ProPublica experiments with ultra-accessible plain language in stories about people with disabilities News organisation ProPublica ‘translated’ one of their articles into plain language, in an effort to be more accessible to people with intellectual/developmental disabilities. Here’s the original article: People with Developmental Disabilities Were Promised Help. Instead, They Face Delays and Denials. And here’s the… [Read More]
Accessibility auditing and ego A very popular article among a11y newsletters at the moment. Eric Bailey reminds us that WCAG is a standard, that sets “objective criteria for what is and is not accessible”. In other words, you might hate the design of a website, but it might conform to all WCAG criteria. Don’t creatively… [Read More]
Form design: multiple inputs versus one input Blog post by Adam Silver, explaining why splitting inputs can be problematic. A technique often used for credit card numbers and bank sort-codes, I’ve often found such forms quite slick, but hadn’t considered some of their accessibility downsides: Multiple inputs mean users can’t easily paste information in, unless… [Read More]
Infinite Scroll: What Is It Good For? Article exploring the pros and cons of infinite scroll. The pros were simply “seamless mobile scrolling” and “serendipitous browsing”. The cons were numerous: Could contribute to social media addiction. Might make sidebars and other content inaccessible to assistive technology users. Makes footers impossible to reach. Causes users to… [Read More]
The Readability Group – Survey The Readability Group is a collection of experts in design and accessibility. Their mission is to “optimise typographic accessibility by providing expert advice based on data, not anecdote”. Essentially, they want to gather real user feedback on the readability of typography. Please take around twenty minutes of time to contribute… [Read More]
Glove translates sign language in real-time – ’99 percent recognition rate’ A Daily Express article from last summer. Bioengineers at the University of California have developed a glove that can translate sign language into speech in real-time, using an accompanying smartphone app. The glove has thin sensors running to the fingertips, which can detect motions…. [Read More]
Form design: multiple inputs versus one input Blog post by Adam Silver, explaining why splitting inputs can be problematic. A technique often used for credit card numbers and bank sort-codes, I’ve often found such forms quite slick, but hadn’t considered some of their accessibility downsides: Multiple inputs mean users can’t easily paste information in, unless… [Read More]
We begin with some special WCAG 3.0 coverage, in which I’ve read and summarised a two-parter by deque. Part 1: What to Expect From The First Public Working Draft of WCAG 3.0 WCAG 3.0 is designed to be easier to learn than its predecessors. Instead of ‘success criteria’, we have ‘outcomes’. The former concern the… [Read More]
I’ve seen a lot of social media hype around the improved accessibility of the new White House website. So I read a couple of articles to find out more: Under Trump, WhiteHouse.gov was a disaster. Biden’s team revamped it in 6 weeks This article looks at some of the new features of whitehouse.gov. There’s a… [Read More]
CAPTCHA Be Gone I’ve just heard about this product by AccessibleApps, which fills in CAPTCHA forms for you. For the uninitiated, CAPTCHAs are those anti-bot questions which try to make you prove you’re human by, for example, showing you a garbled image and making you type out the letter and number sequence contained within it…. [Read More]
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