Web Accessibility Resources

In this section you can find a curated list of resources related to web accessibility, including (but not limited to):

  • references to web accessibility standards and guidelines, along with supporting documents to help you make content conforming to them;
  • testing tools and evaluation techniques, to help you evaluate the conformance of your content to those standards;
  • frameworks and libraries designed to help you develop accessible websites and applications.

Resources

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Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0

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Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation that extends the WAI-ARIA specification to define a set of roles aimed at helping users of assistive technologies navigate through long-form documents.

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Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Report Tool

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Being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) report tool is a web service designed to help accessibility testers and evaluators report on the accessibility of authoring tools.

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Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Overview

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ATAG overview is a document that introduce the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 standard. It describes the “ratio” behind this specification, as well as providing all the context that is necessary to understand why things have been organized in “the way they are”.

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Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) at a Glance

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ATAG at a glance is a document that paraphrases and summarizes Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 with (hopefully) clearer, more understandable terms. The main intent of this document is to help people understand the content of the ATAG specification, summarizing and paraphrasing concepts that may be hard to grasp while reading the proper specification.

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Adee Comprehensive Accessibility Tool

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Available as a plugin for Adobe Xd and Figma (with support for Sketch coming soon), Adee is a “comprehensive accessibility tool” you can install to integrate accessibility directly in your design workflow.

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Considering the User Perspective: a Summary of Design Issues

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In this guide from WebAIM you can find a summary of the problems a user may experience with regards to web accessibility. Problems are classified by disability, so that it can be clearer why they are an issue and what may be the most appropriate solution.

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Design Considerations: One Size Fits All?

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When it comes to making a website or application accessible, sometimes it is tempting to elaborate different designs to accommodate people with different needs. In this guide from WebAIM you can find a brief overview how the pros and cons of this choice when compared to the available alternative: a single design, that tries to accommodate all needs of people with disabilities.

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Web Accessibility for Designers

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The process of creating an accessible website or application begins much earlier than the first line of code that implements it is written: the visual design of a page or screen can have a very significant impact!

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Text Spacing Bookmarklet

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People with visual impairments may use certain typographic settings to make web pages more readable, but they can have an impact on the layout of your page.

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Font Finder

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Font Finder is a very simple browser extension (currently available for Google Chrome only, and compatible with Microsoft Edge) that allows you to easily inspect all font-related properties for each element in a web page.

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Magnifying Glass (Hover Zoom)

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Available for Google chrome and Mozilla Firefox (and compatible with Microsoft Edge as well), Magnifying Glass (Hover Zoom) is a simple browser extension that allows you to magnify a limited area of a web page.

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