When there is no content between headings This is a question that often comes up: are you allowed to have a heading immediately followed by another heading, with no content in between? Hidde de Vries gives us a useful rule: “Always have content between headings of the same level.” I.e. a <h2> immediately followed by… [Read More]

Operating System and Browser Accessibility Display Modes Eric Bailey summarises several global settings users might use to change their display, the reason for their existence and the effect they can have on your website. The modes are Dark, Increased Contrast, Inverted Colors, Reduced Motion, and High Contrast. He also describes how to target them in… [Read More]

Autonomous vehicles should benefit those with disabilities, but progress remains slow An MIT report estimates that autonomous vehicles might not hit the streets for another decade. The benefits when they arrive, however, will be massive for the disabled community. In the USA alone, it would enable employment for 2 million people with disabilities, while saving… [Read More]

How Animal Crossing: New Horizons Players Use The Game’s Customization To Make It More Accessible Blind athlete Ross Minor navigates the Animal Crossing world by hearing; the sound of your character’s footsteps stops if you walk into an obstacle, and you can use noisy waterfalls and tiki torches to signpost areas of your village. Shannon… [Read More]

44×44 Pixel Cursor Bookmarklet This tool by Jared Smith is well worth bookmarking. Click it to turn your cursor into a 44×44 pixel square, to make it easier to test your site against WCAG’s Target Size and Pointer Target Spacing rules.

These volunteers are making Black Lives Matter videos accessible to deaf activists A group of volunteers on Twitter noticed that many Black Lives Matter videos were missing captions, so they set up @ProtestAccess. Users can tag this account to ask for transcriptions of a video, which over 250 people are on hand to transcribe. Since… [Read More]

How to Create Accessible Cooking Videos Article describing what to do as a content creator to make your videos accessible. It pertains to cooking, but could equally be applied to most videos. 1: provide captions, either via sidecar caption file or embedding directly into video. 2: describe visual elements via a separate audio description track,… [Read More]