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The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are meant to serve as instructional for developers and designers alike as they deploy web-based content. While WCAG’s “web-based content” guidelines refer to any website or application developed for use at home, work, or the public, they have not been explicitly designated as best practice guidelines for kiosk and

Do WCAG Guidelines Apply to Kiosks?Read more

Picture the scene: You’ve managed to get to the shops, you’re excited you know what you want and you’ve got the money to pay for it. You’re in a wheelchair and there’s only steps, no ramp in to the shop. How do you feel? Pretty deflated at the very least I expect.

A lack of accessibility

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My tilted reflection stares back at me as I ponder whether I’ll ever get around to hanging this full length mirror up on the wall. For months it has been leaning there next to the canvas prints that long for a nail to sit upon, far away from my clumsy footsteps.

Realistically, that isn’t likely to

Top 5 Accessibility ToolsRead more

This is a guest post by Maria C Lima and first published on mclinteractive.com

Website Accessibility

July 25, 2012. “About 56.7 million people — 19 percent of the population — had a disability in 2010, according to a broad definition of disability, with more than half of them reporting the disability was severe, according to a comprehensive

Web Accessibility: Make Your Company Socially ResponsibleRead more

Guest post from Herin Hentry, Senior Test Analyst at Planit, originally published at www.planittesting.com.

‘WCAG is not scary anymore’ was the title of my presentation at A11yCamp, Melbourne 2016 representing Planit Software Testing, Accessibility Services which received good feedback from the audience. I thought I will follow that up with an article to share with a larger

WCAG Is Not Scary Anymore – A Progressive Approach to Website AccessibilityRead more

How would you explain web accessibility in less than five minutes to dozens of technophobic writers, and convince them to do something about it?

You explain the three easy ways to simultaneously improve accessibility, search engine optimization (SEO), and usability:

Structure content with ordered headings and lists;
Write a meaningful

How to Convince Writers to Write for AccessibilityRead more

Useful links are an essential part of an optimised digital user experience. This includes making your links easy to understand and making them accessible.

There are two rules in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 regarding link text, also called anchor text. They deal with links in context and links on their own, respectively. This

The Quick Guide to Writing Link TextRead more

During the first meeting for a website redesign project with my new company, I suggested that accessibility be a priority. The project manager said Great Wendy, take a look at the current site and figure out what we need to do.

The site had more than 1,000 pages. I had no idea where to begin.

Then, I

Where to Begin: Your First Accessibility AssessmentRead more