Quoting the corresponding Wikipedia page, “Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing (leading), and letter-spacing (tracking), as well as adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning)”. The term typography can also refer to the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters, numbers, and symbols created by the process.
By definition, it is obvious that typography plays a significant role with regards to accessibility; in fact, it can have a significant impact on content legibility and readability. Studies in the literature have also shown that certain typographic choices can have an impact on how easy people with learning difficulties and cognitive disabilities can read and understand written content.
Typography comes into play when designing almost anything: from paper content to digital publications, including web pages, desktop and mobile applications, books, posters, and so on. Unsurprisingly, there are different accessibility guidelines that can help you out making typographic decisions keeping into account these considerations. In this section you can find references to them, as well as pointers to (hopefully useful) tools and additional support resources you can leverage in the process.
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As its name suggests, the Google Accessibility Test Framework for Android is an open source framework developed by [Google]/https://www.google.com) to help developers test and evaluate the accessibility of their android applications.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreAs its name suggests, the Google Accessibility Test Framework for Android is an open source framework developed by [Google]/https://www.google.com) to help developers test and evaluate the accessibility of their android applications.
Read moreAs the name implies, JavaScript Bookmarklets for Accessibility Testing is a suite of bookmarklets designed to let you test and evaluate various aspects of your web content accessibility.
Read moreWith over 65% of the world population being visual learners, meaning that they learn and remember best through visual communication, it is very important to make sure that all images used in these learning and communication processes are accessible.
Read moreIn this guide from WebAIM, you can read some very useful guidelines you can leverage to evaluate the accessibility of your content for people with cognitive disabilities or learning difficulties.
Read moreIn this guide provided by Apple, you can learn how to make your UIKit based app scale text in its interface automatically using Dynamic Type.
Read moreIn this document provided by Apple, you can find a collection of guidelines you should keep in mind while designing, developing and testing your app to ensure it is accessible on Apple platforms.
Read moreAll 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).
Read moreProvided 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).
Read moreIn this working group note from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the formal schema of the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.
Read moreHTML_CodeSniffer is a JavaScript library designed to be “injected” within any web page to “Check that your HTML code conforms to your coding standard”. Once executed, it checks the source code of a web page looking for “violations” of a given coding standard.
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