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Accessibility First: Rethinking the Way We Approach Website Design and...
Inclusive Design and Development Principles The term Inclusive Design is not a new one. It is a phrase that has been around since 2005. It is defined as “The design of mainstream products and/or...
View ArticleThoughts On The Inclusive Web
My name is Allen West. I have been using computers since the mid 90’s. In the early going, I found a lot of problems with accessibility. Admittedly, some of what I called inaccessible turned out to be...
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The Three Developers and the Insightful User Tester
Prologue: Accessibility through familiarity Throughout history the art of storytelling has been used to entertain, make connections, and instill life lessons. Stories have been used to convey concepts...
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5 Common Misconceptions About Web Accessibility
As someone brand new to learning about accessible design, I admit I had a few misconceptions about accessible web design. I’ve been a software developer for just over a year, and have been learning...
View ArticleProviding Alternate Content for Screen Reader Users
Sometimes, components of your user interface will communicate information in a visual manner for which a programmatic or text equivalent may not be available. In these situations, you have to come up...
View ArticleFive Ways in Which Artificial Intelligence Changes the Face of Web Accessibility
Artificial intelligence (AI) is all the rage right now. Chances are your news feeds and social media timelines are filled with articles predicting how AI will change the way we will interact with the...
View ArticleA Developer’s Guide to Better Accessibility
For a digital product to successfully become an accessible product, all members of the team must be committed to accessibility in their roles. We like to visualize these roles as “the six pillars” of...
View ArticleAccessibility in Resizing Text
When I used to work in Boston I would take the Green Line into the city. There was a woman who would get on the train around Washington Street who was visually impaired. She wasn’t totally blind but...
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How Accessibility Saved My Professional Life
Digital accessibility saved my professional life. Not because it gave me new career opportunities in a facet of digital work, but due to the impact my work has on people lives, all people, including...
View ArticleHow do you convince a company that tames dinosaurs to design inclusively?
So … chances are, when you think of accessibility, the Oil and Gas industry may not be the first thing that comes to your mind. After all, Roughnecks are known for their arduous and sometimes very...
View ArticleShifting from Fear to Motivation when Talking about Digital Accessibility Law
Digital accessibility is about people. Deaf students who need the content in an assigned video before the next exam. Blind banking customers who want to keep their online account information...
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WCAG 2.1 and Silver (AG): What is Next for Accessibility Guidelines
Update: The information in this article is outdated. Please refer to WCAG 2.1: What is Next for Accessibility Guidelines Are you staying on top of your digital accessibility game? Don’t be caught by...
View ArticleWriting Automated Tests for Accessibility
Web accessibility is all about making sites and applications that everyone can use, especially people with disabilities. With a rather large list of competing priorities when building for the web, from...
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SVG, Icon Fonts, and Accessibility: A Case Study
In the digital world, graphical icons are used prominently—play buttons, social media links, warning indicators, and on and on. There are many maintenance, performance, and accessibility considerations...
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Web Accessibility in the Corporate World
The Challenge One of the biggest misconception in Web Accessibility today is that it is simple and straightforward and the guidelines should be sufficient to help us make Accessible web pages and user...
View ArticleGetting started in Accessibility: A Philosophy
I wonder how many definitions there are for “web accessibility”—how many ways people describe what accessibility means for the web and for people. Web accessibility can be a measure of opportunity or a...
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How to build a cloud-hosted accessibility testing Windows computer using...
As more and more services necessary to living life go online, it becomes imperative to ensure that everyone—regardless of ability or circumstance—can use the websites that host them. Due to how...
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Growing an Accessibility Meetup
Introduction For a little over a year now, and together with two other organisers, I’ve been running the Dutch Inclusive Design and Accessibility, or “idea11y” meetup. We’ve started from 10-people...
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Accessibility Testing Tools for Desktop and Mobile Websites
Introduction This post will demonstrate how to use automated and manual accessibility testing tools on desktop and mobile websites. We’ll cover five accessibility testing tools that can be installed...
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React’s Accessibility Code Linter
When creating or maintaining an existing React app, do you wonder about how to make sure the code you write helps to ensure an accessible user interface? Can this even be done with React? Are there any...
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Color Contrast, Beyond the Basics
At first glance, the WCAG 2.0 AA guideline for contrast minimums appears to be one of the easiest, most straightforward success criterion to achieve. Yet, it is a real possibility for a site meeting...
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The Trials and Tribulations of the Title Attribute
The title attribute gets a lot of flack. And largely the disdain towards the attribute is quite justified. In June of 1993, twenty-four and a half years ago, title was proposed as part of the HTML 1.2...
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Congrats! You Just Received an Inaccessible Gift Card
Gift card usage is exploding. 2017 gift card usage is projected to top $300 billion, with an average growth rate of 10%. While they tend to be viewed as impersonal, they’re convenient and popular,...
View ArticleSo You Want to Become an Accessibility Specialist
With the U.S. Department of Transportation mandates requiring that airlines make their websites accessible, the U.S. Department of Justice settling complaints about inaccessible internet sites with...
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