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Link Roundup – June 2015

Accessibility By Design by @LauraKalbag Open source aXe accessibility testing engine by Deque Systems plus an aXe Chrome plugin Developing accessible websites by University of Washington WAI-ARIA Support Matrix by @PaulJAdam Fluent 2015 YouTube: Custom interfaces with ARIA, HTML and JavaScript by @LeonieWatson Low-Contrast Text Is Not the Answer by @NNgroup Accessible Footnotes with CSS by Hugo Giraudel […]

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WCAG Cheat Sheets and Checklists

Here are some great checklists and filtering tools for the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines—WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1 [and now WCAG 2.2]. Know any others? WCAG (Quick Reference) by W3C WAI WCAG 2.2 Checklist + Links by Web Overhauls (based off Paul Adam’s WCAG 2.0 Checklist) Accessibility Checklist (WCAG 2.1) (+filters) by elsevier Accessibility checklist […]

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Accessibility Jobs, April 2015 (all in California!)

Wow, many technical accessibility jobs open in Silicon Valley in Northern California! Sr Project Manager – Accessibility at Pearson in San Francisco, CA. Accessibility Specialist – JavaScript Developer at Pearson in San Francisco, CA. Accessibility Specialist – iOS Android Developer at Pearson in San Francisco, CA. Mobile Software Engineer, Android UI – Accessibility at Facebook in Menlo Park, CA Accessibility Specialist (auditor) at Facebook […]

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Link Roundup – Feb 2015

Some excellent recent resources on web accessibility: Social networks and accessibility: A not so sad picture – revised article by @MarcoInEnglish The Unbearable Inaccessibility of Slideshows – AKA carousels; by Gian Wild of @accessibilityOz Accessibility Hackathons – list and info by @AccessibleJoe Accessibility Originates With UX: A BBC iPlayer Case Study – by @iheni WordPress & Accessibility: Just where is […]

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Layout Tables Tip

It’s 2015, so hopefully web developers know that table elements should not be used for layout. There are many reasons why CSS for layout is better but at the core, HTML tables are data tables; they’ve always been meant for data. But even today, sometimes a table is used for layout, for whatever reason—time constraints, lack of CSS skills, […]