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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”

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”

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”

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”

ARIA Labels and Relationships | Web | Google Developers

Labels ARIA provides several mechanisms for adding labels and descriptions to elements. In fact, ARIA is the only way to add accessible help or description text. Let’s look at the properties ARIA uses to create accessible labels. aria-label aria-label allows us to specify a string to be used as the accessible label. This overrides any otherContinueContinue reading “ARIA Labels and Relationships | Web | Google Developers”

Using Keyboard-only Navigation, for Web Accessibility

… Programmers are big fans of using the keyboard instead of continually shifting between the keyboard and mouse. And yet a significant percentage of websites make it difficult or even impossible for users to perform some activities without using a mouse or other pointer device. This curious relationship between using the keyboard and developing for the keyboard has alwaysContinueContinue reading “Using Keyboard-only Navigation, for Web Accessibility”

Sounding out the web: accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing people [Part 2]

[Part 2] In my previous post, I spoke with Ruth MacMullen, an academic librarian and copyright specialist from York, about her experience of being deaf and how it affects how she uses the web. In this next post in the series, Ruth shares some of the things that make life easier for her on the web,ContinueContinue reading “Sounding out the web: accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing people [Part 2]”

Reframing Accessibility for the Web · An A List Apart

We need to change the way we talk about accessibility. Most people are taught that “web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web”—the official definition from the W3C. This is wrong. Web accessibility means that people can use the web. Not “people with disabilities.” Not “blind people and deaf people.” Not “peopleContinueContinue reading “Reframing Accessibility for the Web · An A List Apart”

Defining and Measuring Usability and UX. The Big Difference Between Usability and UX

Everyone knows that user-friendly websites and apps are vital for the overall success of a business. We know that design quality indicates credibility and trust and that those things drive results. We know this. So how do you know that your site or app is easy to use? What steps do you take to know for sure that yourContinueContinue reading “Defining and Measuring Usability and UX. The Big Difference Between Usability and UX”

10 guidelines to improve your web accessibility

We put together a list of ten web accessibility guidelines that will guarantee access to your site to any person, in spite of their disabilities. There’s a quote by Tim Berners-Lee, Director of W3C and inventor of the World Wide Web, that says, “The power of the web is in its universality”. As people who make a living byContinueContinue reading “10 guidelines to improve your web accessibility”

Accessibility Testing: Checkers & Development Tools Review

Tools of the Trade In a different article, I outline the basics foundations of accessibility standards: “Understanding s508 & WCAG 2.0”. To further expand this, let’s look at various development tools to help author accessible content conformant to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (“WCAG”) 2.0 standards. Getting Started For a primer or refresher on whatContinueContinue reading “Accessibility Testing: Checkers & Development Tools Review”

Microsoft Hosts Its First Accessibility Summit to Better Tech Access For Disabled

Microsoft India today hosted its first-ever Accessibility Summit in the country to enhance technology access for people with disabilities. The summit aimed at demonstrating the business value of accessible technology for organizations, the need for a collaborative effort as well as assessing policy’s role in creating an accessible India.Through a series of constructive sessions, theContinueContinue reading “Microsoft Hosts Its First Accessibility Summit to Better Tech Access For Disabled”

Slides: London Web Standards; Making SVG accessible

London Web Standards is an established and popular meetup for web professionals. The meetups cover a broad range of topics including design, development, UX and accessibility, and this month I had the opportunity to talk about SVG accessibility. The talk looked at SVG past, present, and future, and explored the benefits and challenges it bringsContinueContinue reading “Slides: London Web Standards; Making SVG accessible”

Accessibility for Visual Design

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As designers, we need to remember that the same is true of color and all visual abilities. It’s estimated that 4.5% of the global population experience color blindness (that’s 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women), 4% suffer from low vision (1 inContinueContinue reading “Accessibility for Visual Design”

Google Maps now lets users add wheelchair accessibility details for locations

Back in December, Google finally added accessibility details to Maps. It was a long awaited addition, but an extremely welcome one for the more than three million people in the U.S. who require wheelchair accessibility. As we noted at the time, however, the available information still left a lot to be desired. Maps has currentlyContinueContinue reading “Google Maps now lets users add wheelchair accessibility details for locations “

The web is awesome and everyone should be able to read it.

These last months I’ve been improving my website accessibility so anyone can understand it. Here’s what I’ve learned: By anyone I mean any person that doesn’t use the internet like I do. Having empathy with the users is one of the things I’ve been learning on web development. You should give it a try asContinueContinue reading “The web is awesome and everyone should be able to read it.”

The a11y Monthly: get rid of your tables (or fix them)

While the original intended use of HTML tables was tabular data, tables are also used as aids for page layout. This was especially true some years ago when browsers hardly supported CSS. Tables were necessary to overcome limitations in visual presentation. Today, there is much more flexibility in controlling page layout using CSS. Does itContinueContinue reading “The a11y Monthly: get rid of your tables (or fix them) “

The 7 Factors that Influence User Experience

User Experience (UX) is critical to the success or failure of a product in the market but what do we mean by UX? All too often UX is confused with usability which describes to some extent how easy a product is to use and it is true that UX as a discipline began with usabilityContinueContinue reading “The 7 Factors that Influence User Experience “

We need to talk about Accessibility on Chatbots

What happens when a blind person wants to use your chatbot? This idea started after I did a research on UX for autonomous cars or self-driving cars. I did some interviews with 4 people, one of them being blind. I was really surprised to know that she can fully take care of herself and go aroundContinueContinue reading “We need to talk about Accessibility on Chatbots”

Developers: get started with web accessibility

If web accessibility is new to you, the path ahead can seem overwhelming. If web accessibility is new to you, the path ahead can seem overwhelming. It’s not so bad. I promise! You could chase perfection forever by building accessible products for every user imaginable. That’s no different from design and development more generally: there’sContinueContinue reading “Developers: get started with web accessibility”

Building a better, accessible web

Building a better, accessible web Detailing why accessibility matters, the types of disabilities there are/how to cater for them, and how to write good, semantic HTML and utilise ARIA to create accessible, robust web applications Slide deck at source… Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source: Building a better, accessible web

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”

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! “