Why Accessibility Overlays Are Not A Good Idea (https://lnkd.in/eb6MX3Uh), a thorough overview of why accessibility overlays are problematic and how to argue with business about why it’s better to implement an accessible solution instead. By Ruben Ferreira Duarte.
To many companies, accessibility overlays feels like a simple, reliable and almost magical way to solve the “accessibility problem” for … Read the rest
Category: Accessibility
Accessibility/Design For Deaf People.
How To Design For Deaf People. Practical guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who have some kind of deafness ↓
✅ 90–95% of deaf people come from hearing families.
✅ Deafness often occurs due to exposure to loud noises.
✅ Not only at birth; emerges with age, disease, accidents.
🚫 You can see only around 30% of … Read the rest
Accessibility Research
How to build and run accessibility research, across various dimensions — from permanent and temporary to situational and travel, across touch, seeing, hearing, speaking and thinking.
How We’ve Built Accessibility Research at Booking.com” (https://lnkd.in/eq_3zSPJ), a fantastic case study on how to build accessibility practices and inclusive design into UX research from scratch. Kindly put together by Maya Alvarado.
🚫 Don’t … Read the rest
New WCAG 2.2 Accessibility Guidelines
High-level overview of what’s new and what’s changed in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines – WCAG 2.2, which have been promoted to W3C Recommendation status.
Whom do these guidelines help?
- Users with Low Vision – The new criteria in WCAG 2.2 expand the specifications for visuals and improve the focus of on-screen items to enable better visual perception and keyboard
Quick guide | WCAG 2.2 Accessibility
New WCAG 2.2 Accessibility Guidelines, and what it means for you. Useful pointers with guidelines to comply with WCAG 2.2 A, AA and AAA ↓
✅ WCAG 2.1 is a golden standard for digital accessibility.
✅ It comes with 3 conformance levels: A, AA and AAA.
✅ Each level comes with its set of “success criteria” (guidelines).
✅ Level AA … Read the rest
Designing with accessibility
Web content accessibility is rarely prioritised when creating designs, and very few websites are accessible. In 2008, 70% of the sites reviewed by the Business Disability Forum were assessed as lacking accessibility.
I think there are four main reasons why UK companies don’t invest in designing for accessibility:
- Currently, it is only a legal requirement for public sector bodies.
- There