Welcome to the full repository of posts on Accessibility topics. This guide focuses on some common day-to-day tasks. It includes resources to help you remediate inaccessible materials, but ultimately aims to help you make content that is “born accessible” so there’s no need to fix it later.
Each entry includes:
- Issue: A description the issue and the problem it causes.
- Who’s affected: People affected by type of disability.
- WCAG standard:A link to the relevant Web Content Accessibilty Guideline in the WCAG Quick Reference
- What to do: Our current recommended course of action. (There are often multiple ways to solve an issue.) These may change occasionally as tools and methods evolve.
- Recommended tools: An intentionally short list, curated to support the “What to do” recommendation.
Posts
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Spreadsheets
Crowded data in spreadsheet cells is hard to read. […]Read More…
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Google sites
Google Sites are free to use, but keyboard navigation is difficult to impossible when site structure is more than a couple of layers deep. […]Read More…
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Documents: PDF from InDesign
Electronic documents created with InDesign and saved and shared as PDFs are subject to the same accessibility requirements as websites. InDesign does not automatically create an accessible PDF (also called a tagged pdf), but Adobe has tools that will help you get there. […]Read More…
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Screen Reader Demo
A quick video demonstration (1:29) of a screen reader reading a web page […]Read More…
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Tables
If you don’t use meaningful language and set your top row as a header, a screen reader user will quickly lose all context for your data. […]Read More…
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Audio description
When a video has stretches where information is shown but not narrated, people who can’t see have no way to access the information. […]Read More…