The United Kingdom-based Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) recently produced a nice mini-site entitled “10 Things You Should Know About Web Accessibility.” For the most part, it’s excellent — a friendly voice, a casual approach, elegant presentation, and good information. It does, however, intimate one of my pet peeves in documents promoting web accessibility: Hey good lookin’ “But accessibility always compromises the design, doesn’t it?” Wrong. Your site can still look beautiful. This doesn’t precisely say that compromise […]
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New tool: evaluate color contrasts for WCAG 1 and 2
Use the color contrast evaluation tool. There are, of course, a lot of color contrast evaluation tools available on the web. Roger Johansson published a list of 10 color contrast checking tools last September, and there are undoubtedly more out there yet. In fact, for a long time, I’ve primarily used the three tools by Gez Lemon which are on that list: Color Contrast Analyzer Luminosity Contrast Ratio Color Contrast Analyzer Firefox Extension I certainly have no intention to stop […]
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Read more at the WebAIM blog: “Target Lawsuit Settled.” No legal definitions established today, I’m afraid to say. Although this is a victory on behalf of the claimants, who were awarded substantive damages on their claim, there was no establishment of any kind of legal precedent. This is primarily due to one singular item in the settlement: No Admission of Liability. By agreeing to and voluntarily entering into this Agreement, there is no admission or concession by Target, direct or […]
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Giving a talk is an interesting experience. In this case, with a time limit of 15 minutes, the biggest challenge was figuring out what I had time to cover. With a subject like web accessibility, I firmly believe that every aspect is critical — anything I leave out is something that somebody needs to know. But it’s 15 minutes. You can’t really be effective if you try and cover the entire scope of a subject in 15 minutes. The first […]
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Perfecting a web site is a long and involved process. There’s no getting around the fact that if you want every aspect of your site to be right — accessibility, search optimization, and just all-around pizzazz, you’ve probably got some significant work to do. However, that’s not to say that there aren’t things you can check quickly and efficiently to make sure you’re not making some of the more egregious errors! Here are 8 speedy checkups (in no particular order) […]
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