Website Category: Miselenious

A11Y Nutrition Cards is an attempt to digest and simplify the accessibility expectations when it comes to component authoring. Based on the WAI ARIA Authoring Practices Guide.

The placeholder attribute contains a surprising amount of issues that prevent it from delivering on what it promises. Let’s clarify why you need to stop using it.

This site tests which new HTML5 features are accessibly supported by major browsers. This includes if they are keyboard accessible, mapped to the platform accessibility APIs, and if any accessibility related features are supported.

To build an accessible website or application, it’s best to start with the foundations: semantic markup. Using the correct markup is an easy win as it does the vast majority of the accessibility work for you. As rich client-side JavaScript applications have grown in popularity, a particular markup misuse has become common.

This article will help you understand how touch capabilities are built into the browser, how you can integrate this new interface mechanism into your existing apps and how touch can play nicely with mouse input.

Whatever you may think, it currently isn’t possible to reliably detect whether or not the current device has a touchscreen, from within the browser. And it may be a long time before you can.

Testing for accessibility in your emails doesn’t have to be a chore. Making accessible and inclusive emails will increase your target audience and will have other unintended benefits.

The truth is, accessibility is not on most companies’ radars until they’re threatened with a significant loss of revenue without it. (And even if you as a private company aren’t concerned with compliance, your clients might be.)