Sometimes when people first learn about Web accessibility they look for quick ways of improving the sites they build. This often leads to misuse or overuse of certain HTML features that are meant to aid accessibility, but when used wrongly have no effect and can actually have the opposite effect by making the page less accessible and less usable. Many of the commonly misused accessibility features
WCAG This section provides WCAG samples by technique number for: HTML ARIA General Learn more Web Components This section provides an alphabetical list of samples by Web Component, as well as the technology and framework used to create each of the examples. Learn more Frameworks This section includes examples and test results for: A React Single-page Application Angular 6 Single-page Application A
ARIA annotations ARIA guides ARIA live regions ARIA screen reader implementors guide Using ARIA: Roles, states, and properties Multipart labels How to file ARIA-related bugs ARIA states and propertiesaria-activedescendantaria-atomicaria-autocompletearia-braillelabelaria-brailleroledescriptionaria-busyaria-checkedaria-colcountaria-colindexaria-colindextextaria-colspanaria-controlsaria-currentaria-d
February 10, 2014Web Accessibility: Tools and Considerations Web accessibility is the process of making the features of your website accessible to people of all abilities. It’s about giving everyone equal access and opportunities, thereby allowing as many as possible to access your features without hindrance. With the potential legal obligations to comply with the accessibility standards set by th
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Implementing keyboard accessibility (XAML) - Windows app development
This browser is no longer supported. Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support. [This article is for Windows 8.x and Windows Phone 8.x developers writing Windows Runtime apps. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation] Looking for the HTML/JavaScript version of this topic? See Implementing keyboard accessibil
Web Accessibility Toolbar for IE | Vision Australia. Blindness and low vision services
The Web Accessibility Toolbar (WAT) for IE can assist in evaluating a web page for compliance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). The WAT was developed by Steve Faulkner in a collaboration between Vision Australia, The Paciello Group (Europe) and Jun of the Web Accessibility Tools Consortium. The source code is hosted on GitHub. Download Web Accessibility Toolbar (W
If you’re like me, you’re one of the web developers on your team tasked with taking something seemingly-boring – like a mortgage calculator – and making it: Look and work fantastically. Something like Google Docs meets Facebook meets Spotify meets Snapchat… SnapDocBookify? Yeah, make that.Meet the demands of the client or business partners, even if they think your mortgage calculator needs a weath
Is placeholder text a sufficient accessible label for form fields - David MacDonald Web Accessibility Blog, testing, teaching, and discussion
Web Accessibility Training Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and worldwide via Webex More In a mobile first world many websites use placeholder text to save space. Let's test to see if its a good idea. In the form field type in a first name. We will want to consider users who are blind, and users with cognitive disabilities. Code used <form> <input type="text" placeholder="First Name"> </form> Findings Re
Cool Blind TechLatest In Assistive Tech! News, How-To guides and Interviews With the recent public beta release of iOS 9, Shaun gives an overview of some of the new features in Apples next operating system. Starting with the ability to use Siri voices with Voiceover, other new features explained such as the Proactive intelligence, Apples newsreader app and the improved Notes app will give you an
Pragmatic rules of web accessibility that will stick to your mind
by Tiago Romero Garcia Pragmatic rules of web accessibility that will stick to your mind"The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world." — Stephen Hawking The same could be thought for web accessibility.I first started to work with web accessibility back in 2015, at an American retail giant. It had just gotten a hefty lawsuit, as its website failed to comply with the Ameri
Stop Designing For Only 85% Of Users: Nailing Accessibility In Design — Smashing Magazine
The visual interface is an obvious place to begin digging into accessibility. In this article, we’ll discuss some of the most common visual impairments, focusing on color-blindness to explain how you can make small changes to your workflow and products to ensure you’re not alienating users. The World Health Organization (WHO) identifies 4% of the global population as being visually impaired, 4% as
Accessibility Wins
Showcasing accessible user interfaces and tools. Submit your favorite website, application or UI pattern. Curated by Marcy Sutton. Five years ago I wrote about The Accessibility Project (a.k.a. the A11y Project) on this blog as it has long been a useful resource for learning about accessibility. In July of this year, a new site redesign launched showcasing the talents of designer Tatiana Mac and t
Web Accessibility Gone Wild Now even wilder! You are here: Home > Articles > Web Accessibility Gone Wild This article presents a wide variety of mistakes, misconceptions, over-indulgences, intricacies, and generally silly aspects of modern accessibility. While most accessibility issues are due to lack of knowledge, sometimes the most egregious errors are made by well-meaning developers who simply
I am in the process of updating HTML5Accessibility.com (ETA mid September) to take into account the changes in accessibility implementation support in the latest browser versions. I have decided not to update support information for Safari/Webkit on Windows and Opera on Windows or Mac as these browser/OS combinations show no sign of active HTML accessibility implementation support. If and when t
The Future Will Be Captioned: Improving Accessibility on YouTube
The Future Will Be Captioned: Improving Accessibility on YouTube Tens of millions of people in the U.S. experience some kind of hearing impairment and recent studies have predicted that over 700 million people worldwide will suffer from hearing impairment by 2015. To address a clear need, the broadcast industry began running captions on regular video programming in the early 1970s. Today, closed c
GitHub - chanzuckerberg/axe-storybook-testing: Command line interface for testing Storybook stories for accessibility.
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TalkBack は Android デバイスに組み込まれている Google 製のスクリーン リーダーです。TalkBack を利用すると、画面を見ずにデバイスを操作できます。 デバイスのセットアップは、デバイスのメーカー、Android のバージョン、TalkBack のバージョンによって異なります。以下のヘルプページはほとんどのデバイスに当てはまりますが、一部異なる場合もあります。 重要: マルチフィンガー ジェスチャーは以下の状況でご利用いただけます。 最新の Pixel 3 以上での TalkBack 9.1 その他の一部の OEM デバイス 2021 年 3 月以降 Android デバイスの TalkBack について詳しくは、以下のヘルプページをご覧ください。 Talkback をオンにする TalkBack を使用してデバイスを操作する Android と TalkBac
GitHub - jcsteh/osara: OSARA: Open Source Accessibility for the REAPER Application
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Illinois Center for Information Technology Accessibility: ARIA Examples
Summary The Roadmap for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA Roadmap) addresses the accessibility of dynamic Web content for people with disabilities. The roadmap outlines the technologies to map controls, AJAX live regions, and events to accessibility APIs, including custom controls used for Rich Internet Applications. The roadmap also outlines new navigation techniques to mark common
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: hidden and aria-hidden | The Paciello Group Blog
As a developer and also a consultant advising developers on how to develop accessible content, it is important to have and provide up to date and practical knowledge about robust development techniques. A recent question on Stack Overflow got me thinking: What is the best method for hiding content for all users? For hiding content for some users? The standard technique for hiding content for all
Everyone who works on government websites has a role to play in making federal resources accessible and inclusive. Choose the guide that fits your role: Product Content UX Visual design Front end These roles are based on the roles we have at the Technology Transformation Services at GSA. This guide provides: An overview of how each team member can contribute to a product's accessibility A framewor
W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 W3C Working Draft 24 July 2023 More details about this document This version: https://www.w3.org/TR/2023/WD-wcag-3.0-20230724/ Latest published version: https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag-3.0/ Latest editor's draft:https://w3c.github.io/silver/guidelines/ History: https://www.w3.org/standards/history/wcag-3.0/ Commit history Editors: Jeanne Spellman (TetraLogical) R
Alert With the merger of IDPF and W3C, the EPUB 3 Accessibility Guidelines are no longer being actively maintained. The site has been removed to avoid the presentation of outdated or incorrect practices. For up-to-date accessibility guidance, please refer to the Accessible Publishing Knowledge Base. You will automatically be redirected to the site momentarily. Best practices for digital publishing
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The web accessibility basics - Marco's Accessibility Blog
I’ve been asked again and again over the years what the absolute basics of web accessibility are. And while I always thought that it is not so difficult to find resources about these basics, the recurrence of that question prompted me to finally write my own take on this topic. So here it is, my list of absolute web accessibility basics every web developer should know about. Alternative text for i
You are here: Home > Resources > Web Accessibility for Designers The focus of web accessibility is often on web development – the things that happen in HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. Optimal accessibility should start much earlier, as part of the visual design process. This infographic highlights many important principles of accessible design. Plan Heading Structure Early Ensure all content and design
Using ARIA to enhance SVG accessibility | The Paciello Group BlogThe Paciello Group Blog
SVG1.1 accessibility support is limited in browsers and screen readers. Things are set to improve with SVG2, but ARIA can be used now to improve the accessibility of simple SVG. SVG includes two elements for providing short and long text descriptions: The title and desc elements. <body> ... <svg xmlns=http://www.w3.org/2000/svg> <title>Circle</title> <desc>Large red circle with a black border</des
W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines(WCAG) 2.0が国際規格化 | kzakza
W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines(WCAG) 2.0が ISO/IEC 40500:2012として承認されたようです。World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) とISO/IEC joint technical committee for information technology（ISOとIECの情報技術のための合同技術委員会）が共同で本日、発表しています。 ・ISO/IEC 40500:2012 Information technology — W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 ・W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Approved as ISO/IEC International Standa
PDF Accessibility Defining PDF Accessibility You are here: Home > Articles > PDF Accessibility > Defining PDF Accessibility PDF Tags When people talk about "accessible" PDF files, they are usually referring to "tagged" PDF files. Tags are “...a set of standard structure types and attributes that allow page content (text, graphics, and images) to be extracted and reused for other purposes.” (PDF Te
Working on Better, a tracker blocker, I spend an awful lot of my time with my nose in other people’s page sources. I’m mostly there looking for harmful tracking scripts, but often notice the HTML on some of the world’s most popular sites is in a sad state of neglect. What does neglected HTML look like? Here’s an example of the markup I found on a news site just yesterday. There’s a bit of text, a
Why accessibility APIs matter - Marco's Accessibility Blog
This morning, Victor from payPal and I got into an exchange on Twitter regarding the ChromeVox extension. ChromeVox is a Chrome extension which provides screen reading functionality for blind users. Through keyboard commands, the user can navigate page content by different levels like object by object, heading by heading, form control by form control, etc. Wait, you might say, but this is screen r
Web accessibility myths 2011 - a call for accessibility advocates to be more business-minded - Hassell Inclusion
Web accessibility myths 2011 – a call for accessibility advocates to be more business-minded It’s the time of year when web accessibility advocates tend to produce accessibility myths blogs… As nothing stays still on the web, and many of these blogs are rather old (other than Ian Pouncey’s great blog earlier this year), it’s important that our understanding of accessibility myths moves on too… So,
IT Accessibility at the University of Michigan | accessibility.umich.edu
What is accessibility? Digital technology and content have greatly enhanced people's abilities. But some in our community can't access a lot of what's out there for a variety of reasons that keep people from using technology. Accessibility techniques work to fix that. Why make IT accessible? It's the right thing to do It's the law It's part of U-M's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion commitment And
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Five Layers of Accessibility | Yahoo! Accessibility Library
Dirk Ginader gave this presentation on the 5 layers of accessibility at a Skills Matter event in London. Dirk pushes the traditional view of web development as three layers (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) by adding CSS for JavaScript enabled users and ARIA functionality. This presentation also uses the Yahoo! Finance Currency Converter as an example of progressive enhancement. You can follow along with th
Accessibility does not prevent you from using JavaScript or Flash | 456 Berea Street
Accessibility does not prevent you from using JavaScript or Flash A common misconception is that in order to make a website accessible you have to abstain from using JavaScript or Flash. Almost every time I hold a workshop on Web standards and accessibility there is at least one participant who believes that accessibility limits what they can do on the Web by telling them to stay away from anythin
Accessibility and web performance are not features, they’re the baseline | CSS-Tricks
Accessibility and web performance are not features, they’re the baseline This week I’ve been brooding about web performance and accessibility. It all began when Ethan Marcotte made a lot of great notes about the accessibility issues that are common with AMP: In the recordings above, I’m trying to navigate through the AMP Story. And as I do, VoiceOver describes a page that’s impossible to understan
Designing for Global Accessibility, Part I - Library - Google Design
In our three-part series, Google’s User Experience researchers Nithya Sambasivan and Astrid Weber discuss the principles behind building globally accessible products, and offer practical resources for the design and development community. Here in part one, we’ll outline how designers and developers can increase their own awareness around accessibility issues by checking assumptions around users, u
Ensuring high-quality browser accessibility with automation
Over the past few weeks, we’ve shown how Microsoft Edge has been rearchitected to empower developers to build more accessible experiences on the Web with HTML5 and UIA. To support this work, we need to ensure that accessibility is not accidentally regressed as we make other improvements to the browser. Testing the accessibility implementation of a browser on Windows used to require downloading the
New Flash Player with MSAA on Firefox and H.264 Video « Adobe Accessibility
In case people haven’t heard, we have a new version of the Flash Player available as of last night. The features that I’m most excited about are the support for H.264 video – so now you can have high-definition video and you can provide captions using the caption support released in Flash CS3 – and the addition of MSAA support for Firefox so users of screen readers such as JAWS and Window-Eyes tha
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