“accessibility” Archive
- Manifesto for a Humane Web · · web, principles, inclusion, security, sustainability, user-experience
- How We’re Building More Inclusive and Accessible Components at GitHub · · components, inclusion, case-studies, github
- Mastering User-Centered Design, With 5 Advanced Tips · · usability, user-experience, tips-and-tricks, testing
- Inclusive Digital Experiences: Redesign Strategies for Addressing Diverse Abilities and Accessibility Challenges II · · redesign, strategies, inclusion
- A Brief Note on Highlighted Text · · colors, contrast, css, selectors
- A to Z of Assistive Technology for Reading Digital Text · · user-agents, assistive-tech, readability, concepts
- Why Are My Live Regions Not Working? · · aria, live-regions
- Web Accessibility in the 2024 [U.S.] Presidential Campaigns · · case-studies
- How to Design Accessible Forms in 10 Steps · · how-tos, design, forms
- Accessibility Evolution of Organizations · · processes, economics
- Conducting Accessibility Research in an Inaccessible Ecosystem · · processes, prototyping, research
- Images as the First Thing in a Button or Link · · html, images, buttons, links
- Write Alt Text Like You’re Talking to a Friend · · alt-text
- Make Sure That Your Design System Is Accessible · · design-systems
- Long Alt · · alt-text, support, user-agents, screen-readers, assistive-tech
- Building a Culture of Accessibility · · culture
- Accessibility Overlays—Friend or Foe? · · videos, overlays
- The Impact of Color Contrast on Accessibility · · colors, contrast
- When Security and Accessibility Clash: Why Are Banking Applications So Inaccessible? · · security
- 10 Top Accessibility Errors and How to Avoid and Fix Them ·
- ARIA in HTML · · standards, aria, html
- Beware—Automatic Tools Over-Report Accessibility Issues and Steal Your Time · · auditing, tooling
- 9 Signs Your Frontend Code Has Quality Issues That Affect Your Users · · quality, craft, usability, user-experience, conformance, performance
- My “Skip to Content” Markup Was Breaking the Back Button on iOS · · html, links, mobile
- Socks, Lies, and Accessibility · · link-lists
- Complete a VPAT: Show How Accessible Your Product Is · · vpat-acr, conformance, documentation
- Accessible Interactions in JavaScript Apps · · videos, transcripts, javascript, aria
- A Comparison of Automated Testing Tools for Digital Accessibility · · testing, tooling, automation, comparisons
- Web Accessibility Statement: How to Write One · · how-tos, writing
- The ADA Now Has Regulations for Accessibility of Web Content and Mobile Apps · · legal, web, mobile
- Justice Department to Publish Final Rule to Strengthen Web and Mobile App Access for People With Disabilities · · legal, web, mobile
- Inclusive Digital Experiences: Redesign Strategies for Addressing Diverse Abilities and Accessibility Challenges · · redesign, strategies, inclusion
- Blind Internet Users Struggle With Error-Prone AI Aids · · ai
- WCAG Bypass Blocks (“Skip to Content”)—Improve User Interaction Speed and Even Prevent Pain · · user-experience, keyboard-navigation, links, wcag
- Drive-By Accessibility Tweaks ·
- “AI” Won’t Solve Accessibility · · ai
- When to Use “tabindex="0"” · · keyboard-navigation, focus, html
- AI and the Future of Web Accessibility Guidelines · · discussions, wcag, standards, ai, w3c
- A Complete Guide for Content Creators to Start Making Accessible Content · · guides, content
- Why I Care Deeply About Web Accessibility and You Should Too · · web
- Latest WebAIM’s Million—Some Thoughts ·
- The WebAIM Million: The 2024 Report on the Accessibility of the Top 1,000,000 Home Pages · · studies, research, metrics
- On “disabled” and “aria-disabled” Attributes · · html, aria
- The Complete Guide to Captioned Videos · · guides, captions, multimedia
- What Even Are Dragging Movements? · · interaction-design, terminology
- History of Web Accessibility · · videos, history
- Exploring the Power of ARIA Live Attribute in Web Accessibility · · aria
- Be Flexible About What People Need (and Don’t Assume) ·
- No One Actually Wants Accessibility ·
- ARIA “role="application"” and Mobile Screen Readers · · aria, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, mobile
- CAPTCHA Excludes Disabled Web Users · · captcha
- Accessible Forms With Pseudo Classes · · forms, css, selectors
- Welcome to Future of Web Accessibility Based on Predictors · · videos, visions
- On Popover Accessibility: What the Browser Does and Doesn’t Do · · pop-overs, html
- How to Test 3.3.8 Accessible Authentication (Minimum) · · how-tos, testing, authentication
- Oh Sh*t, My App Is Successful and I Didn’t Think About Accessibility ·
- Accessibility Foundations · · fundamentals, link-lists
- The Golden Age of Accessibility ·
- WCAG 2.2 Detective Skills · · standards, wcag
- Thoughts on Embedding Alternative Text Metadata into Images · · images, metadata
- A Letter to My Younger Self, as an Accessibility Advocate · · retrospectives
- Distinguishing Between ARIA and Native HTML Attributes · · html, aria, comparisons
- Alt Text for CSS Generated Content · · css, alt-text
- Jakob Has Jumped the Shark · · link-lists
- Access by a Thousand Curb Cuts ·
- How to Test 2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum) · · how-tos, testing
- Best Practices for Inclusive Design · · design, inclusion, best-practices
- WCAG? More Like, W-What?! · · wcag, link-lists
- Designing for Mobile Accessibility: Enhancing the User Experience on Small Screens · · design, user-experience, mobile
- We Need to Talk About Jakob ·
- Accessibility Has Not Failed—It Has Not Even Started for Real · · ai
- Accessibility Darkness · · overlays
- “AI” and Accessible Front-End Components: Is the Nuance Generatable? · · web-components, ai
- What Is Inclusive Design, and How Does It Relate to Accessibility? · · design, inclusion
- Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI = Individualized UX · · usability, ai, visions
- Making Math Accessible · · math
- Screen Readers and Drag-and-Drop: Grabbing and Releasing Elements · · user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, support
- A Web Designer’s Accessibility Advocacy Toolkit · · strategies
- 10 Takeaways from the WebAIM Screenreader Survey · · user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers
- WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey 10 · · user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers
- My WebAIM 10th SR User Survey Takeaways · · user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers
- CAPTCHA Is Still [the] Most Problematic Issue on the Web · · web, captcha
- A Developer’s Guide for Web Accessibility · · guides
- Difference Between the Accessibility Page and the Accessibility Statement · · documentation, comparisons
- ARIA (Are Ya) Afraid of the Dark? Unmasking Common HTML Monsters to Create Better User Experiences · · videos, aria, html, user-experience
- Does Your Design Conform With WCAG Accessibility Guidelines—or Does It Comply? · · videos, wcag, guidelines, compliance
- A Practical Guide to Designing for Colorblind People · · guides, colors
- [Web Accessibility] Survey Results · · surveys
- How to Design an Accessible Web Site for People with Color-Deficient Vision · · how-tos, inclusion, user-experience, colors, contrast, readability
- Don’t Care About Accessibility? Resistance Is Futile! ·
- Getting to an Accessibility Strategy · · strategies, processes
- ARIA “note” · · aria, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, support
- How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design · · contrast, colors, information-design
- When It Says “Name from Author” It Means from You, Not Boll or Bukowski · · aria, naming
- Reasonable WCAG Additions · · wcag
- Input Type “date”: The Accessibility of HTML Date Picker · · forms
- Can Generative AI Help Write Accessible Code? · · code-generation, ai
- Don’t Disable Form Controls · · usability, forms, buttons
- What Is a Descriptive Transcript? · · multimedia
- The Accessibility Mindset: Moving Beyond Remediating, Fixing, and Reacting · · videos
- Opportunities for AI in Accessibility · · ai
- Doing What’s Required: Indicating Mandatory Fields in an Accessible Way · · usability, forms, errors
- A Guide to Designing for Older Adults · · guides, design
- It’s the Hope That Kills You · · career, community
- “X” Marks the Spot: Landmark Elements · · html, semantics, assistive-tech, aria
- Why Disabled People’s Needs Aren’t “Special” ·
- The Importance of Web Performance to Information Equity · · videos, performance
- 5 Hidden Risks of Your Inaccessible Website ·
- Dynamically Adding Text Alternatives to Images With AI · · automation, ai, alt-text
- A Look at the New WAI-ARIA 1.3 Draft · · aria, standards
- Making VPATs and ACRs More Effective in Procurement · · vpat-acr, processes
- Designing Accessible Color Palettes in Figma: A Guide for Web Accessibility · · guides, colors, color-palettes, figma
- Be Purposeful About Your Content · · content, writing
- Overlays and Ethics: A Conference Panel That Hurt My Heart · · ethics, overlays, community
- 7 Tips for Devs and Designers to Set Your Accessibility Efforts Up for Success · · tips-and-tricks, processes
- The Largest Webshops in the Netherlands Remain Inaccessible for People With Visual and/or Motor Impairments · · studies, research, legal
- What Can a Website Do? · · usability, quality
- What Has a Ceiling but No Floor? · · apple, meta
- Check for “accesskey” and “aria-keyshortcuts” Bookmarklet · · bookmarklets, html, aria
- Repetition Avoidance · · code-pens, user-experience, aria
- How End-to-End Testing Moves Us Closer to Continuous Accessibility · · processes, testing
- Continuous Accessibility: What, Why, How · · processes, testing, tooling
- Mind the Accessibility Gaps—Most of Accessibility Issues Originate in Design and How to Fix That · · design, html, aria
- Under-Supported and Underpaid · · career, economics, craft
- Basic Accessibility Mistakes I Often See in Audits · · mistakes, auditing, html, semantics, focus, links, buttons
- Stop Trying to Recruit Unicorns With Acorns · · career
- Accessible Notifications With ARIA Live Regions · · notifications, aria, live-regions
- Accessible Notifications With ARIA Live Regions II · · notifications, aria, live-regions
- Hover Contrast Bookmarklet · · bookmarklets, colors, contrast, focus
- Using AI for Accessibility: Breaking Down Barriers in Content Creation?! · · ai, content
- Options for “optgroup” Labeling of “options” · · html, forms, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, support
- Using “abbr” Element With “title” Attribute · · html, user-agents, assistive-tech, support
- If It’s Not Usable, It’s Not Accessible · · interviews, usability, history
- Bringing Down the Digital Divide · · user-experience
- Understanding WCAG SC 3.2.6 Consistent Help (Level A) · · standards, wcag
- Dynamic Accessible Descriptions Reference · · testing
- Designing Better Target Sizes · · design, best-practices
- Buttons and Links—Common Misconceptions · · html, semantics, buttons, links
- The Change You Wish to See ·
- Your MVP Must Be Accessible ·
- 16 Lesser Known Accessibility Issues ·
- Accessibility Options for Floating Action Buttons · · buttons
- How to Make External Links Accessible · · how-tos, links
- Not All Automated Testing Tools Support Shadow DOM in Web Components · · testing, automation, tooling, shadow-dom, dom, web-components
- My Perspective: Digital Accessibility and Overlays · · overlays
- WCAG 2: Guidelines and Guardrails · · wcag, guidelines
- 2.5.8: Adversarial Conformance · · wcag, compliance
- Inspecting WCAG 2.2: Accessible Authentication · · videos, wcag, standards, authentication
- Government Not Meeting Minimum Accessibility Standards on Federal Websites, GSA Report Finds · · compliance, legal
- WCAG 2.1 Developer Tips: Character Key Shortcuts and Label in Name · · tips-and-tricks, wcag, keyboard-navigation
- ARIA Live Regions · · aria, live-regions
- Screen Reader Users and the Tab Key · · user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, keyboard-navigation, testing
- The Top Accessibility Errors Found in 2023 · · conformance, quality, errors, retrospectives
- 2023 Digital Accessibility Year in Review · · retrospectives
- The Implied Web · · html, semantics
- Reflow Red Flags · · reflow, testing
- Think About Your Future Self ·
- Making Data Visualizations Accessible · · information-design
- Revisiting Fundamentals—Semantic Lists for Improved Accessibility · · fundamentals, semantics, html
- Swallowing Camels ·
- Baseline Does Not Really Cover Baseline Support · · user-agents, support, interoperability, web-platform
- The WordPress Showcase and Accessibility · · wordpress
- The Financial Argument for Using an Outside Firm for Accessibility Remediation · · economics
- Design Systems Teams: Understand Your Users So They Can Serve Theirs · · design-systems, leadership, user-experience
- The Unspoken Struggle of Aging in a Tech-Driven World · · user-experience, web
- My Accessibility Journey · · career
- Accessibility Overlays · · overlays, metrics
- Test-Driven HTML and Accessibility · · html, testing, javascript
- Screen Reader User Survey #10 · · surveys, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers
- ARIA, the Good Parts · · videos, aria
- Video Subtitles, Captions, Audio Descriptions, and Transcripts · · multimedia, captions
- Potential Problems With Accessibility Audits and What to Do About Them · · auditing, testing
- Template for Accessibility Guidelines · · templates, guidelines
- Media Queries in HTML Video · · html, multimedia, css, media-queries
- The Most Accessible Font · · typography, legibility, fonts
- Accessibility-Specific Tech Requirements? It Depends! · · processes
- Insights: Mobile Accessibility · · research, metrics, mobile
- A Beginner’s Guide to Accessible Text · · guides, content, writing, best-practices
- Understanding the New WCAG 2.2 Criteria · · wcag
- Web Chat Accessibility Considerations · · functionality, wcag, aria
- Back to Basics: 5 HTML Attributes for Improved Accessibility and User Experience · · fundamentals, html, user-experience
- Not All Screen Reader Users Are Blind · · user-experience, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers
- How to Use Chrome’s Accessibility Tree · · how-tos, user-agents, google, chrome
- Burnout in the Digital Accessibility Field · · career
- “An Accessible Website Won’t Be Beautiful”… Really?! · · design
- Keyboard Accessibility Myths and WCAG · · keyboard-navigation, wcag
- Accessibility: A Practical Perspective ·
- Accessibility Is Leadership · · leadership
- How to Test 3.3.7 Redundant Entry · · how-tos, testing, wcag
- Inspecting WCAG 2.2: Target Size · · videos, wcag, standards
- How to Avoid Breaking Web Pages for Keyboard Users · · how-tos, keyboard-navigation
- Comparison of Accessibility of E-Government Websites in Europe · · case-studies, comparisons
- Evolution of Visible Focus · · videos, focus
- Using Chrome’s Accessibility Tree for Manual Testing of HTML and ARIA · · videos, user-agents, google, chrome, dev-tools, testing, html, aria
- Exclusive Accordions Exclude · · html
- Why Doesn’t AI Work for Producing Accessible Code? · · code-generation, ai
- Accessibility Testing With Chrome DevTools · · testing, user-agents, google, chrome, dev-tools
- Designing for Accessibility Beyond Compliance · · design, compliance
- How I Test a Website for Accessibility · · testing
- Text With Media Background: Practical Solutions · · images, microcontent, readability
- Accessibility Training Can Sometimes Harm Accessibility · · training
- Lost in Translation: Tips for Multilingual Web Accessibility · · tips-and-tricks, internationalization, localization
- Creating Accessible UI Animations · · animations
- Understanding HTML Landmarks and How to Apply Them · · html, semantics, aria
- Front End Devs Really Don’t Understand Accessibility · · craft
- How Long Until Your Website Is Accessible? · · processes
- Creating Accessible Content in Drupal 10 · · videos, drupal
- Accessibility Training Will Not Save You · · training, career, quality
- Addressing Accessibility Concerns With Using Fluid Type · · responsive-design, css
- Removing List Styles Without Affecting Semantics · · html, css, semantics
- To Hell With the Business Case · · economics, legal
- WCAG 2.2 Will Be a Part of EN 301 549 and With That a Part of WAD and EAA · · wcag, standards, legal
- Totally Remdom, or How Browsers Zoom Text · · css, units, responsive-design
- An Accessibility Bookmarklet for Testing 200% Text Size · · testing, bookmarklets
- How to Write Good Alt Text for Screen Readers · · how-tos, writing, alt-text, assistive-tech, screen-readers
- Can AI Help Boost Accessibility? These Researchers Tested It for Themselves · · ai, research
- Answers to Common (Web) Accessibility Questions ·
- Don’t Turn a Table into an ARIA Grid Just for a Clickable Row · · html, tables, aria
- Getting Started With NVDA · · videos, introductions, assistive-tech, screen-readers, nvda
- The “prefers-reduced-transparency” Media Feature · · css, media-queries
- Accessibility by Degrees · · processes
- Don’t Disable Buttons · · buttons, javascript
- Let’s Reinvent the Wheel · · html, css, user-experience, web-platform
- So You’ve Been Publicly Accessibility-Shamed · · quality, communication
- What Does the “A” Mean in “DEAI”? · · inclusion
- Understanding SC 2.4.11 “Focus Not Obscured (Minimum)” · · wcag, focus
- Give Your Site Some Focus! Tips for Designing Useful and Usable Focus Indicators · · forms, focus, user-experience, tips-and-tricks
- Color Contrast Accessibility Tools With Examples · · tooling, link-lists, colors, contrast, examples
- Splitting Within Selects · · html, forms, user-agents, support
- Accessibility Improvements for User-Agents · · user-agents
- Strikethrough Accessibility · · html, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, support
- What Should Be the Contrast Level of Inactive Buttons? · · buttons, contrast, colors
- Embedding Accessibility into Code Reviews · · videos, code-reviews, processes
- Is CAPTCHA Accessible? · · captcha
- Why Unique ID Attributes Matter · · html, conformance
- Web Accessibility Strategies for Non-Accessible Projects · · videos, strategies, processes
- Does the HTML “hr” (Horizontal Rule) Benefit Screen Reader Users? · · html, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers
- Burn Your Toast · · notifications, usability
- Ensuring Negative Numbers Are Available for Everyone · · testing, math
- 2.4.11: Adversarial Conformance · · wcag, compliance
- Digital Accessibility Blogs and Newsletters · · link-lists
- Scrollbars Are Becoming a Problem · · scrolling, usability
- Honor User’s Transparency Setting in CSS · · css, user-experience
- Skip Links on ikea.com · · links, case-studies
- Designing for All: The Basic Principles of Web Accessibility · · fundamentals, principles, aria, tooling
- Inclusivity in the Digital Age: The Importance of Accessibility Advocacy · · inclusion, communication
- Obligatory WCAG 2.2 Launch Post · · wcag, standards
- Don’t Use Fixed CSS “height” or “width” on Buttons, Links, or Any Other Text Containers · · css, usability, buttons, links
- Welcome WCAG 2.2 and Goodbye Success Criterion 4.1.1 “Parsing” · · wcag, conformance
- Demystifying WCAG 2.2 · · wcag, standards