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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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”,…
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Short note on
prefers-reduced-motionand puzzled (Windows) usersWith prefers-reduced-motion (part of CSS Media Queries Level 5’s User Preferences Media Features) it’s possible to easily suppress, or…
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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…
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How do You Test Success Criterion 1.3.5 on Mobile Applications?
Updated 13th May 2019 Here at TPGi we have been asking this question and been working hard to fully…
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Think like an accessible UX researcher part 3: five common mistakes in usability testing and how to avoid them
This is the third in a series of posts reviewing the advice in Think like a UX Researcher, by…
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Think like an accessible UX researcher part 2: How many participants?
This is the second in a series of posts looking at the advice provided in the excellent book Think like…
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Think like an accessible UX researcher part 1: Defining your research problem
Earlier this year, an important new book for the field of UX was published—Think like a UX Researcher, by…
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CSUN 2019 Round-up
Every year the people of TPGi make the pilgrimage to CSUN. The faces may change, the venue may change,…
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Short note: The abbreviation appreciation society
The HTML <abbr> element is deceptively familiar and attractive, its been around forever (1999) and thus people assume that…
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WCAG 2.1 parsing error bookmarklet – updated 25th February 2019
In 2012 I wrote: While reading Jared Smith’s excellent article WCAG Next I was drawn to the following statement…
