What we learned from our first accessibility conformance review Hidde de Vries writes about reviewing ‘Sanity Studio‘, a headless CMS, for accessibility. Hidde, who works for the studio, started by comparing the different accessibility guidelines, such as WCAG. There is actually a different standard for authoring apps: the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG). This “seemed… [Read More]
Google’s ‘Guided Frame’ helps visually impaired users shoot better pictures This article has been in my bookmarks since the Pixel 7 launch event on October 6th, 2022. Google announced “a number of features” including:
5 takeaways from screen reader usability interviews Frontend developer Jess Budd shares five things they’ve learned from user testing with screen reader users.
Welcome to the first fortnight11y of 2023! I’ve had a nice little break from the newsletter, but am looking forward to getting going again. But first: a big thank you to everyone who completed my survey. It’s really useful knowing what’s most important to you (so much so that I’ll leave it open, in case… [Read More]
EA shares more accessibility patents Electronic Arts – the games developer – unveiled its “accessibility patent pledge” in August 2021. Its purpose is to “create a collective” among games developers, to improve accessibility for disabled players. It originally shared 5 patents through the pledge: In late 2022 they added 6 more: Finally, EA has open-sourced Fonttik,… [Read More]
How to Create an Accessible Progress Bar With React I always find it interesting to read tutorials on how to write a commonly needed component, in an accessible way. This tutorial doesn’t do a great job of explaining the purpose of each line of code, but it’s fairly straightforward to follow. The progress bar <div>… [Read More]
Do we need an Interop for assistive technologies? Hidde de Vries writes about Interop 2022: a collaborative initiative shared by the major browser vendors to solve the 15 top browser compatibility issues. These include areas like cascade layers, CSS color spaces, scrolling behaviour, and so on. Hidde would like to see an equivalent of this but… [Read More]
EA shares more accessibility patents Electronic Arts – the games developer – unveiled its “accessibility patent pledge” in August 2021. Its purpose is to “create a collective” among games developers, to improve accessibility for disabled players. It originally shared 5 patents through the pledge: In late 2022 they added 6 more: Finally, EA has open-sourced Fonttik,… [Read More]
Welcome to the first week11y of 2023! I’ve had a nice little break from the newsletter, but am looking forward to getting going again. But first: a big thank you to everyone who completed my survey. It’s really useful knowing what’s most important to you (so much so that I’ll leave it open, in case… [Read More]
colorandcontrast.com This is a very deep dive into colour, contrast, and how people differ in how they see things. It has interactive examples throughout, which really help to illustrate the concepts. Definitely one worth a bookmark. It begins with the biology of the eye, before going into colour vision and visual impairments, and different vision… [Read More]
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