What testing method should you use for accessibility? How much WCAG issue coverage do various testing methods have?
What testing method should you use for accessibility? How much WCAG issue coverage do various testing methods have?
Web accessibility is essential for web agencies. This guide covers the basics of accessibility, WCAG, VPATs, and how to add web accessibility to your agency.
Website accessibility requirements are essential for ensuring that websites are usable and inclusive for everyone, regardless of their abilities or disabilities. Failure to comply with these regulations can result in legal consequences, including lawsuits and financial penalties.
Captions and text transcripts are essential components of web accessibility. They promote inclusivity and ensure that everyone can access and understand the content provided on a website, regardless of their abilities or disabilities.
Checking for text resize and zoom functionality of a website is an important part of ensuring a website is accessible. Text resize and zoom functionalities empower users with diverse needs and preferences to customize their browsing experience.
Make sure that the promises you are making about your accessibility are realistic. You want to guarantee that particular pages will be reviewed against particular sets of criteria with consideration of the client’s budget, actual demands, and the time frame you are offering.
The titles and headings on web pages should be checked for accessibility. The order of headings and structure of a web page can assist users with navigating content in a logical way.
Delivering accessibility in your website project is important. The method you choose can affect how much time and money is spent on providing or improving the accessibility of a website.
Selling web accessibility is something you should do with all new website builds. If you aren’t selling accessibility, you are doing your clients and their customers a disservice. Accessibility is about allowing all customers to be able to use your client’s website.
Most websites are required to have a privacy policy that demonstrates transparency to users about how their personal information is being handled. Cookie consent allows users to decide whether they are comfortable with cookies being used and gives them the option to opt out if they choose. By having a
Selling accessibility to your maintenance clients and stakeholders can generate regular recurring income as well as it can make their websites more accessible and compliant with legal responsibilities. This can also help them avoid unexpected costs later on, such as legal fees and the cost of fixing the issues that
Skip links make websites easier for people who use screen readers and/or keyboard navigation. They’re shortcuts on a webpage that help people get around faster. But, on many websites, these links are missing or not properly constructed. In this tutorial, I’ll cover how to check for usable skip links. Transcript
Are your web forms accessible to all users? We cover testing forms for keyboard, focus, hover, labels, and semantic HTML markup.
We cover how to create an audit checklist using the Audit Checklist Builder tool on EasyA11yGuide.com. The checklist builder covers different types of checklists: With the builder, you can also select to include best practices or just the WCAG criteria. And you can select your level, WCAG 2.0, WCAG 2.1,
Checking a website for an accessibility statement is important to facilitate communication and avoid legal issues. If the website has an accessibility statement, you’ll want to review the statement for a commitment to digital accessibility, evidence of progress, and contact information (usually an email address). We can help you build
Slides & links from the presentation are available. Transcript [00:00:00.250]All right, introduction to accessibility. All right, first question that I always get is where are slides and links? So here’s where slides and links are. The overview for what we’re going to talk about in today’s presentation. First we will
There are companies out there that claim they can improve the accessibility of your website with a single line of code or tool, which is referred to as an overlay. They also claim they can make your site compliant with rules that don’t exist and that they will support you
We look at the factors that can determine the cost of making your website accessible. Studies have shown that when you address accessibility issues at the beginning of your project, you can save a significant amount of time and expense as opposed to waiting until the end of website development.
To answer this question, we looked at data from a study by Deque. The below table shows the WCAG 2.1 level AA criteria that Deque’s Axe product was able to test for. It also shows what percentage of errors the automated testing was able to find, and what percentage of
Your navigation menus are how people find their way around your site. You want these menus to be usable by everyone, regardless of their abilities. Why use Max Mega Menu I’ve tried a lot of menu plugins over the years, and Max Mega Menu is hands down the best for
Transcript Hi, and welcome back. Here, we’re going to show how to take a look at your website colors for accessibility. First, we are going to take a look at your existing colors and check to see if they are or are not accessible. Then we’re going to cover how
Today WCAG 2.2 has been released. But what does that mean for website owners? Legal responsibility of WCAG 2.2 In 2023, you don’t really need to worry about WCAG 2.2. Any laws on the books are in reference to 2.0 or 2.1. Generally speaking, laws lag behind guidelines by many
I’m regularly asked to take a look at plugins and see how good, bad, or ugly they are in terms of accessibility. This is the review for the Simple TOC plugin that offers easy adding of a table of contents to a post or page. Overall opinion: Good. This is
Flocksy is a design service that features unlimited design & revisions for a single monthly fee. This can be a huge help for people who have a general idea of what they want but not the skills or time to design it themselves. I’ve been using Flocksy for several projects,