Making data visualizations accessible
While their aim is to make information easier to understand, data visualizations can have specific accessibility implications for people with disabilities.
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What Is Alt Text and How to Write It
Alt text is a website feature that goes by many names: alt attributes, alt descriptions, alternate text. Whatever the name, this important accessibility feature may be overlooked by web design…
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Testing with speech recognition
This article is a guide to testing your web content using speech recognition, looking at the ways in which speech recognition users interact with content, and the accessibility considerations these imply.
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The impact of motion animation on cognitive disability
Decorative animations impair recall and are a source of extraneous cognitive load, which may be a barrier to people with some cognitive disabilities.
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Using the “text” role
The use of role=”text” is not valid ARIA; this role was considered for ARIA 1.1 but was not ultimately included. However it does have some proprietary support in Webkit browsers, and is sometimes used to address a reading quirk in VoiceOver for iOS.
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How you as a site author can help comprehension
For people working in the field of accessibility, we are very much aware that accessibility benefits everyone, not just people with disabilities. Like Billy Gregory’s widely-shared tweet from 2015 said,…
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Enough with the role-play—let’s get back to the basics
Having read Steve Faulkner’s post a short while ago about the often-questionable use of roles in HTML when a more suitable native HTML element would be far better, I was…
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Accessibility testing as a screen reader user
When testing a website or mobile application’s accessibility, some might say that someone who routinely uses a screen reader would be best placed to eke out issues, right? While it’s…
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New Autism Research Emphasizes Positive Characteristics When Measuring “Success”
In the past, the evaluation of children with autism focused on skills the child lacked (in comparison with neurotypical children). Thinking in terms of “deficits” meant that “success” was when…
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All about the presentation: don’t let accessibility slide
So many people transitioned from working at the office to working from home during 2020 and 2021, and a large number of them will have attended at least one Zoom…
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Seeing the wood for the trees: demystifying markup in 2021
Warning: This post contains minor low-grade explicit language. Those easily offended may wish to turn away now. Although, that said, if the word ‘crap’ offends you more than the reason…
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Is Voice Recognition the Next Thing in Kiosk Technology?
Kiosks continue to integrate the latest in technology to improve the customer experience, reduce time on task, and extend the various tasks a kiosk can be used to complete. One…
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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…
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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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How to Test for JAWS Compatibility
For as long as developers and QA staff have been testing websites for screen reader compatibility, the JAWS® screen reader (created in 1993 by Henter-Joyce) has been a staple testing…