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WCAG 2: Guidelines and Guardrails · Eric Eggert
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A blog post about the two standards that are actually inside of WCAG 2.
on Dec 2
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Two different kinds of “focusable” UI elements · Eric Eggert
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In accessibility, “focusable” UI elements are represented by two separate yet equally important concepts: the elements who can be focused …
on Nov 18
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Much Ado About No Lists · Eric Eggert
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In the past two days, people noticed that VoiceOver (VO) on top of Safari is not reading list semantics when the list is not styled in a …
on Oct 31
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My grief with WCAG’s “In Brief” · Eric Eggert
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“In Brief” sections overly simplify what WCAG success criteria are all about, they miss their target audience, and they make the design of the pages way less coherent by splitting up normative and non-normative content.
on Sep 8
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WCAG’s A and AA distinction is mostly academic · Eric Eggert
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On Mastodon, Steve Faulkner shared a link to a GitHub discussion around the A, AA, and AAA levels of WCAG (Web Content Accessibility …
on Aug 30
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The infuriating inefficiency of accessibility audits · Eric Eggert
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Accessibility audits are the bread and butter of every accessibility consultancy. It’s an easy to package product that clients have learned to ask for and buy. They have expectations on the deliverables and the form of an audit. Audits are usually also thorough, following established...
on Jul 29
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Accessibility is a part of inclusive design and disability rights · Eric Eggert
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Accessibility is mainly a set of practices that allow practitioners to build their product in a way that does not introduce obvious barriers for users. To do that effectively, of course they need to learn about the disabled experience and how people (in my case) use the web. And hopefully that...
on Jul 15
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In detail: 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast (User Interface Components) · Eric Eggert
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The Web Content Accessibility Guideline’s (WCAG) Success Criterion 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast is one of the harder to understand requirements. Here’s a deep-dive into the details of it, including practical examples, concerning only its “User Interface Components” section.
on Jun 26
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Automated testing won’t solve web accessibility · Eric Eggert
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Over the past few years, accessibility companies have started to develop tools that claim to find accessibility problems automatically. Often the idea is that “automated testing is not quite there yet, but in a few years there will be a revolution”. I don't believe that.
on Jun 25
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“AI” won’t solve accessibility · Eric Eggert
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In our tech-focused society, there is this ever present notion that “accessibility will be solved by some technology”. But it won’t. Making things accessible is a fundamentally human challenge that needs human solutions in human contexts.
on Apr 12
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In the last couple of weeks, I had some encounters that made me think about the state of ableism. Turns out that despite a lot of slow but …
on Apr 5
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Access by a thousand curb cuts · Eric Eggert
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How progress over perfection makes the world a more accessible place, fixing one barrier at a time.
on Mar 9
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It’s the hope that kills you · Eric Eggert
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Musings about the accessibility industry.
on Feb 3
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No Accessibility Without Disabilities · Eric Eggert
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People who are tasked with remediating accessibility often have little experience of how people with disabilities actually use the web. Learn how to fix that.
on Jan 23
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The Year of Focus on Focus · Eric Eggert
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I outline my yearly theme and write about some pain points over the last two years.
on Jan 5, 2024
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Level Access crosses the line; buys accessibility overlay company · Eric Eggert
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Observations about Level Access buying UserWay.
on Jan 2, 2024
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I’m not a good “retro” person. I always want to move on to the next thing. But reflecting over the past achievements is a good habit, so …
on Dec 31, 2023
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Exclusive accordions exclude · Eric Eggert
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How “Exclusive Accordions” hinder especially people with disabilities to efficiently use web pages, and why that is a reason to be careful about making it easy to implement them.
on Dec 18, 2023
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It depends, indeed. · Eric Eggert
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My friend Nicolas Steenhout has published an article about the impossibility of specificity in accessibility recommendations. It is …
on Dec 10, 2023
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Enough with the baby steps! Let’s make accessibility leaps. (My rejected axe-con submission.)
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This was my submission for axe-con 2024 which unfortunately did not make it to the conference. Let me know if the topic would be interesting for you and you would like to hear more about the topic! Title: Enough with the baby steps! Let’s make accessibility leaps. Outline: So much of our...
on Nov 13, 2023
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Inspecting websites and web views on iOS devices · Eric Eggert
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While it is often sufficient to test the mobile view of websites and applications on the desktop, with desktop browsers, it’s sometimes not enough: Some websites use device sniffing to hash out which device is used and deliver different code to users. In other instances, the web view is part of...
on Nov 4, 2023
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Use the accessibility shortcuts on iOS to speed up your testing workflow · Eric Eggert
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You can switch VoiceOver (and Voice Control) on in the iOS settings on iPhone and iPad. But this is very cumbersome if you are in the process of testing an app or website. There are quicker ways.
on Oct 31, 2023
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Accessibility in the real world
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This is a repost of a Twitter thread from August 2022. Slightly edited in format and for clarity. Accessibility must work within the constraints of an ableist world to improve things. I hope it can help to make the world a tiny bit less unjust every day. I have seen accessibility people say...
on Oct 25, 2023
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Misconceptions can kill accessibility momentum · Eric Eggert
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Reflecting on accessibility misconceptions and how new standards and technologies can add to them.
on Oct 2, 2023