We all love shopping, don’t we? But when there are blockers to complete the purchase or add something to the cart, it just adds to frustration and disappointment that takes you someplace where you can complete the purchase. This could result into loss of revenue and customers. In today’s diverse digital space, ensuring that your […]
Tag: Accessibility Testing
Explore how cognitive disabilities intersect with digital accessibility as we uncover the complexities of cognitive and neurological disabilities and shed light on their impact on digital experiences. Uncovering common pitfalls that can inadvertently exclude users with conditions like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, migraines, and more, we’ll review real-world examples and practical insights. Learn how small changes […]
Over the past two years, in collaboration with the /r/blind community, we conducted a web accessibility survey across many online communities to gather feedback from individuals with disabilities about their web accessibility experiences and associated challenges. Over the course of 2023, despite platform concerns from Reddit regarding accessibility, the survey received over 1,200 submissions. This […]
Automated accessibility tools like Lighthouse and Axe are excellent for quickly detecting issues on your site. However, they can’t replace the value of human experience in testing for accessibility. To ensure your site is truly accessible, it’s necessary to perform manual testing, either by yourself or with actual users, rather than relying solely on automated […]
Digital accessibility is an important feature in the development and design of digital components we use every day, but despite the importance and compliance guidelines, a number of people with disabilities still struggle to engage with digital platforms. There are currently several laws that enforce Accessibility standards and guidelines around the world, however in Africa, […]
Have you been tempted to use the WordPress API to drive a SPA (Single Page Application)? SPAs are notorious for being inaccessible, and for good reason. Tutorials introducing developers to frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular seem like they never take accessibility into consideration at all and teach some less than ideal practices. It is […]
Page builders, such as Elementor and Divi, can make building a website easier, but are they really accessible? Scarlett will be diving into the accessibility concerns and common issues that come with using page builders. She’ll be going over the accessibility red flags you need to look out for, some common fixes, and the do’s […]
Every company is strongly invested in their brand colors, even when these don’t meet contrast ratio requirements against their site’s background color. From an accessibility specialist’s perspective, it’s essential to know where these colors cannot be used, but from a designer’s practical and aesthetic perspective, it’s important to know where and how they can safely […]
New applications and components in web and mobile are being built at light speed. The velocity that companies deliver is at an all time high, and accessibility is seemingly always left out or seen as “too much” for this fast pace. As much as we all want organizations development teams to just know Accessibility, it […]
As a web developer, learn how to perform keyboard and screen reader testing to identify issues with your website’s code conformance to WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards and what code changes you can make to remediate the issues you find. The talk includes brief demos of using both keyboard and screen readers to interact with […]