WebAIM, Opera, and The Paciello Group are pleased to coordinate and sponsor a tweetup at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference. The tweetup will be held Wednesday, March 18th from 6-7:30pm at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott in the Executive Suite 2, 18th Floor. CSUN Tweetup 2009 is open to all. More details […]
The initial results of our screen reader survey are now available – http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey/ With over 1100 responses (thank you to all that participated!), the data provides a load of useful information about screen reader user demographics and preferences. Some of the results were about what we expected, but some of them very much surprised us. […]
Along the same line as our popular Section 508 Checklist, WebAIM has just published a WCAG 2.0 Checklist. This is intended to be an easy-to-use, understandable checklist for evaluating or implementing WCAG 2.0. The language in the checklist is significantly simplified from the actual WCAG 2.0 language published by the W3C. While the complexity of […]
I decided to bring together many aspects of the various color contrast checkers out there to build one of my own that provides just the functionality that I often need. http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ This relatively simple contrast checker: allows you to enter or select foreground and background colors provides functionality to lighten or darken the colors slightly […]
Web accessibility experts often say something like, “Screen reader users prefer…” followed by some accessibility recommendation. However, many of these recommendations are based on personal preference or conjecture – often from sighted users who only test with screen readers. The fact is that there is little data about screen reader usage to back up these […]
