Emojis and accessibility: How to use them properly Ryan Tan shares some tips for accessible emoji usage, mostly in terms of screen reader support, and covering a mixture of ‘design tips’ vs ‘everyday content’: Design: on buttons, don’t use emojis to replace words. E.g. use “Like” rather than “👍”, which could be ambiguous. Don’t use… [Read More]
TikTok Adds New Accessibility Overview To Provide Additional Support for Users TikTok adds photosensitivity warnings to its videos, and allows viewers to opt out of viewing them. It’s also educational; warning labels are shown to creators on the specific effects that may trigger photosensitive epilepsy. TikTok also offers auto captions and text-to-speech tools, and the… [Read More]
This individual shows how he lives his everyday life as a blind person A colleague shared this in our work Slack. Anthony S. Ferraro (asfvsion) demonstrates how he completes everyday tasks as a blind person. He covers the very basics (how to pour a cup of water; by keeping one finger over the rim of… [Read More]
Whose nine is it anyway? (Feedback on the WCAG 2.2 working draft) This article – which I read mostly for the terrible headline – was written by TPGi, an “accessibility solutions provider”, working with a consortium of big names in a11y. TPGi feel that the 9 new Success Criteria recently proposed for WCAG 2.2 all… [Read More]
Our development approach for accessible front-end code This guide by the BBC walks through their approach for implementing front-end changes, e.g. implementing a component. Look at the screen reader UX; ask the UX designer for the required documentation if it is missing. It should cover the focus order, the announced content for screen readers, etc…. [Read More]
Emojis and accessibility: How to use them properly Ryan Tan shares some tips for accessible emoji usage, mostly in terms of screen reader support, and covering a mixture of ‘design tips’ vs ‘everyday content’: Design: on buttons, don’t use emojis to replace words. E.g. use “Like” rather than “👍”, which could be ambiguous. Don’t use… [Read More]
How anyone can make Maps more accessible Google relies on its community of Local Guides to update Google Maps information by, for example, inputting whether a restaurant has tables suitable for people who use wheelchairs. These guides share some actionable tips for crowd-sourcing information to benefit everyone, particularly people with disabilities: An accessibility checklist can… [Read More]
DWP Accessibility Manual The Department for Work and Pensions’ Digital team has written an Accessibility Manual, off the back of some user research the department conducted. The accompanying blog post by Head of Accessibility Craig Abbott describe how they hope it will consolidate key information in one place. It is open source and accepting contributions…. [Read More]
Testing fonts for accessibility Colin Shanley shares the 3 things to bear in mind when choosing a font: Imposters: specific letter shapes that look similar to other shapes can be difficult or impossible to differentiate. For example, lowercase L, uppercase i and the number 1. The image below shows Gill Sans on the left (bad)… [Read More]
We need to talk about WCAG This article is written by Rian Rietveld (my second article in a row by this author, by pure coincidence!) 97.4% of home pages have detectable WCAG 2 failures. Rian concludes that this is a failure in the way we communicate and teach WCAG, which she thinks is partly down… [Read More]
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