Getting Started

Getting started with accessibility can be daunting. Standards, guidelines, support documents, laws, and regulations can make you feel overwhelmed; in this section you can find various resources to help you out find your way! The idea is to let you see “the big picture”, so as to make sense of where each piece in the puzzle fits.

Resources

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Test Your Android Apps Accessibility

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In this comprehensive guide by Google you can get an overview how different assistive technologies built-in into the Android operating systems and how to use them to test and evaluate the accessibility of your Android apps.

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Using JAWS to Evaluate Web Accessibility

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In this comprehensive tutorial by WebAIM you can get useful directions on how you can use [JAWS], perhaps the most used commercial screen reader, to test and evaluate the accessibility of your web page, application or document as quickly as possible.

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React and Accessibility Fundamentals

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In this video from Deque Systems, you can get an overview on how to make a web application developed using React (a very popular JavaScript framework) accessible.

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Supporting VoiceOver in Your App

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In this guide made available by Apple, you can learn all you need to know to get started adding support for VoiceOver (Apple’s built-in screen reader) to your iOS app.

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Accessibility Principles

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All requirements coming from accessibility standards and guidelines can be grouped around some basic principles, which can perhaps be much easier to grasp and consider (especially during the earlier phases of the development process).

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Earl Overview

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Provided by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), this informative document contains an introduction to the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL).

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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Accessibility Standards Overview

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This introductory document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) can be seen as an “entry point” to make it through the various (a lot of) accessibility-related standards and supporting documents provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Overview

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This guide from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) introduces the [Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules]({{z ref “act-rules.md” >}}), a set of practical rules that can be used to test the accessibility of a website or application.

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Stories of Web Users

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Imagining how people with disabilities use the Web and mobile devices can be hard. Reading all those standards, guidelines, specifications, tutorials and whatnot can be daunting, especially if you cannot make sense of the reason why your web content, mobile or desktop applications must satisfy certain requirements.

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