It is a sunny day. The sun is so dazzling in your eyes as you are walking in to your office from lunch. You want to finish up an email so quickly but your eyes are not so obedient to look at the computer screen as it has just entered a contrastive suddenness and they […]
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Our 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 2.3.1 Three Flashes or Below Threshold
2.3.1 Three Flashes or Below Threshold: Web pages do not contain anything that flashes more than three times in any one second period, or the flash is below the general flash and red flash thresholds. (Level A) Note: Since any content that does not meet this success criterion can interfere with a user’s ability to […]
Continue reading Understanding SC 2.3.1 Three Flashes or Below Thresholda11yTools For IOS by Paul J Adam
One of the difficult tasks of an accessibility consultant is to run automation testing on mobile web as the screen size is small & browsers doesn’t support the installation of regular plug-ins; we need to depend on Bookmarklets or connect the device to a MAC or a Desktop machine & conduct the testing using alternative […]
Continue reading a11yTools For IOS by Paul J Adam6 Open Source Accessibility Tools
A curated list of open source accessibility tools that will enable automation of web accessibility testing more affordable & easier. axe Accessibility Rules Engine by Deque Systems The Accessibility Engine for automated testing of HTML-based user interfaces. Drop the aXe on your accessibility defects! tota11yAn accessibility visualization toolkit. Automated Accessibility Testing Tool (AATT) Browser-based accessibility […]
Continue reading 6 Open Source Accessibility Tools25 Browser Extensions to Perform Accessibility Testing Effectively
The following browser extensions will help evaluate various accessibility testing tasks. This list is continuously updating so please feel free to add more extensions in the comments or notify if any of the extensions are outdated. Chrome Extensions NerdeFocus When activated, NerdeFocus displays the focus history with CSS selectors, and overlays an easy-to-follow focus indicator […]
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