Google Maps’ next update will include reports regarding accessibility issues at public transit stations, making it much easier to plan your journey. … So far, the update is available on iOS, Android and desktop platforms. However, it is only available in New York, Paris, Seattle, Boston, Budapest and Brisbane at the time of writing. Accessing theContinueContinue reading “Google Maps Accessibility Update”
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Get support from the Microsoft Disability Answer Desk
I knew Microsoft are doing great things in the Accessibility sphere but this Disability Answer Desk is a step further. In their own words: We want to get you the support you need for Microsoft Windows, Office, Xbox, and Skype. We can also help answer questions related to your Microsoft account and billing. Just selectContinueContinue reading “Get support from the Microsoft Disability Answer Desk”
Non-Inclusive Online Booking Systems expose Apathetic Legacy thinking and Antiquated Procedures
I’m getting really sick and tired of every event that is put on defaulting to use these online ticketing systems for bookings and none of them catering for disabled access to be booked online like the rest of the community. Instead, we are ostracised once again, being forced to submit a form and wait forContinueContinue reading “Non-Inclusive Online Booking Systems expose Apathetic Legacy thinking and Antiquated Procedures”
ING open sources Lion: A library of performant, accessible & flexible Web Components
Lion aims to make your life a little bit easier, by taking the groundwork of feature complete, accessible, performant, and framework agnostic components out of your hands! Check out the repo at ing-bank/lion. As some of you may already know, ING has a long and rich history of building Web Components, starting out with the PolymerContinueContinue reading “ING open sources Lion: A library of performant, accessible & flexible Web Components”
How SEO has made the web more accessible for everyone
How SEO has made the web more accessible for everyoneSearch engines like Google are dependent on the same accessibility attributes that many people depend on to comprehend and navigate sites. Search engine optimizers have unwittingly made the web more accessible, and they are in the best position to make it even better. … Curated byContinueContinue reading “How SEO has made the web more accessible for everyone”
Making Audio and Video Media Accessible
via: Web AccessibilityInitiativeSummary Accessible audio and video is essential for people with disabilities, and benefits organizations. Depending on the content of your media, it might need captions/subtitles (a text version of the audio that is shown synchronized in the media player), a transcript (a separate text version of the audio), audio description of visual information (usually an additional audio stream thatContinueContinue reading “Making Audio and Video Media Accessible”
Accessibility Strategies for Your Content Team | Deque
Content creators can have a major impact on accessibility, here are some tips and tools to help empower content creators to take ownership of accessibility. … Read more at source: Accessibility Strategies for Your Content Team | Deque
CSS Lists, Markers, And Counters
There is more to styling lists in CSS than you might think. In this article, Rachel starts by looking at lists in CSS, and moving onto some interesting features defined in the CSS Lists specification — markers and counters. Lists in CSS have particular properties which give us the standard list styling we expect.ContinueContinue reading “CSS Lists, Markers, And Counters”
Do your web pages pass these 10 quality tests?
How do you know if your web content is great? Check your pages against these 10 golden tests for quality web content. If your web team needs a set of principles to guide decisions on what content can go on your site, we recommend this checklist as your starting point. 1. The 3-second test CanContinueContinue reading “Do your web pages pass these 10 quality tests?”
WebAIM: The WebAIM Million – An accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages
Introduction In February 2019, WebAIM conducted an evaluation of the home pages for the top 1,000,000 web sites using the WAVE stand-alone API (with additional tools to collect site technology parameters). While this research focuses only on automatically detectable issues, the results paint a rather dismal picture of the current state of web accessibility. …ContinueContinue reading “WebAIM: The WebAIM Million – An accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages”
Always provide a text link to the home page
User Experience One of the first things I learned in my user experience classes was to always provide a text link to the home page. Do you offer both text link and linked logo for the home page? Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source: October 12, 2018 Weekly Roundup of Web Design andContinueContinue reading “Always provide a text link to the home page”
Bad Practices on Birthdate Form Fields
Asking users for their birthdate on a form is complicated. Birthdates have formats that vary depending on the country and they consist of three separate data strings. It’s easy to confuse and frustrate users if the birthdate field doesn’t use simple controls and isn’t in a clear format. … The Clear and Easy Way WritingContinueContinue reading “Bad Practices on Birthdate Form Fields”
Schedule / Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 11 October 2018
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) is a free 24-hour online event for the global community. It celebrates inclusive design and shares knowledge and ideas from analogue to digital, from design to development, from planners to practitioners, and everything and everyone in between. Source: Schedule / Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 11 October 2018
Short note on the accessibility of styled form controls
Sticking with a native form control will almost always give your users a more accessible experience than trying to recreate one from scratch. Though the issue with native form controls is that they have an infamous reputation for being problematic to style. Outside of some of the HTML5 form controls, which have browser prefixed CSSContinueContinue reading “Short note on the accessibility of styled form controls “
10 Ways to Improve Accessibility on Websites and Social Media -rtp
Here it is! 1. Use Semantic HTML. … 2. Write Short Paragraphs and Short Sentences. … 3. Explain Acronyms and Abbreviations on First Use. … 4. Add Alternative Text to Your Images. … 6. Write Descriptive Text for Your Links. … 7. Increase Color Contrast … 8. Add Captions toContinueContinue reading “10 Ways to Improve Accessibility on Websites and Social Media -rtp”
Everything You Need to Know About HTML5 Video Captioning
Everything You Need to Know About HTML5 Video Captioning With HTML5, video captioning is a whole lot easier.HTML is the markup language used to render almost every page on the web. HTML5 is the latest version, and it’s replete with incredibly useful features, including a universal video standard that lets developers add video to aContinueContinue reading “Everything You Need to Know About HTML5 Video Captioning”
Color Contrast Crash Course for Interface Design
There are an estimated 285 million people in the world who are visually impaired. This number includes anyone from legally blind, to those with less than 20/20 vision. This short guide, written during the creation of the Contrast MacOS app, will help you achieve the accessibility standards outlined in the WCAG 2.0, specifically with foreground and background color when it comesContinueContinue reading “Color Contrast Crash Course for Interface Design”
Functions to Add ARIA to Tables and Lists
… Generally when I write and present things, I provide techniques, ideas, examples, and experience to address issues. When I write copy-paste-ready code, with a few older exceptions, I write generic code not tied to a framework nor library. … I have, however, written a couple vanilla JavaScript functions that you can drop into yourContinueContinue reading “Functions to Add ARIA to Tables and Lists”
VoiceOver and list-style-type: none – Unfettered Thoughts
A bug that keeps hitting me at work is VoiceOver not announcing unordered lists properly when either the list-style-type is set to none or display is set to inline. The expected behavior is that the unordered list is announced with a role of list along with the number of items, for example “list 4 items.”ContinueContinue reading “VoiceOver and list-style-type: none – Unfettered Thoughts”
Should developers work around assistive technology bugs?
… I was surprised at how little people were aware of this bug. I wondered if people were really testing their work with Safari and VoiceOver. Perhaps nobody thinks this is as big a deal as I thought? The biggest surprise though was the negative feedback over my solution. I got a lot of feedbackContinueContinue reading “Should developers work around assistive technology bugs?”
WICG/focus-visible: Polyfill for `:focus-visible`
Based on the proposed CSS :focus-visible pseudo-selector, this prototype adds a focus-visible class to the focused element, in situations in which the :focus-visible pseudo-selector should match. … Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source: GitHub – WICG/focus-visible: Polyfill for `:focus-visible`
What’s New In DevTools (Chrome 65) | Google Developers
New features coming to DevTools in Chrome 65 include: Local Overrides New accessibility tools The Changes tab New SEO and performance audits Multiple recordings in the Performance panel Reliable code stepping with workers and asynchronous code Read on, or watch the video version of these release notes, below. Note: Check what version of Chrome you’re running at chrome://version. If you’re runningContinueContinue reading “What’s New In DevTools (Chrome 65) | Google Developers”
WCAG 2.1: What is Next for Accessibility Guidelines
Are you staying on top of your digital accessibility game? Don’t be caught by surprise that a new version of W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is on the horizon. In fact, The next “minor” version of WCAG is a proposed recommendation right now! The W3C has researched user needs and written WCAG 2.1 successContinueContinue reading “WCAG 2.1: What is Next for Accessibility Guidelines”
Focusing on Focus Styles
Not everyone uses a mouse to browse the internet. If you’re reading this post on a smartphone, this is obvious! What’s also worth pointing out is that there are other forms of input that people use to get things done. With these forms of input comes the need for focus styles. #People People are complicated.ContinueContinue reading “Focusing on Focus Styles”
Tips For Conducting Usability Studies With Participants With Disabilities
Over the last few years, I ran several usability studies with participants with various disabilities. I thought it would help others if I shared some of my experiences. In this article, I provide lessons learned or tips to consider in planning and executing usability testing with participants with disabilities. The lessons learned are divided intoContinueContinue reading “Tips For Conducting Usability Studies With Participants With Disabilities”
