An experiment that proves that automatic accessibility testing is only a first step and that manual testing is vital.
Un petit projet qui déboulonne les mythes les plus répandus sur l'accessibilité.
I often hear the phrase “forward fix” used when referring to accessibility. It sounds fancy, but what it really means is “We’ll come back to the accessibility bit later”.
Understanding all the human squishiness that goes into making digital products inclusive
When creating a website, there’s a lot of factors to consider. For example, it’s especially important to ensure your site is user-friendly for all people equally. This is where website accessibility practices come into action. So what exactly is website accessibility? It’s a practice of guaranteeing sites to be equally available to people with disabilities. […]
At its core, an accessibility audit is about determining if a disabled person can use a digital experience.
"Is there a tool that checks if my website is accessible?" is a question I get asked sometimes. (Answ...
The impact that high quality mark-up can have on accessibility, performance, and discoverability.
IT departments in the Higher Education sector and elsewhere know they must commit to accessibility, but how can we take this ambition and embed it within our operations? I attempt to show how we could start that journey through shifting left.
Recent experiences have demonstrated that University staff and students expect to use online resources with a variety of devices, making full use of accessibility features such as reflow, captions, and text-to-speech. Such features benefit everyone, but especially the increasing proportion of university students who self-report a disability. University Information Technology departments know they must commit to accessibility; indeed, they have a legal obligation to do so, but how can they take this ambition and embed accessibility within their policies and processes?
Evinced has launched a suite of new testing tools that are pushing the limits of what's possible to test accessibility automatically. Read to learn about their approach and my consulting work with them.
At its core, an accessibility audit is about determining if a disabled person can use a digital experience.
This is not an article that Steve, the author, thinks should exist in a healthy industry, but the shape of our industry — especially right now — makes this sort of article very necessary and hopefully helpful to you in your job.
Do perfect Lighthouse scores mean the performance of your website is perfect? As it turns out, Lighthouse is influenced by a number of things that can be manipulated and bent to make sites seem more performant than they really are, as Salma Alam-Naylor demonstrates in several experiments.
Introduces Web Accessibility, how it can be measured, the importance of semantic HTML and practical suggestions to make your websites more accessible.
When a metric becomes a target, we've walked into a trap known as Goodhart's Law. Luckily this trap can be avoided. I'll show you how!
A list of accessibility recommendations; covering typography, content, layout and interaction.
How to set up automatic runs of Ligthouse audits on pull requests using GitHub actions.
Can you make a webpage which gets 100 score in Lighthouse and passes all the Core Web Vitals and still feels slow?
An in-depth look at Lighthouse scores across the 6.8 Million sites the HTTP Archive crawled in September 2020
According to the WebAIM million survey it’s Gatsby, but can you trust automated accessibility tests?