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Some Articles About Accessibility I’ve Saved Recently IV
29.10.2021
A guide to designing accessible, WCAG-compliant focus indicators — Sara Soueidan says you can make more accessible focus outlines by doing your own, rather than leaving it to the browser — as long as you do it right. Deep dive!
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Looking at WCAG 2.5.5 for Better Target Sizes
8.6.2021
Have you ever experienced the frustration of trying to tap a button on a mobile device only to have it do nothing because the target size is just not large enough **and it’s not picking up on your press? Maybe …
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Principles for user-centered front-end development
4.6.2021
Colin Oakley:
• Accessible — Use semantic HTML, and make sure we meet the WCAG 2.1 AA standard as a minimum and it works with assisted technologies (this sits alongside the DWP Accessibility Manual)
• Agnostic — Build
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What’s New in WCAG 2.1: Label in Name
15.12.2020
WCAG 2.1 Recommendations rolled out in 2018. It’s been a couple years now and there are some new Success Criterion. In this article, I will discuss Label in Name, which is how we visually label components. We’ll take a look at what some failure states look like, how to fix them, and examples of...
Otázky k přístupnosti webů – 2
15.12.2020
Kde začít studovat problematiku přístupnosti? Je změna velikosti písma na webu k něčemu? Jaké změny přináší WCAG 2.1? Má z hlediska přístupnosti nějaký význam atribut title? Jak je to s přístupností JavasSriptu? Dává smysl definovat na stránkách horké klávesy (accesskeys)?
Otázky k přístupnosti webů – 2
15.12.2020
Kde začít studovat problematiku přístupnosti? Je změna velikosti písma na webu k něčemu? Jaké změny přináší WCAG 2.1? Má z hlediska přístupnosti nějaký význam atribut title? Jak je to s přístupností JavaScriptu? Dává smysl definovat na stránkách horké klávesy (accesskeys)?
Accessible Web Animation: The WCAG on Animation Explained
22.9.2020
It’s true, web animation can be accessible! Sometimes it just takes a little extra effort to make sure that it is. There are strategic things we can do to make sure our animations have a positive impact on accessibility, like planning how they contribute to the overall UX and ease of use of...
Pausing a GIF with details/summary
22.7.2020
Steve Faulkner has a clever idea here. You can show an (animated) GIF and overlay a pause/play button on top of it — which is really a <details>/<summary> element. When toggled, a (non-animated) JPG inside covers the GIF, effectively “pausing” it.
Adrian Roselli calls...
Accessible Font Sizing, Explained
23.4.2020
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), an organization that defines standards for web content accessibility, does not specify a minimum font size for the web.
But we know there’s such a thing as text that is too small to be legible, just as text that can be too large to consume. So,...
WhoCanUse
4.12.2019
There are loads of microsites and developer tools for looking at color accessibility, including tools built right into browser DevTools. They often show you if a color passes AA or AAA WCAG guidelines. But color contrast is more complicated than that because there is a wide variety of vision...
Growing Accessibility Conversations
22.11.2019
I started this year on a new path at Knowbility — to help people and organizations create accessible content and apps. But what was exciting and helped motivate me more were two things:
WebAIM's Accessibility Analysis of One Million Page Homepages. With over 97% of sites having WCAG failure...
Weekly Platform News: Contrast Ratio Range, replaceAll Method, Native File System API
22.11.2019
In this week's roundup: Firefox's new contrast checker, a simpler way to lasso substrings in a string, and a new experimental API that will let apps fiddle with a user's local files.
Firefox shows the contrast ratio range for text on a multicolored background
According to Success Criterion 1.4.3...
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG): seznamte se, prosím
22.2.2019
Doporučení WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Směrnice o přístupnosti webového obsahu) aktuálně ve verzi 2.1 představuje v současné době nejrozšířenější a celosvětově uznávanou metodiku tvorby přístupného (nejen webového) obsahu. Za jeho vytvořením stojí pracovní skupina WAI v rámci...