People who want to make the web accessible need to understand the many different ways that people with disabilities use the web. This W3C resource offers a good introduction to how disabled people navigate the web, and barriers they commonly encounter.
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 09:04:30 JST Accessibility Awareness -
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 06:31:47 JST Accessibility Awareness A transcript is the only way to make video or audio content accessible to someone who is both deaf and blind. Transcripts can be converted into braille, to be read on a refreshable braille output device.
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 09:31:20 JST Accessibility Awareness Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.
https://medium.com/nightingale/writing-alt-text-for-data-visualization-2a218ef43f81
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 12:15:18 JST Accessibility Awareness When writing alt text, ask yourself if you would picture an approximation of the image if it was described to you over the phone using the alt text you've written. Doing that exercise can be a good way to determine if you're on the right track.
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 13:20:58 JST Accessibility Awareness Intentional misspellings of words can confuse people. This includes people with cognitive and reading disabilities, and those learning the language. Depending on how much the word is misspelled, screen readers might not pronounce it like the actual intended word.
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 03:48:18 JST Accessibility Awareness There are few clear accessibility standards for people with cognitive disabilities because the range of these disabilities is so huge. Experts have avoided one-size-fits-all approaches, but Gershon Blackmore offers some tips that will help.
https://www.levelaccess.com/blog/cognitive-disability-the-next-frontier-for-web-accessibility/
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 07:27:27 JST Accessibility Awareness Overlays are widgets or technologies that promise to improve a site's accessibility with third-party source code. More than 900 accessibility advocates and web developers have signed an open letter to explain the limitations and dangers of these products.
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 02:48:21 JST Accessibility Awareness Some people need to change the way text is displayed in order to read it. This includes changing size, spacing, font, color, and other properties. When people customize text, the text should re-flow so they don’t have to scroll horizontally to read.
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 03:01:03 JST Accessibility Awareness Ensure text is readable in data visualizations and information graphics. Small text is generally harder to read, and should be avoided where possible. Make sure the text is not obstructed by other chart elements, and has sufficient contrast against its background.
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:05:31 JST Accessibility Awareness Automatic captions make it difficult to watch videos because the viewer is forced to decipher misspelled or mistranslated words that appear in a string of text without any punctuation. These can be distracting and disorienting. Always edit your captions before publishing.
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 03:13:36 JST Accessibility Awareness Some people may be unable to use a mouse, and instead rely exclusively on keyboards, or use assistive technologies such as speech recognition, head pointers, mouth sticks, or eye-gaze tracking systems. If a website is accessible only to mouse users, these people will be excluded.
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 03:16:38 JST Accessibility Awareness Automated captions and transcripts can save time so that you don't have to manually transcribe on your own. But automated captions and transcripts aren't 100% accurate, so they need manual editing before you publish them.
https://www.w3.org/WAI/media/av/captions/#positioning-and-styling-captions
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 01:51:24 JST Accessibility Awareness When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 01:27:43 JST Accessibility Awareness When working with vendors, don't forget to ask about accessibility. How the vendor answers questions about product design, testing, training, and support will help you determine whether the product will meet the needs of your site's users.
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 06:37:04 JST Accessibility Awareness Avoid writing text that has every letter alternating between uppercase and lowercase. This is difficult for sighted readers to comprehend, especially users with reading or cognitive disabilities. Some screen readers won't know to read this, so it could sound like gibberish.
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 06:14:34 JST Accessibility Awareness The #NoMouse Challenge is a global effort to raise awareness about accessible web design. Try using your website without a mouse. Use the keyboard instead. Is it possible to access all features and operate all buttons, sliders, and other controls?
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 04:42:08 JST Accessibility Awareness If your organization has Slack, Teams, or any other messaging program, having a dedicated accessibility channel or chat is a great way for everyone on your team to learn together by sharing links, posing questions, and reviewing alt text, among other things.
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 17:32:21 JST Accessibility Awareness For beginners, it can be difficult to know what to put in alt text, as well as when alt text is needed and when it isn't. This decision tree helps you determine what to do, based on specific situations.
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 10:56:36 JST Accessibility Awareness Hyperlink text should make sense when read out of context. Screen reader users can navigate from link to link, and can listen to links in a list. When navigating this way, only the link is read. So "click here" or "read more" won't make sense.
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Accessibility Awareness (a11yawareness@disabled.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 00:43:14 JST Accessibility Awareness Alexa Heinrich's Accessible Social is a free resource for digital marketers, communication professionals, content creators, everyday social media users, and anyone who wants to learn how to make their content accessible for people with disabilities.