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Enhancing Web Design: Recognizing Accessibility Issues Now

26Apr

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Enhancing Web Design: Recognizing Accessibility Issues Now

I want to discuss accessibility because it is the most important thing for making websites. Other A List Apart articles give you innovation and insight. This article will give you homework. These are just my personal views, but they’re pretty good. Article Continues Below I want to start off with a couple of statements, and you will agree: Designers are good people. I have never heard a designer say, “I don’t care if somebody can’t read this text”, “Not my fault if somebody can’t use this device”, or “Who cares if this is confusing?” Some designs exclude people. You have seen people unable to read the text on a website or app that somebody designed. You’ve seen people unable to use a physical device that somebody has designed. You’ve seen people utterly bamboozled while tr...

Voice Assistants: The Profit, Accessibility, and Speed Trifecta for Modern Businesses

3Jan

By Master Of Code GlobalNo Comments

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Voice Assistants: The Profit, Accessibility, and Speed Trifecta for Modern Businesses

Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Samsung’s Bixby are prime voice assistant examples (VAs), but the technology itself is no longer limited to megacorporations. Instead, these intelligent systems are increasingly being embraced at the enterprise level. This new wave of adoption is evident in recent statistics:In the US, there are about 146 million voice assistant users as of 2024, with projections indicating that this number will rise to 157.1 million by 2026. Fifty percent of U.S. consumers use voice search daily, and 67% across all age groups report being highly likely to rely on it when looking for information.Global Banking and Finance Review reported that 88% of global business leaders think VA technology has the potential to help grow their brand.According to the ...

Opportunities for AI in Accessibility – A List Apart

8Feb

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Opportunities for AI in Accessibility – A List Apart

In reading Joe Dolson’s recent piece on the intersection of AI and accessibility, I absolutely appreciated the skepticism that he has for AI in general as well as for the ways that many have been using it. In fact, I’m very skeptical of AI myself, despite my role at Microsoft as an accessibility innovation strategist who helps run the AI for Accessibility grant program. As with any tool, AI can be used in very constructive, inclusive, and accessible ways; and it can also be used in destructive, exclusive, and harmful ones. And there are a ton of uses somewhere in the mediocre middle as well. Article Continues Below I’d like you to consider this a “yes… and” piece to complement Joe’s post. I’m not trying to refute any of what he’s saying but rather provide some visibility to proje...

Optimizing Your Website for Screen Readers and Other Accessibility Tools

13Jul

By Jori HamiltonNo Comments

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Optimizing Your Website for Screen Readers and Other Accessibility Tools

Though the internet does make things more convenient and accessible in general, assuming it is automatically accessible to all is quite harmful, as it leaves out those with potential disabilities or socioeconomic limitations. Everyone, no matter their limitations or abilities, should be able to use the internet and access the many resources it provides. But web accessibility is not something that comes naturally — it’s something designers or developers have to actively work on, which is why it can be overlooked. However, with rising concerns about inclusivity and equality, web accessibility is no longer something designers, developers, and webmasters can afford to ignore. If you want to expand your reach and continue appealing to today’s internet users, you must ensure your website is desi...

How to Design For People With Accessibility Needs

26Oct

By Anna MonusNo Comments

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How to Design For People With Accessibility Needs

The people who use the web are not a homogeneous mass but rather a huge group with incredibly high diversity. Many of them are not native English, or highly educated city dwellers with excellent health conditions. When we design for the public we need to pay attention to this fact; otherwise, we miss out on many potential users, as well as a great possibility to boost the search engine rankings of a site. Universality and inclusivity are in the focus of the Accessibility web standards that are one of W3C’s web design related standards. The final goal of the Web Accessiblity Initiative (WAI) is to design a web that works “for all people, whatever their hardware, software, language, culture, location, or physical or mental ability”. When we think about accessibility the most important thing ...

10 Best Accessibility Tools For Designers

13Aug

By Hongkiat LimNo Comments

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10 Best Accessibility Tools For Designers

Today is the world of inclusive technology – websites, apps, and tech gadgets that are made for people with different kinds of abilities and inabilities. So when you’re designing a website, you include features that make your design accessible to as many people as possible. And this is where accessibility tools come into play. Instead of creating everything from scratch, here’s a list of cool accessibility tools for designers. From creating color combinations according to WCAG standards to adding different reading modes to your website, these tools are a must-haves for every designer. Take a look at the list to know about each tool in detail. Designer’s Guide to the Basics of Web Accessibility Design Designer’s Guide to the Basics of Web Accessibility Design The web should b...

3Jun

By Suzanne ScaccaNo Comments

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Is It Time to Reset HTML?

HTML is one of the foundational building blocks of the Web. But just as web design best practices and techniques change over time, so does the code we use. As HTML evolves, some of its older markup has been deprecated while other parts have been repurposed. Does that create more problems for us, though? Would we be better off starting over so we can make sure we’re all working from the same language rather than trying to edit out the bits we don’t want or need? Problems With Holding Onto Legacy HTML Let’s take a look at what happens when we amend the rules of HTML over time and how it impacts the Web: 1. It’s Risky to Leave Deprecated HTML Behind Whether certain features have become outdated and need to go, or browsers have stopped supporting certain tags altogether, deprecated code eventu...

Getting to the Heart of Digital Accessibility – A List Apart

27Dec

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Getting to the Heart of Digital Accessibility – A List Apart

Quick! Think of the word “developer” or “coder” — what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Maybe a whiteish male in his twenties living in a busy metropolis, wearing a nerdy t-shirt and hoodie? Someone a bit like Mark Zuckerberg? Or maybe a younger Bill Gates or Sergey Brin? Any of the dudes from the HBO series Silicon Valley, perhaps? Certainly no one like me. Article Continues Below By tech standards, I’m old. I’m also female and a mother. I live in a midwestern town you’ve never heard of and will never visit — a town where the cows vastly outnumber the people. My hair color is (almost) natural and is no longer part of the ROYGBIV collection, so I have no perceived conference street cred. I own about a thousand geeky T-shirts, but never actually wear them in public, opting fo...

Web Accessibility, Inclusion & Social Justice – A List Apart

26Dec

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Web Accessibility, Inclusion & Social Justice – A List Apart

What would your life be like without the internet? Not if it didn’t exist at all, but if you were locked out of it? Would your days be different? Unrecognizable, even? Keeping your answers to that in mind, do you think access to the internet is a human right? Do we need to be able to access it to fully participate in modern society? To answer “yes” to these questions would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. Article Continues Below Living without internet#section2 Globally, over 40% of people still do not have access to the internet. That lack of access and the issues it creates have helped motivate digital equity initiatives like Tech Goes Home and the Good Things Foundation. Having no access to the internet creates problems in many parts of modern life. In the UK, bank br...