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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Captions & Transcripts (live)
A virtual event held on a platform that doesn’t provide captioning is inaccessible to people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. […]Read More…
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How to: Screen readers
How to activate a screen reader on your computer, phone or tablet, plus our favorite screen reader cheat sheet. […]Read More…
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How to: Keyboard navigation
Checking that a page can be navigated without a mouse is one of the easiest accessibility tests you can do. It ensures that people who need to – or prefer to – navigate the web with their keyboard can get to the functionalities they need. […]Read More…
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How to: Color contrast checker
We like the WebAIM color contrast checker because it includes an eyedropper tool that lets you sample colors from a graphic or image before you upload it to the web. […]Read More…
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Documents (PDF)
The PDF format was created to preserve formatting in print documents. PDFs created from scanned or inaccessible documents are nothing more than full-page pictures of text. They need to be “tagged” in order to make them accessible. […]Read More…