Conference Report – Web Directions Summit 2023, Day One
We sent Ricky Onsman to report on one of the great web technology conferences, back in live format in Sydney, Australia.
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Digital Accessibility Blogs and Newsletters
There are a lot of people out there writing important blog posts and email newsletters about digital accessibility. Who should you follow?
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WCAG 2.2 is Finally Here!
WCAG 2.2 has been published as a W3C Recommendation, which means the latest amendments to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are now fully in effect.
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Writing Accessible Form Messages
Forms are everywhere on the web. The words we use to tell users how to fill in online forms are very important, and become critical for people with some kinds of disabilities.
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Overlays: Just Another Disability Dongle
Accessibility overlays are nothing more than Disability Dongles, “contemporary fairy tales that appeal to the abled imagination” and don’t solve real problems while creating new ones.
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Managing Multiple WCAG Failures
Identifying different kinds of multiple failures and understanding their nature will ultimately help web developers, designers, and content authors create accessible websites, and auditors to provide better guidance when they don’t.
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WCAG 3.0: Further On Up the Road
On 24 July 2023, the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group published the latest Working Draft of the WC3 Accessibility Guidelines Verson 3.0. In this blog post, we’ll look at what changes this latest draft brings to WCAG3.
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Making Numbers in Web Content Accessible
Numbers are a key part of web content. It makes sense, then, that when we use numbers, they must be accessible.
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The Knowledge and How to Get it: Part Two
Part Two of an edited transcription of the presentation delivered by Hans Hillen (in person) and Ricky Onsman (via video) on 15 March at CSUN 2023, in which they share some of their experiences setting up the TPGi Knowledge Center.
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The Knowledge and How to Get it: Part One
Part One of an edited transcription of the presentation delivered by Hans Hillen (in person) and Ricky Onsman (via video) on 15 March at CSUN 2023, in which they share some of their experiences setting up the TPGi Knowledge Center.
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On the Passing of Judy Heumann
It is with great sadness and deepest respect that we at TPGi offer our condolences to the family of Judith (Judy) Heumann, often referred to as the mother of the disability rights movement, who died on the 4th of March, 2023.
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WCAG 3.0: are we there yet?
On 7 December 2021, the W3C Accessible Guidelines Working Group published a Working Draft of the W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0. So, that’s it, right? Pack WCAG 2 off to the junkyard? The standard is dead, long live the standard? Well, no.
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Understanding Disability: Ableism
A common definition of ableism is that it is discrimination and social prejudice against people with disabilities. That’s undoubtedly true, but ableism can also be described as discrimination in favor of non-disabled people. What’s the difference?
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Single Page Applications
Due to their nature, and depending on how they are constructed, Single Page Applications might need to use techniques to conform to specific WCAG success criteria that are different to those used on multi-page websites.
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Ensure third party content is accessible
Many websites publish content that isn’t created by the website owner or author, from embedded videos, shopping carts, and social media feeds to maps, booking systems and comments on blog posts. Who is responsible for making sure third party content is accessible? And how?
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Introduction to Cognitive Disability and Accessibility Testing
Making websites accessible to people with cognitive disabilities is as important as it is for any other type of disability, and there are techniques you can use to ensure your web content and functionality is accessible to people with cognitive impairments.
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Introduction to A.I. and Accessibility Testing
The focus of this article is on the impact of various types of AI on testing for digital accessibility. As more and more websites make use of AI to enhance user experience, we need to be aware of the role of AI in potentially inhibiting web accessibility for people with disabilities.
