Explore practical insights, guidance, and perspectives on digital accessibility, including accessible websites, applications, content, design, development, testing, and accessibility best practices. This series helps organizations understand accessibility and create more inclusive digital experiences for people with disabilities.
Rachel Olivero explains how blind screen reader users efficiently navigate websites and web applications without relying solely on the Tab key. The article explores page summaries, element lists, headings, landmarks, quick navigation keys, and semantic HTML, offering valuable insight for accessibility testers and developers.
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Steve Barnett and Nicola du Toit explore disability as a spectrum rather than a binary, showing how abilities and environmental barriers interact. They explain how inclusive design practices, including plain language, keyboard accessibility, and color contrast, can make digital experiences better for everyone.
Mikey Ilagan explains how technology events can become more accessible and inclusive. He covers disability representation, accessible venues, captioning, ASL interpretation, sponsorship, and other practical considerations that help ensure everyone can participate and feel welcome.
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Florian Beijers shares his experiences as a blind developer on a sighted development team, exploring employment, screen readers, inaccessible developer tools, productivity challenges, workarounds, and the importance of building more inclusive technology that enables developers with disabilities to thrive.
Mike Gifford challenges accessibility professionals and developers to give back by improving accessibility in open source projects. He explains how contributing to issue queues, testing software, sharing expertise, and advocating for users can help make accessibility the default across the web.
Ray Campbell explores how to become an accessibility specialist, addressing common misconceptions, essential skills, accessibility standards, training options, career opportunities, and the importance of understanding diverse disabilities and assistive technologies.
Job van Achterberg shares lessons from building the local Inclusive Design & Accessibility meetup. He explores growing attendance, finding speakers, choosing accessible venues, engaging diverse audiences, and connecting designers, developers, and accessibility advocates.
Alaina Wiens challenges the idea that accessibility belongs only to technical experts. She argues that accessibility is a philosophy and an ongoing pursuit, encouraging everyone to advocate for a web that works for everyone.
Donna Maddox examines the practical challenges organizations face when implementing accessibility. She explores over-compliance, redundant content, ARIA misuse, competing requirements, and why access matters more than a perfect solution for users today.
Dennis Deacon shares his journey from front-end developer to accessibility advocate, describing how accessibility work at United Airlines, community involvement, WCAG testing, and direct user experiences transformed his career and purpose.
Melanie Myers examines five common misconceptions about web accessibility, including who benefits, whether it affects functionality, how much time it requires, whether it is optional, and whether accessible websites can still be attractive and engaging.
Allen West shares his experiences as a blind screen reader user, examining inconsistent web accessibility, inaccessible media controls, login barriers, and other challenges. He urges organizations to prioritize accessibility and create a truly inclusive web.