Links tagged with “accessibility”
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Patterns | APG | WAI | W3C
“This guide describes how to apply accessibility semantics to common design patterns and widgets. It provides design patterns and functional examples complemented by in-depth guidance for fundamental practices.” Very handy. (via Adactio)
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A Complete Guide To Accessible Front-End Components — Smashing Magazine
Very handy collection of links to articles. (via @simonw)
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WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices - Design Patterns
Lots of different types of web interface control and the accessibility interactions, roles, states, etc they should have, with links to examples.
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Web Components punch list | The Paciello Group – Your Accessibility Partner (WCAG 2.0/508 audits, VPAT, usability and accessible user experience)
A handy checklist for when making new interface components on the web, to improve their accessibility.
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Alice Bartlett: Burn your select tags - EpicFEL 2014 - YouTube
Good talk from Alice about user research resulting in GDS avoiding HTML select tags and creating alternatives.
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DWP - Services and benefits online - What do I need?
Staggeringly shit. The service was designed to work with Internet Explorer versions 5 through 6 on (old) Windows only. One assumes the GOV.UK accessibility shock troops will roll into town eventually.
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Colour Contrast Check - snook.ca
Handy and nicely-done tool for checking the contrast of colour combinations when designing websites.
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Recent Web Accessibility Articles - :: WATS.ca
Some handy articles on developing accessibly.
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Creating accessible forms
Clear, simple, everything you need to know.