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.
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In this interactive resources provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) you can view Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, principles, success criteria, techniques for satisfying them, and examples of common failures.
Read moreIn this support document available from the Google Developers portal, you can find instructions on how to get started using Lighthouse, a tool that provides “Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web”.
Read moreAccessible Name and Description Computation 1.1 is an important W3C recommendation that explains how user agents (which are not limited to web browsers only) should compute the so called “accessible name” and “accessible description” of each element found in a web page.
Read moreImplementing Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 can be considered as “a guide to understanding and implementing Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0”. In particular, this W3C Working Group Note provides useful information to authoring tool developers who wish to satisfy the success criteria in the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.
Read moreIn this tutorial you can get directions on how to provide captioning and live transcription for your meetings and webinars hosted using the Zoom communication platform.
Read moreThis is the official guide for TalkBack, the screen reader for Android developed by Google. In this guide you can find information that explains how to interact with any Android device using TalkBack, as it illustrates all the gestures and features it provides.
Read moreThis is the official documentation for Narrator, the screen reader developed by Microsoft that comes preinstalled on each PC running the Windows operating system. Other that documenting the latest improvements made to the screen reader, this manual describes its features, the supported keyboard shortcuts and provides guidance on how to use it to explore and manipulate user interfaces, web pages and other documents.
Read moreThis is the official documentation that explains how to use and configure VoiceOver, the screen reader that is available in every Apple product. Although there are many common features, using VoiceOver on each product requires slightly different knowledge.
Read moreThis is the official support documentation for the Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) screen reader. Being the official user manual for the product, it is very comprehensive and explains all the features provided by the screen reader, including the most advanced ones.
Read moreIn this comprehensive tutorial by WebAIM you can get useful directions on how you can use the free and open source NVDA screen reader to test and evaluate the accessibility of your web page, application or document as quickly as possible.
Read moreEssential Components of Web Accessibility is a document provided by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in which the relationships of different components (browsers, operating systems, specific technologies, etc) and how they contribute to web accessibility are described.
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