Everyone Watches TV with Subtitles Now. How’d That Happen? I thought this article was interesting to call out, as in my experience we still often assume captions should be an ‘opt in’ thing. But perhaps things have pivoted to them being ‘opt out’. Indeed, some captions are now ‘on’ by default on social media. In… [Read More]
The difference between Increased Contrast Mode and Windows High Contrast Mode (Forced Colours Mode) Martin Underhill describes Increased Contrast Mode (ICM) – a setting that users can opt into, and which website designers/developers can accommodate through a media query: Not a lot of people know about this, or they don’t have it high on their… [Read More]
Become an accessibility champion by using simple mockup annotations “Accessibility annotations” detail interaction design behaviours in UI designs. They communicate the intended experience for keyboard and screen reader users, allowing developers to implement the design just as they would implement a visual one. This speeds up the design QA and development process, but also ensures… [Read More]
Everyone Watches TV with Subtitles Now. How’d That Happen? I thought this article was interesting to call out, as in my experience we still often assume captions should be an ‘opt in’ thing. But perhaps things have pivoted to them being ‘opt out’. Indeed, some captions are now ‘on’ by default on social media. In… [Read More]
A Practical Approach to Automated Accessibility Mark Steadman writes a mini series on automated accessibility. In this introductory article, Mark introduces his three-step plan for introducing automated accessibility checks into your pipeline: There are a lot of different testing approaches and tools out there, so having a three phase plan for testing is a useful… [Read More]
Flexbox and the Screen Reader Experience A Webaim article that reminds us that whilst CSS flexbox can be used to change the visual order of content, it often has no bearing on how the content is consumed by a screen reader. This can lead to major accessibility issues if the intended reading order differs from… [Read More]
My Thoughts on Accessibility of NFTs and Web3 Apologies if this is so last year (this post has been in my bookmarks since February 2022, and admittedly we haven’t heard much about Web3 since the rise of ChatGPT). But this article by Crystal Preston-Watson evaluates an emerging and hyped technology for its accessibility, so there’s certainly… [Read More]
ShatGPT Steve Faulkner gives a frank accessibility review of the ChatGPT UI: Steve goes on to try to ask ChatGPT how it should make the markup more accessible, and is not impressed with the result. But I think the bigger takeaway is that this multi-billion dollar company clearly has little regard for the accessibility of… [Read More]
W3C Design System A redesigned W3C website has launched with a Design System. The design system draws inspiration from the GOV.UK design system and uses some GOV.UK-owned components such as accessible autocomplete. DAC performed accessibility audits of the new W3C website, and their reports can be downloaded from the redesign project website. Thanks to Derren at GDS for sharing this… [Read More]
My Thoughts on Accessibility of NFTs and Web3 Apologies if this is so last year (this post has been in my bookmarks since February 2022, and admittedly we haven’t heard much about Web3 since the rise of ChatGPT). But this article by Crystal Preston-Watson evaluates an emerging and hyped technology for its accessibility, so there’s certainly… [Read More]
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