5 free test tools: A11yTO meetup
#a11yTO (Accessibility Toronto) hosted a meetup at Hacker You where Bill Anstice and I gave a talk on how to…
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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…
Short note on the accessibility of styled form controls
Sticking with a native form control will almost always give your users a more accessible experience than trying to…
Shortish note on JAWS support for regions
The JAWS screen reader has fairly recently changed the way it supports the announcement of ARIA landmark roles and…
Short note on ARIA support
It is easy to get the idea that ARIA fixes everything for accessibility, but the reality is that ARIA…
Embracing Plain Language for Better Accessibility: TechAccessOK 2018
I just got back from the TechAccessOK conference, which is a two-day conference on accessibility that’s put on by…
Making accessibility teachable: SICSA
One of the most important aspects of digital accessibility advocacy is helping the next generation of designers, developers and…
The current state of modal dialog accessibility
Modal dialogs continue to be troublesome UI components all across the web. Putting aside the fact they are often…
Short note on progressive ARIA
When we talk about Progressive Enhancement (PE), we usually focus on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and often forget about…
Prototyping Accessibility: WordCamp Europe 2018
I presented an afternoon workshop on accessibility for WordCamp Europe in Belgrade. I wrote it to include group exercises…
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
This week (5 June 2018) saw the release of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 as a W3C…
Everything I Know about Accessibility I Learned from Stack Overflow: Guelph Accessibility Conference
Guelph University has just wrapped up its 10th annual accessibility conference. I returned to present my talk Everything I…
Short note on getting spaced out with SC 1.4.12 Text Spacing
One of the new success criterion in WCAG 2.1 is 1.4.12 Text Spacing. Conforming to this criteria provides accommodation…
Introduction to ARIA: The Why, The How, The New, The Weird… (AccessU)
Last week I had to pleasure of attending the John Slatin AccessU conference at St. Edward’s University in Austin,…
Cognitive Disabilities – Designing for a broad spectrum: AccessU
At the 2018 John Slatin AccessU conference organized by Knowbility, I spoke about the wide variety of circumstances driving…
Short note on being busy
The aria-busy attribute, when set to true is supposed to provide a hint to screen readers that the content…
There’s more to performance than meets the eye: DeltaV
DeltaV is a conference that “redefines web performance”. It was held for the first time in London, and I…
Technologic (Human after all): Accessible By Design
Accessible By Design is a new conference, organised by Indiana University, and hosted in the beautiful town of Bloomington….
