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Mobile Accessibility Testing Guide for Android and iOS – free 

Mobile Accessibility Testing Guide for Android and iOS – free Mobile Accessibility Testing for Android and iOS (PDF, 2.6MB) is a free accessible PDF outlining how to test native apps and the web for accessibility on Android and iOS. It provides an overview of accessibility settings, how to use them and common testing tools. InstructionsContinueContinue reading “Mobile Accessibility Testing Guide for Android and iOS – free “

Screen Sizes | Viewport Sizes and Pixel Densities for Popular Devices

We built screensiz.es to help you quickly find the screen specifications of the most popular devices and monitors currently on the market.The size data comes from Wikipedia, and for a better understanding of Pixel Density, check out this great post by Teehan+Lax.Our “popularity” guesstimates are derived from annualized monthly Google queries (from AdWords traffic estimator),ContinueContinue reading “Screen Sizes | Viewport Sizes and Pixel Densities for Popular Devices”

10 Free Web-Based Web Site Accessibility Evaluation Tools – Usability Geek

A simple Google Search for “Accessibility Tools” yields a number of lists and collections of tools. I could have very easily copied one or two such lists and voila, I have a new post. But, I wanted to add a personal touch to this post by writing about the tools I use in my dailyContinueContinue reading “10 Free Web-Based Web Site Accessibility Evaluation Tools – Usability Geek”

Free web accessibility tools round-up — bread crumbs — Medium

  Free web accessibility tools round-up If you’re like me, you’re one of the web developers on your team tasked with taking something seemingly-boring – like a mortgage calculator – and making it: Look and work fantastically. Something like Google Docs meets Facebook meets Spotify meets Snapchat… SnapDocBookify? Yeah, make that. Meet the demands ofContinueContinue reading “Free web accessibility tools round-up — bread crumbs — Medium”

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 is a W3C Recommendation from Jeanne Spellman on 2015-09-24

ATAG 2.0 helps improve web accessibility by providing guidelines for designing web content authoring tools that are both more accessible to authors with disabilities (Part A) and designed to enable, support, and promote the production of more accessible web content by all authors (Part B). ATAG 2.0 helps authors meet WCAG 2.0. Curated by (Lifekludger)ContinueContinue reading “Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 is a W3C Recommendation from Jeanne Spellman on 2015-09-24”

Web applications and ARIA FAQ – Accessibility | MDN

WAI-ARIA is the Accessible Rich Internet Applications specification from the Web Accessibility Initiative at the W3C. ARIA provides a means to make web applications and widgets more accessible to a diverse range of users, including those who use assistive technologies such as screen readers or magnifiers. ARIA provides additional semantics to describe the role, state,ContinueContinue reading “Web applications and ARIA FAQ – Accessibility | MDN”

3 Ways to Improve the Accessibility of Your UI | Usability Matters

There’s a common misconception that an accessible digital product means sacrificing visual design, but there are many subtle changes you can make that will vastly improve the way people interact with and view your brand. Here are a few quick and easy tips you can implement today to help your users. Colour Contrast Colour contrastContinueContinue reading “3 Ways to Improve the Accessibility of Your UI | Usability Matters”

Top 10 Most Common Web Accessibility Mistakes – Cryptzone Insight

The importance of Web accessibility standards has been recognized around the world. Making sure your company is compliant with the latest standards can help you gain valuable market share and avoid the risk of costly litigation, settlements and loss of reputation and business. In our experience helping companies ensure Web compliance, we run into 10ContinueContinue reading “Top 10 Most Common Web Accessibility Mistakes – Cryptzone Insight”

HTML5 accessibility – work in progress June 2015

A Must have! This site is a resource to provide information about which new HTML5 user interface features are accessibility supported in browsers, making them usable by people who rely upon assistive technology (AT) to use the web. curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source: HTML5 accessibility – work in progress June 2015

Getting started with ARIA – The Accessibility Project

ARIA (Assistive Rich Internet Applications), is a spec from the W3C and created to improve accessibility of applications by providing extra information to screen readers via HTML attributes. Out of the box, screen readers work with regular HTML, but adding ARIA can provide screen reader users with more context and greater interactivity with content. ARIAContinueContinue reading “Getting started with ARIA – The Accessibility Project”

Text justification and accessibility | Access iQ

Text justification is the spacing of text across a page or column where both left and right margins are aligned to create a clean and block look. It is often favoured by graphic designers or people who create brochures or other display advertising.From an accessibility perspective, we need to be aware of how text justificationContinueContinue reading “Text justification and accessibility | Access iQ”

Easy Web Accessibility Practices for Design & Front-End Dev.

It’s a widely accepted truth that accessibility on the web is important. Of course, everybody should have equal access to technology! However, when it comes down to it and project timelines and budgets are at stake, it can be more difficult to put this belief into practice.  As technology continues to emerge and best practicesContinueContinue reading “Easy Web Accessibility Practices for Design & Front-End Dev.”

Accessibility Shouldn’t Be a Mystery | edUi Conference

In the past several years, ensuring web content is accessible to people with disabilities has received a lot more attention than ever before. New regulations are coming out that align US government accessibility requirements with the guidelines established by the World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative; courts are ruling that the Internet is aContinueContinue reading “Accessibility Shouldn’t Be a Mystery | edUi Conference”

Accessible Names – Label All the Things! (Part 2) | Mediacurrent

LABEL THE REST OF THE THINGS!Native accessible name properties that we discussed in part 1 are all great, but there are situations where these don’t suffice – where either no method for providing an accessible name exists in HTML5 or a situation arises where standard HTML5 methods aren’t enough. Enter aria-label and aria-labelledby. Aria-label andContinueContinue reading “Accessible Names – Label All the Things! (Part 2) | Mediacurrent”

Accessible Names – Label All the Things! (Part 1) | Mediacurrent

The more we label things when building a website, the easier it is for a person who is blind and uses a screen reader to use our sites. These labels are known as the “accessible name properties” and they are baked into HTML. Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source: Accessible Names – LabelContinueContinue reading “Accessible Names – Label All the Things! (Part 1) | Mediacurrent”

A Web Accessibility Primer – Part 2 | Usability Matters

A detailed look at some resources and terms that correspond to the four principles of web accessibility outlined by WCAG 2.0Gain a better understanding of the WCAG principles of web accessibility through a set of terms and resources to guide you. Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source: A Web Accessibility Primer – PartContinueContinue reading “A Web Accessibility Primer – Part 2 | Usability Matters”

Developing accessible websites | Accessible Technology

Great reference site… In order to assure that websites and web applications are accessible to and usable by everyone, designers and developers must follow web accessibility guidelines. Each of the following topics address issues that are especially common on UW websites. See also our annotated list of web accessibility Tools and Resources. Curated by (Lifekludger) ReadContinueContinue reading “Developing accessible websites | Accessible Technology”