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How Airbnb Caters to Users with Low Vision with Accessible Text Resizing
The Airbnb Tech Blog recently detailed how Airbnb enhances accessibility for users with vision difficulties. Through careful implementation of text resizing guidelines, Airbnb maintains web content, functionality, and a good user experience even as the text font size is doubled.
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A Collaborative Approach to Web Applications Accessibility
Developers and designers can work together to share knowledge and experience when working on creating accessible applications. Accessibility issues can be treated as any other bug, something that needs to be solved first. Accessibility should be embraced as something very serious and important to society, and approached as a business opportunity.
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Improving Web Accessibility with Semantic HTML and Testing Techniques and Tools
Web accessibility benefits all of us. Designers, developers, and testers can check for web accessibility and can make the web and services more inclusive, for instance by using semantic HTML, following web standards when coding, and testing for web accessibility. Countries are introducing regulations to enforce inclusive standards.
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A Decalog for Developing More Accessible Software Systems: JHipster Creator's Keynote at Devoxx UK
The rapid shift towards a hybrid workplace has also meant an acceleration of the consumption of digital content. Even though online means global reach, part of the world’s population cannot access it due to various types of disabilities. In his Devoxx UK keynote talk, Julien Dubois presented a set of best practices and design principles that could make the software more accessible.
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Charts.CSS, a Pure CSS Charting Library
Charts.css is a new data visualization library that relies solely on CSS and HTML. By avoiding the use of JavaScript/Canvas, it avoids many of the accessibility challenges in existing solutions while keeping the bundle size under 10KB when minified and gzipped.
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Best Practices for Web Developers with Webhint - Rachel Simone Weil at OpenJS World
Rachel Simone Weil, product manager for the new Microsoft Edge’s developer tools, recently gave a talk at OpenJS world addressing how the webhint tool suite supports web developers in implementing best practices.
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IBM Launches Equal Access Toolkit to Help Developers Write Accessible Applications
IBM recently released the IBM Equal Access Toolkit and the Accessibility Checker, two new open-source toolkits that strive to give designers, developers, and testers a set of tools to make websites and applications accessible.
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Chrome 83 DevTools Emulates Vision Deficiencies and Locales
The forthcoming Chrome 83 release includes significant updates to DevTools, including emulation of vision deficiencies and user locales, cross-origin opener policy (COOP) debugging, and cross-origin embedder policy (COEP) debugging, and network request filtering for cookie paths.
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Remaining Accessibility Issues in HTML Controls
The HTML standard has constantly made progress in accessibility over the years. Developers and designers have however reported some accessibility issues with common HTML controls such as <input/>, <select/>, <video/>.
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Adobe Open-Sources Adaptive, Accessible Color Palettes Generator
Nate Baldwin, designer @Adobe’s design system Spectrum, released Leonardo 1.0, an open source color generator. Leonardo strives to enhance designer productivity and end-user experience by automating the creation of accessible, adaptive color systems using contrast-ratio based generated colors. Leonardo also supports full theme generation and is intended for both designers and engineers.
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Accessibility Testing: Convincing Your Product Owner
Accessibility testing is just the right thing to do; the internet and e-services are a place for people to feel and interact equally, so our software should not exclude people, argued Martin Tiitmaa at TestCon Europe 2019.
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Improved Accessibility is the Focus of Latest .NET Framework
Microsoft has announced the pre-release of .NET Framework 4.7.1, which includes various improvements across the board. Today we will look at the changes made to improve the accessibility of WPF applications.