Inclusive Design for Social Media: Tips for Creating Accessible Channels

Inclusive design may seem like the domain of UX designers and web developers. But social media marketers should practice it, too.

The 411 on 4.1.1

There is a non-zero chance that WCAG Success Criterion 4.1.1 Parsing will go away in WCAG 2.2. This isn’t a problem for users, regardless of the problems it may pose for the WCAG process, ACT rules, automated testing tools, or ossified testing proces…

Accessible writing is just good writing - Writer

Writing for accessibility is much more than just alt text — it makes for better, clearer content that everyone can enjoy.

Accessible Target Sizes

Appropriately sized touch targets improve both accessibility and overall usability.

Ageism in technology

Hi, thank you so much for participating in this survey. I am giving a presentation about ageism in technology at Axe Con, an online conference dedicated to digital accessibility in March 2023.

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Upcoming Accessibility Events (2023) – Web Axe

Accessibility: Why Social Media & Web Content Need to Be Accessible

Content accessibility isn't just design and production's job. It's everyone's job. Here's how content creators can create accessible content.

Quick tip: Creating valid and accessible links - The A11Y Project

Links are used on almost every site on the web, however it is easy to create links that are not accessible to all.

Appt.org | A guide for making apps accessible

Appt.org empowers developers and organizations to build accessible apps for everyone by offering current stats on the use of accessibility features, code documentation for iOS, Android and other platforms, guidelines, tips and how-to's.

Mobile Accessibility Guidelines - Accessibility for Products - BBC

a11y-webring.club

A webring for digital accessibility practitioners.

5 Visual Treatments that Improve Accessibility

prefers-reduced-motion: Taking a no-motion-first approach to animations

Animations should be an enhancement, not critical to a user's understanding

Designing With Reduced Motion For Motion Sensitivities — Smashing Magazine

Thanks to the wide support of the prefers-reduced-motion-media feature, we now have more advanced ways to design motion that can be creative and innovative while also being safer for those with motion sensitivities.

Social Visual Alt Text browser extension now supports Mastodon | Nick DeNardis

Social visual alt text browser extension now with Mastodon support!

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The Internet is for Everyone - Internet Society

Given by Vint Cerf at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy on April 7, 1999. How easy to say – how hard to achieve! Where are we in achieving this noble objective? The Internet is in its 11th year of annual doubling since 1988.

Implement dialog initial focus proposal · whatwg/html@a9f103c

This implements the changes proposed here: https://github.com/whatwg/html/wiki/dialog--initial-focus,-a-proposal#dialog-draft-text Specifically: 1. Make the dialog focusing steps look at seq...

Accessibility and Tech: Driving Change at ADP

Kelsey H., Head of Accessibility, shares her career journey leading the accessibility team and three pieces of encouragement.

Federal Social Media Accessibility Toolkit Hackpad

The following contains the shared document for the development of the Social Media Policy Toolkit, a shared service of the Federal Social Media Community of Practice lead by teams including The Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Po…

L’Oréal unveils two new CES 2023 innovation award-winning beauty technologies

L’Oréal today at CES® 2023 unveiled two new technology prototypes that expand access to beauty expression: HAPTA, the first handheld, ultra-precise computerized makeup applicator designed to advance the beauty needs of people with limited hand and ar…

Add persistent visual labels to find-replace dialog inputs · Issue #167870 · microsoft/vscode

Currently, the editor find-replace dialog only provides visual labels as placeholder text. When text is entered into these fields, there is no visual indication of their purpose. There are non-visu...

Accessibility

Update: MuseScore 4 is OUT NOW! Blind users seeking to install it should follow the links labelled "MuseScore without Muse Hub" on the Download page, or follow…

Useful Accessibility And Usability Examples To Help Improve Your Designs — Smashing Magazine

In this article, Thomas Bohm shares strategies and methods to tackle some common graphic communication problems and gives you insights into how to improve accessibility and usability and make your designs much better.

Accessibility checklist

The accessibility acceptance criteria testing checklist generator by T-Mobile - Accessibility Resource Center

Accessibility Tools and Resources for Designers • DigitalA11Y

A comprehensive list of accessibility tools and resources for designers to achieve accessibility from start.

A Complete Guide To Accessibility Tooling — Smashing Magazine

In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Recently we’ve covered HTML Emails and SVG Generators.

A beginner's guide to link and text accessibility - Pope Tech Blog

Learn how to create accessible links and text in your web content.

C34: Using media queries to un-fixing sticky headers / footers | WAI | W3C

Visualization for the BlindACM Interactions

  Understanding data has become critical to everyday life. You need data to decide which products to buy, which health choices to make, and whom to vote for. People spend hours reading...

User Stylesheets Are Still Pretty Great and Should Be More Widely Supported

Have you thought about your user stylesheet lately? I cannot blame you if you have not, especially if you have no idea what I mean when I write “user stylesheet”.