Benefits & Return on Investment (RIO)
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Alt text decide-o-matic
Source: Scottish Enterprise Design blog
This interactive decision tree is based on the W3C’s alt text decision tree.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Accessible PowerPoints
Source: Greate Lakes ADA Center
Learn about creating accessible PowerPoint presentations that ensure information is accessible to individuals of all abilities
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Canvas’s Built-in Accessibility Checker Demo (Video)
Source: Pope Tech
A demonstration of Canvas’s Accessibility Checker.
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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.
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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
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The Ultimate Mobile Accessibility Resource Guide
Source: Mark Steadman
A collection of resources for mobile accessibility.
Categories: Mobile Device Tags: Article
Mobile Device
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The Ultimate Mobile Accessibility Resource Guide
Source: Mark Steadman
A collection of resources for mobile accessibility.
Categories: Mobile Device Tags: Article
Multimedia
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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.
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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
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A beginner’s guide to manual accessibility testing
Source: Pope Tech
Automated testing can’t find every issue. This guide provides more details on how to manually text websites.
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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 -
Canvas’s Built-in Accessibility Checker Demo (Video)
Source: Pope Tech
A demonstration of Canvas’s Accessibility Checker.
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How screen readers read special characters: an update
Source: Eleven Ways
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!
Categories: Tests & Check Lists Tags: Article
Tools
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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
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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.
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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
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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