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November 2024

Using Severity Ratings to Prioritize Web Accessibility Remediation
WebAIM's Roadmap to Meeting the ADA Title II Requirements
Global Digital Accessibility Salary Survey
NCADEMI Webinars
Beautiful focus outlines
How to Identify Decorative Images and Boost Accessibility
Two different kinds of "focusable" UI elements
The European Accessibility Act – Get ready!
10 Simple Ways to Make Your Social Media Posts Accessible
Mind The (Remediation) Gap
Accessibility and inclusive design manual
Naming things is still a common and enduring challenge in accessibility
What Makes a Font Accessible? A Designer's Guide

October 2024

Responsive Design and Reflow
25 Accessibility Tips to Celebrate 25 Years
Web Accessibility In Mind Conference Videos
The value of accessibility annotations in inclusive design
Making Accessibility Accessible
How To Manage Dangerous Actions In User Interfaces
WCAG and accessibility beyond naive misconceptions
Alt text for avatars or user photos
How A Bottom-Up Design Approach Enhances Site Accessibility
Practical Accessibility Tips You Can Apply Today
How to identify a Toxic Accessibility Culture, and what you can do about it
Reminder – automatic accessibility testing can detect inaccessibility but can’t detect accessibility
Understanding VPATs and ACRs: Key Insights

September 2024

Celebrating WebAIM's 25th Anniversary
Introducing NCADEMI: The National Center on Accessible Digital Educational Materials & Instruction
Briefly on conflicts between aesthetics and accessibility requirements
Accessibility Is Everyone's Responsibility
Tools and Techniques to Create Accessible Accordion Components
Introduction to XR Accessibility
Understanding AccName: Part One
Dear 3rd party vendor: How to check 3rd party vendors for accessibility plus an email template
Legal Update: August 2024
How I audit
Why is reaching WCAG level AAA not recommended?

August 2024

Headings
How Can You Be Blind if You Still Can See?
WCAG's A and AA distinction is mostly academic
80 / 20 accessibility
Creating accessible digital colour palettes using the 60-30-10 design rule
Foundations: labelling text fields with input and label
The importance of communication in accessibility testing
WCAG 2.2 map by theme
The Inclusive UX Research Playbook from CVS Health® Inclusive Design
All Accessibility is Political: Understanding the Intersection of Accessibility, Disability, and Politics

July 2024

Decoding WCAG: "Change of Context" and "Change of Content"
The infuriating inefficiency of accessibility audits and what to do about it
Does WCAG 2.2 apply to native apps
Getting To The Bottom Of Minimum WCAG-Conformant Interactive Element Size
Create an accessible combobox using ARIA
Zoom, zoom, and zoom: The three types of browser (and CSS!) magnification
New Class Action Lawsuit against AccessiBe
Exploring the challenges in creating an accessible sortable list (drag-and-drop)
How to check and document design accessibility in your mockups
Why toggle switches suck (and what to do instead)

June 2024

Web Accessibility in Mind Conference
New USU Center Brings Digital Accessibility Within Reach
What does aria-hidden=true actually do to interactive elements?
Pope Tech June accessibility focus: Videos and audio
Your eight-step PDF accessibility checklist
Intro to colour contrast
Federal Court Website Accessibility Lawsuit Filings Took a Dip in 2023
Maybe Don't Name That Landmark
How to browse the web with the keyboard alone
4 Reasons An Overlay Widget Will Not Solve Your Accessibility Woes
Not so short note on aria-label usage – Big Table Edition

May 2024

The Impact of Recent U.S. Federal Rulemaking on Web and Digital Accessibility
Why are my live regions not working?
WCAG after quarter of a century – we still need more awareness
Quick-and-Dirty Accessibility
Best intention barriers (ARIA edition)
May Accessibility Focus: PDFs and non-HTML documents
Level-Setting Heading Levels
Dark mode & accessibility myth
contrast-color() is a good thing, but also solving the problem at the wrong layer
The Basics of Legibility: A Short Guide for Non-Typographers

April 2024

Web Accessibility in the 2024 Presidential Campaigns
ADA updated to include technical standards for web and mobile
Latest WebAIM's Million – some thoughts
Exploring the Power of ARIA Live Attribute in Web Accessibility
The Complete Guide to Captioned Videos
A complete guide for content creators to start making accessible content
How to test 2.4.11: Focus Not Obscured (Minimum)
Building a culture of accessibility
Images as the first thing in a button or link
Long Alt

March 2024

The WebAIM Million - The 2024 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages
10 takeaways from the WebAIM Screenreader Survey #10
Jakob Nielsen's Bad Ideas about Accessibility
We need to talk about Jakob
How to test 3.3.8 Accessible Authentication (Minimum)
A letter to my younger self, as an accessibility advocate
Improve effectiveness and accuracy of web accessibility testing with sampling

February 2024

Screen Reader User Survey #10 Results
Can generative AI help write accessible code?
February Accessibility Focus: Structure and Navigation
My WebAIM 10th SR User Survey Takeaways
Reasonable Wcag Additions
Mobile Accessibility Barriers For Assistive Technology Users
I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind
Opportunities for AI in Accessibility
Doing what's required: Indicating mandatory fields in an accessible way

January 2024

Making VPATs and ACRs More Effective in Procurement
Updated Contrast Checker
Mind the accessibility gaps – most of accessibility issues originate in design and how to fix that
Big, beautiful, beefy focus states with :focus-visible
White House is 'doubling down' on accessibility when it comes to digital experiences
7 tips for devs and designers to set your accessibility efforts up for success
Accessible notifications with ARIA Live Regions
Money Talks! Formatting Currency in Web Content
2.5.8: Adversarial Conformance
January Accessibility Focus: Links and Text

December 2023

Word and PowerPoint 365 Accessibility Evaluation Guide
Blind Leader Wins $2 Million Settlement Over Inaccessible California Parks Website
Burnout in the digital accessibility field
Potential problems with accessibility audits and what to do about them
It depends, indeed.
Keyboard accessibility myths and WCAG
How To Avoid Breaking Web Pages For Keyboard Users
How to use Chrome's accessibility tree
"An accessible website won’t be beautiful"... really?!

November 2023

Mobile Accessibility Evaluation Tools
How To Avoid Breaking Web Pages For Keyboard Users
Top 5 ARIA Implementation Errors
Name/Role/Value – Whose Role Is It Anyway?
The true cost of not prioritizing accessibility: Avoid risk and maximize product ROI
Accessibility annotation kits only annotate
Creating Accessible UI Animations
Lost in Translation: Tips for Multilingual Web Accessibility
Why doesn't AI work for producing accessible code?

October 2023

An Evolution in Microsoft Office Accessibility
November accessibility focus: Color Contrast
Use the accessibility shortcuts on iOS to speed up your testing workflow
What's new in WCAG 2.2
How to Be an Accessibility Ally
So you've been publicly accessibility-shamed
Accessibility improvements for user-agents
Give Your Site Some Focus! Tips for Designing Useful and Usable Focus Indicators
2.4.11: Adversarial Conformance

September 2023

Four Reasons to Give WCAG AAA a Second Look
September accessibility focus: Tables and lists
Inclusive Design 24
Yes, Digital Product Owners: Accessibility is your accountability, too.
Building a Core Accessibility Team: The Keys to the Kingdom
Federal agencies should not follow DOJ's lead right now
Web Components Accessibility FAQ
Quick and very dirty target size checker

August 2023

Decoding WCAG: "Alternative for Time-based Media" and "Media Alternative for Text"
Navigating web with VoiceOver rotor in iPhone and iPad
European Accessibility Act: What you need to know
Where to Put Focus When Deleting a Thing
Main-ly Speaking
Accessibility is not inclusive design or disability rights. It’s a part of it.
New DOJ Web Accessibility Regulation is a Disaster
Web and app ADA lawsuits: Six trends so far in 2023

July 2023

Updated WCAG 2 Checklist
Contrast Checker Bookmarklet
Do we need WCAG 3 (now)?
Making Numbers in Web Content Accessible
New Low in the Accessibility "Industry:" Overlay Company Sues Globally-Recognized Accessibility Expert
Create an accessible tree view widget using ARIA
Your Browser May Be Having a Secret Relationship with a Screen Reader
Resources for Procurement of Accessible Digital Products and VPAT
Become an accessibility champion by using simple mockup annotations

June 2023

Top Tips from a Web Accessibility Evaluator at WebAIM
Three key principles for an accessible website
WCAG 2.2 misses mark on defining visible focus
The problem with sticky menus that appear on scroll and what to do instead
aria-hasPopUp less is more
June accessibility focus: Videos and audio
Making a positive change: PDF to HTML
6 Quick tests you can do to test your forms for accessibility

May 2023

A New, Exciting Era for WebAIM
The WebAIM Strategic Accessibility Framework
PDF Accessibility (UPDATED)
Busting Myths: Separating Fact from Fiction in Accessible Interactive Elements
"Dear Colleague" letter regarding online accessibility in higher education (PDF)
Reading a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) or Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR)
The problem with disabled buttons and what to do instead
Inaccessible PDFs? How to know when to use HTML webpages instead of PDFs
Progress Over Perfection: The Better Way for Communication and Accessibility Advocacy

April 2023

Designing and Coding for Voice
Foundations: accessible names and descriptions
Five pieces of advice for more accessible websites
Don't Override Screen Reader Pronunciation
Establishing metrics for accessibility ROI
Accessibility and Design Systems: The Deep-Dive Q&A
Exposing Field Errors

March 2023

The 2023 WebAIM Million
Visually hidden content is a hack that needs to be resolved, not enshrined
Five tips for focus groups with people who are blind or have low vision
The search element
The importance of adding accessibility design reviews to the design process
Keys To An Accessibility Mindset
A Guide To Accessible Form Validation

February 2023

The WebAIM Strategic Accessibility Framework: Indicators and Benchmarks for Success
Senator Markey Demands Musk Reinstate Twitter's Accessibility Team, Online Features for Users with Disabilities
The Troublesome Life and Lamentable Death of Success Criterion 4.1.1
How to boost accessibility, according to The Washington Post's first accessibility engineer
How to set up an accessible page structure and navigation
Automation is not the enemy
A guide to troublesome UI components
How to Be a Disability Ally

January 2023

Creating a Community that Values Accessibility
How to Build Great HTML Form Controls
Plaintiffs Set a New Record for Website Accessibility Lawsuit Filings in 2022
Screen Readers support for text level HTML semantics
A beginner's guide to link and text accessibility
Will ChatGPT threaten the future of the digital accessibility field?
10 Ways Designers and Researchers Can Meaningfully Engage With Disabled People in 2023

December 2022

Captioning and Sign Language Interpretation in Zoom: Features and Pitfalls
WCAG – Priority of Constituencies
WCAG 3.0: are we there yet?
Designing in a colour blind world
Accessibility and MVPs
Brief Note on Description List Support
Addressing concerns about CSS Speech

November 2022

HTML Semantics and Accessibility Cheat Sheet
Web Accessibility In Mind Conference Videos
Berkeley (Finally) Agrees to Make Online Content Accessible
DOJ Promises To Resume Filing Federal Website Accessibility Reports
Lamenting Twitter's and WCAG's potential
A Guide To Keyboard Accessibility
Using Automated Test Results To Improve Accessibility
Progress Over Perfection: A Better Way to Accessibility
How to Champion Digital Accessibility: Key Conversation Starters, by Department
7 tactics that benefit both accessibility and SEO

October 2022

How Traits of Successful Communities Can Inform Our Accessibility Initiatives
Accessibility beyond the 'obvious'
Why we need CSS Speech
Representation in alt text
A beginner’s complete guide to form accessibility: the 5 things accessible forms needs and how to fix common errors
Proposed web and software accessibility legislation introduced in United States Congress
Foundations: HTML semantics
Yes, accessibility is also a backend concern

September 2022

Brief Note on Super- and Subscript text
Clarifying Color Contrast & Font Size Guidelines
Accessibility is systemic
Inclusive Design 24
Making Sense Of WAI-ARIA: A Comprehensive Guide
Closer to Ready: WCAG 2.2 is at the Candidate Recommendation stage
Focus appearance explained

August 2022

Web Accessibility in Mind Conference
New Success Criteria in WCAG 2.2
The First Steps to Breaking into Digital Accessibility Careers
Accessibility and supporting Internet Explorer
Short note on figure and figcaption
UX Principles that include Cognitive Accessibility
How Our Organization Improved Web Accessibility (Case Study)
5 heading accessibility issues and how to fix them

July 2022

Tips for Getting the Most Out of WAVE
Use Firefox for accessibility testing
What Does X% of Issues Mean?
Abbreviations can be problematic
Subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines in HTML
Research insight: accessibility of images
The Hidden History of Screen Readers
The Ballad of Text Overflow

June 2022

Using accessibility literacy to counter accessibility ignorance
Accessibility Tools and Resources for Designers
Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users
WCAG SC 1.4.4 Resize Text & 1.4.10 Reflow
Robles v. Domino's settles after six years of litigation
The Guide To Windows High Contrast Mode

May 2022

Flexbox and the Screen Reader Experience
OCR Video Series
How to write user stories for accessibility
Accessibility from different perspectives
How not to do accessible design
WCAG 2.2. and WCAG 3 Status Updates
Keyboard Testing: The A11y Enhancement to Your Definition of Done
ARIA Authoring Practices Guide

April 2022

Web Accessibility in Mind Conference
Tips for Accessible Screen Sharing
Well Color Us Surprised—This SC Can Be a Tricky Customer
Web Accessibility Checklist
Brief Note on Buttons, Enter, and Space
Why accessibility bugs are a good thing and how to handle them
How to Fix Your Low-Contrast Text
aria-labelledby usage notes

March 2022

The 2022 WebAIM Million Report
Justice Department Issues Web Accessibility Guidance Under the Americans with Disabilities Act
Windows High Contrast Mode, Forced Colors Mode And CSS Custom Properties
A Designer’s Guide to Documenting Accessibility & User Interactions
An inclusive design workflow for product teams
Overlay Position and Recommendations
Foundations: session timeouts
(not so) short note on being owned

February 2022

Introducing the Accessibility IMpact (AIM) Score and Other WAVE Updates
The social model: do we disable people through our tech?
No Accessibility Without Disabilities
Support for Marking Radio Buttons Required, Invalid
How to use the accessibility tree for a11y testing
Comic Sans is a good typeface, actually
Foundations: colour and meaning

January 2022

The crisis is real: Where are the web accessibility professionals?
Using Narrator and Dolphin Screen Readers to Evaluate Web Accessibility
Alt tag emptiness
Div divisiveness
The real added costs of accessibility
How To Hire For Digital Accessibility Roles
Moderating usability testing with people with disabilities
Five 2022 accessibility trends

December 2021

Making Accessibility More Accessible
Thoughts on skin tone and text descriptions
WCAG 3 is not ready yet
How many people with disabilities use our site?
'Inclusive design' has become so widely used that it's meaningless. That has to change.

November 2021

Microsoft Excel - Optimizing Spreadsheet Accessibility
UITest.com Site Check
Respecting Users' Motion Preferences
Understanding WCAG 2.1 Level AAA
Browsing with speech recognition
Introduction to A.I. and Accessibility Testing
The problem with "click here" and "learn more" links

October 2021

Alternative Text
New York Agencies Commit to Vaccine Website Accessibility
Accessibility Review of Online Survey Tools
Making data visualizations more accessible
Quick wins for web accessibility
Fix web accessibility systematically
Myths about Web Accessibility
UX Accessibility: How to Start Designing for All

September 2021

Web Accessibility Evaluation Guide
Accessibility testing
An update on the accessibility of conditionally revealed questions
The effect of CSS on screen readers
In Quest of Search
4 ARIA-mistakes Worth Solving
Colorblind Accessibility Manifesto

August 2021

Google Announces Seismic Change to Docs
WAVE Edge extension
A guide to designing accessible, WCAG-compliant focus indicators
Writing great alt text: Emotion matters
The first rule for using ARIA
How to test for accessibility with users at every design stage
Accessibility and SEO

July 2021

Evaluating Color and Contrast – How hard can it be?
Colorado Mandates Accessibility for State and Local Government Websites
Accessibility of the section element
There's no such thing as fully automated web accessibility
From A Colourblind Designer To The World: Please Stop Using Red And Green Together
The accessibility stalemate
Where are the Holes in your Accessibility Data?

June 2021

Screen Reader User Survey #9 Results
A Complete Guide To Accessibility Tooling
Whose nine is it anyway? (Feedback on the WCAG 2.2 working draft)
Looking at WCAG 2.5.5 for Better Target Sizes
Starting Your Accessibility Journey: A Developers Guide
Another Big Win in the Domino’s Pizza Accessibility Saga
Overreliance on Overlays is Counter to Enculturation of Accessibility

May 2021

Screen Reader User Survey #9
Show Up to Disrupt
Design for reading: tips for optimizing content for Reader modes and reading apps
Making Disabled Buttons More Inclusive
Accessibility Overlays May Not Make Your Site More Accessible
We need to talk about WCAG
Quick accessibility tests
5 key accessibility questions to ask when buying digital tools, sites or apps

April 2021

WebAIM Million - 2021 Update
Narrow Winn-Dixie Court Opinion Limits Certain Types of Web Accessibility Lawsuits in three U.S. States
What's in a Word?
Public sector accessibility regulations - common problems and how to avoid them
Accessibility is more than a technical problem
Designing Custom Focus Indicators
Inclusive teaching: audio describing your own presentations
Modern CSS Upgrades To Improve Accessibility

March 2021

Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners #3 Results
WCAG guide
Accessible Text Labels For All
Good, Better, Best: Untangling The Complex World Of Accessible Patterns
Practical accessibility, part 1: Markup semantics & ARIA
An Introduction to macOS Voice Control
Overlay Fact Sheet

February 2021

Accessibility of COVID-19 Vaccine Pages and Barriers to Individuals with Disabilities
Microsoft Word Accessibility
Accessibility auditing and ego
Sustainable accessibility
Not it! A game of accessibility hide-and-seek with technology vendors
Testing Color Contrast in Mobile Apps
WhiteHouse.gov: Beginning an accessibility journey
Improving Wireframe Accessibility: A more inclusive Design process

January 2021

Using TalkBack to Evaluate Web Accessibility
Consistency is the secret sauce of web accessibility
What to Expect From The First Public Working Draft of WCAG 3.0
An insider look at WCAG 3.0
A developer's perspective: the problem with screen reader testing
Sub-$1,000 Web Accessibility Solution
Thoughts on screen readers and image recognition
Use the tabindex attribute

December 2020

Document and Content Language
VoiceOver Preview for macOS Firefox
aria-label, aria-labelledby, and aria-describedby: What's the Difference?
Alt vs Figcaption
Content-visibility and Accessible Semantics
11 Golden Rules for A11Y
A placeholder is not a label
Weaving Web Accessibility With Usability

November 2020

Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners
Not so short note on aria-label usage – Big Table Edition
Under-Engineered Responsive Tables
From The Experts: Global Digital Accessibility Developments During COVID-19
The UX of Among Us: The importance of colorblind-friendly design
Accessibility of Content Management Systems – what's stopping us?
3D Model Accessibility

October 2020

Focus management and inert
The lang attribute: browsers telling lies, telling sweet little lies
Accessible interactions
Enabling keyboard culture with No Mouse Days
Dialog Focus in Screen Readers
An opinionated guide to accessibility testing

September 2020

WAVE 3.1 Release
How to use HTML5 sectioning elements to create useful accessible landmarks
How screen readers navigate data tables
Color choices that are accessible
A Guide to Understanding What Makes a Typeface Accessible
Accessible Web Animation: The WCAG on Animation Explained
Outsider Leverage and Accessibility

August 2020

WCAG 2.2 Overview and Feedback
UX Series 6: Connecting UX With Digital Accessibility Strategy
Accessibility Testing is like Making Coffee
5 most annoying website features I face as a blind person every single day
The difference between aria-label and aria-labelledby
Speech Viewer Logs of Lies
ARIA: poison or antidote?

July 2020

Anniversaries Celebrated
Digital accessibility legal update: ADA anniversary edition
Translating Design Wireframes Into Accessible HTML/CSS
The Ravelry Redesign: An A11y Case Study
UX Series: Digital Accessibility and the UX Design Process
Disability Language is a Nuanced Thing
ARIA Grid As an Anti-Pattern

June 2020

Introduction to Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)
Infographic: Web Accessibility for Designers
Quick Tips for High Contrast Mode
Optimizing keyboard navigation using tabindex and ARIA
Gatsby Sites Most Reliably Accessible in WebAIM Million
An app for everything, but can everyone use it?
How I fixed accessibility on my website and how you can fix yours
Building the Woke Web: Web Accessibility, Inclusion & Social Justice

May 2020

WebAIM Site Updates
Scholarship Program for WebAIM’s Accessible Documents Course
Four Years of Accessibility Data in Prominent US Networks
Embedded YouTube and Google Maps – are they accessible?
Accessibility tools for Developers & QAs
Form design: multiple inputs versus one input
Setting priorities for accessibility issues
The Complete Guide to Accessibility for WordPress Websites

April 2020

WAVE Webinar and Intro Video
Creating Accessible Forms
Blind Users Struggle with State Coronavirus Websites
Accessibility must be part of your COVID-19 response
Review of CommonLook PDF Plug-in
What's in a name?
Designing for cognitive accessibility: Where to begin
Writing my accessibility statement

March 2020

The WebAIM Million
Keeping Accessibility in Mind During the COVID-19 Conversion of Courses
The History of Digital Accessibility and Why it Matters
Accessibility Maze
Heading off confusion: When do headings fail WCAG?
Accessible SVGs: Inclusiveness Beyond Patterns
Web Accessibility Checklist: 16 Things to Improve Your Website Accessibility

February 2020

Decoding Label and Name for Accessibility
A Complete Guide to Links and Buttons
Understanding Web Accessibility Color Contrast Guidelines and Ratios
Dropdown Menus 2020: Menus are not menus
Link Targets and 3.2.5
Building an accessible autocomplete control
Could browsers fix more accessibility problems automatically?

January 2020

WebAIM 20th
Roles and relationships
Standards for Writing Accessibly
Vendor Responsibilities for Accessibility
Checking 3rd Party Vendors' Product Accessibility
My Priority of Methods for Labeling a Control
Overlays are not the solution to your accessibility problem

December 2019

24 Accessibility
How accessible is the HTML video player?
Why AI will never replace human picture descriptions
Who can use this color combination?

November 2019

Who can use this color combination?
Checklist to avoid the most common accessibility errors
Accessibility drives aesthetics
Demystifying WAI-ARIA - 18 WAI-ARIA attributes that every web developer should know

October 2019

Significant WAVE Updates
Stop Giving Control Hints to Screen Readers
Auditing For Accessibility Problems With Firefox Developer Tools
Section 508 Conformance: A Need-to-Know Guide
U.S. Supreme Court Won't Hear the Domino's Case (Hooray!)
An Introductory Guide to Understanding Cognitive Disabilities

September 2019

Screen Reader User Survey #8 Results
StrategicA11y - The Strategic Web Accessibility Workshop
Button Contrast Checker
Core Accessibility Concerns for Human Resources
How To Get Development on Board With Accessibility Testing
Renewed Web and Physical Accessibility Congressional Efforts an Exercise in Futility?
An HTML Element Potentially Worth $18M to Indiegogo Campaigns

August 2019

The WebAIM Million Update
SEO and Accessibility: Real Talk
Getting to the Heart of Digital Accessibility
Tooltips in the time of WCAG 2.1
Short update on multiple labels for
Hey Domino's, you’re not delivering

July 2019

WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey #8
Foxit and PDF Accessibility
Truths about digital accessibility
Federal ADA Title III Lawsuit Numbers Continue to Climb in 2019
Captions and Transcripts and Audio Descriptions, Oh My!
Avoid Placeholder Text by Animating Form Labels
Maybe Ignore type=search
Accessibility Participants, Managers, and Leaders
Top 5 Rules of ARIA

June 2019

Accessible Design and Culture: Why it’s Better for Business and All Your Users
Skip Links Design Showcase
How accessibility trees inform assistive tech
An Introduction to ARIA States
Target Size and 2.5.5
Designing and coding for low vision

May 2019

Web Accessibility Among Nonprofits
State of Accessibility Report
Accessible Icon Buttons
5 accessibility best practices that help make the web better – for everyone
The difference between keyboard and screen reader navigation
12 Tips For More Accessible React Apps (YouTube video)
Less than 1% of website home pages are likely to meet accessibility standards

April 2019

Updated: PDF Accessibility
Building accessible websites and apps is a moral obligation
Naming things to improve accessibility
Color accessibility: tools and resources to help you design inclusive products
Reading Order Bookmarklet
Top 5 Questions Asked in Accessibility Trainings

March 2019

Alexa 100 Accessibility Update #2
Reaction to The WebAIM Million
Semantics to Screen Readers
Collecting dates in an accessible way
Having an open dialog
The "perilous pitfalls" of Accessibility Maturity

February 2019

The WebAIM Million
The Legal Picture for Web Accessibility in 2019
How A Screen Reader User Accesses The Web: A Smashing Video
Uncanny A11y
Required attribute requirements
Why do we celebrate inaccessible design?

January 2019

Big Win for Web Accessibility in Domino's Pizza Case
5 Resources to Measure Website Accessibility
How do you figure?
Make Your ARIA Labels Sing on Key
I Used The Web For A Day Using A Screen Reader
Why Gen Z Loves Closed Captioning

December 2018

5 Digital Accessibility Myths Busted
24 Accessibility
JavaScript and Civil Rights
A guide to color accessibility in product design
How to Create Accessibility Statements
Accessibility = innovation

November 2018

Contrast and Color Accessibility
24 Accessibility
Fear is a Poor Motivator for Accessibility
A guide to color accessibility in product design
A Call for Regulation: The DOJ Ignored Website Accessibility Regulation and Enterprising Chaos Ensued
Interview with Marcy Sutton – Part 1

October 2018

Survey of Users with Low Vision #2 Results
The Role of Procurement in Digital Accessibility
Designing Accessible Content: Typography, Font Styling, and Structure
How to get started with website accessibility
The Importance of Heading Levels for Assistive Technology
Inclusive Design 24

September 2018

Dinolytics Release and WAVE Roadmap
Color-Reliant Link Contrast Checker
WAI-ARIA menus, and why you should generally avoid using them
Heck yes, accessibility - let's make the future awesome
Much Ado About ARIA
The Importance Of Manual Accessibility Testing
Accessibility is not a feature

August 2018

Survey of Users with Low Vision #2
Understanding WCAG 2 Contrast and Color Requirements
Short note on the accessibility of styled form controls
10 Ways to Improve Accessibility on Websites and Social Media
A web of anxiety: accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders [Part 1]
A Realistic Guide for Improving Web Accessibility
Exploring WCAG 2.1 — 4.1.3 Status Messages

July 2018

Updated WCAG 2 Checklist
Comparing 3 Top Automated Accessibility Testing Tools: WAVE, Tenon.io, and Google Lighthouse
Get started with accessibility: A primer based on experience
Asking about compliance? You may be asking the wrong question
The current state of modal dialog accessibility

June 2018

WebAIM document accessibility course beginning soon
Don't Use The Placeholder Attribute
Inclusive Components - Cards
How to test accessibility of emails
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1

June 2018

Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners #2 Results
Managing focus for accessibility
Gaining buy-in for accessibility in your company
Short note on getting spaced out with SC 1.4.12 Text Spacing
Know your ARIA: 'Hidden' vs 'None'
Inclusion Doesn't Stop at Accessibility

April 2018

PowerPoint Accessibility
Inaccessible technology is bad leadership, bad design and bad coding
Accessibility Forums Roundup
The Same, But Different: Breaking Down Accessibility, Universality, and Inclusion in Design
Designing For Accessibility And Inclusion
EU Directive on the Accessibility of Public Sector Websites and Mobile Applications

March 2018

Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners #2
WCAG 2.1: Success Criteria for Cognitive Disabilities
Labels Required
Tips For Conducting Usability Studies With Participants With Disabilities
How to Create Inclusive, Accessible Content
How we stopped making excuses and started improving Basecamp's accessibility

February 2018

Overly Accessible?
The new guidelines in WCAG 2.1 explained
Simplifying the New WCAG 2.1 Guidelines
Creating Accessible Menus and Mega Menus
My Accessibility Journey: What I’ve Learned So Far
How to Scale Your Accessibility Initiatives By Empowering & Equipping Your Workforce

January 2018

New accessibility 'cheatsheets' for Word and PowerPoint 2016
Responsive Web Design: Why one site can behave differently on different PCs and browsers
Improving text readability for dyslexic users with skip-ink underlines
Why you can't test a screen reader (yet)!
A Tale of Two Rooms: Understanding screen reader navigation
Small Tweaks That Can Make a Huge Impact on Your Website’s Accessibility

December 2017

Screen Reader User Survey #7 Results
24 Accessibility
Building a Culture of Accessibility: Leadership Roles
How to Boost Your Website's Accessibility + SEO
Web Accessibility: What You Say vs. What I Hear
Accessible Links Re:visited

November 2017

New Site-wide WAVE Tools
Steps You Can Take Now to Address Accessibility at Your Institution
HTML Email and Accessibility
Consistently Inconsistent: When the most accessible experience is different for each user
Creating a Company Culture that Promotes Accessibility
Planning for Accessibility
ARIA is Spackle, Not Rebar
Inclusive Design 24

October 2017

House Bill Proposes Barriers to ADA Enforcement
Trends That Exclude
The future of accessibility for custom elements
Stop Designing For Only 85% Of Users: Nailing Accessibility In Design
Don't Use ARIA Menu Roles for Site Nav
Accessible ARIA Accordions and Collapsible Sections

September 2017

Screen Reader User Survey #7
Writing CSS with Accessibility in Mind
Accessibility is not an edge case
Creating an Accessibility Engineering Practice
Do you really care about accessibility? Stop box ticking!
Fonts don't matter

August 2017

Screen Readers and CSS: Are We Going Out of Style (and into Content)?
What's New in WCAG 2.1
Best Practices for Conducting an Accessibility Review
Accessibility for the future you
How to structure headings for web accessibility
A11y Weekly

July 2017

DOJ Places Website Rulemaking on the "Inactive" List
Short note on aria-label, aria-labelledby, and aria-describedby
How to Make Your Site Accessible For Screen Magnifiers
What I've learned about motor impairment
Shut up JAWS

June 2017

Rethinking Color and Contrast
Big Win for Blind Shopper in First U.S. ADA Web Accessibility Trial
Tips for Making Accessibility a Core Design Principle
The responsive order conflict for keyboard focus
How to Make Your Website Accessible to People Who Use a Screen Magnifier
Accessibility According to Actual People with Disabilities
Inclusive Design Principles

May 2017

To ARIA! The Cause of, and Solution to, All Our Accessibility Problems
Anatomy of an Accessible Auto Suggest
Improving access to landmark navigation
Accessibly labelling interactive elements
Why headings and landmarks are so important - A11ycasts #18
How Many People With Disabilities Use My Website?
Your Body Text Is Too Small

April 2017

Designing for Screen Reader Compatibility
Inclusively Hidden
Many government websites frustrate those with disabilities
How to make error messages accessible
What is an accessible name?
How Current Design Trends Affect Web Accessibility

March 2017

WebAIM's Feedback on WCAG 2.1
Demystifying accessible name
How users change colours on websites
Mythbuster's Guide to Accessibility
Screen readers and web browsers – what's the best pairing for testing?
Web accessibility - It's good for everyone.

February 2017

Alexa 100 Accessibility Updates
WCAG 2.1 First Public Working Draft Published
ARIA Widget Checklist: For Screen Reader Testing
What we found when we tested tools on the world’s least-accessible webpage
How can I do this better?
Sounding out the web: accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing people

January 2017

How I do an accessibility audit - A11ycasts #11
Let's Talk Accessibility
Using the aria-current attribute
We're going on a bear hunt: the prologue
MIND Patterns - Accessibility Patterns for the Web
Differences between ARIA 1.0 and 1.1: Deprecations & Additions

December 2016

The State of Startup Web Accessibility in 2016
4 reasons why an accessible website is a win-win
Writing HTML with accessibility in mind
Digital Access Legal Update - December 2016

November 2016

JavaScript is not an enemy of accessibility!
Microsoft's Radical Bet On A New Type Of Design Thinking
Digital Accessibility in the New Political Reality
Listening to the web, part one: thinking in accessibility

October 2016

WebAIM's response to the ADA SANPRM
Beware smushed off-screen accessible text
a11yTools Extension for Safari macOS
White Paper on ICT Access for People with Cognitive Disabilities
Accessible eLearning Benefits All Learners

September 2016

Why Can't We Make It Easier To Be Accessible?
How to create a culture of accessibility
Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility
How to do Web Accessibility QA
5 key accessibility trends in North American education

August 2016

Three things you should know before using VoiceOver for testing
The inaccessible web: how we got into this mess
What does accessibility supported mean?
Get started with Narrator
Making Web Accessibility Great Again: Auditing the US Presidential Candidates Websites for Accessibility
Facebook's autoplaying audio could be a huge issue for users with disabilities

July 2016

Microsoft Word - Creating Accessible Documents
G3ict Acquires IAAP
Responses to the Screen Reader Strategy Survey
Using the fieldset and legend elements
Links vs. Buttons in Modern Web Applications

June 2016

Creating Accessible Web Content in Dreamweaver
On Link Underlines
In Plain Sight: Text, Contrast, and Accessibility
Accessibility in the workplace – a competitive edge
Accessibility: Improving The UX For Color-Blind Users
10 reasons why placeholders are problematic

May 2016

Using navigation landmarks
The Writer's Guide to Making Accessible Web Content
Spring 2016 Digital Accessibility Legal Update
Danger! Testing Accessibility with real people

April 2016

How to Measure Color Contrast, for Web Accessibility
Using the ARIA application role
My Post-CSUN Comparison of Web Accessibility Checkers
Do you have a role in web accessibility? (Spoiler alert: yes)

March 2016

Testing With the NVDA Screen Reader
Dyslexia Simulation
Will apps become the next disability lawsuit target?
Accessibility APIs: A Key To Web Accessibility
Be Wary of Accessibility Guarantees from Vendors

February 2016

What will it take to move the needle of change?
Accessibility: Why I got into this and why I’m still here
Monitor Accessibility Errors on Your Ecommerce Site with Scrapy, WAVE
Captions and YouTube
Short note on improving usability of scrollable regions

January 2016

Keyboard Accessibility
Making conference videos more accessible
Extensions to WCAG 2.0
I'm an accessibility consultant. Stop hiring me.
The accessibility stack: making a better layer cake
Woe-ARIA: The Surprisingly but Ridiculously Complicated World of aria-label/ledby
Section 508, WCAG 2.0, Oh My!

December 2015

Quick Reference - Testing Web Content for Accessibility
The Accessibility Mindset
Designing with Contrast
Strategies for Website Accessibility, for Ecommerce
The web accessibility basics

November 2015

Fall 2015 Update: More Delay for DOJ Web Regulations
How Our CSS Framework Helps Enforce Accessibility
HIKE: Our quick, simple accessibility primer
Mobile Browser Support for ARIA Roles, States, and Properties

October 2015

Work Begins on Extensions to WCAG 2.0
Using the aria-owns attribute
Notes on use of multiple ARIA role attribute values
Subscription accessibility update
Make your single page apps work with screen readers
Ensure High Contrast for Text Over Images

September 2015

Accessibility - beyond the screen reader
Screen Readers on Touchscreen Devices
Making Your Website Design Accessible – Here’s What a Blind Accessibility Expert Has to Say on the Topic
10 Accessibility Checks in 10 minutes
Designing for the web: Neurodiversity
Use On-Page Image Descriptions

August 2015

WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey #6 Results
Digital Accessibility Legal Update (Summer 2015)
7 Tube Maps Only The Colour Blind Will Truly Appreciate
Infinite Scrolling and Accessibility (It's Usually Bad)
What happens when you get sued for your inaccessible website

July 2015

Review of CommonLook PDF GlobalAccess
aria-live: the good, the bad and the ugly
Five Goofy Things Medium Did That Break Accessibility
How some hard truths helped us start improving the Podio experience for the visually impaired
Styling Forms Accessibly
Practicing Web Accessibility Differently

June 2015

WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey #6
The ARIA Role Conformance Matrices
A Journey Into Web Accessibility
Fear-Based Incentives or System 2 Thinking: Which Accessibility Road Will You Choose?
How to map your Mac’s CapsLock key to a NVDA or JAWS key in a Windows virtual machine
Visual design and colour accessibility
The Accessibility Cheatsheet

May 2015

Integrating Accessibility: Planning Content for Everyone
Complementing Standards by Demonstrating Commitment and Progress
Patterns in Higher Education Accessibility Complaints
Make Technology Work for Everyone: introducing digital accessibility
Q&A: Testing for accessibility before development begins

April 2015

UX accessibility with aria-label
What the canvas element means for accessibility
Accessibility and Inclusive Design In-Person Groups
iOS and Android Screen Reader Gesture Reference Cheatsheet
Accessibility support for CSS generated content

March 2015

Accessibility APIs: A Key To Web Accessibility
Taking The Social Model of Disability Online
Web Accessibility: Why it’s great for your bottom line
Aural UI of the Elements of HTML
Digital Accessibility Legal Update (CSUN 2015)
GOALS web accessibility cost case study

February 2015

Keyboard Accessibility with the Space Bar
Advanced ARIA Tip #2: Accessible modal dialogs
Flipboard – React Canvas Accessibility
The Unbearable Inaccessibility of Slideshows
Accessibility Originates With UX: A BBC iPlayer Case Study
Layout Tables Tip

January 2015

The Browser Accessibility Tree
Accessible timeout notifications
Apple are losing their edge also in accessibility quality
Accessible modal windows
Interactive WCAG 2.0

December 2014

Advanced Form Labeling
Accessible in-page tabs
Digital Accessibility Legal Update (December 2014)
Google's No Captcha Shows Some Progress
On the accessibility of web components. Again.

November 2014

Ridiculously easy trick for keyboard accessibility
HTML5 Accessibility analysis
Learn to Do It Yourself
Practical ARIA Examples
Accessibility Tunnel Vision

October 2014

WebAIM's 15th Birthday, WAVE Chrome Extension, and Free API Access
Should TEACH Act language appear in the Higher Education Act?
PDF accessibility starts with the author
Rough Guide: browsers, operating systems and screen reader support – Updated
Designing Better Keyboard Experiences
Accessible HTML video as a background

September 2014

Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners
Heading Structure For Accessibility
A Workflow for Testing Web Accessibility with Free Tools
Understanding screen reader interaction modes
Go to page 22: The JAWS aria-label with digits bug
Web Components punch list

August 2014

Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners - Sneak Peek
Organizations, accessibility, and change
The Viking and the Lumberjack
What ARIA does not do
30 days with Android

July 2014

PDF Accessibility - Accessible Forms in Acrobat XI
An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues
The Accessibility Tree: A Training Guide
How I Audit a Website for Accessibility
Contemplating "read more" links
How to be a keyboard accessibility super hero

June 2014

Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners
Accessibility 102: The WAVE Accessibility Tool
Does that WCAG 2 Success Criteria Really Apply?
3% of users browse with IE9 and 14% of users have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former?
Mobile And Accessibility: Why You Should Care And What You Can Do About It
HTML5 accessibility implementation support in browsers

May 2014

Why does WCAG get all the credit? The need to embrace WAI’s wider work
The little button that could
WAI-ARIA for screen reader users: An overview of things you can find in some mainstream web apps today
Tips for Creating Accessible SVG
ARIA Examples

April 2014

Short note on alt in HTML
Learning to Focus
a11yTips
Global Considerations in Creating an Organizational Web Accessibility Policy
A Truly Accessible & Fully Responsive Framework
ARIA Design Patterns

March 2014

Accessibility Lipstick on a Usability Pig
I Don't Care What Google Did, Just Keep Underlining Links
Notes on accessibility of Web Components
What is WAI-ARIA, what does it do for me, and what not?
The Value of Involving People with Disabilities in User Research
The Great Big List from the 2014 CSUN International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference

February 2014

Screen Reader User Survey #5 Results
Thoughts on Screen Reader Detection
Doesn’t work in lynx
Why Don’t Screen Readers Always Read What’s on the Screen?

January 2014

WCAG 2 and Accessibility Support
Loss Aversion and Web Accessibility
Window-Eyes Initiative for Users of Microsoft Office
Section 508 Refresh Projected Timing (2014)
Endangered Species of the Web: The Image
GOALS Blueprint for Institutional Web Accessibility
8 Trillion Reasons to Make Your Technology Accessible

December 2013

New WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey
Annual Disability Statistics Compendium
Using ARIA to Enhance SVG
Web Accessibility: Skip Navigation Links
Five Fundamentals of Accessible Responsive Web Design

November 2013

Happy Thanksgiving
Image alt Exception Change Re-Re-Re-Requested
Short Note on ARIA, Dragon and Standards
The weird and wonderful reasons why people use subtitles / captions
Quick Tip: Contrast Checking

October 2013

New WebAIM Website
Icon fonts and user-defined style sheets
Using the HTML5 section element
Easy Chirp 2 soft beta launched!
Using the WAVE Toolbar

September 2013

Open-source accessible mega menus
The Incredible Accessible Modal Dialog
Google's Introduction to Web Accessibility course
Why accessibility APIs matter
Updated WCAG materials
Ambiguous Buttons

August 2013

WebAIM’s Hierarchy for Motivating Accessibility Change
Accessibility Metadata Project
Semantic CSS With Intelligent Selectors
Why Browser Zoom Testing Sucks for Accessibility and Browser zoom great for accessibility
INSERT key usage in Windows on a Mac
WCAG 2.0 sceptics: should we be afraid?
How I came to grudgingly accept aria-hidden

July 2013

Celebrating 23 Years of the ADA
Learning to Love Headings in Microsoft Word
The Death Of Screen Reader Innovation and Screen Reader Failure: Innovation, Deterioration, Despair
Make Your Widgets Sing With ARIA
The blind community's fight for a more accessible Web
A Few More Words on Accessible Dialogs/Modals

June 2013

Draft BBC Mobile Accessibility Standards and Guidelines
What is PDF/UA all about, anyway?
Comparison of Browsers on HTML5 Video Accessibility
Ten blunt things I wish I could tell clients
Personas in Accessibility
Advancements in the accessibility of Facebook

May 2013

10 Easy Accessibility Tips Anyone Can Use
Motor Disability Survey Results
Screen Readers at a Crossroads
Can we track how many users with disabilities access our site?
Accessibility evaluation for web writers
Web industry urged to embrace colour accessibility
e-book: Get Started with Video Captioning

April 2013

Low Vision Survey Results
Pragmatica11y: A New Approach to Web Accessibility-Learning to Let Go
aria-controls - lack of support
Web Accessibility Lessons from Indiana Jones
Easy ARIA Tip #6: Making clickables accessible

March 2013

Identifying Web Accessibility Issues
The Great Big List from the 2013 CSUN International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference
Accessibility: More than WCAG compliance
Handling erratic behavior with AT
Sometimes you have to use illegal WAI-ARIA to make stuff work
Disabled Sue Over Web Shopping
Understanding ARIA Widgets

February 2013

Low Vision and Motor Disabilities Surveys
WAVE5 Release
Making an accessible dialog box
The Applicability of Keyboard Access
Introducing NoCoffee - Vision Simulator for Chrome
Making elements keyboard focusable and clickable
Advanced ARIA tip #1: Tabs in web apps

January 2013

Welcoming Dr. Sergio Luján Mora
Things I learned pretending to be blind for a week
Labels in input fields aren't such a good idea
Headings: Who needs 'em?
The future of WCAG - maximising its strengths not its weaknesses

December 2012

WebAIM's 2012 Year in Review
Colour Accessibility
Improving accessibility can close digital divide
Accessibility for iPhone and iPad apps
Demystifying Accessibility

November 2012

Accessibility Improvements in Adobe Acrobat XI
Yes, actually, it may be you one day
Accessible custom checkboxes and radio buttons
National Center on Disability and Access to Education Newsletter
Accessible Apps "More Usable by Everyone"
My recap of the Accessibility Day 2012 in Vienna, Austria

October 2012

How to make the world a better place: Caption! Subtitle!
Evaluating your institution's web accessibility
New plug-in: WP Accessibility
Acrobat XI accessibility features
New accessibility techniques in iOS6
Why Is Accessibility So Hard?

September 2012

Upcoming Accessibility Camps
Easy-to-Read on the Web
HTML5 Accessibility
Accessibility on the Move: Optimizing your websites for mobile accessibility and usability
Web accessibility is a mindset not a checklist
Usable landmarks across desktop and mobile

August 2012

Styles for Checking Color Reliance
Counting People with Disabilities
No, a Judge did not "break the Internet"
A New Standard for PDF Accessibility: PDF/UA
Beyond Usability Testing
An Introduction to WebVTT and track
5 Reasons Businesses Should Take Web Accessibility Seriously

July 2012

Using ARIA in HTML5
Practical Web Accessibility Testing Tools
The Captcha monster: Automatic Website Captcha Code Filler
W3C HTML and WHATWG HTML 'split' effect on HTML Accessibility?
Achieving Online Accessibility (Yes, You Can!)
Why Keyboard Accessibility isn't the Same Thing as Screen Reader Accessibility

June 2012

Four Keys to System-wide Web Accessibility
My Take on the WebAIM Survey
The Case of the Missing alt Attribute
How to Ensure that You Pay More for Web Accessibility than You Should
Accessibility Testing as Alchemy
Accessible Client-side Form Validation with HTML5, WAI-ARIA, and the jQuery Validation Plugin

May 2012

Screen Reader User Survey #4 Results
Good Examples of Accessible Websites
What's "large text" in WCAG 2.0 parlance?
A Look Behind the Scenes--Part III: Website Accessibility Isn't an Exact Science
Hiding visible content from screen readers with aria-hidden
A11y Memes

April 2012

Screen Reader User Survey #4
Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Screen Reader Demos, Research and Resources
Improve Accessibility in HTML5 with WAI-ARIA Landmark Roles
Caption Format Converter
Hiding content untangled: Hiding vs. moving out of the visible viewport
Accessible Dropdown Menus

March 2012

Accessibility Certification: The Devil is in the Details
The Great Big List from the 2012 CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference
A11yBuzz
How to Add Closed Captions to Vimeo in 2 Easy Steps
PDF Accessibility Testing with JAWS, NVDA and Window-Eyes

February 2012

Assistive Technology Experiment: High Contrast
Guidelines for Ensuring Accessibility
Is PDF Accessible in Australia?
Web Accessibility Testing: Do Automatic Testing First
Does accessibility have to be perfect?
Rough Guide: browsers, operating systems and screen reader support
Web Accessibility Policy Making: An International Perspective

January 2012

WCAG Next
Are Delay Tactics Preventing Passage of New Section 508 Disability Law?
Keyboard Equivalent of Looking
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: title attribute use and abuse
New in accessibility in Firefox 10
Accessibility and Wordpress
Web Accessibility Conferences 2012
JAWS 11 and IE 9

December 2011

Alexa 100 Accessibility Errors
Back to Basics: Skip to Main Content Links
How Expensive is Accessibility?
Usability vs. Accessibility
Speaker Information and Handouts from Accessing Higher Ground 2011
From WAI-ARIA to HTML5 and Back... or Maybe Not?
BS8878's One Year Anniversary

November 2011

Semantic Automation
Accessibility WordPress Plug-ins: what does it mean?
CAPTCHA Alternatives
The Hidden Nuggets of WCAG 2: Information Relationships
Measuring Accessibility
Accessibility for Information Architects

October 2011

Assistive Technology Experiment: Dragon NaturallySpeaking
CSS, HTML, ARIA, browsers, assistive technology and interoperability
Accessibility Survey
Fluro Colors
Before and After

September 2011

Rocket Surgery and Accessibility User Testing
Enhanced accessibility in Docs, Sites and Calendar
The Difference Between Inclusive Design and Web Accessibility
Rough Guide: browsers, operating systems and screen reader support
Web Accessibility: Required, Not Optional
Language of Parts: Accessibility for Web Writers, part 12
Resources for Mobile Accessibility Guidelines

August 2011

Infographic: Web Accessibility for Designers
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: the figure and figcaption elements
Musings on Microsoft Office: Alt Text, Save as PDF and More
Pearson Guidelines for Accessible Educational Web Media
Accessibility in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
3 Ways to Make Check Boxes, Radio Buttons Easier to Click

July 2011

Web Accessibility and SEO
DOJ Delays Web Accessibility Regulations
Updated WAVE Toolbar
Accessible Twitter is now EasyChirp.com
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: ARIA landmark support
Real World Accessibility: HTML5, ARIA and the Modern Web
A simple introduction to web accessibility
APhont: A Font for Low Vision
Addressing Accessibility in Social Media

June 2011

Assistive Technology Experiment: ZoomText
PDF Techniques for WCAG 2.0
Education Department Releases Data on Students with Disabilities
Wells Fargo Accessibility Agreement
Barriers to Improving the Web Accessibility Game Plan
HTML5 and web accessibility: is there hope for inclusion?
WAT and aViewer Updates
On using h1 for all heading levels in HTML5
Accessibility and HTML5 Block Links

May 2011

WAVE5 Technology Preview
Resources for Writing for Web Accessibility
WSIWYG support for @longdesc today
HTML5 and Accessibility
The Angst of Accessibility

April 2011

The Assistive Technology Experiment
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 Updates
Web Accessibility: 10 Common Developer Mistakes
Keyboard Traps
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: the alt decision
In Defense of "Checklist Accessibility"
Longdesc & Other Long Image Description Solutions - Part 1: The Issues

March 2011

Microsoft Announces Free Accessibility Tools and Training to Developers
Web Accessibility Toolbar 2011
Accessible YouTube and HTML5 Video
Source order and display order should match
The Great Big List from the 2011 CSUN International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference
UK Census: Why Target Screen Reader Users?
Why we should support users with no Javascript

February 2011

WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey #3 Results
AFB Announces Access Award Recipients
Dickensian Disney: not down with the kids
People of HTML5 - John Foliot
About Cognitive Accessibility and Related Articles
Accessible Web Design: Dyscalculia
6 Surprising Bad Practices that Hurt Dyslexic Users
5 Tips for Improving Readability on Your Website

January 2011

Updated PDF Accessibility Article
WebAIM's ADA ANPRM Response
NFB Announces Agreement with Travelocity
How Proper Use of Headings Will Make Your Website More Accessible
25 Tips for Making Your Website More Accessible
20 Essential Tools and Tips to an Accessible Website
Top Posts of 2010 from Accessibility Forum 2.0 Blog
Programmatically Determined
HTML5 Accessibility

December 2010

WebAIM's 2010 Year In Review
WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey
Alt Text Decision Tree
I Don't Want to Read More or Click Here
Make those links clickable, please!
Title Junk
Are Your HTML Emails Accessible?

November 2010

WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey
The Ghosts of ARIA Present and Future
Blind advocates allege Penn State services not blind friendly
A better way to author alternate text
A more accessible HTML5 video player
Using the HTML title attribute
Beware of -webkit-text-size-adjust:none
Survey of Mature Internet Users
An HTML5 plus ARIA "Sanity Check": Working Around Bugs in AT

October 2010

Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility
Meeting WCAG 2.0 with Flash
10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn't Commit
Is Hiding Text with CSS Bad for Accessibility with SEO?
End Hover Abuse
Color Blindness Myths and Misunderstandings
HTML5 Accessibility

September 2010

WebAIM Aids eBay Accessibility Efforts
WAI-ARIA Revised and Ready for Last Call Working Draft Review
21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act passes U.S. Congress
Examples of Longdesc
You can't reliably detect screen readers
10 Tools for Evaluating Accessibility
Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster with Top Aligned Labels

August 2010

Updated PowerPoint Accessibility Article
Giz Explains: How Blind People See the Internet
Developing an Accessible Star Ratings Widget
Accessing Drop Downs
What should be the minimum / maximum length of alternate text?
Web accessibility for cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties
Accessible ARIA Tabs

July 2010

Javascript as an accessibility concern
Dept. of Justice Considers Web for ADA
The ADA and the Web: Concerns and Misconceptions
Say No to noscript
Ten Common Accessibility Problems
Should photos in photo-sharing sites have alternate text?

June 2010

Future Web Accessibility Series: SVG, Canvas, and Updates
A Simple Way to Caption YouTube
Flash Techniques for WCAG 2.0
HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives
Writing text alternatives for maps

May 2010

Microsoft Word Accessibility
Future Web Accessibility Blog Series
Plain Language is Not Dumbing the Language Down
Kill Accessibility
If you use the accesskey attribute, specify unique values

April 2010

Future Web Accessibility: HTML5 <video>
WAVE5 Development Begins
Built-in or bolt-on accessibility
HTML5 and the myth of WAI-ARIA redundance
Using the lang attribute makes a difference
Creating Accessible Links in PDF's
Do we need a new game plan to make the Web accessible?

March 2010

CSUN 2010 Presentations
Section 508/255 Draft Guidelines
Hydraulics Could Enable Full Screen Braille Display
AOL Selects The Paciello Group to Enhance Accessibility of Dynamic Web Applications
When More is Less
Web Axe's CSUN Roundup

February 2010

Web Accessibility Preferences
Upcoming WebAIM events
GOALS Action Paper
The Serotek Ultimatum
Update on the Section 508 / Section 255 Guidelines
Winter Olympics Web Site Not Accessible
Resources on cognitive web accessibility research
What is Unclear About Captioning?

January 2010

Updated Section 508 Checklist
WAVE Dreamweaver Extension
Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility
Jack Pickard Remembered
Fangs - the screen reader emulator
Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites
Accessible HTML5 Video with JavaScripted captions

December 2009

Web accessibility no longer an afterthought
Accessibility: How Many Disabled Web Users Are There?
Cognitive Accessibility and WAVE - K-12 field test
An Idiot's Guide To Accessible Website Design
Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility
JAWS ate my tables
10 Simple Web Accessibility Tips You Can Do Today
How to Maintain the Accessibility of Your Site

November 2009

Reflections on 10 Years
Transparency without Accessibility
NVDA release
New Accessibility in Firefox
One a Day Guidelines to Accessibility
Google Adds Automated Captions

October 2009

Screen Reader User Survey Results
Google Wave Preview Accessibility Review
Accessibility at Google
Captioning YouTube Videos and Providing Accessible Controls
Why Web Accessibility Efforts Fail

September 2009

Screen Reader User Survey
Accessible Twitter Wins Award
Keyboard accessibility - basic steps towards a more usable and accessible site
Google Chrome Frame - accessibility black hole
Are PDF's More Important Than Web Accessibility?

August 2009

Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility
Fall Web Accessibility Events
Readability: An arc90 Laboratory Experiment
Accessibility Jargon Decoded
Web Accessibility Tools List

July 2009

Overview of WebAIM Cognitive Research
WAVE Survey
Obama to Sign UN Treaty
WebAIM Blog: WCAG 2.0 and Link Colors
Where is the business case for accessibility?
Just how accessible is SVG?
The Inclusion Principle

June 2009

WebAIM blog: Screen Reader Testing is Back in Style
WebAIM blog: Working in Web Accessibility
Introducing The Open Web Education Alliance
Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities
Purpose of the summary Attribute
Making compromises for accessibility
The debate over page zooming vs. text scaling

May 2009

Using NVDA to Evaluate Web Accessibility
WAVE Available in Spanish
InterAct Translations and Localizations
Institutional indicators for web accessibility in postsecondary education
Gez Lemon Interview & ARIA
Jared Smith of WebAIM - Interview
Seven Tips for Designing for Older Users
Even Grounds blog series on disability and accessibility

April 2009

Accessibility Blog Roundup II
Twitter Accessibility Roundup
Updated WAVE Toolbar
Do Not Create Empty Links
How to Use NVDA and Firefox to Test Your Web Pages for Accessibility
The Paciello Group webinars on PDF Forms and Flash
Patterns for WAI-ARIA landmark roles in existing HTML

March 2009

Screen Reader Survey Updates
New WAVE Version Released
WebAIM/TPG Partnership
Accessibility to the Face
Hiding Content for Screen Readers
NVDA - a Free, Open Source Screen Reader
Leveling the Playing Field: We're all Differently Abled

February 2009

Responses to WebAIM's screen reader survey
WAI-ARIA Last Call, and Safari 4
NFB Files Lawsuit Against Law School Admissions Council (LSAC)
Project GOALS seeks input
Accessible Twitter
Twitter Focus

January 2009

Screen Reader Survey Results
WCAG 2.0 Checklist
Color Contrast Checker
15 Tools If You Are (Not) Colorblind
Headings, heading hierarchy, and document outlines
Requiring the alt Attribute in HTML5

December 2008

Screen Reader Survey
WCAG 2.0 Finalized
Color Contrast Tools
Ten Tips for Creating Usable and Accessible PDFs
Making Google Maps more Accessible
Developing Accessible Widgets Using ARIA

November 2008

New Accessibility Quick References
WAVE Translation Project Begins
WCAG 2.0: Proposed Recommendation Status
Designing for Dyslexics
Is Your (Website's) Underwear Showing?
Accessibility: Making Video and Audio Usable For The Deaf
Wordpress and Accessibility

October 2008

Accessibility of Rich Internet Applications
Updated ARIA Accessibility Toolbar
Multiple Form Labels and Screen Readers
Javascript and screen readers
Linkification, part II

September 2008

Update on WAVE
WebAIM to Present at Accessing Higher Ground
Target, YouTube, Fangs, and More
Contrast Analyser, Version 2.1
Legacy defeats consistency in IE 8's Web 2.0 accessibility effort
Creating an accessible yet sexy search box with CSS

August 2008

Web Accessibility Gone Wild
Target lawsuit settled
Freedom Machines to air Sept. 9
GOALS Survey
Assistive Technology: a video tour of accessibility
Deafness and the User Experience

July 2008

Steppingstones Literature Review Summary
The Survey, 2008
Social Accessibility - Threes a Crowd?
Opera Web Standards Curriculum
Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes

June 2008

Update on ADA
Web 2.0 Webinar
The Accessibility Checklist I Vowed I'd Never Write
Migrating from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0
hAccessibility redux?
Easy Flickr, Easy YouTube, and Easy Slideshare

May 2008

PDF Accessibility
WCAG 2.0 Advances to Candidate Recommendation
Accessibility Evaluators Aren't Worthless
Best Practices: Writing for Accessibility
Making Twitter Tweet - Using the TPG Notifier

April 2008

508 and Higher Ed.
UN Ratifies Disability Treaty
Donate to John Slatin Fund, get an evaluation
The Plague of Outline:0
WebAnywhere - A Screen Reader on the Go

March 2008

Cognitive Disability Survey
WAVE Toolbar and Blog Available
IE8, Standards Compliance, and ARIA
HTML 5 and Accessibility
Developing an Effective Text-resizing Widget

February 2008

Microsoft Word Accessibility
WCAG Samurai errata released
Bobby is Gone
Screen Readers lack emphasis
Using Standards Doesn't Make It Right

January 2008

Introducing WAVE 4.0
JAWS License Not Developer Friendly
Target.com Update
Social networking sites lock out disabled users
Creating accessible PDFs from Word 2007

December 2007

Using JAWS to Evaluate Web Accessibility
WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft
Overdoing Accessibility
Screen Reader Demonstration
A Preview of HTML 5

November 2007

Webaim/NCDAE to explore web accessibility in accreditation
G3ict Website Launched
Alt text and linked images
Tips For Creating Great Web Forms
Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation
Fieldsets, Legends and Screen Readers

October 2007

Section 508 to be updated
Will Target Get Schooled?
Colour Contrast Visualiser
Findings from the Web Design Survey
JAWS Keyboard Commands/Shortcuts
Videos of People Using Assistive Technology
A Comparative: Accessibility and Usability

August 2007

The HTML 5 Image Element
JAWS 9.0 with AJAX Support?
Too much accessibility: Good intentions, badly implemented
Comparing Tagged PDFs from Office and Acrobat
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Update

July 2007

WebAIM Work on Cognitive Disabilities
HTML 5 Draft
Web Axe Podcast 52: REL Attribute
Checkbox Maker

June 2007

WCAG 2.0
Using JAWS and Window Eyes on your Mac
Colorblind Web Page Filter
Improving Accessibility Through Typography
Accessible Expanding and Collapsing Menu

May 2007

The Great Accessibility Blog Roundup
Updated WCAG 2.0 Draft
What's Happening With WCAG 2.0?
Search Engine Friendly vs. Search Engine Optimized
Overcoming Objections to Accessibility

April 2007

WebAIM Quick Reference Sheets
Amazon.com and NFB join forces
Accessible Web 2.0 Applications with WAI-ARIA
Choosing an Accessible CMS

March 2007

CSUN 2007
Spam-free accessible forms
WaSP Street Team
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Self-Study Training Course

February 2007

Microsoft Expression Web
Oracle Sued by Blind Workers in Texas
University of Minnesota Duluth Accessibility Resources
Web Captioning
Multi-column Layouts

January 2007

2006: A Year in Review
Numeric Access Keys Fixed in Firefox
Seven accessibility mistakes you don't want to make
Search and Accessibility
Index of Government Guidelines for Web Sites

December 2006

Introduction to Web Accessibility updated
United Nations report only 3% of major sites are accessible.
User-Proofing Ajax
OpenOffice.org Impress
Firebug 1.0

November 2006

Browser Updates
Firefox: An open source accessibility success story
Click here and other meaningless link phrases
Don't Provide an Accessibility Statement
Jared Smith's Refresh the Web Presentation

October 2006

OpenOffice.org and Accessibility Part 1: Writer
The Future of Web Accessibility
The Great Accessibility Camp-Out
Web Axe Interview
Talklets

September 2006

Firefox Accessibility
Target.com Lawsuit Moves Forward
NCDAE Tips and Tools: OpenOffice.org Writer
Using the title Attribute
Text-Resize Detection

August 2006

Appropriate Use of Alternative Text
NIMAS in IDEA
Google Accessibility Search
Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
JavaScript Event Tests Part 1: mouseover

July 2006

Section 508 Checklist
PAS 78: a guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites
NCDAE Joins Access Board
The Most Common CSS Markup Errors
microformats.org

June 2006

WebAIM's New Website
WebAIM's Jared Smith Joins WaSP
Explore the DOM with Firebug
Photosensitive Epilepsy Analysis Tool (PEAT)
Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers

May 2006

Usable and Accessible Form Validation and Error Recovery
NCDAE Tips and Tools: Adobe Acrobat & PDF
Let the Buyer be Aware: The Importance of Procurement in Accessibility Policy
Build Half a Product: Is Ajax Accessible? At All?

April 2006

Web Accessibility Policies (and Pseudo Policies) in Postsecondary Institutions
Using CSS to Create a Two-Column Layout
Greasemonkey Form Help
Accessibility Color Wheel
Levels of Accessibility

March 2006

The Importance of Human Evaluation
Seven Accessibility Mistakes
Evaluation of WYSISYG-editors
Microsoft Word Fact Sheet

February 2006

Creating Accessible CSS
CSS in Action: Invisible Content Just for Screen Reader Users
Writing a Good Accessibility Statement
From the Top: The Title Element
NCDAE Tips and Tools: Microsoft PowerPoint Factsheet
Creating Accessible Macromedia Flash Content

January 2006

Accessibility of AJAX Application
Simple, Accessible External Links
Thinking Outside the Grid
CommonLook Review From WebAIM
Release of the Web Developer Extension 1.0
Web Page Analyzer 0.961

December 2005

Using Wave 3.5
Report on Wave/Invitation to Participate
24 Ways
Semantic Typography: Bridging the XHTML gap
NCDAE Bi-monthly Newsletter
WCAG 2.0 and ATAG 2.0 Working Drafts

November 2005

An Introduction to NCDAE's Tips and Tools: Macromedia Breeze
How To: Anchor Text (Don't Click Here!)
Form Help without Popups
Sim Daltonism
Character References Explained

October 2005

Testing with Screen Readers: A Hypothetical Conversation
Navigation ? Our Visitors' Travel Guide
Methods for Measuring Text Readability
Web Essentials 05 Podcasts
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta
IBM Systems Journal

September 2005

Hypertext Links
Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar
Using the AIS Toolbar
Facts and Opinions About PDF Accessibility

August 2005

Adobe Acrobat PDF
Label Positioning
The Voice of the Web
The Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog
Color Contrast

July 2005

Constructing a POUR Website
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
Communicating Error Messages Accessibly
Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force
The VIP Consumer

June 2005

Accessibility and Macromedia Breeze
Ten Questions for Joe Clark
Side by Side WCAG vs. 508
DO-IT Streaming Video Presentations

May 2005

Conceptual Framework for Accessibility Tools to Benefit Users with Cognitive Disabilities
Toward User-Centered, Scenario-Based Planning and Evaluation Tools
Validating an Entire Site
Usability Frosting for you Accessibility Cake
Spruced-up Site Maps
Mac OS X Tiger's VoiceOver
Usability Testing Without a Budget

April 2005

The Web Developer Extension for Mozilla-based Browsers
Lower-Literacy Users
More Nifty Corners
Accessible Content Magazine
Access Matters

March 2005

WebAIM's Web Accessibility Resource Planner (WARP): Resource Highlights
The 'lang' Attribute
Efficient CSS with Shorthand Properties
Beta Version: Web Accessibility Visualizer
Colour Analyser 1.0 & Colour Contrast Check

February 2005

Web Accessibility Resource Planner
Accessibility Features in Adobe Reader 7
Developing Site for Users with Cognitive Disabilities and Learning Difficulties
Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites:Observing Users Who Work with Screen Readers
2004 Survey on Access Technology in Higher Education
VIS: Visual Impairment Simulator
Accessible Technologies for All Students

January 2005

WebAIM's Response to the National Education Technology Plan and Call for Action
Web Accessibility podGuide
Designing Web Site for Older Users: Comparing AARP's Studies to Earlier Findings
Access Learning
Connect Outloud
Accessibility Evaluation Practices: Survey