Resources

Benefits & Return on Investment (RIO)

  • A Web Designer’s Accessibility Advocacy Toolkit
    Source: Smashing Magazine

    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.

    Categories: Benefits & ROI Tags: Article
  • Inclusive Design Principles
    Source: Inclusive Design Principles

    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.

    Categories: Benefits & ROI Tags: Article

Core Concepts

  • A complete guide for content creators to start making accessible content
    Source: PopeTech

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

    Categories: Core Concepts, Tests & Check Lists Tags: Article
  • Accessibility and QR codes
    Source: Terta Logical

    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.

    Categories: Core Concepts, Images, Posters & Infographics, Resource Tags: Article
  • Alt text decide-o-matic
    Source: Scottish Enterprise Design blog

    This interactive decision tree is based on the W3C’s alt text decision tree.

    Categories: Core Concepts, Images Tags: Tool
  • Alternative text in the wild: 5 alternative text examples
    Source: Pope Tech

    Writing alternative text seems straightforward – just add a description to an image. In this article, we’ll go through 5 alternative text examples found on real websites. We’ll explain why the example is right or could be better to help you make the best alternative text choices for your own images.

    Categories: Core Concepts, Images Tags: Article
  • Beginner’s guide to lists and how to make them accessible
    Source: PopeTech

    HTML lists are just lists that have the correct HTML behind them. When the HTML is correct, screen readers can navigate and read the list more easily. When writing content, lists group together related pieces of information.

    Categories: Core Concepts, Lists Tags: Article
  • Contrast Checker
    Source: WebAIM

    Check the foreground and background color using the hexadecimal format. Plus, use the Alpha value for transparency and the Luminance slider for perceived lightness.

    Categories: Color & Color Contrast, Core Concepts, Tools Tags: Tool
  • Foundations: lists
    Source: Tetra Logical

    A list is generally agreed to be a series of words or phrases that are grouped together for a reason. That reason might be to remember the items we want from the store, to share our top five favorite movies, or to write down the steps needed to complete a task.

    Categories: Core Concepts, Lists Tags: Article
  • What alternative text is, when to use it, and how to write great alt text
    Source: Pope Tech

    Alternative text describes an image for users with visual disabilities. Every image needs an HTML alt attribute even if it’s empty, but not every image needs alternative text.

    Categories: Core Concepts, Images

Documents

  • Accessibility and QR codes
    Source: Terta Logical

    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.

    Categories: Core Concepts, Images, Posters & Infographics, Resource Tags: Article
  • Accessible PowerPoints
    Source: Greate Lakes ADA Center

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

    Categories: Documents & Presentations, PowerPoint Tags: Video
  • Accessible Word Documents
    Source: Great Lakes ADA Center

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

    Categories: Documents & Presentations, Word Tags: Video
  • Creating Accessible and Inclusive Presentations
    Source: Accessibility Talks

    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.

    Categories: Documents & Presentations, PowerPoint, Presentations Tags: Video
  • Why GOV.UK content should be published in HTML and not PDF
    Source: GOV.UK: Government Digital Service

    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.

    Categories: Documents & Presentations, PDF Tags: Article
  • Word and PowerPoint Accessibility Evaluation Guide
    Source: WebAIM

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

    Categories: Documents & Presentations, PowerPoint, Word Tags: Video

E-Learning & Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

  • Canvas’s Built-in Accessibility Checker Demo (Video)
    Source: Pope Tech

    A demonstration of Canvas’s Accessibility Checker.

    Categories: E-Learning & UDL, Tests & Check Lists Tags: Video
  • How to create accessible Canvas courses
    Source: Pope Tech

    Using accessibility design strategies when creating or updating Canvas courses means all your students have equal access to learning materials and resources. It removes barriers and frustration for students with disabilities letting them navigate and use your course.

    Categories: E-Learning & UDL, Resource Tags: Article
  • Making Math Accessible
    Source: TPGi

    When creating math content for digital consumption, the information, structure, and relationships that are conveyed visually need to be programmatically determinable.

    Categories: E-Learning & UDL Tags: Article

Mobile App

Mobile Device

Multimedia

  • How to create audio descriptions for accessible YouTube videos
    Source: PopeTech

    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.

    Categories: Audio Description, Multimedia Tags: Article
  • The Complete Guide to Captioned Videos
    Source: Meryl.net

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

    Categories: Captioning, Multimedia Tags: Article

Test & Check Lists

Tools

  • Contrast Checker
    Source: WebAIM

    Check the foreground and background color using the hexadecimal format. Plus, use the Alpha value for transparency and the Luminance slider for perceived lightness.

    Categories: Color & Color Contrast, Core Concepts, Tools Tags: Tool

Web & Digital Design

  • A Developer’s Guide for Web Accessibility
    Source: Parampreet Singh

    “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.”

    Categories: Web & Digital Design, Web Design Tags: Article
  • Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility
    Source: Deque

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

    Categories: Web & Digital Design, Web Design Tags: Article
  • Learn Accessibility
    Source: web.dev

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

    Categories: Web & Digital Design, Web Design Tags: Article

Writing

  • Plain Language & Accessibility
    Source: Minnesota IT Services

    How writing in plain language makes digital content more accessible. Plain language is communication that all readers can understand the first time they read it and know what they need to do next. 

    Categories: Writing Tags: Article