Amazing haptic speaker lets visually impaired people read braille in midair This is not a new article, but has been in my bookmarks since May 2020. Researchers at Bayreuth University in Germany have developed a speaker system which emits ultrasound waves that allow people to read braille in mid-air. The research is particularly pertinent during… [Read More]
The world’s most accessible websites This is a study by ToolTester.com, but take its findings with a big pinch of salt. The study looks at “the 200 most popular websites in the world”. This list of sites was allegedly “collected from data by Similarweb”, but comparing the study data with the top websites on similarweb.com,… [Read More]
Happy New Year! 🎉 It’s been three weeks since the last issue of week11y, after a much needed break. New year, new look: you may have noticed the format for this week’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… [Read More]
Fix web accessibility systematically Another WCAG 3 related post by Eric Eggert, who claims the new standard will not be the silver bullet some people think it will. Eric laments the current situation of accessibility technologies: the complex set of documents including WCAG 2, ATAG 2 (standards for authoring tools), UAAG 2 (for browsers /… [Read More]
WCAG 3 is not ready yet Article by Eric Eggert, reminding people that WCAG 3 won’t be released for another 3-5 years. The new standard is still in draft form and is subject to change. Commercial and public projects are, generally, required by law to comply to WCAG 2, and WCAG 3 is not backwards… [Read More]
On the <dl> Ben Myers walks us through the <dl> (‘description list’ – previously ‘definition list’ prior to HTML5) element. Name-value pairs are a common UI pattern you’ll have seen all over the place, for example: Publisher: New Riders Pub; 3rd edition (October 19, 2009)Language: EnglishPaperback: 411 pages You could mark this up as a… [Read More]
Accessibility monitoring of public sector websites and mobile apps 2020-2021 This report details how the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) monitored around 600 public sector websites for accessibility issues over almost two years. They tested based on the EN 301 549 standard, version 2.1.2, which maps closely to WCAG 2.1 accessibility levels A and… [Read More]
Dyslexic Myths Presented as Truths Gareth Ford Williams writes about the Smashing Magazine article Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website, which I covered in dai11y 13/12/2021. He is highly critical of it, both here and as a comment on the article itself, for the following reasons. Firstly, the entire concept of a ‘dyslexia mode’… [Read More]
How many people with disabilities use our site? Hidde Devries writes the one article that you’ll want to direct people to whenever they ask that question. Implicitly, the person who asked that question is trying to find the return on investment. Hidde asks “what will we do with that data? What if it is a… [Read More]
Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website Smashing Magazine article by John C Barstow. I thought this was going to be one of those “choose a dyslexic-friendly font” type article, but it covers a lot more than that! According to John, “research shows that standard fonts like Helvetica and Times New Roman are just as… [Read More]
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