Resources

A collection of strategies and selling points to help you encourage and advocate for accessibility in your place of work, including useful scripts you can use as starting points.

Diverse Abilities and Barriers explores the wide diversity of abilities. It highlights some accessibility barriers that people experience because of inaccessible digital technology. The examples given are not a complete list of all disabilities or barriers.
From: How People with Disabilities Use the Web

Gaining buy-in for accessibility can be challenging due to common myths and misunderstandings. For many, accessibility remains a big mystery. Here are some practical techniques for winning stakeholder support.

Inclusive Design Principles are about putting people first. These principles are intended to give anyone involved in the design and development of websites and applications a broad approach to inclusive design.

These user stories represent the experiences of some people with disabilities. They do not address all disabilities or all impacts faced by people with disabilities. These and other disabilities may be present from birth or may develop as a results of an accident, illness, or aging.
From: How People with Disabilities Use the Web

Explore each of the POUR principles

An introduction to some of the tools and techniques that people with disabilities use to interact with digital technology — browser settings, text-to-speech, speech recognition, and many more. The examples given are not a complete list of all the ways that people interact with digital technology.
From: How People with Disabilities Use the Web

Amy Albin (she/her), a member of Vispero’s Human Resources team, an industrial/organizational psychologist and a blind JAWS user, will present reasons for making your software offerings accessible to users with and without disabilities.

Quick Response (QR) codes are graphics that can be scanned to direct people online to complete an action or find content. This blog post explores considerations and provides guidance for creating accessible experiences with QR codes.

Learn about creating accessible PowerPoint presentations that ensure information is accessible to individuals of all abilities

This presentation explores the key principles, techniques, and tools needed to make your documents accessible to all.

The presentation covers accessibility definitions, standards, and guidelines and then shares practical tips and examples to help make presentation slide decks and presentations more accessible.

To check and fix PDF accessibility issues, you’ll need certain knowledge and tools. A common software is Adobe Acrobat Pro, which has all the tools needed to make a PDF accessible. In this article, we’ll review the tools and steps you can take with Adobe Acrobat Pro to check and fix PDF accessibility issues.

We look at some general background on PDFs and accessibility, tools for checking and remediation PDF accessibility issues and what some of those are related to document structure, using Acrobat Pro as our main tool.

We look at page structure, navigation, forms, and browser-native PDF Reader (where all your hard work in making your PDF accessible can come undone).

PDF documents on the web can be made accessible if the proper techniques are applied – but even then, there are some things to watch out for. TPGi’s Principal Technical Writer, Ricky Onsman, highlights some problems and solutions.

PDFs are harder to find, use, and maintain. More importantly, unless created with sufficient care PDFs can often be bad for accessibility and rarely comply with open standards.

A guide to automated and manual checks for Word and PowerPoint. 

In this article, you’ll get a brief overview of what PDF accessibility is and why it’s so important. We’ll also provide you with an easy, eight-step checklist that you can use to help ensure your PDFs are fully accessible.

A collection of resources for mobile accessibility.

This article reviews how to add captions to YouTube videos plus other helpful caption information including: why captions are important according to the numbers, options for adding captions to YouTube videos, tips for writing good captions, and when to consider using a 3rd party captioning service.

Discover the ADA standards for video captions, including accuracy, completeness, and synchronization.

In this blog, we’ll give you a high-level overview of the ADA, explore how Titles II and III of the ADA apply to web accessibility, learn what the DOJ’s new rule means, and share tips for making your videos accessible and ADA-compliant.

An audio description is narration that describes what’s happening on-screen. They’re important because users with visual and cognitive disabilities need the audio description to understand the visual content.

7 Reasons Why You Want to Caption Your Videos and Caption10 Guidelines: Create Great Captioned Videos

This guide includes just about everything there is to know about audio description. From laws, to best practices, to pricing it’s all here. Let’s get describing.

Accuracy is a critical aspect of the captioning process. Not only do accurate captions create an equal viewing experience for viewers who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing, but they also ensure your organization is in compliance with major accessibility laws.

Organizations can make efficiency gains in many product categories by leaning on the VPAT and ACR more heavily as tools to gather and compare information about competing products and vendors.

A living article about VPATs and ACRs.

WebAIM shared 25 accessibility tips on our social media channels. All 25 quick tips are compiled here.

Manual and automated accessibility testing work together to find accessibility issues. Different types of manual testing are keyboard, screen reader, and zoom testing.

Keyboard accessibility is essential for ensuring that users can interact with digital content without being limited by the type of input device they use. This includes users with physical disabilities, visual impairments, and other conditions that make using a mouse difficult or impossible.

Learn how to embed web accessibility into your process using WAVE and accessibility basics.

This is a guide for developers on how to install and configure the NVDA screen reader for Windows for accessibility testing.

A demonstration of Canvas’s Accessibility Checker.

Learn how to download and set up NVDA screen reader. We’ll also go over keyboard shortcuts for navigating and reading content with NVDA.

Screen readers interpret what is on the screen. They can read most text easily and accurately, but how do they handle special punctuation and characters? Let’s find out!

Shortcuts for NVDA.

A demonstration of testing with a screen reader.

This article is designed to help new or novice NVDA users learn how to test web content.

A compiled list of 9 common signs that I see in projects with poor frontend code quality. I’ve focused only on issues that have a negative impact on your project’s users.

“By following the steps outlined in this article, you’ll be well on your way to building inclusive digital experiences that prioritize accessibility and usability for everyone.”

How to create a design system with baked-in accessibility and how to find and audit accessibility issues in our existing design systems.

A lot of accessibility issues can be already foreseen and prevented in the design phase. Save time documenting accessibility in Figma mockups with practical tips and a list of selected tools, plugins, and templates! In this article, I will cover color usage, contrast ratios, text resizing, font legibility, target sizes, form elements, focus order, complex components keyboard interactions, skip links, headings, landmarks, and alternative text for images. 

Extended Reality (XR) provides immersive experiences through detailed visual, audio, and multi-media content. When using these different types of content, we need to consider how we can communicate the same information to people with disabilities in order to make XR accessible to everyone.

How does accessibility apply to extended reality (XR) experiences? In this talk, we’ll explore the W3C’s XR Accessibility User Requirements, addressing challenges and key considerations for designing inclusive immersive environments. You’ll gain an understanding of general practices for making augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences accessible to as many people as possible!

An evergreen accessibility course and reference to level up your web development.

TL;DR: You probably don’t need to name that landmark.

Extended Reality (XR) experiences tend to focus on providing rich, visual content to convey information. But we need to consider how we convey the information in these experiences to people who can’t see them.