There’s a lot of chatter on the intertubes of late around the thoroughness and accuracy of various accessibility testing approaches; Manual, Automated and AI-based testing. I thought it might be good to take a look at these comparisons, to have a better sense when different approaches can be effective.
Say you’re demo-ing how a screen reader reads a page at work. The you want to add your thoughts or feedback, and don’t wish to speak over the screen reader voice. Or, the people you are demo-ing to have their hands over their ears (I’ve experienced this). NVDA: Press Shift JAWs: Press Control VoiceOver: Press…
On Accessibility “80% of people who use captions aren’t deaf or hard of hearing and there 48 million Americans with hearing loss.” @3PlayMedia
This won’t be the only mega-list someone puts out, but it’s mine, and I’m sticking to it. 🙂 I will link out to other as they come online.
I’ve found it very difficult to find solid information on how to make online advertising accessible. Interestingly enough, most of the information I did find was research performed during the early part of this century. Had nothing changed? After a couple of years experience, I’ve come up with some foundational guidance for online advertising. As…
As organizer of a local digital accessibility meetup, I’m always looking for local accessibility wins, case studies that others can experience and learn from.
This post results from the need to validate a personal viewpoint I had related to coding for accessibility. The Gist Via Twitter and Survey Monkey, I polled anyone who would give the topic a little attention the following question: Related to accessibility, how do you code?
Stemming from a recent post on the Twitter accounts every designer must follow, and timed coincidently when I was planning to send out several “FollowFriday” tweets, I’m sharing a list of the people you must follow on Twitter if you have any interest in digital accessibility. And as I fall under the category of “human,”…
Recently, I posted some resources from a recent accessibility conference. And the post has become fairly popular. Which scares me.
I attended my first International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (or CSUN as most attendees call it). I can honestly say, I was humbled and overwhelmed simultaneously. The 30th annual CSUN 2015 was held in San Diego the first week of March. Held over five days, the week offered two days of eight workshops,…
I’m presently involved in an initiative to improve the accessibility of our online properties, something that I am truly digging. While I realize how little I know about making things more accessible, it’s exciting to discover best practices and techniques to make things more accessible for all users.
