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Microsoft Accessibility Feedback: Hot (133 ideas) – Customer Feedback for Microsoft Accessibility

Microsoft Accessibility Feedback Welcome to Microsoft’s Accessibility Feedback forum. We are very interested in learning more about what products, features, and tools will delight our customers. Please share your ideas with us and remember to vote for ideas posted by others that you also think are great. If you accidentally came here in need ofContinueContinue reading “Microsoft Accessibility Feedback: Hot (133 ideas) – Customer Feedback for Microsoft Accessibility”

Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity

Val Head suggests accessible animation techniques to avoid triggering dizziness in users with inner ear and balance disorders. It’s no secret that a lot of people consider scrolljacking and parallax effects annoying and overused. But what if motion does more than just annoy you? What if it also makes you ill? That’s a reality thatContinueContinue reading “Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity”

Prototyping accessibility in web and mobile UI design

Adaptable, interactive and coherent prototypes for users with disabilities. Covering accessibility in the prototyping phase of web and app design. Pay close attention to color, contrast and visual hierarchy … Make your interactive UI elements more interactive … Don’t crowd me! … Make your app accessible by being adaptable … “Flexibility is the key to ensuringContinueContinue reading “Prototyping accessibility in web and mobile UI design”

The Section 508 Refresh is Here! 

We’re excited to announce that the U.S. Access Board has published its long-awaited update(link is external) to the federal regulations covering the accessibility of information and communications technology (Section 508) and telecommunications products and services (Section 255). What are Section 508 and Section 255? Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 applies to federal government agenciesContinueContinue reading “The Section 508 Refresh is Here! “

Writing HTML with accessibility in mind – A List Apart

We’re excited to announce that the U.S. Access Board has published its long-awaited update(link is external) to the federal regulations covering the accessibility of information and communications technology (Section 508) and telecommunications products and services (Section 255). What are Section 508 and Section 255? Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 applies to federal government agenciesContinueContinue reading “Writing HTML with accessibility in mind – A List Apart”

Maintaining Accessibility in a Responsive World

…being “accessible” means many things. It means that a page must load quickly—even in slow and spotty mobile networks. After loading, the page should be usable and feel appropriate and intuitive to folks using any device, browser, viewport size, and assistive technology. More often than not, the practices we use to achieve these goals playContinueContinue reading “Maintaining Accessibility in a Responsive World”

Making your site accessible using W3C’s Easy Checks

… We’ve put together an infographic based on the W3C’s ten easy checks. While this is by no means an extensive checklist, we hope it will help when considering the first steps that can be taken in order to ensure your website is accessible.   Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article and Download the fullContinueContinue reading “Making your site accessible using W3C’s Easy Checks”

The art of labelling — A11ycasts #12

There’s a lot of neat tricks in this video by Rob Dodson where he focuses on accessibility tricks in Chrome’s DevTools. A few notes: Chrome DevTools has an experimental feature to help with accessibility testing that you can unlock if you head to chrome://flags/ and turn on in the DevTools settings. Wrapping an <input type=”checkbox”>ContinueContinue reading “The art of labelling — A11ycasts #12”

Make your Word documents accessible – Office Support

This topic gives you step-by-step instructions to make your Word documents accessible to people with disabilities.People who are blind or have low vision can understand your documents more easily if you create them with accessibility in mind. Visual Components such as this image need meaningful alternate text. Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source:ContinueContinue reading “Make your Word documents accessible – Office Support”

Developing Shopify Themes with Accessibility in Mind

We want to help you get excited about accessibility, understand its importance within the web industry, and inspire you to integrate accessibility checks in your daily development workflow. We’ll also demonstrate some simple ways to make your clients’ online stores the best in the world, for everyone. The importance of web accessibilityAccessibility, also know toContinueContinue reading “Developing Shopify Themes with Accessibility in Mind”

Google’s DeepMind AI can lip-read TV shows better than a pro | New Scientist

An artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at DeepMind and the University of Oxford got so good by watching 5000 hours of BBC programmes Artificial intelligence is getting its teeth into lip reading. A project by Google’s DeepMind and the University of Oxford applied deep learning to a huge data set of BBC programmes toContinueContinue reading “Google’s DeepMind AI can lip-read TV shows better than a pro | New Scientist”

What the Heck Is Inclusive Design? ◆ 24 ways

Recently, I’ve been using the term “inclusive design” and calling myself an “inclusive designer” a lot. I’m not sure where I first heard it or who came up with it, but the terminology feels like a good fit for the kind of stuff I care to do when I’m not at a pub or asleep.ContinueContinue reading “What the Heck Is Inclusive Design? ◆ 24 ways”

Introducing A11y Toggle

If you’re only here for the code, go straight to the GitHub repository. A few weeks ago, I introduced a11y-dialog. Today, I am coming back with another accessibility-focused module: a11y-toggle. At Edenspiekermann, we used to heavily rely on the checkbox hack to toggle content visibility. Unfortunately, this hack (the word is an understatement) involves someContinueContinue reading “Introducing A11y Toggle”

How disabled iPhone users can take control with blinks, nudges and even breath

Tim Cook began Apple’s latest product unveiling with a video narrated by a disabled woman using a Mac with the help of an assistive device — a switch that she could bump with the side of her head. Her name is Sady Paulson, and the message couldn’t have been clearer: With the right technology, even people withContinueContinue reading “How disabled iPhone users can take control with blinks, nudges and even breath”

Meet the Blind Man Who Convinced Google Its Self-Driving Car Is Finally Ready

Steve Mahan’s solo ride showed it’s time to take the car to market. Now 63 and having lost his sight, Mahan has become one of those capsule-bound explorers. In October 2015, he became the first member of the public to ride in Google’s self-driving pod-like prototype, alone and on public roads. No steering wheel, noContinueContinue reading “Meet the Blind Man Who Convinced Google Its Self-Driving Car Is Finally Ready”

The Accessibility Difference Between Aria-hidden and role=”presentation”

In dealing with role=”presentation” and aria-hidden=”true” you may find that they both have deceptively similar functions when it relates to how they interact with assistive technology (screen readers). Before we dig into the difference between these two attributes we first need to learn a little bit about how accessibility in a Web browser works and this thing called: The Accessibility TreeContinueContinue reading “The Accessibility Difference Between Aria-hidden and role=”presentation””