Game Demos Need to Come Back For Many Reasons, Especially for Accessibility Thought-provoking article by Ben Bayliss, describing how game demos were a great vehicle for testing a game’s accessibility before purchasing the game. Demos used to come on a disc bundled with PlayStation Official Magazine (and others), but in the digital era are increasingly… [Read More]
a11ymyths.com (Accessibility Myths, shared by Smashing Magazine) Sergei Kriger debunks 22 myths about accessibility on the web, such as accessibility only being for blind users. I’ve not heard of all of these myths, so some items were added just in keeping with the format, I think, but it’s worth a quick read nonetheless, and as… [Read More]
WordleBot is a shortcut that brings accessibility to your Wordle results Unless you’ve been living under a rock in 2022, you’ll no doubt have come across Wordle, the viral word guessing game that has people sharing their results in a grid on social media, like so: The resulting grid of coloured squares represents how many… [Read More]
Five 2022 accessibility trends A UX Collective article outlining predicted trends for 2022: The web will become more accessible – particularly the websites of larger companies. The SOAR report found that 62% of the Alexa 100 websites were accessible to screen readers, up from 40% in 2020. The WebAIM Million project found a very slight… [Read More]
Happy New Year! 🎉 New year, new look: you may have noticed the format for this month’s issue is different. I’ve separated each article by heading, and mostly done away with the bulletpoint list format. The old format never felt quite right, and made things like code examples difficult to add, but it did help… [Read More]
Happy New Year! 🎉 New year, new look: you may have noticed the format for this fortnight’s issue is different. I’ve separated each article by heading, and done away with the bulletpoint list format. The old format never felt quite right, and made things like code examples difficult to add, but it did help keep… [Read More]
https://buttonbuddy.dev/ A useful micro website by Stephanie Eckles. It explains the requirements for accessible contrast on buttons, and includes a generator for creating buttons of sufficient contrast. You have the option of using a colour picker, or switching to “Use text input” mode to put in the CSS hex codes that you intend to use…. [Read More]
Don’t make users switch caps letters to lowercase A quick tip by Stas Melnikov: add autocapitalize=”off” attribute to your text input to have mobile browsers open a lowercase keyboard (as opposed to an all-caps keyboard). This is well suited to login forms which ask for the user’s email address.
We’re almost halfway through January, and this is the first time I’ve given my dai11y newsletter the correct year in the name! 😂 I’ve now gone back and fixed all previous dai11y newsletters from 2022. Apologies if I led anyone to believe they’d gone back in time. https://buttonbuddy.dev/ A useful micro website by Stephanie Eckles…. [Read More]
Accessibility of Content Management Systems – what’s stopping us? Back in October 2020, I wrote about how W3C decided not to use WordPress because it was considered inaccessible. They opted for the proprietary Craft CMS instead, as “the Craft team had made the commitment for Craft v4 to comply with ATAG AA standards“. At the… [Read More]
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