industryterm:web accessibility

5 Resources to Measure Website #accessibility
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Some of the quickest accessibility wins can be simple fixes. But if you don’t know what to look for, they can be hard to spot.Maybe a key image on your site is missing an alt description. Maybe the headings on a page look right, but actually are in the incorrect order. Or maybe your newsletter sign up form is missing a label. Any of these issues could prevent someone from understanding your web page or completing the actions you want them to take on your site.Identifying these issues is important, which is why there are a whole slew of web accessibility checkers available to help catch these problems. I want to introduce you to five tools that you might find helpful in identifying accessibility issues. Just remember though, that automated tests can only catch 20–30% of all issues.1. WAVE: (...)

#software-development #website-accessibility #accessibility-tools #web-development

J’aime bien, cette définition de l’accessibilité, article intéressant dans l’ensemble, même si c’est un débat sans fin ^^

Progressive Enhancement and what that means for JavaScript | Assortment - For the practical developer
▻https://assortment.io/posts/progressive-enhancement-for-javascript

However, I, like many others describe Web Accessibility as a much broader subject and being the inclusion of all users, no matter their:

Physical or Mental capabilities;
Device and browser used;
Connection speed or quality;
and any other unknown factors about them.

#accessibilite
#web4all

An alt Decision Tree • Images • WAI Web Accessibility Tutorials
▻http://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decision-tree

This decision tree describes how to use the alt attribute of the <img> element in various situations. For some types of images there are alternative approaches, such as using CSS background images for decorative images or webfonts instead of images of text.

#accessibilité

The Accessibility Cheatsheet - bitsofco.de
▻http://bitsofco.de/2015/the-accessibility-cheatsheet

The Web Accessibility Initiative created some Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) targeted at us, web content developers, to create more accessible websites. The WCAG contain some very useful information, and so I decided to condense the very extensive guidelines and highlight some practical examples of what we can do to implement them and make our websites more accessible.

#accessibilité #web_design

WAVE Web Accessibility Tool
►http://wave.webaim.org

Web accessibility evaluation tool

#a11y

Universally Designed » Considering the Case for Creating an International Society of Accessibility Professionals
►http://blog.knowbility.org/content/considering-the-case-for-creating-an-international-society-of-accessibility-professionals/comment-page-1/#comment-618

ATIA/AIA, IBM, Adobe – these are entities with deep pockets and a vested interest in seeing something like this move forward, and I am sure that they are willing to make investments to a point. But as one who has worked in this space for over a decade, I (we) well know that for the most part those who are currently working in the field of “web accessibility” are, for the most part, independent consultants, smaller development firms, or inside actors at a larger establishment who’ve embraced the role of advocate and agent provocateur where they work, often not because it’s part of their job description, but because they have come to our cause and profession for other reasons. Very few however actually have the privileged of being professionally focused exclusively on web accessibility: it’s part of what they do, and they do it for all the right reasons, but sometimes that alone doesn’t pay the bills. (I’ve personally been lucky and persistent, but I remember the early days, and the struggle to stay afloat while trying to focus on this industry: I also worked as a waiter and bar-tender to make ends meet.)

Boum.

The Only Thing Constant is Change « Unrepentant
►http://john.foliot.ca/change

I arrived, a web-accessibility specialist, to set up a program that had a title and a blank sheet of paper attached to the title. The job? Figure it out and get it done. Learn the art of herding cats, and establish web accessibility as a thing on campus. Be an evangelist, a technologist, a salesman, a politician. Make it happen. I was surrounded by a group of supportive if sometimes skeptical technology people, who were always gracious in their generosity of time to me, and for the most part openly receptive to what I was trying to do. They remain so even today, and I look back on the many successes we’ve accomplished together, and the path forward we have charted together too, and I wish you all continued success.

#accessibility #evangelism #accessibilité #évangélisme

Why Web Accessibility Matters | Below The Fold
►http://www.readbelowthefold.com/web-accessibility/why-web-accessibililty-matters.html

As a design agency, we come across a lot of business owners who think that in order for a site to be accessible it has to look dull as well. They feel they have to sacrifice one for the other. We disagree, as long as your site takes into the consideration accessibility guidelines then there is no limit to what you can produce from a design perspective.

C’est vrai que c’est un argument qu’on entend encore souvent, en partie à cause du fait que tous les évangélistes de l’accessibilité ont un blog mais tous ne sont pas designers. :)

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