21 Chrome Extensions for Struggling Students and Special Needs Technology can be a powerful tool to assist students with special needs or any sort of learning challenge. In particular the Chrome web browser allows users to install a wide variety of web extensions that provide tools that can help all learners, regardless of ability level.InContinueContinue reading “21 Chrome Extensions for Special Needs”
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Easy Checks – A First Review of Web Accessibility | (WAI) | W3C
Easy Checks – A First Review of Web Accessibility This page helps you start to assess the accessibility of a web page. With these simple steps, you can get an idea whether or not accessibility is addressed in even the most basic way. These checks cover just a few accessibility issues and are designed toContinueContinue reading “Easy Checks – A First Review of Web Accessibility | (WAI) | W3C”
An Introduction to the Reduced Motion Media Query | CSS-Tricks
The open web’s success is built on interoperable technologies. The ability to control animation now exists alongside important features such as zooming content, installing extensions, enabling high contrast display, loading custom stylesheets, or disabling JavaScript. Sites all too often inundate their audiences with automatically playing, battery-draining, resource-hogging animations. The need for people being able toContinueContinue reading “An Introduction to the Reduced Motion Media Query | CSS-Tricks”
How to Make Your Website Accessible to People Who Use a Screen Magnifier
There’s a lot of content out there on how to make your website accessible. But I haven’t seen much on the subject of accessibility to users of screen magnifiers. I’m one of them, and I frequently run into annoying issues on the web.In this article, I’ll give some tips on how you can make yourContinueContinue reading “How to Make Your Website Accessible to People Who Use a Screen Magnifier”
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AccessibleTech – Section 508 Explained
I. Introduction The primary goal of Accessibility is to make certain that Information Systems can be used by people with disabilities. A properly implemented system will provide access to information to people that use assistive technologies and it will increase usability for everybody. This is due to the fact that most accessible rules one wayContinueContinue reading “AccessibleTech – Section 508 Explained”
Designing inclusively: Some examples
The video below has lots of examples of designing inclusively in the built environment. There are two key messages: get a diverse group of people together before you start designing, and think about all the extra people you can serve or sell to when you design with everyone in mind. While there are several videos around withContinueContinue reading “Designing inclusively: Some examples”
Simple tips for easy Word doc accessibility – Media Access Australia
Creating Word documents that can be read and understood by a diverse range of people, is just as vital as creating accessible, inclusive websites and online content. Imagine going to a recruitment website and downloading the Position Description as a Word document, or being sent it as an email attachment, only to find that youContinueContinue reading “Simple tips for easy Word doc accessibility – Media Access Australia”
GitHub – pa11y/pa11y: Pa11y is your automated accessibility testing pal
Pa11y is your automated accessibility testing pal. It runs HTML CodeSniffer from the command line for programmatic accessibility reporting. … Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source: GitHub – pa11y/pa11y: Pa11y is your automated accessibility testing pal
WCAG – Quick Facts and Guide – Hurix Digital
This is how WCAG guidelines help. The standard Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (version – WCAG 2.0) is a set of rules that defines how to make web or online content more accessible, especially to people who are differently-abled. ‘Accessibility’ here could involve a wide range of limitations, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, andContinueContinue reading “WCAG – Quick Facts and Guide – Hurix Digital”
HTML For Screen Readers – Labelling Elements
To screen readers, a lot of the visual information that is presented on a webpage is lost. Because of this, we need to specifically provide information to them that may be obvious to a person looking at the page. One common way people define information specifically for screen readers is to wrap the descriptive textContinueContinue reading “HTML For Screen Readers – Labelling Elements”
The Accessible Icon Project
The Accessible Icon Project is an ongoing work of design activism. It starts with a graphic icon, free for use in the public domain, and continues its work as a collaboration among people with disabilities and their allies toward a more accessible world. Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source: The Accessible IconContinueContinue reading “The Accessible Icon Project”
3D-printed Nintendo Switch peripheral is huge for gaming accessibility
An engineer is helping to make playing Nintendo Switch a lot more accessible for gamers everywhere. Engineer Julio Vazquez created two 3D-printed peripherals for the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con controllers, allowing players who only have the use of one hand to play Switch games more easily. Two different models were showed off by the AbleGamers Charity on Twitter,ContinueContinue reading “3D-printed Nintendo Switch peripheral is huge for gaming accessibility”
The Accessibility Cheatsheet
We all know that accessibility is important. The problem is, it is not always clear what exactly we can do to make our sites more accessible. The Web Accessibility Initiative created some Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) targeted at us, web content developers, to create more accessible websites. The WCAG contain some very useful information, and so I decidedContinueContinue reading “The Accessibility Cheatsheet”
Microsoft Disability Answer Desk
The Disability Answer Desk is where customers with disabilities get support with Microsoft Office and Windows. This includes product Issues, accessibility questions, and use of assistive technology. … Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source: Disability Answer Desk
Inclusive – Microsoft Design
Inclusive Design at Microsoft It’s in our mission statement: empower every person on the planet to achieve more. Designing for inclusivity opens up our experiences and reflects how people adapt to the world around them. … Our inclusive design principles Recognize exclusion Exclusion happens when we solve problems using our own biases. As Microsoft designers, we seekContinueContinue reading “Inclusive – Microsoft Design”
An Introduction to the Reduced Motion Media Query | CSS-Tricks
A brief history of Reduced Motion When it was released in 2013, iOS 7 featured a dramatic reworking of the operating system’s visuals. Changes included translucency and blurring, a more simplified “flat” user interface, and dramatic motion effects such as full-screen zooming and panning. While the new look was largely accepted, some people using theContinueContinue reading “An Introduction to the Reduced Motion Media Query | CSS-Tricks”
How icons are ruining interfaces – Axess Lab
Icons used correctly can enhance both the user experience and look of your interface. Sadly, more and more designers are using them in the wrong way. And it’s hurting both the usability and accessibility of the interface. MY DAD AND HIS TED APP I love to watch my dad use technology. It’s such a greatContinueContinue reading “How icons are ruining interfaces – Axess Lab”
Does fashion care about disabled people and the purple pound?
Britain’s disabled population has a spending power of £80bn, yet, as a frustrating shopping trip to Mayfair proved, many clothes shops are completely inaccessible Catherine Teatum and Rob Jones have a positive understanding of practical issues affecting disabled shoppers. Britain’s disabled population has a spending power of £80bn, yet, as a frustrating shopping trip toContinueContinue reading “Does fashion care about disabled people and the purple pound?”
A better world for wheels on Google Maps
Starting today, we’re calling on Local Guides, a community of people who contribute their expertise about places on Google Maps, to add more wheelchair accessibility attributes to the map. If each of our tens of millions of Local Guides answers three of these questions every day for two weeks, we can gather nearly two billion answersContinueContinue reading “A better world for wheels on Google Maps”
Finally – iOS 11 can have iPhone automatically answer incoming calls on your behalf
I’ve been waiting for an auto-answer feature on iPhone for ages. iOS 11 now includes that function. I’m off to upgrade! Many iOS 11 features seem to be inspired by the jailbreak community. Among them, a brand new call audio routing option in accessibility settings that allows you to set your iPhone to automatically answer incoming callsContinueContinue reading “Finally – iOS 11 can have iPhone automatically answer incoming calls on your behalf”
Accessibility for Software and Devices | Microsoft
Our commitment to accessibility Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. With over 1 billion people with disabilities in the world, we’re passionate about ensuring that our products and services are designed for people of all abilities. We are committed to transparency, accountability, and inclusion inContinueContinue reading “Accessibility for Software and Devices | Microsoft”
Short Trip – Alexander Perrin
Brilliant … some people are so clever. An hand-drawn, interactive illustration about a tram driver, mountains, cloaked cats and everything in between. Source: Short Trip – Alexander Perrin
Face ID Accessibility. Apple offers some answers
Apple today made a series of hardware announcements. Understandably, the announcement that has caused the most social media chatter in the blind community relates to the iPhone X, and it’s new Face ID feature. Apple has earned our trust over the years by ensuring that its products are fully accessible from their initial launch, soContinueContinue reading “Face ID Accessibility. Apple offers some answers”
Searching for Sugar Man Official Trailer (2012) – Documentary
This is an astonishing movie about an enigmatic and remarkable individual. I challenge you to find it and watch it without tearing up. Sony Pictures Classics presents ‘Searching for Sugar Man’. A film a following the story of two South African fans who set out to find out what really happened to their hero, Rodriguez,ContinueContinue reading “Searching for Sugar Man Official Trailer (2012) – Documentary”
