CategoryAccessibility

January 12, 2022 — Accessibility must be a permanent program within organizations, much like security. There are many ways to increase your team’s capacity for accessibility and it’s less important where you start than it is that you do start. Accessibility must be a permanent program within organizations, much like security. You wouldn’t just do one round of security testing and consider it taken care of. In this article, Kate Kalcevich shares tips on which skills and questions to keep in mind when hiring for digital accessibility roles. Read more…

December 6, 2021 — There are so many websites out there that have not considered the overall usability of their visually impaired users. When it comes to designing better links and sending better emails, Slava Shestopalov has a few tips on how to improve your website’s experience while accessibility in mind. Read more…

November 23, 2021 — The separation of content and presentation that CSS gives us always comes in handy when we need to adapt designs to better serve different communities. With a little CSS, we can adapt our web designs to be more accommodating for people with dyslexia. In this article, John C Barstow will explore those techniques by adding a dyslexia-friendly mode to an existing design. Read more…

October 4, 2021 — One of the use cases for using CSS Grid is to display a gallery of images, but a gallery on its own may not be that exciting. In this article, Silvestar Bistrović will be looking at how to set up a gallery that is expandable as well as accessible with a few tips and tricks along the way. Let’s get started! Read more…

September 28, 2021 — You can find Markdown in many places on the Internet. In this article, Eric Bailey covers different aspects of Markdown and how it interacts with other technology. At first, it may seem daunting since there is a lot of content to cover across a few different subject areas, but keep in mind that each tweak and update will have a direct impact on someone’s quality of life when using the web. Read more…

September 23, 2021 — The new CSS accent-color property makes it quick and easy to roll out our brand colors to certain form inputs by leveraging user agent styles. It has the potential to provide quick and easy styling for many of our form elements, especially where extensive customization isn’t needed, as well as allowing the browser to pick the best options for accessibility. In this article Michelle Barker will take a look at what it does and how to use it alongside color-scheme for simple, accessible checkboxes and radio buttons — and imagine how you might use it in the future. Read more…

July 28, 2021 — Dialogs are everywhere in modern interface design (for good or for bad), and yet many of them are not accessible to assistive technologies. In this post, Kitty Giraudel is going to write a small JavaScript library for authoring accessible dialogs from the very beginning. The goal is to understand what goes into it. She’s not going to deal with styling too much, just the JavaScript part. Read more…

July 16, 2021 — Web app accessibility appears difficult because it seems that there is little information on the subject available online. Let’s take a closer look at the accessible use of framework features, concrete Vue.js traits, as well as community initiatives and vetted patterns. Read more…

July 9, 2021 — Accessibility is often overlooked or bolted on to the end of a project from the experiences in Todd’s career in web development and design. The case for accessibility is something we as people who create and build things for the web should be implementing and advocating for from the inception of a project to the release or handoff and beyond. Read more…

June 23, 2021 — Automated testing is an important part of any software project, including testing for accessibility. There are already tools for linting and integration testing accessibility, but what about end-to-end testing with real assistive technology? Since I hadn’t seen this before, I set out to build Auto VO, a driver for the VoiceOver screen reader. Read more…