Form design: multiple inputs versus one input Blog post by Adam Silver, explaining why splitting inputs can be problematic. A technique often used for credit card numbers and bank sort-codes, I’ve often found such forms quite slick, but hadn’t considered some of their accessibility downsides: Multiple inputs mean users can’t easily paste information in, unless… [Read More]

CAPTCHA Be Gone I’ve just heard about this product by AccessibleApps, which fills in CAPTCHA forms for you. For the uninitiated, CAPTCHAs are those anti-bot questions which try to make you prove you’re human by, for example, showing you a garbled image and making you type out the letter and number sequence contained within it…. [Read More]

Nike’s latest FlyEase shoe slips on without zippers, laces or straps The Go FlyEase trainers require no hands to put on, thanks to their hinged kickstand design. You simply press down the heel of one foot with the other, and step out of the shoe (see gif). You can read more details on how the… [Read More]

How to Communicate with People Who are Blind or Vision Impaired An article by World Eye Cancer Hope, from October 2020, which I’ve been meaning to read for a while. It contains lots of handy do’s and don’t’s: Do ask if they want assistance, and how they’d like it (e.g. “Would you like to take… [Read More]

Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization Amy Cesal guides us through the W3C guidelines for alt text for complex images. I actually learned a lot from this article: There’s a longdesc attribute for images, which can refer to other areas of the page. E.g. <img alt=”Short description” longdesc=”#desc” /><div id=”desc”>Long description goes here</div>. Screen readers… [Read More]

I’ve seen a lot of social media hype around the improved accessibility of the new White House website. So, for today’s daily frequent11y newsletter, I read a couple of articles to find out more: Under Trump, WhiteHouse.gov was a disaster. Biden’s team revamped it in 6 weeks This article looks at some of the new… [Read More]

Do accessible websites still need to support Internet Explorer 11? IE11 was introduced in 2013 for Windows 7 and 8. Microsoft dropped support for IE11 in November 2020, but continues to provide security updates. Microsoft Edge replaced IE11 in 2015. IE11 accounts for around 1.4 – 2.5% of global site traffic, but the figure is… [Read More]

Welcome to your daily frequent11y newsletter, brought to you by @ChrisBAshton. This is a special WCAG 3.0 issue, in which I’ve read and summarised a two-parter by deque. Part 1: What to Expect From The First Public Working Draft of WCAG 3.0 WCAG 3.0 is designed to be easier to learn than its predecessors. Instead… [Read More]

Apple Executives’ Bonuses to Be Tied to Their Performance With Respect to Accessibility and the Company’s Other Core Values Beginning in 2021, Apple will increase or decrease bonuses paid to its executives by a new ‘modifier’ worth up to 10% of their pay. It will be based on a performance evaluation with respect to Apple’s… [Read More]

After a week off work (hello again!), here is your daily frequent11y newsletter, brought to you by @ChrisBAshton: Accessible interactions Jeremy Keith describes his approach to building accessible ‘toggled content’: accordions, menus, modal dialogs and tabs. The first step is deciding whether the trigger should be a button or an anchor link. Jeremy bases this… [Read More]