Today’s the day! It’s Web Accessibility Training Day 2014 hosted by the National Federation of the Blind and the Maryland Technology Assistance Program. Follow NFB_voice and MDTAP on Twitter, hashtag #WATD14, to get real time updates on sessions, speakers and more. The session materials and audio recordings will be posted after the event at https://nfb.org/web-accessibility-day
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It’s good practice to make things accessible. From equipment to electronic documents, making sure everyone can access an item or information is a universally beneficial choice. And now that so many people, agencies and organizations use social media, it’s vital to ensure that the information you’re posting, whether through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or some other platform, […]
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Separate Content/Functionality from Visual Design Accessibility of web page content and functionality occurs almost entirely in page markup (HTML). Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), on the other hand, should be used exclusively for defining page styling and visual design. While CSS can be used to improve visual design, accessibility, and usability, screen readers ignore nearly all […]
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Consistent Navigation and Identification Consistency is important for web site accessibility and usability. WCAG 2.0 Success Criterion 3.2.3 (Level AA) requires that navigation elements that are repeated on web pages do not change order across pages. Success Criterion 3.2.4 (Level AA) requires that elements that have the same functionality across multiple web pages be consistently […]
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Webinar: eQuality: The Struggle for Web Accessibility by Persons with Cognitive Disabilities Date: Thursday – October 16, 2014 Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) Please join us for this informative discussion on web accessibility as BBI Chairman, Dr. Peter Blanck, will discuss and answer questions about his new book entitled “eQuality: The Struggle for Web Accessibility by Persons […]
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Large Clickable Targets Some mouse users have may have difficulty with fine motor control, so it is important that clickable targets be sufficiently large. Radio buttons and checkboxes should include properly-associated labels (using the <label> element). Small icons or text, such as previous/next arrows or superscript links for footnotes, should be sufficiently large or combined […]
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