Quick Tip: ARIA Design Patterns The unfortunate reality is that ARIA is often implemented incorrectly. This can easily make accessibility much worse. The WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 provides practical guidance for implementing ARIA correctly. The Design Patterns section gives clear instructions and examples for a wide variety of application widgets.… Continue Reading Web Accessibility Tip for July 2019
In an article recently published by WebAIM, 98% of a sample of nonprofit homepages contained WCAG conformance failures that were automatically detected by WebAIM’s accessibility tools. The results come from a study, The WebAIM Million – an accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages, conducted by WebAIM earlier this… Continue Reading Nonprofit websites often fail accessibility
Quick Tip: Don’t lock orientation Interfaces should be flexible and adapt to the user’s device and technology. Apps can be programmed so they must be viewed in either landscape or portrait orientation. This can pose significant difficulties for users that cannot physically manipulate the orientation of their device. WCAG 2.1… Continue Reading Web Accessibility Tip for June 2019