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Creating a Usable Kiosk Experience for Customers with Disabilities

Introduction While accessibility and usability are frequently used as interchangeable concepts, that is not strictly accurate. Accessibility focuses on an individual’s capacity to use a product regardless of ability. Usability…

May 20, 2020Development, Kiosk

Does WCAG Apply to Kiosks?

In summary: yes, WCAG applies to kiosks. Overview of Kiosk Accessibility Rules Kiosk accessibility is largely guided by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA sets forth hardware requirements…

May 15, 2020Development, Kiosk

Bolt-on Accessibility – 5 gears in reverse

Many organizations first encounter accessibility as a risk to be managed. They may hear of drive-by lawsuits, bad press, and inflated costs. They are the prime target for products that…

May 13, 2020Development

Using the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit to Build Capacity

2020 is the year the web got real, and digital accessibility capacity is needed now, more than ever. With the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are shifting our lives from…

May 12, 2020Accessibility Strategy, Development

Accessible digital map experiences: a mountain climb or a walk in the park?

The topic of accessible maps recently came up during a conversation with an organisation we’ve been helping. They were worried about the accessibility of digital maps, and they were considering…

April 2, 2020Development, User Experience (UX)

Headings & Accessibility

People who are new to accessibility may be unaware of the way that headings can help readers. They help “chunk” and label groups of related content. And people who use…

March 24, 2020Development

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,…

March 17, 2020Development

Teaching and learning digital accessibility with AIR

Knowbility’s Accessible Internet Rally, or AIR, provides the perfect framework for learning what matters in digital accessibility. Accessibility is the practice of providing features that work for people with disabilities….

February 13, 2020Development

The case for learning sign language as an accessibility engineer

Once upon a time I was writing a story in my free time with a Deaf 1 character in it (long since condemned to my draft graveyard). My background research…

February 7, 2020Development

A TPGi Halloween special: the horrors lurking in your HTML

It’s the time of year when many of us are spending our days pigging out on bite-sized candies and settling in for a marathon of our favorite horror films….

October 31, 2019Development

Challenges to digital accessibility now and in the future

Earlier this summer, I was invited to give a talk at an event organized by the Ed-ICT research consortium, in Milton Keynes, UK. Ed-ICT is an international collective of researchers…

October 7, 2019Accessibility Strategy, Development

Making it easier to quit: Accessibility for compulsive and problem gamblers

Most of us involved in building an accessible internet would agree that as the internet integrates into more of our lives and continues to expand in capability, WCAG should expand…

September 12, 2019Development

Captions and Transcripts and Audio Descriptions, Oh My!

When individuals consider making video accessible, the accepted (sometimes only) considered solution is captioning. And with audio, the solution is transcripts. Yet, this approach may only partially address the needs…

July 19, 2019Development

Accessibility at the W3C Workshop on Web Games

I recently attended the W3C Workshop on Web Games, hosted at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, WA. This post is a summary of what I learnt from an accessibility perspective. It…

July 9, 2019Development

Notes from the a11y underground #2

Things that caught my interest since Notes from the a11y underground #1: The ARIA working group is considering making it an author error to use aria-label, aria-labelledby, aria-describedby on some…

June 12, 2019Development

Disability Etiquette: University of Guelph Accessibility Conference

The University of Guelph recently held their 11th Annual Accessibility Conference. The theme this year was “Learn, Share, Grow”, which covered topics such as: Understanding Accessibility Barriers, Web and Document…

June 5, 2019Development

Short note on `prefers-reduced-motion` and puzzled (Windows) users

With prefers-reduced-motion (part of CSS Media Queries Level 5’s User Preferences Media Features) it’s possible to easily suppress, or provide alternatives to, unnecessary and problematic animation effects on websites, based…

May 21, 2019Development

Notes from the a11y underground #1

Warning: Patrick looms large in various discussions I have been meaning to start a periodic noting of meaty articles and threads related to subjects close to my technical heart. Today…

May 15, 2019Development

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