Accessibility inception: sharing your knowledge (video, 46m) This is a Mischa Andrews talk from #ID24 in November 2017. I’ve had it in my bookmarks for a while, and am so pleased I’ve finally managed to watch it. Mischa talks openly and candidly about how you can effect accessibility change in your organisation, whilst overcoming the… [Read More]
Olay Designs An Easy-Open Lid—& Shares the Inclusive Design Olay, the beauty products manufacturer, have designed a new lid prototype for its creams, designed to be accessible. It has an “easy open winged cap”, “extra grip raised lid”, “high contrast product label”, and Braille text spelling out “face cream”. The lids are currently only available… [Read More]
National Convention Sponsorship Statement Regarding accessiBe The (American) National Federation of the Blind made a statement in June, about accessiBe, the market leading ‘accessibility overlay’ company that I’ve written about several times now. I missed this when it came out, and wouldn’t have known about it were it not for Steve Faulkner’s tweet. He picks… [Read More]
Gorillas’ nav: a case study A really interesting article by developer & accessibility advocate Kitty Giraudel, explaining how they built the main navigation on their employer’s website, Gorillas. It’s a hamburger menu style across all screen sizes, not just on mobile. You have to tap on the ‘hamburger’ to expand the menu and show the… [Read More]
Vicky Teinaki shares this tip on Twitter: “I was today years old when I found out that I can share a Google Slides presentation in html (for screen reader users and magnification users) by swapping out ‘/edit’ in the URL for ‘/htmlpresent’.”
Olay Designs An Easy-Open Lid—& Shares the Inclusive Design Olay, the beauty products manufacturer, have designed a new lid prototype for its creams, designed to be accessible. It has an “easy open winged cap”, “extra grip raised lid”, “high contrast product label”, and Braille text spelling out “face cream”. The lids are currently only available… [Read More]
Accessibility inception: sharing your knowledge (video, 46m) This is a Mischa Andrews talk from #ID24 in November 2017. I’ve had it in my bookmarks for a while, and am so pleased I’ve finally managed to watch it. Mischa talks openly and candidly about how you can effect accessibility change in your organisation, whilst overcoming the… [Read More]
Redundantly Redundant a11y Accessibility A really interesting deep-dive by Scott O’Hara, who looks at some ARIA-heavy markup for indicating that an input field is ‘required’. He tests this markup out with VoiceOver and NVDA, and finds that the auditory experience ends up being extremely verbose: “Enter your name, required, Your name, required, edit text. (pause)… [Read More]
After a few days off work, I bring you a button a11y special! Buttons vs. Links Eric Eggert describes the difference between a link and a button: A link changes what the URL in the browser points to; either a new page, or a file to download, or a frame to update the source of…. [Read More]
This is a two-article special, covering accessibility advances by Android and Apple! Google Improving Smartphone Accessibility Two new features are coming to Android smartphones: “Camera Switches“, and “Project Activate”. These features will allow users to use gestures like smiling, raising eyebrows, or looking in a particular direction, to issue a command such as returning to… [Read More]
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