Animation Difficulty: Beginner Category: Presentation Animation or other moving elements on a web page can be distracting to all users. Even simple animation can render a web page completely inaccessible to users with certain cognitive disabilities or high levels of distractibility. Animation should generally be avoided. Brief animations (ones that completely stop in less than […]
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We’re hosting two Open Houses this Fall! Come tour MDTAP’s AT Lab, try out some of the newest AT devices on the market, and talk with our AT Specialists. September 18th– 1-3pm September 24th– 6-8pm Registration is required and limited to 20 people per tour. These tours are being hosted at our central office in Baltimore, Maryland. For details […]
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Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP The World Intellectual Property Organization is considering a treaty which will make books more accessible to the blind. We think this is great news and would like to show our support for the treaty by signing a petition at whitehouse.gov: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/side-blind-over-obstructionist-companies-secure-treaty-blind-makes-books-accessible-globally/ZJtgcVph The below is an excerpt from […]
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Keyboard Accessibility Difficulty: Beginner Category: Structure Presentation Ensuring that your web page is fully accessible using only the keyboard is a vital component of web accessibility. All interactive elements, including links, buttons, form fields, media controls, etc. should be accessible using only the keyboard. Use the Tab key to navigate through page elements. Shift + […]
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NVDA – The free, open-source screen reader Contributed by Joel Zimba, Technology Outreach Coordinator, MDTAP Traditional screen readers for Windows are expensive. They can cost anywhere from a few hundred to the low thousands of dollars. It’s not uncommon for assistive technology to cost more than the common off-the-shelf hardware with which it works. NVDA, […]
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Conveying Information Using Color Alone Difficulty: Beginner Category: Presentation Avoid using color or other stylistic differences as the only means of conveying information or meaning. Blind users do not care about the color, font size, or styling of text, so long as the visual aspects of that text are not used to convey content. Screen […]
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