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 […]
After nearly 8 years in development, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines has been finalized and has reached recommendation status. Congratulations to the working group on this accomplishment. Read the press release. For entertainment, go back and read the initial, January 2001 version of the guidelines to see how the guidelines have dramatically changed (and for […]
