These are my notes, which I wrote while attending the BBC’s “Wednesday 19th May: Motion” event to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day (which is Thursday 20th May). There were a range of speakers in the 1-hour session. The BBC are running sessions all week, so it’s worth signing up for the others! Vivek Gohil, is… [Read More]

These are my notes, which I wrote while attending the BBC’s “Tuesday 18th May: Vision” event to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day (which is Thursday 20th May). There were a range of speakers in the 1-hour session. The BBC are running sessions all week, so it’s worth signing up for the others! Talk by Molly… [Read More]

These are my notes, which I wrote while attending the BBC’s “Monday 17th May: Hearing” event to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day (which is Thursday 20th May). There were a range of speakers in the 1-hour session. The BBC are running sessions all week, so it’s worth signing up for the others! Keynote from Jenny… [Read More]

Shifting left: how introducing accessibility earlier helps the BBC’s design system Sophie Beaumont writes about working on the BBC’s design system. A team had hoped to re-use one of the existing components in a new feature they were building, because it matched their visual design. However, on closer inspection, the underlying HTML semantics were unsuitable… [Read More]

What Is It Like to Use a Screen Reader? Anthony Vasquez shares some things you may not know about how some people use screen readers. The article is a follow-up to a Screen Readers in the Wild seminar. Some video demonstrations from the seminar are linked below: Using JAWS to find a video on YouTube… [Read More]

Wix Launches First of Its Kind Accessibility Tool to Help Make The Web Accessible for Everyone Wix is a popular platform for building and hosting websites, choosing from pre-built themes and customising the content. It has now launched its ‘Accessibility Wizard’, which is built into the CMS. You can use the wizard to scan your… [Read More]

We asked an expert to redesign Wikipedia – here’s what they came up with TechRadar Pro asked UK-based designer Kevinsdesign to improve the design of Wikipedia. The screenshots in the article are fun to look through, showcasing a useful ‘table of contents’ side panel, a homepage of discovery options, and accessibility and language options brought… [Read More]

Nike upsets disabled community with limited supply of its ‘Go FlyEase’ shoe You may remember the issue of dai11y where I talked about Nike’s accessible new FlyEase shoes, which were available to buy for $120 from mid February, on an invite-only basis. The shoes’ hinged design allow its wearers to put them on and take… [Read More]

Should you use an <h1> in email code? A thorough investigation by Mark Robbins, looking at the state of webmail across a dozen different providers. 60% of screen reader users prefer pages containing just one <h1> with the document title, whereas 33.3% prefer two <h1> headings, for the site name and the title. Given a preference for… [Read More]

WebAIM Million – 2021 Update This is an annual report that uses the WAVE web accessibility testing tool to analyse the homepages of the top 1 million websites. Compared to last year: The number of detectable accessibility errors dropped from 60.9 to 51.4. The number of DOM elements in the page has increased from 864… [Read More]