Emulate vision deficiencies Open the Rendering tab and use the new Emulate vision deficiencies feature to get a better idea of how people with different types of vision deficiencies experience your site. Read more … Read more
When we talk about accessibility, we talk a lot about the technical bits, the alphabet soup – WCAG, AAA, WAI-ARIA, Screen readers. But what we don’t often talk about is … Read more
An extensive look at using the prefers-reduced-motion media query (including using it with matchMedia in JavaScript) to disable animations for users who have that preference set. Read the article.
I wrote a quick tweet about teaching the basics of accessibility and colors to design students a few months ago that go quite some attention. It brought up some interesting … Read more
I read something last Monday, and I can’t stop thinking about it. If you’re not familiar, WebAIM is a non-profit that’s worked for years to make the web more accessible. They’ve written software and disability … Read more
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 … Read more
Digital accessibility enables people with disabilities to independently use websites and technology. Accessible design often focuses on people with vision or hearing disabilities. Designing for cognitive accessibility (COGA) rarely receives as much attention, but is equally important. Read the article.