Disabled Access Guides, News, Jobs & More From DisabledGo. Design Accessibly, See Differently: Color Contrast Tips And Tools. About The Author Cathy O’ Connor has worked as a senior web application designer for fifteen years in large and small companies.
She relishes the challenge of … More about Cathy O' Connor … When you browse your favorite website or check the latest version of your product on your device of choice, take a moment to look at it differently. Step back from the screen. When you browse your favorite website or check the latest version of your product on your device of choice, take a moment to look at it differently. Can you still see and use the website? In this article, I’ll share one aspect of design accessibility: making sure that the look and feel (the visual design of the content) are sufficiently inclusive of differently sighted users.
I am a design consultant on PayPal’s accessibility team. Further Reading on SmashingMag: Who benefits from designs that have sufficient contrast? As an accessibility consultant, I’m often asked how many people with disabilities use our products. Deuteranopia. Customer experience, user experience (UX) agency in London - Webcredible. WAVE Web Accessibility Tool. Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - home page. RTC Accessibility User Requirements (RAUR) Note Published RTC Accessibility User Requirements (RAUR) is published as a Working Group Note.
Real-time communication (RTC) provides real-time peer to peer audio, video, and data exchange directly between supported user agents. This enables instantaneous applications for video and audio calls, text chat, file exchange, screen sharing, and gaming. RAUR describes various accessibility related user needs, requirements, and scenarios for real-time communication (RTC) applications. These user needs should drive accessibility requirements in various related specifications and the overall architecture that enables RTC. Accessibility Translations: Getting the 'Global' in GAAD All WAI Translations now lists translations in 35 languages. For Review: Specification for Spoken Presentation in HTML Specification for Spoken Presentation in HTML Working Draft is ready for review.
For Wide Review: WCAG 2.2 Working Draft. Welcome To DisabledGo. How to write an effective accessibility statement - Hassell Inclusion. Today is the first Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD).
As described on the Global Accessibility Awareness Day site: Global Accessibility Awareness Day is a community-driven effort whose goal is to dedicate one day to raising the profile of and introducing the topic of digital (web, software, mobile app/device etc.) accessibility and people with different disabilities to the broadest audience possible. I’ve already done quite a bit via this site and blog to raise the profile of accessibility globally, especially through my popular Accessibility Myths 2011 blogs.
Today, I’m going to do my bit for GAAD by blogging on one of the subjects people regularly ask me about – accessibility statements – and highlight how guidance in BS 8878 adds to their effectiveness. History of accessibility statements and accessibility policy statements Accessibility statements have been around for years. Who is an accessibility statement for? The grand words are fine, if a little generic. I’ll use an analogy. The Paciello Group. David Sloan. Hi!
I’m David Sloan. I’m an Accessible User Experience Engineer with The Paciello Group. I joined TPG in May 2013; before then I spent nearly 14 years as a researcher working in the School of Computing at the University of Dundee in Scotland. This is my personal blog, and as such the views expressed here are my own and not that of my employer. My area of interest I’d describe as inclusive interaction design – which covers web and software accessibility;web standards;user-centred design;user experience design. I fit in the gap between user and creator, and try to promote an understanding of the diversity of user needs in the design of technology, and how that can positively influence all stages of the design and development process.
When I was at Dundee University, I filled quite a hybrid role. Like this: Like Loading... Blog and podcast on web accessibility. Paciello Group Blog. WebAIM. STC AccessAbility SIG.