Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which exists as a yearly reminder that about 1 billion people in the world have some form of disability, and that among other things, digital products and services should be usable and accessible to all regardless of ability. In this post I’ll list three simple things you can do… Continue reading Three Things to Instantly Improve the Quality of Your Front-End Code
Category: Accessibility
Detecting Windows High Contrast Mode for New and Old Browsers
There was a good post by Scott O’Hara last Thursday on how to detect Windows High Contrast mode in JavaScript and CSS. The most straight forward way to do this is to use their media queries in CSS (forced-colors: active and prefers-color-scheme: dark, respectively). While the media query for forced-colors works well with all modern… Continue reading Detecting Windows High Contrast Mode for New and Old Browsers
Talk: What You Need to Know about the EU Accessibility Directive
This is a transcript of a talk I did at WordCamp Turku on the 28th of September, 2018. The slides to my talk are on Slideshare. I will update this post with a video when that is available.
The Paciello Group on accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders
I’ve always thought the prompts on booking sites that tell you there are only 2 rooms left were annoying, but hadn’t considered them an accessibility issue until now. Good read, and there’s a second part coming too. The web is awash with all manner of so-called dark patterns, designed to convert visitors and part them… Continue reading The Paciello Group on accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders
Not Our (Accessibility) Problem
I was walking around town with my 1-year-old daughter, who was in a push-chair. We were at the basement level of a new shopping center, following the signposts to get to the exit nearest to a bus stop. At one point, there was a flight of stairs, with a small lift next to them, so… Continue reading Not Our (Accessibility) Problem