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npr.org

Photography winners with disabilities who show the world their perspective

The images were among the winning entries in this year's Global Ability Photography Challenge, organized by Youth4Jobs in India.

a11y-collective.com

Best practices for cognitive accessibility

WCAG guidelines, design patterns, and real-world case studies.

blog.pope.tech

Color contrast accessibility requirements explained

A complete guide to WCAG 2.0 contrast accessibility requirements and contrast tools with examples to help you apply it to your own website.

dri.es

Comparing local LLMs for alt-text generation

I tested 12 LLMs — 10 running locally and 2 cloud-based — to assess their accuracy in generating alt-text for images.

penpot.app

Accessible design checklist

Improve your design’s accessibility with this quick reference checklist and Penpot plugin.

youtube.com

Common dataviz accessibility issues

Through practical examples Sarah L. Fossheim explores where it typically goes wrong, why issues arise, and what we can learn from our past mistakes.

tetralogical.com

XR accessibility: for people with moving disabilities

How Extended Reality (XR) experiences can consider alternative input methods for people who can’t move.

ericwbailey.website

Evaluating overlay-adjacent accessibility products

A rubric to evaluate solutions that claim to magically fix accessibility issues.

brailleinstitute.org

Hyperlegible font

A font crafted for low-vision readers, by the Braille Institute.

whocanuse.com

WhoCanUse

A tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect people with different visual impairments.

github.com

Principles of web accessibility

A set of high-level guiding principles for approaching web accessibility.

iamvishnu.com

Please don’t force dark mode

Dear website designers, please don’t force dark mode on your users.

epicweb.dev

Testing accessibility with screen readers

Dive into the world of screen reader testing and discover why relying on a single tool isn’t enough.

martijnhols.nl

Accessibility essentials every front-end developer should know

Essential accessibility practices for front-end developers, including semantic HTML, alt texts, ARIA, and keyboard navigation tips.

slack.engineering

Automated accessibility testing at Slack

Product teams follow certain standards to guarantee their features are compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

fossheim.io

Dataviz accessibility principles

I tested how well different election dashboards implemented common dataviz accessibility princples, and explained where things went wrong.

a11yconsultant.com

Accessibility quiz

Free practice tests for IAAP’s CPACC certification. Test your knowledge in Disabilities (40%), Accessibility (40%), and Standards (20%).

creativebloq.com

The best subtitle fonts for accessibility

Accessibility experts, subtitlers and media companies share which accessible fonts you should use for subtitling work.

intopia.digital

The European Accessibility Act – get ready!

What the EAA covers, whether you need to comply, EAA timelines, EAA enforcement, & EAA exceptions.

html5accessibility.com

Old alt text advice

I originally wrote this advice between 2010-2014. I still refer to it and decided it needed an update and a new home.