Oh! I am alright! No, wait! I forget things very easily. What do they call that? Short term memory loss? The other day, I was filling an online exam registration form. They asked me to write my office address, home address, work phone and home phone. I filled all the details, alright. But when I […]
Continue reading Anatomy of Accessible Forms! Placeholder is a MirageOur Take Away from WebAIM’s Web Accessibility Practitioners Survey #2 Results
In April 2018, WebAIM conducted the Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners and published the results in the beginning of June. This is a follow-up survey to the one conducted in 2014. The results are quite surprising and in some ways, healthy too. We’ll discuss the results and our take-away in general. Practitioners’ demography 724 practitioners […]
Continue reading Our Take Away from WebAIM’s Web Accessibility Practitioners Survey #2 ResultsUnderstanding SC 1.4.4 Resize Text
Except for captions and images of text, text can be resized without assistive technology up to 200 percent without loss of content or functionality. (Level AA). This success criterion requires that the text – both static and that are part of user interface components that are visible to the users must be resizable (scalable) to […]
Continue reading Understanding SC 1.4.4 Resize TextWCAG 2.1 is a W3C Recommendation
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 is now a W3C Recommendation. This is an evolution of W3C’s accessibility guidance, including expansion of mobile, low vision, and cognitive and learning provisions. It maintains W3C’s accessibility guidance, while maintaining W3C’s standard of implementable, technology neutral, objectively testable and universally applicable accessibility guidance. Publication as a W3C Recommendation […]
Continue reading WCAG 2.1 is a W3C RecommendationUnderstanding SC 1.4.5 Image of text
If the technologies being used can achieve the visual presentation, text is used to convey information rather than images of text except for the following: (Level AA) Customizable: The image of text can be visually customized to the user’s requirements; Essential: A particular presentation of text is essential to the information being conveyed. Note: Logotypes […]
Continue reading Understanding SC 1.4.5 Image of textUnderstanding SC 2.1.1 Keyboard
2.1.1 Keyboard: All functionality of the content is operable through a keyboard interface without requiring specific timings for individual keystrokes, except where the underlying function requires input that depends on the path of the user’s movement and not just the endpoints. (Level A) Note 1: This exception relates to the underlying function, not the input […]
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