The title of this post is a direct quote from an article Alice Boxhall just published: A threat model for accessibility on the web. The post talks about the challenges in creating web standards that successfully support accessibility needs, and how frustrating that process is. You should read this article. It will help you understand how standards are created. It will also help you understand why many accessibility practitioners actively oppose using some standard features. It’s easy to believe that […]
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The Accessibility Show #8: Keyboard, keyboard, who’s got a keyboard….
Accessibility Show number eight was a fun one. For most shows, I’ve searched out specific sites that demonstrate particular problems so that we can demonstrate different ways that problem shows up in real sites. For this one, however, I wanted to show something else, as well: how ubiquitous keyboard accessibility problems really are. So instead of carefully pre-selecting sites, I just grabbed the first ones in the list as I saw it at the time. It would have been nice […]
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Yesterday morning, one of my fellow WP Accessibility Day organizers pinged me with the message that they hoped that Studio 24’s decision to drop WordPress because of accessibility flaws would lead to a new version of WP focused on accessibility improvements. My first reaction, predictably enough, was: Who is Studio 24, and why should I care? Because, frankly, I saw that comment and had no idea what it was about or why I should care. On exploring the topic, and […]
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I’ve long felt that accessibility is conceptually simple, and technically difficult. I’ve believed that if you can convey the fundamental concept of digital accessibility to somebody, everything else can be extrapolated from principles. That doesn’t mean that somebody would conform to accessibility guidelines at any level based on this. Reaching for accessibility by application of principles doesn’t necessarily yield the same result as what you’ll find in accessibility guidelines, but – in principle – should still encourage a sound interpretation […]
Continue reading “Accessibility is Equality” »Taking over GrayBit.com
Mike Cherim and Jonathan Fenocchi, creators of the GrayBit service for showing a site design converted into grayscale, needed to move on. The time and expense of maintaining GrayBit was too much – and since Mike Cherim has moved out of the web development and accessibility world, it was necessary to make some changes. They recently shut down GrayBit.com, not having received any word that anybody wanted to take the site over. I was too late to save the domain, […]
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