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WCAG 2.1 article series via Knowbility

Post author By Dennis
Post date September 16, 2018
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As you may know, WCAG 2.1 was recently published as a Recommendation (see my WCAG 2.1 post in this past June). It adds 1 new guideline (2.5 Input Modalities) and 17 new success criteria.

To help understand the new criteria, check out this excellent “Exploring WCAG 2.1” article series on the Knowbility website and written by Becky Gibson.

Overall: Welcome, WCAG 2.1! The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines get an update.

More WCAG 2.1 articles

Axe-core gets WCAG 2.1 rules by Deque Systems.
Webinar Sep. 26, 2018 “What you need to know about WCAG 2.1 by Léonie Watson.
WCAG 2.1: An Evening With Andrew Kirkpatrick, Head of Accessibility at Adobe, YouTube recording from A11yNYC Meetup Sep. 11, 2018.
Improving web navigation for speech recognition users – about Success Criterion 2.4.12 Label in Name (Level A) by Intopia.

WCAG 2.1 Now A W3C Recommendation

Post author By Dennis
Post date June 19, 2018
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On 5 June 2018, WCAG 2.1 was published with a Recommendation status, which means it’s stable and ready for implementation. The new guidelines help fill gaps in WCAG 2.0 particularly in the areas of mobile, low vision, and cognitive disabilities.

The new guidelines are backwards compatible with 2.0 as the official W3C announcement by Andrew Kirkpatrick and Michael Cooper explains:

All the criteria from WCAG 2.0 are included in WCAG 2.1, so web sites that conform to WCAG 2.1 will also conform to WCAG 2.0.

Learn more in an upcoming A11Y Talks What’s New with WCAG 2.1 with Carie Fisher and Andrew Macpherson, 27 June 2018.

Summary

Here is a quick list of the new criteria:

1.3.4 Orientation – Level AA
1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose – Level AA
1.3.6 Identify Purpose – Level AAA
1.4.10 Reflow – Level AA
1.4.11 Non-text Contrast – Level AA
1.4.12 Text Spacing– Level AA
1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus – Level AA
2.1.4 Character Key Shortcuts – Level A
2.2.6 Timeouts – Level AAA
2.3.3 Animation from Interactions – Level AAA
2.5.1 Pointer Gestures – Level A
2.5.2 Pointer Cancellation – Level A
2.5.3 Label in Name – Level A
2.5.4 Motion Actuation – Level A
2.5.5 Target Size – Level AAA
2.5.6 Concurrent Input Mechanisms – Level AAA
4.1.3 Status Changes – Level AA

W3C page heading for WCAG 2.1

CSUNATC18 Wrap-Up—Resources and Tweets

Post author By Dennis
Post date April 2, 2018
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Another CSUN Assistive Technology Conference has come and gone. Below are some great resources and tweets from the conference. Watch the keynote by Dan Goldstein via YouTube. Read my CSUN 18 preview.

Next year the event will move a bit north to Anaheim, California. CSUNATC19 is planned for March 11 to 15, 2019 at @AnaheimMarriott.

Resources

Crowdsourced Google Sheet of all the presentation slide decks (bit.ly/csunatc18) Google Sheet by @mactoph.
Slides and handouts shared by presenters at the 2018 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, GitHub, by @JamalMazrui.
Potholes of Discrimination: A Post-CSUN Legal Update Wrap-Up and Recipe for Staying Ahead of the Legal Curve: Bake Accessibility into Your Organization by @LFLegal.
Story on CSUNATC18 by San Diego Union Tribune
Microsoft’s CSUNATC18 presentation decks (mostly PowerPoint)
Accessibility Heuristics for Designers: 10 General Rules of Thumb For Accessible Design (PDF via Google Drive) by @CaitlinGeier @DBoudreau.
Waking Up to Digital Accessibility: How the CSUN Assistive Technologies Conference helped me find my calling, by Louise Clark @lclark070607.
Added: Slides: TPG at CSUN 2018.

Tweets

Web accessibility problem areas: placeholder as label, focus management, hijacked scrolling, links without underlines. via @HansHillen Yup! #CSUNATC18 #a11y #webdesign

— Web Axe (@webaxe) March 22, 2018

“Spend money on access not on lawyers” @LFLegal #a11y #CSUNATC18

— Glenda Sims (@goodwitch) March 21, 2018

https://twitter.com/dennisl/status/976682591532167168

Best statement #CSUNATC18 “Accessibility is not rocket science, maybe it should be, we went to the moon & still waiting on ACCESSIBILITY”

— Rima Maldonado (@RimaMaldonado) March 21, 2018

.@jessehausler and I are ready to present about drag-and-drop in 6 minutes, Cortez Hill AB. Don’t let our facial expressions dissuade you, it’ll be a fun talk! #CSUNATC18 pic.twitter.com/NTl4tbfJgi

— Cordelia (@cordeliadillon) March 23, 2018

#CSUNATC18 joke heard today: presenter demos adding a link by adding text "click here" and audience yells "no no!" #CSUN18

— Jennie Delisi (@AT_NMT) March 23, 2018

Did you know? When creating captions in YouTube, you can enter a transcript and it will be auto-synched! #youtube #captions #tips #a11y #csunatc18

— Dennis Lembrée (@dennisl) March 22, 2018

Able Player 3.1 recently released! #CSUNATC18 https://t.co/LUGSEuTuPg by @terrillthompson #video #audio #a11y #webdev

— Web Axe (@webaxe) March 23, 2018

Live from #CSUNATC18 with Sue Boyd and Lainey Feingold, "Beyond Compliance: Staying Out in Front of Digital Accessibility Legal Trends." Presentation: https://t.co/orAR5YQ0V4 pic.twitter.com/fKriDn58xG

— MSFT Accessibility (@MSFTEnable) March 22, 2018

What's new in aXe? @marcysutton shares info about aXe 3.0, shadowdom support, and other updates. #CSUNATC18 pic.twitter.com/yWCnWVmzXv

— Deque Systems (@dequesystems) March 21, 2018

jobs roundup

Digital Accessibility Jobs, February 2018

Post author By Dennis
Post date February 19, 2018
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Many great opportunities are available in the digital accessibility field.

Technical Writer for Web Developer Software at Deque Systems in Ann Arbor, MI.
UI Client Accessibility—Software Engineer at Workday in Pleasanton, CA.
Director of Accessibility at EVERFI in Washington, DC.
Digital Accessibility Specialist at Thomson Reuters in Eagan, MN.
Accessibility Director at AbilityNet in London, UK.
Accessibility Engineer at Adobe in San Francisco, CA.
iOS Accessibility Engineer at Facebook in Menlo Park, CA.
Web Accessibility Consultant at Level Access in San Francisco, CA.
Director Accessibility Services at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT.
UI Client Accessibility – Software Engineer at Workday in Pleasanton, CA.
Digital Accessibility Specialist (contract) at Kaiser Permanente in Pleasanton, CA.
Screen Reader Accessibility Auditor at Accessible360 (remote, I believe).
Web Accessibility Tester at JP Morgan Chase in San Francisco, CA.
Digital Accessibility Engineer (contract) at Collabera in Boston, MA.
Accessibility Specialist wanted at Pearson in Boston or remote.
Sr. Front End Engineer (with WCAG, Ruby skills) at Scribd in San Francisco, CA.
Accessibility Specialist (engineer) at edX in Cambridge, MA.
Product Manager at Deque Systems in Ann Arbor, MI.
Accessibility QA Tester (screen reader user) at Apertus Partners in Mountain View, CA.

Follow me, @a11yJobs, and @LyndonDunbar on Twitter for more!

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book design roundup

Web Accessibility Books

Here’s a great list of accessibility books. Feel free to submit any others in comments. (Updated October 2024)

Web Accessibility Cookbook, by Manuel Matuzović, 2024
The Accessibility Operations Guidebook: To making accessibility work more sustainable, by Devon Persing, 2024
A11Y Unraveled: Become a Web Accessibility Ninja, by Dimitris Georgakas, Apress, 2023
Inclusive Design Communities, Sameera Kapila, A Book Apart, 2022
Giving a Damn About Accessibility, Sheri Byrne-Haber, UX Collective, 2021
Accessible Vue by Marcus Herrmann (@_marcusherrmann), LeanPub (book home page) 2021
Inclusive Components, Heydon Pickering, Smashing Magazine, 2019
Inclusive Design for a Digital World by Regine Gilbert, APress 2019
Approachable Accessibility: Planning for Success, Martine Dowden, Michael Dowden, Apress, 2019
Practical Web Inclusion and Accessibility: A Comprehensive Guide to Access Needs, Ashley Firth, Apress, 2019
Form Design Patterns by Adam Silver (@adambsilver), 2018
Accessibility For Everyone, by @LauraKalbag, A Book Apart 2017
Color Accessibility Workflows, by @HelloGeri, A Book Apart 2017
Inclusive Design Patterns—Coding Web Accessibility Into Web Design, by Heydon Pickering (@heydonworks), Smashing Magazine 2016
Practical Approaches For Designing Accessible Websites, Léonie Watson, Chaals McCathie Nevile, Henny Swan, Scott O’Hara, Marcy Sutton, more Smashing Magazine, 2015
Apps for All: Coding Accessible Web Applications, by Heydon Pickering (@heydonworks), Smashing Magazine 2014
A Web for Everyone—Designing Accessible User Experiences, by Sarah Horton & Whitney Quesenbery, Rosenfeld Media, 2013
A Pocket Guide to Colour Accessibility, Geri Coady, Five Simple Steps, 2013
HTML5 Accessibility, by Joshue O Connor (@joshueoconnor), 2012 (older, but much of it still relevant; my review)
For nostalgia’s sake: Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance, multiple authors, Friends of Ed, 2006

Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited, by Steve Krug 2014. Great quotes!
Adaptive Web Design (second edition), by Aaron Gustafson (@AaronGustafson), New Riders 2016
Responsible Responsive Design, by Scott Jehl (@scottjehl), A Book Apart 2014
Structured Negotiation, a Winning Alternative to Lawsuits, by Lainey Feingold (@LFLegal), ABA Book Publishing 2016; 2nd edition
Mismatch, How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all, by Kat Holmes, 2018

More WCAG 2.1 articles

Summary

Further Reading

Resources

Tweets