a11y

If you’re looking for a free online accessibility event I recommend checking out Accessibility Summer Camp. This year it will be Friday, June 14th.

This ART Tutorial Video provides an overview of the tool and how to use it. Basd on the type of project and the software/hardware being used ART will provide 508 standards to check for.

This article provides the analogy of a tree to explore the different processes of accessibility implementation.

When I started reading this article I didn’t know who wrote it. Then when I got to the bottom I realized it was written by the CEO of Accessibee. Clearly, he is trying to sell that AI can do everything. Yet, AI struggles with interpreting the author’s intention when it comes to alt text and image descriptions. This is why...

This is an EDUCAUSE poll that explores what higher education institutions are doing around accessibility. There is a need for institutions to offer more required training, get buy-in from institutional leadership, and promote a proactive culture instead of taking a reactive approach to accessibility. Institutions now are more...

I’m very grateful that I could Adrian’s CSUN presentation WCAGmire. The talk was on malicious compliance and examining the holes in the WCAG guidelines. Hopefully, we can get designers/developers to strive to make their web pages/applications accessible to all people rather than just being compliant in the future.

I’m not sure what happened to the SignAloud gloves but it seems like the technology has come to market and is being sold by BrightSign.

This is a cool idea. Hopefully, it might be implemented in the future.

This article from Articulate highlights how to create accessible tables in Storyline. The part on accessibility is at the end of the page. It is important to set a custom focus order for the table to ensure it is read correctly by assistive technology.

I have created checklists on how to make accessible Rise and Storyline courses. These checklists are not all-encompassing but can be a good starting place to help you develop an accessible course.

Assembly Bill 1757 will make businesses prioritize digital accessibility and foster access for all people. I completely disagree with this article but I think it is important to know about the fear-mongering being used by the other side to try to drum up support to kill this legislation. We need to stand up for disability rights...

WebAIM provides design tips that can help make web content more accessible for people with cognitive disabilities.

This article explores different ways of coding strikethrough and uses screen reading software to determine how accessible each method is. Hopefully, more screen reading software will support the scenario 1 method used in the future.

The W3C keeps a list of different digital accessibility courses offered by third-party providers. If you’re interested in training it might be a good resource to check out.

This article explores generative AI and the potential benefits and limitations of using AI when testing the accessibility of a website or web application.

This journal article explores computer science professors teaching accessibility. Only half of the 175 institutions surveyed had a professor teaching an accessibility course. The researchers also surveyed 1,857 computer science professors and found that over 10% reported not being knowledgeable about accessibility and over 60%...

This article provides tips for how to ensure a check all or undo all checkbox is accessible.

These are rumored accessibility features that might be featured in the next Mac and iOS operating systems.

I think this article does a good job of highlighting why Jakob Nielson’s take that generative AI will fix accessibility is misguided.

This is an interesting article on the challenges and opportunities for AI in accessibility. I believe that a major weak point right now is that AI cannot consistently provide meaningful alt text. It struggles to determine what is decorative and meaningful. Also even if it can make that determination it has a hard time...

This is a new law that will be taking effect this year in July. It requires governmental agencies to ensure their web content, PDFs, and applications are WCAG 2.1 AA compliant. A governmental agency can be fined for each violation and must submit a digital accessibility plan. Hopefully, more states will start to implement...

This article highlights best practices for indicating mandatory form fields.

I recently saw a demo of Be My Eyes AI and it does a great job describing photos. I can see how this can be a game changer in helping people who are blind or low vision take photos or engage with photos on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

This is a new webpage by Harvard University highlighting strategies for creating accessible charts and graphs.