Global Accessibility Awareness Day, also known as GAAD has been celebrated since 2012 on the third Thursday in the month of May every year by all the accessibility professionals, accessibility enthusiasts, accessibility advocates in and around the globe. Founded by Jo Devon and Jenison Asuncion, GAAD aims to bring digital accessibility awareness and disrupt the…
Years pass by with the increased stress on digital accessibility. Every year, we do ask ourselves, Have we reached there? One good way to find the answer to that question is to take a look at the ADA digital accessibility law suits and find out if they have come down. Yet again, www.usablenet.com has published…
The goal of this success criterion is to make the processes where repeated steps are found easier by: For example, a checkout flow in an e-commerce site asks shipping address and billing address to be entered. If both the addresses are the same, the site can provide a “My shipping address is the same as…
The goal of this success criterion is to ensure that the users find the help to complete a task in a consistent location across a set of web pages. When a help the mechanism is available in a set of web pages it is available in the same order relative to other contents of the…
The intent of this success criterion is to ensure the target of any UI element has 24 by 24 CSS PX target size or there is enough spacing provided between two targets that have undersize targets. Note that zooming or other style changes adopted by users with disabilities must not modify the target sizes. So,…
A cognitive function test (such as remembering a password or solving a puzzle) is not required for any step in an authentication process unless that step provides at least one of the following: AlternativeAnother authentication method that does not rely on a cognitive function test. MechanismA mechanism is available to assist the user in completing the cognitive function test. Object RecognitionThe…
