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My accessibility posts include tips on increasing colour contrast beyond compliance, improving the experience for motor-impaired users, and using ARIA.

Web accessibility is the inclusive practice of ensuring there are no barriers that prevent interaction with, or access to, websites and web applications by people with physical disabilities, situational disabilities, and socio-economic restrictions on bandwidth and speed.

For example, when a site is coded with semantically meaningful HTML, with textual equivalents provided for images and with links named meaningfully, this helps blind users using text-to-speech software and/or text-to-Braille hardware. These also make websites optimised for search engines such as Google.

When text and images are large and/or enlargeable, it is easier for users with poor sight to read and understand the content. When links are underlined (or otherwise differentiated) as well as coloured, this ensures colour blind users will be able to notice them. When clickable links and areas are large, this helps users who cannot control a mouse with precision.

Easily removed HTML5 article tags found lurking in form

While manual accessibility testing a form wizard, HTML5 article tags were announced by the screen reader. This confused our participant on every step!

Published 22 November, 2018
Categorized as Portfolio Tagged accessibility, forms, HTML, prioritise, testing

Results of accessibility testing a multi-channel form wizard

In September 2018 I conducted manual accessibility testing on the first iteration of member registration as a form wizard. This was my lightning talk.

Published 26 September, 2018
Categorized as Portfolio Tagged accessibility, CSS, forms, HTML, public speaking, testing, user research

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