headings, microcontent
- One Year of Coding—Recommendations for Beginners From a Beginner (by/via) · · learning, semantics
- Underengineer Your Websites (by/via) · · videos, interviews
- Abbreviations Suck (by) · · html
- Speaking Up and Speaking Out: Tactical Communication in Accessibility (by/via) · · communication
- UX Principles That Include Cognitive Accessibility (by) · · user-experience, principles
- The 10 Affirmations of Good Digital Accessibility (via) ·
- #ADA32: The ADA Has Applied to Digital for Decades (by) · · legal
- Definitive Guide to CAPTCHA Accessibility (via) · · guides, captcha
- Where’s the Fun in Accessibility? (by/via) · · user-experience
- Research Insight: Accessibility of Images (by/via) · · usability, images, research
- With “:focus-visible”, You Can Have Focus Styles When It Makes Sense (by) · · css, selectors, keyboard-navigation, focus
- Roundup of Recent Document Outline Chatter (by/via) · · html, semantics
- Subheadings, Subtitles, Alternative Titles, and Taglines in HTML (by/via) · · html, semantics, headings, microcontent
- Expert Tips for Color Accessibility on the Web (via) · · tips-and-tricks, colors
- What Is WAI? The Web Accessibility Initiative (via) ·
- Abbreviations Can Be Problematic (by) · · html
- Use Firefox for Accessibility Testing (by/via) · · user-agents, mozilla, firefox, testing
- What Does x% of Issues Mean? (by) · · metrics
- Welcome to the Dark Side (by) · · dark-mode, usability
- 7 Quick Facts About WCAG 2.2 (via) · · wcag, standards
- What Is the Best Way to Mark Up an Exclusive Button Group? (by) · · html, semantics, aria
- Web Accessibility Laws and Policies (by) · · legal, policies, link-lists
- The Hidden History of Screen Readers (by/via) · · user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, history
- Perceived Affordances and the Functionality Mismatch (by) · · usability, semantics
- My War on Animation (by/via) · · animations
- Bag Some AAA Wins Where You Can (by) · · wcag
- What You Need to Know About ARIA and How to Fix Common Mistakes (via) · · html, aria, mistakes
- Generating Accessibility Test Results for a Whole Website With Pa11y CI (by) · · testing, tooling
- Building (or Rebuilding) a Website With Accessibility in Mind (by) ·
- The Ultimate Guide to Debugging Accessibility Issues · · guides, debugging
- Set JAWS Free! (by) · · user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, jaws
- Why the HTML Outlining Algorithm Was Removed From the Spec—the Truth Will Shock You! (by) · · html, semantics
- Make It Accessible (via) · · websites
- It’s Mid-2022 and Browsers (Mostly Safari) Still Break Accessibility via Display Properties (by) · · user-agents, apple, safari, css
- An Accessibility-First Approach to Chart Visual Design (by+/via) · · information-design
- Captions: Humans vs. Artificial Intelligence: Who Wins? (by/via) · · captions, writing, automation, comparisons
- The Ballad of Text Overflow (by/via) · · css
- Two Levels of Customising “<selectmenu>” (by) · · html
- “That’s Not Accessible!” and Other Statements About Accessibility (by) ·
- Thoughts on an Accessibility “Get Well” Plan (by) · · processes, engineering-management, leadership
- Accessible Design Systems (by/via) · · design-systems
- WCAG 2.1 AA Web Accessibility Checklist (via) · · checklists, wcag
- How We Designed an Accessible Color Palette From Scratch (via) · · colors, color-palettes, case-studies
- “text-overflow: ellipsis” Considered Harmful (by) · · css
- Introducing Keyboard Navigation (by+/via) · · videos, introductions
- What Is Alternative Text? How Do I Write It for Images, Charts, and Graphs? (by) · · videos, writing, information-design
- Icon-Only Links Fail WCAG (by) · · links, wcag, images, icons, conformance
- Best Practices for Overlays II (via) · · best-practices, overlays
- Communication Accessibility: It’s Time to Change How We Communicate (by) · · communication
- Do Dyslexia Fonts Improve Accessibility? (via) · · fonts
- 5 Very Simple Steps You Can Take for Accessibility Improvement (via) · · optimization
- Dialogs and Shadow DOM: Can We Make It Accessible? (by) · · modals, dom, shadow-dom
- Change Management for Accessibility (by+/via) · · processes
- WCAG SC 1.4.4 Resize Text and 1.4.10 Reflow (by) · · reflow, resizing, wcag
- How to Use Headings for Website Accessibility (via) · · how-tos, headings, semantics
- Aspects of Accessibility—Semantics, Contrast, and… Anxiety? (by) · · semantics, colors, contrast, user-experience
- Best Practices for Overlays (via) · · best-practices, overlays
- Are You Ignoring Digital Accessibility at Your Job? (by/via) · · career
- WCAG 3 Compliant? Check Again (by) · · wcag, standards
- How to Pick the Least Wrong Colors (by) · · how-tos, colors, design
- Writing Useful Alt Text (by/via) · · writing, alt-text
- Interview With Léonie Watson (by+) · · interviews
- APCA: The New Algorithm for Accessible Colour Contrast · · colors, contrast, apca
- Just How Long Should Alt Text Be? (by/via) · · writing, alt-text
- What’s the Alternative (Text)? (by) · · writing
- Why Are Iframe Titles Important for Accessibility? (via) · · html, writing
- Dialog Components: Go Native HTML or Roll Your Own? (by/via) · · modals, components
- Accessibility From Different Perspectives (by) ·
- Triaging WCAG 2.1 Level AAA (by/via) · · wcag, standards
- Automate Accessibility Tests With Storybook (by/via) · · testing, automation, storybook
- Accessibility Not-Checklist (via) · · websites, checklists
- 4 Web Accessibility Remediation Mistakes to Avoid (via) · · mistakes