"To design accessible visuals, account for color contrast, don’t rely on color alone, make interactive elements easy to identify, provide useful alternative text for images, and test your visuals with real users." nngroup.com/articles/visual-tr… #webdesign #a11y #visualdesign #UIDesign
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.
These magnetic USB C adapters are truly fantastic! Recommended for anyone blind or visually impaired. Available from Amazon, eBay, and AliExpress.
✅ Makes fitting a USB cable easy - the magnet pulls the cable into place. ✅ Saves wear and tear on the USB C port. ✅ Can be used with chargers, wired earbuds and data sync cables. ✅ Acts as a quick release if the cable gets yanked. ✅ They work well with phones, laptops, and tablets.
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.
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...
I'm in a hotel room with a visual-audible doorbell. Twice staff has come and knocked instead of used the doorbell. It's both good and bad. Here's why I'm grateful they're not using the doorbell.
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 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…
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...
Check out the new version of MuseScore which now claims to be accessible on Windows, Mac and Linux: musescore.org/en/accessibility #a11y I am looking forward to giving it a spin!
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…
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 Acceptance Criteria - Automatically generate test cases for Web, iOS and Android components magentaa11y.com/ by T-Mobile's Accessibility Resource Center #a11y #agile
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.
My feature article on "Visualization for the Blind" was just published in the new Jan/Feb 2023 issue of @ACM Interactions. This is a high-level overview of making #visualizations #accessible for #blind individuals, sprinkled with my own personal experiences from beginning in the #a11y space. I even squeezed two Latin quotes in! And thanks to my close collaborator Jonathan Lazar for his mentorship. DOI: 10.1145/3571737 Read the fulltext here (no paywall): interactions.acm.org/archive/v…
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" pxlnv.com/blog/user-stylesheet… Custom stylesheets also for accessibility reasons, of course, but isn't mentioned in the article. #css #a11y #browsers
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”.
That’s how people behave on the web in 2023. Some observations from real usability testing on what people do and what they don’t do on the web. From disabled copy-paste to magic link sign-in.
Hey you! I want YOU to sign up for Games for Blind Gamers 2 game jam! It doesn't have to be big, it doesn't have to be fancy, take it as an opportunity to challenge yourself to make something new and learn about accessibility! I hope everyone signs up! It's still 2 months away so plenty of time to plan! Sign up here! Feel free to ask questions if you have any! itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga… #GameDev #Accessibility #a11y #
A game jam from 2023-04-01 to 2023-05-07 hosted by NightBlade. Welcome to the second Games for Blind Gamers jam! The goal of this jam is to build awareness of blind gaming (and accessibility in general), as well a...
Marketing is a fun topic that’s not talked about a lot in the accessibility space. Often, marketing teams are focused on the product, the code, and making it accessible. They neglect to think…
Here are the samples of TTS voices that Apple is planning to use for some #audio books in their book store:authors.apple.com/support/4519… I must say, the first two voices are quite impressive! #a11y
Combining sophisticated speech synthesis technology with a talented team of linguists, quality control specialists, and audio engineers, Apple Books is producing high-quality, digitally narrated audiobooks.
Jim Ryan takes the stage at CES 2023 to reveal a brand new controller codenamed Project Leonardo. PlayStation teamed up with incredible organizations and acc...
Aims to be the biggest checklist of inclusive design considerations ever - GitHub - Heydon/inclusive-design-checklist: Aims to be the biggest checklist of inclusive design considerations ever
