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Ricky Onsman

Veteran Australian web designer, front end developer, writer and editor. As a writer and/or editor, I've worked with the likes of UX Australia, SitePoint, Web Directions and Smashing Magazine. As a freelance designer and front end dev, I focused on building accessible websites, then worked with a number of design, UX and accessibility-focused companies in Australia, North America and Europe before joining the Knowledge Center team at TPGi.

Posts

  • Digital Accessibility Podcasts

    You’ve subscribed to the newsletters and RSS feeds, you’ve expanded your library, but what about digital accessibility podcasts? Ricky Onsman goes audio.

  • Digital Accessibility Books

    Digital accessibility books: does anyone still write them? Or read them? You bet they do! Ricky Onsman lists some new titles, some recent releases and some favorites.

  • Conference Report – Web Directions Summit 2023, Day Two

    Ricky Onsman reports on Day Two of one of the great web technology conferences, back in live format in Sydney, Australia.

  • Conference Report – Web Directions Summit 2023, Day One

    We sent Ricky Onsman to report on one of the great web technology conferences, back in live format in Sydney, Australia.

  • Digital Accessibility Blogs and Newsletters

    There are a lot of people out there writing important blog posts and email newsletters about digital accessibility. Who should you follow?

  • WCAG 2.2 is Finally Here!

    WCAG 2.2 has been published as a W3C Recommendation, which means the latest amendments to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are now fully in effect.

  • Writing Accessible Form Messages

    Forms are everywhere on the web. The words we use to tell users how to fill in online forms are very important, and become critical for people with some kinds of disabilities.

  • Overlays: Just Another Disability Dongle

    Accessibility overlays are nothing more than Disability Dongles, “contemporary fairy tales that appeal to the abled imagination” and don’t solve real problems while creating new ones.

  • Managing Multiple WCAG Failures

    Identifying different kinds of multiple failures and understanding their nature will ultimately help web developers, designers, and content authors create accessible websites, and auditors to provide better guidance when they don’t.

  • WCAG 3.0: Further On Up the Road

    On 24 July 2023, the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group published the latest Working Draft of the WC3 Accessibility Guidelines Verson 3.0. In this blog post, we’ll look at what changes this latest draft brings to WCAG3.

  • Making Numbers in Web Content Accessible

    Numbers are a key part of web content. It makes sense, then, that when we use numbers, they must be accessible.

  • The Knowledge and How to Get it: Part Two

    Part Two of an edited transcription of the presentation delivered by Hans Hillen (in person) and Ricky Onsman (via video) on 15 March at CSUN 2023, in which they share some of their experiences setting up the TPGi Knowledge Center.

  • The Knowledge and How to Get it: Part One

    Part One of an edited transcription of the presentation delivered by Hans Hillen (in person) and Ricky Onsman (via video) on 15 March at CSUN 2023, in which they share some of their experiences setting up the TPGi Knowledge Center.

  • On the Passing of Judy Heumann

    It is with great sadness and deepest respect that we at TPGi offer our condolences to the family of Judith (Judy) Heumann, often referred to as the mother of the disability rights movement, who died on the 4th of March, 2023.

  • WCAG 3.0: are we there yet?

    On 7 December 2021, the W3C Accessible Guidelines Working Group published a Working Draft of the W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0. So, that’s it, right? Pack WCAG 2 off to the junkyard? The standard is dead, long live the standard? Well, no.

  • Understanding Disability: Ableism

    A common definition of ableism is that it is discrimination and social prejudice against people with disabilities. That’s undoubtedly true, but ableism can also be described as discrimination in favor of non-disabled people. What’s the difference?

  • Single Page Applications

    Due to their nature, and depending on how they are constructed, Single Page Applications might need to use techniques to conform to specific WCAG success criteria that are different to those used on multi-page websites.

  • Ensure third party content is accessible

    Many websites publish content that isn’t created by the website owner or author, from embedded videos, shopping carts, and social media feeds to maps, booking systems and comments on blog posts. Who is responsible for making sure third party content is accessible? And how?