Category Archives: ACCESSIBILITY

New accessible purchasing rules for Australian government – Information Access Group

In great news for people with disability, last month the Australian Government announced that all levels of government will adopt an internationally aligned standard for purchasing websites, software and digital devices. This means that, when governments buy products and services, they must be accessible. … So, this is a great step forward for inclusion inContinueContinue reading “New accessible purchasing rules for Australian government – Information Access Group”

How to do Web Accessibility QA: Part 2 | Viget

  Accessibility QA starts with broadening your frame of reference and understanding what it’s like to use a computer in unfamiliar ways. With that understanding, we can dive into actual testing. The usual starting point is to read the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (aka WCAG), which define the current accessibility standard. (The older Section 508ContinueContinue reading “How to do Web Accessibility QA: Part 2 | Viget”

How to do Web Accessibility QA: Part 1 | Viget

If you’re nervous about doing accessibility QA for the first time, I’m with you. Thanks to Jeremy Fields and others, I had multiple background sessions — but I still felt lost when it came time for real testing. Don’t sweat it; a11y testing is straightforward once you understand a few foundational concepts. Here’s my two-partContinueContinue reading “How to do Web Accessibility QA: Part 1 | Viget”

Building Accessibility Culture by David Peter | Model View Culture

  The world we live in perpetuates many kinds of ableism all the time. Fixing (“changing”) the world doesn’t rest on a single axis, or even three, but we can reduce injustice by making our websites and workplaces accessible for people with disabilities. Building Accessible Websites and Products The Internet is often touted as aContinueContinue reading “Building Accessibility Culture by David Peter | Model View Culture”

Accessibility advocates tweet their barriers | Toronto Star

Disability advocates are hoping social-media campaigns will publicly shame organizations into taking action on accessibility. Tim Rose made headlines this month when he posted on Facebook about his harrowing back-and-forth with Air Canada, who refused to let him take a direct flight from Toronto to Cleveland because they said his wheelchair was too big toContinueContinue reading “Accessibility advocates tweet their barriers | Toronto Star”

WCAG is not scary anymore – A progressive approach to Website Accessibility | Herin Hentry

WCAG is not scary anymore was the title of my presentation at A11yCamp, Melbourne 2016 representing Planit Software Testing, Accessibility Services which received good feedback from the audience. I thought I will follow that up with an article on LinkedIn to share with a larger audience. … Source: WCAG is not scary anymore – AContinueContinue reading “WCAG is not scary anymore – A progressive approach to Website Accessibility | Herin Hentry”

The inaccessible web: how we got into this mess

Compared to other public spaces, the internet provides us with choices for how we consume and interact. We can use various devices, browsers and operating systems; we can change the size and colour of text; we can navigate with a mouse, keyboard, finger or mouthpiece; or we can use a screen reader to convert wordsContinueContinue reading “The inaccessible web: how we got into this mess”

9 Video Secrets Only Top Marketers Know – Ai-Media

… 4. They know that mobile is king and silence is golden. On Facebook, three-quarters of all video content is seen on a mobile device. Since smartphones allow us to watch videos anywhere that’s connected to the Internet, we’re watching video almost everywhere. And when you’re in public places, silence is golden.Here’s a look atContinueContinue reading “9 Video Secrets Only Top Marketers Know – Ai-Media”

Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility with WAVE

Introduction WAVE is a web accessibility tool that can greatly assist in the evaluation of web content. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows the original web page with embedded icons and indicators that reveal the accessibility of that page. … WAVE, like any other automated tool, cannot tell you if your page isContinueContinue reading “Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility with WAVE”

The Importance of Accessibility in the Dev Process

Developers rarely talk about the importance of having the right accessibility strategy or tool in place to help with our development. Actually, we barely seem to talk about having an accessibility strategy or tool at all.With the issue of accessibility at an all-time high, it’s time we, as a development community, talk about the importanceContinueContinue reading “The Importance of Accessibility in the Dev Process”

Demystifying cognitive disability – Media Access Australia

  Cognitive disability can be a difficult condition to understand. This is particularly the case for organisations wanting to be able to find out how to better address the communication needs of their managers, staff and consumers with a cognitive disability, in a media context.   That’s why Media Access Australia has created a practicalContinueContinue reading “Demystifying cognitive disability – Media Access Australia”

NY Slant – Uber and Accessibility

Amid Uber’s rapid unregulated expansion, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and nine other urban mayors have wisely chosen to develop a global rulebook to confront economic and social challenges of the sharing economy. This new coalition has a prime opportunity to finally end Uber’s discrimination against wheelchair users in New York and acrossContinueContinue reading “NY Slant – Uber and Accessibility”

Accessibility Checker Goes Open Source

It’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day today! To celebrate it in a big way, we would like to announce that as of today, Accessibility Checker for CKEditor will be available also under an Open Source GPL license. If you care about accessibility, want to learn more about how important it is, and get to know ourContinueContinue reading “Accessibility Checker Goes Open Source”

Simple Ways to Make Your WordPress Site Accessible

Web site accessibility has been a lingering issue on the Internet for quite some time. However, with several laws in the US pushing website accessibility as a primary feature in public and private web entities, it has affected the Internet on a wider scale. Accessibility has been proven to be beneficial to websites, public orContinueContinue reading “Simple Ways to Make Your WordPress Site Accessible”

Designing Perfect Text Field: Clarity, Accessibility and User Effort

Designing Perfect Text Field: Clarity, Accessibility and User Effort04 AUGUST 2016 on UX, Design, UI For any app or web application, nothing will ever happen without some initial and ongoing input from the user. It is, therefore, critical that product designers, developer and product managers understand the best ways to allow them to do so.ContinueContinue reading “Designing Perfect Text Field: Clarity, Accessibility and User Effort”

We’re just temporarily abled: Designing for the future – InVision Blog

We need to design for accessibility not only for folks who are permanently visually impaired, hard of hearing, or have severe motor issues right now, but also for our future selves. … Design for the future you With each passing birthday, our vision is starting to go. Eventually our hearing will start to go andContinueContinue reading “We’re just temporarily abled: Designing for the future – InVision Blog”

Advocate Moves Needle on Website Accessibility – Education Week

Every year, thousands of complaints flow into the office tasked with investigating disability discrimination for the U.S. Department of Education. This year, Marcie Lipsitt, a special education advocate from Michigan, has been responsible for about 500 of those complaints—and counting. Lipsitt’s focus is on the websites of school districts and other educational institutions, which sheContinueContinue reading “Advocate Moves Needle on Website Accessibility – Education Week”

iOS App VoiceOver Accessibility Teaching and Testing Plan | AppleVis

VoiceOver, a feature Apple has built into all iOS devices to enable Braille and speech access for users who are unable to see the screen, has revolutionized the lives of countless thousands of blind people around the world. It works best when apps are deliberately developed in ways that ensure compatibility with VoiceOver, blind peopleContinueContinue reading “iOS App VoiceOver Accessibility Teaching and Testing Plan | AppleVis”

Using the fieldset and legend elements | Accessibility

Using the right HTML elements when implementing forms is essential to ensure they can be used by as many people as possible including screen reader users. In this blog Léonie explains the correct usage of the fieldset and legend elements. On GOV.UK we often use groups of related form fields, like a set of radio buttonsContinueContinue reading “Using the fieldset and legend elements | Accessibility”

Windows 10 upgrade for assistive technology users

For the general public, the free upgrade offer to Windows 10 ends on 29 July. However, if you use assistive technologies, you can still get the free upgrade offer even after the general public deadline expires, as Microsoft continues our efforts to improve the Windows 10 experience for people who use these technologies. With theContinueContinue reading “Windows 10 upgrade for assistive technology users”

Web Accessibility Lessons from Blind and Low Vision Users — Medium

Approximately 10% of US citizens are blind or have some degree of vision loss. At TransitScreen we are exploring ways to make our digital signage more accessible to blind and low vision (BLV) users. Our work on this project has just begun, but we already learned some important lessons that we wanted to share. GoodContinueContinue reading “Web Accessibility Lessons from Blind and Low Vision Users — Medium”