Usability Testing with People with Disabilities Knowbility.org – a nonprofit org based in Texas, serving globally – has an “AccessWorks database” of hundreds of people with disabilities including blindness, deafness, mobility impairments and cognitive disabilities. You can hire these volunteers to help with usability testing your website. Knowbility works as the go-between, negotiating the quote… [Read More]
This week is a resources special, covering tools, training and libraries that have landed in my inbox recently! Web Accessibility by Google This is a free Udacity course, aimed at giving “advanced” skills to developers over a span of approximately 2 weeks. It covers developing for screen readers, semantic markup, and managing focus, with material… [Read More]
Giving a damn about accessibility A useful resource for advocates, created by accessibility professional Sheri Byrne-Haber in partnership with UX Collective. The handbook (PDF – 13.3 MB) is beautifully illustrated throughout its 49 pages, and covers the different ‘people challenges’ you will face as an accessibility advocate, and how to overcome them: People who are… [Read More]
frequent11y returns, after my first trip back to the USA in almost 3 years! Their bionic eyes are now obsolete and unsupported A worrying look at retinal implants provided by Second Sight, which has been in financial difficulty and no longer supports the products. In the early 2000’s, the company produced the Argus I implant,… [Read More]
Their bionic eyes are now obsolete and unsupported A worrying look at retinal implants provided by Second Sight, which has been in financial difficulty and no longer supports the products. In the early 2000’s, the company produced the Argus I implant, and a second generation Argus II later. The former has a 16 electrode array,… [Read More]
Carousels: No one likes you Joni Halabi gives a breakdown of why carousels are terrible, and why website owners must stop asking developers to build them. The points are pretty conclusive. For one, apparently just 1% of users interact with carousels, and of that tiny percentage, the overwhelming majority simply click on the first slide…. [Read More]
frequent11y returns, after my first trip back to the USA in almost 3 years! Wordle has a colour-blind mode: Here’s how to activate it Did you know that the viral online game Wordle has a mode aimed at colour-blind users? To activate it, go to the settings dial and enable the “high contrast mode” toggle…. [Read More]
Your (almost) weekly frequent11y newsletter, brought to you by @ChrisBAshton. Advance warning: I’m on holiday next week, so the next edition will appear on Friday 25th March! Giving a damn about accessibility A useful resource for advocates, created by accessibility professional Sheri Byrne-Haber in partnership with UX Collective. The handbook (PDF – 13.3 MB) is… [Read More]
Are we live? Scott O’Hara dives deep into ARIA live in this technical post, detailing all the different ways of implementing a live region that inform screen readers that something has updated: You can use specific ARIA region roles: alert, log or status You can use aria-live, with one of the following states: assertive, polite,… [Read More]
Place Your Bets: How Accessible Is PokerStars VR? Accessibility advocates from Equal Entry rated the accessibility of the popular VR game PokerStars VR. The article highlights a couple of articles written by the participants in this area, covering 360 video audio descriptions (which I covered in dai11y 01/01/2021) and VR from a deaf person’s perspective…. [Read More]
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