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  • axesslab.com

    Fonts Don’t Matter

    If you’re an art director or font fanatic, you might want to sit down for this. Take a few deep breaths. Go to your happy place. Because I’m going to explain why…

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  • pixelpioneers.co

    Tips for Making Accessibility a Core Design Principle

    Many things need to be considered during the production lifecycle: privacy, performance, security, creativity, internationalisation, usability, and interaction to name a few. Another thing is accessibility. It's just as important as other…

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  • bitsofco.de

    Accessibility Testing With pa11y

    Knowing where to start with accessibility testing can be difficult and overwhelming. In my article on Tools for Developing Accessible Websites, I mentioned 5 tools you can use to get started developing…

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  • aerolab.co

    10 Guidelines to Improve Your Web Accessibility

    We put together a list of ten web accessibility guidelines that will guarantee access to your site to any person, in spite of their disabilities. There’s a quote by Tim Berners-Lee, Director…

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  • inclusive-components.design

    Tooltips & Toggletips

    Tooltips — affectionately misnomered as "tootlips" by my friend Steve — are a precariously longstanding interface pattern. Literally "tips for tools", they are little bubbles of information that clarify the purpose of…

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  • uxdesign.cc

    Designing for Accessibility, Step 1: Color Contrast

    The A11Y Project puts it best, and most bluntly: “Accessibility is hard.” If you’re feeling lost, start with color contrast. A primer on accessibility Accessibility has been a buzz word in the…

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  • css-tricks.com

    How Can I Make My Icon System Accessible?

    Here's a question I got the other day? Would you suggest icon fonts or inline SVGs for a complex single page application? And are there specific accessibility concerns for either? Accessibility is…

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  • alistapart.com

    Color Accessibility Workflows

    The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 contain recommendations from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for making the web more accessible to users with disabilities, including color blindness and other vision…

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  • hiddedevries.nl

    Accessibly Labelling Interactive Elements

    All interactive elements should have accessible names, says the W3C about using ARIA. They can also have descriptions. Names and descriptions can help your users figure out which elements they are interacting…

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  • css-tricks.com

    Focus Styles on Non-Interactive Elements?

    Last month, Heather Migliorisi looked at the accessibility of Smooth Scrolling. In order to do smooth scrolling, you: Check if the clicked link is #jump link Stop the browser default behavior of…

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  • smashingmagazine.com

    Designing Voice Experiences

    Voice-based interfaces are becoming commonplace. Voice assistants such as Siri and Cortana have been around for a few years, but this past holiday season, voice-driven devices from Amazon and Google made their…

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  • uxdesign.cc

    Designing Accessible Products

    What is accessibility and why is it important? In a diverse world like ours, we cannot simply assume that all the users access and experience digital products in the same way. That's…

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  • css-tricks.com

    Smooth Scrolling and Accessibility

    Smooth scrolling (the animated change of position within the viewport from the originating link to the destination anchor) can be a nice interaction detail added to a site, giving a polished feel…

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  • github.io

    Using ARIA – W3C Editor’s Draft

    This document is a practical guide for developers on how to add accessibility information to HTML elements using the Accessible Rich Internet Applications specification [WAI-ARIA-1.1], which defines a way to make Web…

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  • github.io

    A11Y Style Guide

    This application is a living style guide, generated from KSS documented styles...with an accessibility twist. No matter your level of development or accessibility expertise, there are ways to help contribute. How this…

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  • simplyaccessible.com

    7 Solutions for Creating More Accessible SVGs

    We’ve been working with SVGs a lot recently, which has led our developers down a rabbithole of discovery! Here are some things to consider when it comes to SVGs and accessibility. When…

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