The GAAD Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to disrupt the culture of technology and digital product development to include accessibility as a core requirement.
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Hey, all. If the things you design and build can run on Android devices, you’ll want to bookmark this guide to accessibility testing with Android TalkBack. This terrific resource from MobA11y provides the settings you’ll want to use to optimize TalkBack for testing, along with plenty of tips to make the testing experience more manageable and less painful. https://lnkd.in/gky8YJJ6 #A11yGoodReads #Accessibility
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If you've ever wanted to learn web accessibility topics with a judgement free group of web developers, designers and accessibility professionals, watch our Web Accessibility Study Group streams! In addition to our current biweekly web accessibility streams, we have 8 episodes from our first season of streams dedicated to studying for the Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) on youtube. We also have a slack group where we share accessibility resources and chat as a community. Join us! If you want any of the links I'll drop them in the comments :)
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Hey Devs! Would you like to learn about ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications)? Do you know what ARIA is? 🤔 Here's a cool video! - The first rule of ARIA is "Don't use ARIA". But why? - How do you use ARIA? - What is the impact of bad ARIA on assistive technology users? In this first of two recorded Twitch streams on ARIA of The Web Accessibility Study Group three awesome A11y professionals give an in-depth and fun introduction to ARIA. 🥳 -Africa Mincey: Accessibility Engineer, Section 508 Analyst, CPACC, DHS Trusted Tester - Graham R: Accessibility Consultant: Invited Expert at W3C - Dorlyn Catron: Web Accessibility Auditor, Section 508 Analyst, DHS Trusted Tester, Braille Mentor Funny snarky comments courtesy of Graham the Dev and members in the chat. 😉 Click on the YouTube link to watch! https://lnkd.in/gAnkq_r3 Like and follow Africa's YouTube for more dev and a11y content! To join our web accessibility study group Slack: https://lnkd.in/gkdi9K82 ___ Alt for link preview image: Text "Web Accessibility Study Group Intro to ARIA Part 1 Episode 06" Design: Top half has the text in the middle in black on a light grey background. On either side is a slightly darker grey with blurred lights. Three photos across the bottom. From left to right: Black woman with long hair wearing a headset. There's a white microphone in the foreground - White man with short hair smiling. There's a black microphone with purple lights in the foreground and a green screen behind him. - White woman with long dark blonde hair wearing black headphones. She has her eyes closed. ___ #A11y #Accessibility #WebAccessibility #ARIA #SoftwareEngineering #WCAG #WCAG2 #Blind #A11yTesting #Coding #SoftwareDevelopment #Section508 U.S. Department of Homeland Security #AccessibilityTesting
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🌟 Enhance Your Google Forms Accessibility! 🌟 I've been refreshing my skills on making various formats accessible, and I've created a handy guide on how to make Google Forms accessible. It's all compiled in an easy-to-read Google Doc that you can access here: https://lnkd.in/ei27g362 The guide is divided into two main sections: 1. Setup and Settings - Learn how to configure your Google Form for accessibility from the start. 2. Content Considerations - Discover best practices for creating accessible content within your form. Check it out and let me know your thoughts! 💬 Have you ever created a Google Form? Do you think it was accessible? Share your experiences below! #A11y #Accessibility #GoogleForms
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Head of Accessibility (A11y) Engineering Evangelism, LinkedIn. Co-Founder, Global A11y Awareness Day & GAAD Foundation. Board Chair, LightHouse for the Blind & Visually Impaired San Francisco.
Who else will be joining me in Amsterdam, June 8, for Accessibility Club Summit 2024? https://lnkd.in/dav4EEeG
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Great to see the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) getting bigger every year. The 13th GAAD offered many interesting events and talks. If you missed, don't panic! Thanks to Ricky Onsman and the team at TPGi, you have a curated list of many of the talks available on-demand. Sit down and enjoy. #a11y #accessibility #GAAD GAAD (Global Accessibility Awareness Day) Foundation https://lnkd.in/dNeEjcWn
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Some great tips from Ronny Hendriks here! #A11y #DigitalAccessibility #AccessibilityMatters
In light of Deaf Awareness Week, I wanted to share some things you can to do to make the lives of deaf/hard of hearing (HoH) people easy by making your site or app more accessible. (bonus, this also benefits more people!) Closed Captions Captions is the text that can be shown alongside video content and contains (at least) the spoken dialogue. This enables people who can't hear the audio to still perceive the information in the video. This, of course, helps deaf/HoH folks, but it also means someone who's in a busy environment like a train can still watch your video, even if they forgot to bring their headset. Closed captions are supported on all major platforms these days, and creating them isn't as hard as it sounds. I always use the YouTube backend for this, as it has an easy-to-use caption editor, that can leverage its auto-generation tools to help you along the way a good bit already. It can export to a so-called SRT file which you can upload with your video on pretty much every platform. There's also Open Captions, which is the kind that's 'burned' into the video. Although useful, the Closed captions are presented on-top of the video and can be configured by font, colour, and size in some players. More options to tailor things to your needs! Transcripts Useful for video content be necessity for audio content, transcripts provide a full-text version of your content. The allows screen readers to access the content as well. It also enables search for people, and it exposes your content to google as well, helping your SEO. Sign language Whether it's for live events, in-person or webinars and even your regular video content, please consider having sign-language interpreters for your audience. Although certainly not ever deaf person uses sign language, for those that do, this can be much easier to follow along compared to a Stenographer. Stenography requires quick typing and will often contain some spelling errors. As a substantial group of deaf people is less literate, reading is also difficult for them. It's important to understand that there are (many) different versions of sign language. For example, the UK, USA, NZ, Ireland and Australia all speak English, but each has their own sign languages. To wrap this post up, I've got several fantastic people in my network that are deaf or hard of hearing, so I can only encourage you to follow them and learn from them as well. They share great insights on this topic frequently. Meryl Evans, CPACC (deaf) Benjamin Wright (HoH/Left ear deaf) Vickie Deeks (deaf) #accessibility #inclusion #a11y #deaf #HardOfHearing
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Automated testing tools for accessibility are apps that evaluate websites, apps, and documents for compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). They identify and report on accessibility issues that could put up barriers for people with disabilities. While manual testing is better at finding problems, it requires a lot of time. When used properly, automated tools can speed up accessibility testing. But are all tools created equal? We teamed up with Evinced to get the answer. This article tells the story. https://buff.ly/43WW7BJ #Accessibility #A11y Image: Illustration of three whimsical robots who are quiz TV show contestants and in front of a large monitor showing a website. Each is labeled Scanner 1, Scanner 2, and Scanner 3 and holds a sign with a symbol of accessibility, sound, and color contrast.
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Live regions have a reputation for being "flaky" and inconsistent. While this can be attributed in part to shortcomings in current implementations, the problem can also be caused by developers misunderstanding how live regions are intended to work. https://buff.ly/3wtCMeQ #ARIA #WebDev #WebDevelopment #Accessibility #A11y
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Accessibility Tip of the Day 168: The WebAIM Million report is an annual accessibility study of the top one million home pages. The 2024 report was published in March 2024 and can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gVM3zMnd Some interesting findings: - An average of 56.8 errors per page were found - 95.9% of home pages had detected WCAG 2 failures - 22.2% of home pages had 5 or fewer detected errors, and 31.2% had 10 or fewer (nice!) - Usage of ARIA labels and descriptions has increased by 26% in the last year (correct and incorrect usage) Some exciting Webflow mentions: WebAIM tracked which CMS platforms and site builders were used on these million home pages. Webflow home pages contained the second least number of detected accessibility violations (an average of 28.4 errors per page, just behind first place with 28.3 errors per page). The report notes that the presence of errors may be due to either the platform itself (inaccessible building blocks) or due to the way the user created the site (making accessibility mistakes when building the site, things generally outside of the platform's control). #accessibility #a11y #accessibilityTipOfTheDay
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Do you like baking? 🍰 Are you passionate about accessibility? 💙 Do you think Design Systems are amazing? 🌟 Well ... have I got the presentation for you! ⤵️ Last year I spoke at UXCamp Perth | Boorloo and shared how we at Atlassian have baked accessibility into our Design System as a core foundation. I'm really proud to share this work on behalf of the entire Atlassian Design System team, I'm just one person on a stage representing the work of many. A special shout out to the wonderful Perth UX Camp community, it's a pleasure to watch this event flourish over the years and always a highlight of my year to help bring it to life. Finally, I loved hearing from many of you how this talk has inspired you to make accessibility improvements to your design systems or products ... and also were ok with the number of baking puns I included. 🤩 #designsystems #accessibility #uxcampaustralia
Accessibility, Design Systems and Baking are three of 3 of Simon’s biggest passions. As an Accessibility Design Manager at Atlassian and Design System advocate (yes, he brings it up a dinner parties), Simon Mateljan shares how timing, correct ingredients, monitoring and tweaking, and not skipping any steps, all apply to Design Systems that create more inclusive experiences for the 20% of Australians who identify as a person with a disability. Jam-packed with tips, tricks and resources for design and dev teams. Chef’s kiss! 😙🤌🏽 Check it out on our YouTube channel below 👇🏼 https://lnkd.in/gMJw43Wa #UXCampAustralia