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It’s always important to test content with a screen reader so that you can validate the experience from a blind person’s perspective. Jaws is one of a number of screen readers available to people who have visual impairments to help them navigate on-screen content. There isn’t much available information about
De-mystifying the ATAG 2.0 guidelines The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) are a set of requirements for making authoring tools that are accessible, and capable of producing accessible content. ATAG are used by the teams that develop authoring tools. In other words, the people who create What You See Is
WCAG2.1 Success Criteria (SC) 1.3.4 Orientation, is intended to enable people to view content in the orientation (portrait or landscape) that they prefer. Here is the SC itself: 1.3.4 Orientation (Level AA): Content does not restrict its view and operation to a single display orientation, such as portrait or landscape, unless
EU Directive 2016/2102 has been enacted into UK law, as the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) Accessibility Regulations 2018. The regulations set out a timetable for public sector organisations to make sure their websites and apps conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA: Websites
Identifying input purpose WCAG2.1 Success Criteria (SC) 1.3.5 (Identify input purpose) is intended to make it easier for people to understand the purpose of form fields that collect personal information. And, to make it easier to fill in those fields. Here is the SC itself: “The purpose of each input field collecting
You often hear people say that HTML is important for good accessibility, and then say that using div and span elements to re-create HTML elements is harmful to accessibility. At first, this doesn’t make any sense. Div and span elements are HTML after all. To find out the reason why
It is sometimes difficult to know where to start with accessibility. You know it’s important, and you want to get it right, but how do you translate that into positive action? Every journey starts with a single step, as the old saying goes, and accessibility is just the same. Everyone
Writing text descriptions Really good accessibility takes a strong strategy, thoughtful design, and robust technical implementation, but often it’s the small things that make all the difference to the person consuming your content. Text descriptions for images are among the most basic of accessibility requirements, yet they’re also amongst the
A new European Union (EU) Directive was adopted into UK law on 23rd September. EU Directive 2016/2102 introduces several deadlines concerning the accessibility of websites and mobile apps of public sector bodies. For the UK, the Directive applies to local, regional, and national government bodies, as well as all other organisations operating
If you’re a developer, it’s a good idea to be familiar with platform accessibility APIs, and the mechanics of accessibility in the browser. You won’t learn about platform accessibility APIs in school, and few articles on the web discuss them, yet platform accessibility APIs are crucial to the way Assistive
