WordleBot is a shortcut that brings accessibility to your Wordle results Unless you’ve been living under a rock in 2022, you’ll no doubt have come across Wordle, the viral word guessing game that has people sharing their results in a grid on social media, like so: The resulting grid of coloured squares represents how many… [Read More]

Five 2022 accessibility trends A UX Collective article outlining predicted trends for 2022: The web will become more accessible – particularly the websites of larger companies. The SOAR report found that 62% of the Alexa 100 websites were accessible to screen readers, up from 40% in 2020. The WebAIM Million project found a very slight… [Read More]

Don’t make users switch caps letters to lowercase A quick tip by Stas Melnikov: add autocapitalize=”off” attribute to your text input to have mobile browsers open a lowercase keyboard (as opposed to an all-caps keyboard). This is well suited to login forms which ask for the user’s email address.

We’re almost halfway through January, and this is the first time I’ve given my dai11y newsletter the correct year in the name! 😂 I’ve now gone back and fixed all previous dai11y newsletters from 2022. Apologies if I led anyone to believe they’d gone back in time. https://buttonbuddy.dev/ A useful micro website by Stephanie Eckles…. [Read More]

Accessibility of Content Management Systems – what’s stopping us? Back in October 2020, I wrote about how W3C decided not to use WordPress because it was considered inaccessible. They opted for the proprietary Craft CMS instead, as “the Craft team had made the commitment for Craft v4 to comply with ATAG AA standards“. At the… [Read More]

Amazing haptic speaker lets visually impaired people read braille in midair This is not a new article, but has been in my bookmarks since May 2020. Researchers at Bayreuth University in Germany have developed a speaker system which emits ultrasound waves that allow people to read braille in mid-air. The research is particularly pertinent during… [Read More]

The world’s most accessible websites This is a study by ToolTester.com, but take its findings with a big pinch of salt. The study looks at “the 200 most popular websites in the world”. This list of sites was allegedly “collected from data by Similarweb”, but comparing the study data with the top websites on similarweb.com,… [Read More]

Fix web accessibility systematically Another WCAG 3 related post by Eric Eggert, who claims the new standard will not be the silver bullet some people think it will. Eric laments the current situation of accessibility technologies: the complex set of documents including WCAG 2, ATAG 2 (standards for authoring tools), UAAG 2 (for browsers /… [Read More]

WCAG 3 is not ready yet Article by Eric Eggert, reminding people that WCAG 3 won’t be released for another 3-5 years. The new standard is still in draft form and is subject to change. Commercial and public projects are, generally, required by law to comply to WCAG 2, and WCAG 3 is not backwards… [Read More]

On the <dl> Ben Myers walks us through the <dl> (‘description list’ – previously ‘definition list’ prior to HTML5) element. Name-value pairs are a common UI pattern you’ll have seen all over the place, for example: Publisher: New Riders Pub; 3rd edition (October 19, 2009)Language: EnglishPaperback: 411 pages You could mark this up as a… [Read More]