What Does X% of Issues Mean? Adrian Roselli ponders what tools mean when they claim to find up to X% of issues. What do “issues” mean in this context? He ran a Twitter poll with a few options; most people interpreted “issues” to mean ‘issues validating against the 78 Success Criteria from WCAG 2.1’. But… [Read More]
Why ‘dark mode’ causes more accessibility issues than it solves H Locke, a UX designer, talks about astigmatism, which affects around 47% of the UK population. Actually Locke points out it affects most of the population, but the 47% figure is those that require corrective treatment, such as lenses or glasses. The condition affects the… [Read More]
4 Required Tests Before Shipping New Features Stephanie Eckles shares 4 quick checks you should make before pushing to production.
What Does X% of Issues Mean? Adrian Roselli ponders what tools mean when they claim to find up to X% of issues. What do “issues” mean in this context? He ran a Twitter poll with a few options; most people interpreted “issues” to mean ‘issues validating against the 78 Success Criteria from WCAG 2.1’. But… [Read More]
Abbreviations can be problematic Martin Underhill writes about the problems of using abbreviations such as NGL (“not gonna lie”) and how inaccessible these cultural shortcuts can be. There is an official ‘fix’ for this in HTML: <abbr title=”Not gonna lie”>NGL</abbr>, but it doesn’t show a tooltip when a touchscreen user touches it, nor is it… [Read More]
A First Look at the Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act Bill The “Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act” (or #A11yAct) has been put forward to the United States Congress. If it succeeds, it will build on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Its aim is to lead to clearer regulations for digital accessibility requirements… [Read More]
‘Accessibility at the Edge’ W3C CG Is an Overlay Smoke Screen Adrian Roselli brings attention to the Accessibility at the Edge community group, hosted on W3.org. People would be forgiven for assuming that such groups are supported by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), but Adrian talks us through the process, which requires just five… [Read More]
aria-label is a code smell Eric Bailey highlights a snippet from the WebAIM Million report: Increased ARIA usage on pages correlated to higher detected errors. The more ARIA attributes that were present, the more detected accessibility errors could be expected. He references the increased complexity of ‘support’ in the context of ARIA, which is determined… [Read More]
For Blind Internet Users, the Fix Can Be Worse Than the Flaws A (paywalled) New York Times article, offering a rare mainstream insight into the use of overlays that claim to fix accessibility problems and defend companies from litigation. It tells the story of Patrick Perdue, who had been happily using a radio equipment shop… [Read More]
Are Captions More Accessible on the Top of the Screen? An interesting article about the placement of closed captions, which so often is put at the bottom of the screen by default. The author describes how they were seated in an auditorium, which tall people sat in front of them, making it difficult to read… [Read More]
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