My tilted reflection stares back at me as I ponder whether I’ll ever get around to hanging this full length mirror up on the wall. For months it has been leaning there next to the canvas prints that long for a nail to sit upon, far away from my clumsy footsteps.
Realistically, that isn’t likely to
This is a guest post by Maria C Lima and first published on mclinteractive.com
Website Accessibility
July 25, 2012. “About 56.7 million people — 19 percent of the population — had a disability in 2010, according to a broad definition of disability, with more than half of them reporting the disability was severe, according to a comprehensive
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Guest post from Herin Hentry, Senior Test Analyst at Planit, originally published at www.planittesting.com.
‘WCAG is not scary anymore’ was the title of my presentation at A11yCamp, Melbourne 2016 representing Planit Software Testing, Accessibility Services which received good feedback from the audience. I thought I will follow that up with an article to share with a larger
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How would you explain web accessibility in less than five minutes to dozens of technophobic writers, and convince them to do something about it?
You explain the three easy ways to simultaneously improve accessibility, search engine optimization (SEO), and usability:
Structure content with ordered headings and lists;
Write a meaningful
Useful links are an essential part of an optimised digital user experience. This includes making your links easy to understand and making them accessible.
There are two rules in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 regarding link text, also called anchor text. They deal with links in context and links on their own, respectively. This
During the first meeting for a website redesign project with my new company, I suggested that accessibility be a priority. The project manager said Great Wendy, take a look at the current site and figure out what we need to do.
The site had more than 1,000 pages. I had no idea where to begin.
Then, I
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I’m excited to let you know that I’ve just launched my web accessibility book, ‘How to Meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0’ as a kindle download on Amazon.
Here are a few links, but searching in your local Amazon should find it:
UK – http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B015DC58L0
USA – http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015DC58L0
Canada – http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B015DC58L0
P.S. The kindle version is also part
People often perceive accessibility as a burdensome obligation that’s solely the responsibility of developers or an overwhelmed accessibility specialist. I’ve always wanted to change that mindset.
During a recent contract, I introduced a strategy to reframe accessibility as a shared responsibility. The ultimate goal is for accessibility to become part of business as usual by involving
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I love to hear from people who have read my book or used Wuhcag.com and used their new skills to make their projects more accessible or meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). From time to time, readers are kind enough to answer a short questionnaire case study (feel free to request one).
Today, I’m featuring the
Alt text is a description of an image that cannot be seen by a sighted user but is available to blind users via screen readers.
When it comes to the web accessibility principles, the inclusion of an alt attribute with an image in HTML code needs to be at the forefront of the developers’s mind. They
