Just as everyone and their experience are not the same, so the persons with disabilities and their experience too. So when we talk about the low vision users, every user with low vision, his/her disability characteristics and the experience in the physical world and the digital world are so dynamic and unique. In this context, […]
Continue reading WebAIM’s Survey of Low Vision Users #2: What do we make of it?Understanding SC 1.3.1 Info and Relationship
Information, structure, and relationships conveyed through presentation can be programmatically determined or are available in text. (Level A) This success criterion requires that presentation cannot alone show the info, structure and relationship. Also, it stresses that the info, relationship and the presentation must be separated when creating websites. What do we mean by presentation? A […]
Continue reading Understanding SC 1.3.1 Info and RelationshipUnderstanding SC 1.3.3 Sensory Characteristics
Instructions provided for understanding and operating content do not rely solely on sensory characteristics of components such as shape, size, visual location, orientation, or sound. (Level A) This success criterion requires that instructions or information to understand or operate the web content do not use only visual or auditory clues. Such clues include shape, size, […]
Continue reading Understanding SC 1.3.3 Sensory CharacteristicsWCAG 2.1: What’s up with Accessibility Guidelines
The fifth of June 2018 saw a lot of buzz in the world of digital accessibility, social media and in blogs. What was this all about? Well, many may know; if no, wake up to hear, read and see Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 becoming the published recommendation. Yes, on June 5, 2018, W3C published […]
Continue reading WCAG 2.1: What’s up with Accessibility GuidelinesUnderstanding SC 1.4.3 – Contrast Minimum
The visual presentation of text and images of text has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1, except for the following: Large Text Large-scale text and images of large-scale text have a contrast ratio of at least 3:1; Incidental Text or images of text that are part of an inactive user interface component, that are […]
Continue reading Understanding SC 1.4.3 – Contrast MinimumOur 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 […]
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