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Doing what’s required: Indicating mandatory fields in an accessible way
What’s required to indicate that a field is required? This requires David Swallow once again to fill us in with the fine details of SC 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions.
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Labeling the point: Scenarios of label misuse in WCAG
When do labels fail WCAG? David Swallow highlights scenarios of WCAG label misuse and attempts to bring some clarity to the confusion.
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Heading off confusion: When do headings fail WCAG?
Headings convey the organization of the content on a webpage or screen. Good heading structures make it easy for people to quickly scan a web document and understand its structure,…
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A web of anxiety: accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders [Part 2]
“Unethical”, “misleading” and “exploitative” are the words used by the Norwegian Consumer Council to describe the use of dark patterns and privacy-intrusive default settings by Facebook, Google and Microsoft. The…
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A web of anxiety: accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders [Part 1]
Anyone booking a vacation has likely encountered persuasive notifications urging them to “Hurry, only 2 tickets left!” or to “Book now as 6 other people are viewing this hotel”. We’ve…
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UXPA UK World Usability Day 2017: Inclusion through User Experience
To celebrate World Usability Day 2017, the UK Chapter of the User Experience Professionals’ Association (UXPA UK) hosted an event in Hammersmith, London entitled Inclusion through User Experience. The event…
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Accessibility Scotland 2017
The second Accessibility Scotland conference took place in Edinburgh on September 22nd. Accessibility Scotlandwas started up in 2016 by a group of local accessibility advocates—Kevin White, Wojtek Kutyla, Peter Heery,…
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Sounding out the web: UK cross-government accessibility meetup
The UK cross-government accessibility community exists for people working in government to further their knowledge of accessibility. It currently boasts over 500 members, made up of researchers, designers, developers, testers…
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Sounding out the web: accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing people [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…
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Sounding out the web: accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing people [Part 1]
The largely visual nature of the web means that we tend to focus on supporting people who are blind or partially sighted. But deaf and hard of hearing people are…
