How To Make Publishing Platforms More Accessible (Part 1)
I admit that I have been guilty of a lot of accessibility bad practices in the past, both as a freelancer and while working for agencies. Being a designer who…
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UX Series 3: Digital Accessibility and the UX Design Process
In the previous post in this series, we introduced the concept of user experience as a quality of a digital product. This post looks in more detail at the user…
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UX Series 2: User Experience and Digital Accessibility
In the first post in this series, we introduced the concept and practice of universal design. This post introduces user experience, a term that is widely used to describe a…
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UX Series 1: Universal Design and Digital Accessibility
This is the first post in an introductory series on UX and accessibility strategy. Universal design is an inclusive design framework used to create barrier-free designs that are navigable and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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 it (long since condemned to my draft graveyard). My background research…
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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 and settling in for a marathon of our favorite horror films….
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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, in Milton Keynes, UK. Ed-ICT is an international collective of researchers…
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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 a summary of what I learnt from an accessibility perspective. It…
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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 it an author error to use aria-label, aria-labelledby, aria-describedby on some…
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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”, which covered topics such as: Understanding Accessibility Barriers, Web and Document…
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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 provide alternatives to, unnecessary and problematic animation effects on websites, based…
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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 and threads related to subjects close to my technical heart. Today…
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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, but TPGi has been a force to reckon with at CSUN…
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Join Us at CSUN 2019!
It’s almost that time of year – the annual pilgrimage to sunny California for the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. From March 11 – March 15 the Anaheim Marriott will be…