Ed note: this post talks about providing headings as visual and programmatic cues for users while last week’s post, Heading off confusion: When do headings fail WCAG?, talks about evaluating headings in the context of an accessibility review. The two posts necessarily overlap but also provide two ways of approaching useful, usable, and accessible headings. […]
Ed note: this post talks about evaluating headings in the context of an accessibility review while the following week’s post, Headings & Accessibility, talks about providing headings as visual and programmatic cues for users. The two posts necessarily overlap but also provide two ways of approaching useful, usable, and accessible headings. Headings convey the organization […]
Knowbility’s Accessible Internet Rally, or AIR, provides the perfect framework for learning what matters in digital accessibility. Accessibility is the practice of providing features that work for people with disabilities. In the physical environment, these features include braille and raised lettering on signs and elevator buttons, alarms that flash and sound, ramped entryways and automatic […]
Once upon a time I was writing a story in my free time with a Deaf 1 character in it (long since condemned to my draft graveyard). My background research suggested knowing a little about ASL (American Sign Language) to get the character right, so I took a 6-week course to get some of the […]
It’s the time of year when many of us are spending our days pigging out on bite-sized candies and settling in for a marathon of our favorite horror films. In the spirit of a fun scare, I would like to share with you some spooky stories from my day-to-day work that happened to people just […]
