Category:Accessibility

Specific topics

• Accessible Error Handling
• Writing Accessibly
• Accessible color systems
• Accessibility overlays do not work
• Screen Readers

Testing tools

Why test with people who have disabilities?

• Accessibility user testing: a cautionary tale by Daniel Pidcock outlines one example of what can happen when we assume that our work is accessible.

How to test

• Web Accessibility Testing: What Can be Tested and How by Karl Groves in September 2012 outlines what can be tested by automated systems and what requires a person (preferably with disabilities) to test. He also encourages people and companies to Do Automatic Testing First but not as the only thing you do.
• Considering accessibility when designing a usability test outlines ways to integrate accessibility testing into usability testing -- since if it's not accessible, it's not usable.
• Accessibility Testing Tools outlines information about testing code, such as how to use a screen reader and what automated tools are available.
• Accessibility In User-Centered Design: Recruiting Screener gives a detailed screener example

Accessibility & Mobile Design

• Mobile And Accessibility: Why You Should Care And What You Can Do About It by TJ VanToll at Smashing Magazine

Accessibility & Game Design

• Creating an accessible breakout game using Web Audio & SVG by David Roussett

anne’s Accessibility talks

• An Alphabet of Accessibility

Related topics

• Accessibility-related memes and humor
• Disability as Inspiration Porn
• Products mocked as “lazy” or “useless” are often important tools for people with disabilities by s.e. smith for Vox
• Cool stuff for blind, deaf, or non-verbal people (youtube)
• I am not broken: the language of disabilityby Bookworm Blues
• Overcompensating: Magical Erasure of Blindness in SFF

Accessible PDF files

Web Accessibility 101: Screen Magnification & Reflow in Acrobat Reader https://youtu.be/fCrZhnFrxjk

Additional Resources

• PDF Accessibility by WebAIM
• WAI-ARIA <-- this totally doesn't belong here but I'm not sure where to put it yet
• WebAIM Resources page