20+ Best Articles on Accessibility
The most useful articles and videos on accessibility from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Accessibility Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on accessibility by Refind users.
Videos
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The Greatest | Apple
At Apple, we believe accessibility is a human right. Innovative features like Door Detection, Sound Recognition, Voice Control, and more are designed to let ...
Accessibility: the land that time to interactive forgot
We tend to think of performance in terms of latency, code optimization, and things like the critical rendering path, but what happens when the browser create...
What is ...?
New to #accessibility? These articles make an excellent introduction.
WebAIM: 8-Step Implementation Model - Introduction: Overview of a Model of Reform
The impact of disability access issues may be minimal on small, infrequently-accessed web sites, but the impact of web accessibility issues on sites of large organizations, such as universities,…
How to ...?
How to pick more beautiful colors
Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.
«Thereβs no need to rely on hues from all around the color wheel like ⬀⬀⬀⬀⬀⬀ for your visualizations. It will look more professional β and therefore more trustworthy β when it only uses a few hues and their neighbors.»
How to use colors in UI Design
Practical tips and tools.
«Red: Passion, Love, Danger Blue: Calm, Responsible, Safe Black: Mystery, Elegance, Evil White: Purity, Silence, Cleanliness Green: New, Fresh, Nature»
Trending
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Building an accessible theme picker with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. by Sarah L. Fossheim
In this tutorial, weβll use HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript to add an accessible theme picker component to a website.
A new accessibility strategy for the GOV.UK Design System
A design system can be tricky to make accessible, with its many parts and users. Weβve made an accessibility strategy to help increase our chance of success.
Do No Harm Guide: Centering Accessibility in Data Visualization
This third volume in the Do No Harm Guide series from the Urban Institute seeks to provide in-depth lessons on how to create visualization products that are more accessible to disabled people.
All of Learn Accessibility! is available
All modules have now been published.All modules in the Learn Accessibility course are now available. Written by Carie Fisher, these courses take you through the essentials for building accessible…
Hello PDF, goodbye accessibility
Access to content is more important than format.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on accessibility—all under 10 minutes.
Setting up a screen reader testing environment on your computer
Published on 24 Nov, 2022 | Takes approximately 8 min to read When you're designing and developing for accessibility, performing manual testing using a screen reader is important to catch and fix…
5 Visual Treatments that Improve Accessibility
To design accessible visuals, account for color contrast, donβt rely on color alone, make interactive elements easy to identify, provide useful alternative text for images, and test your visuals with…
Designing accessible color systems
How we designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast.
How your colorblind and colorweak readers see your colors
Red, green & brown, pink, turquoise & grey, purple & blue: How red-blind and green-blind people perceive them.
Are you using an accessibility overlay to help disabled users? Don't!
Accessibility overlays are not the answer for sites looking to provide a more inclusive experience for online users with disabilities.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on accessibility.
What designers can learn from Appleβs new accessibility features
Connecting the physical and digital world to provide equal experiences and access for all
Accessible Front-End Patterns For Responsive Tables (Part 1) β Smashing Magazine
There is no universal solution for making every kind of table responsive and usable on smaller screens, so we have to rely on various patterns, which Adrian explains in this two-part series.
A Guide To Keyboard Accessibility: JavaScript (Part 2) β Smashing Magazine
This article is the second of two parts about a guide to making websites accessible to keyboard users. Here Cristian Diaz covers a toolset on JavaScript that you can mix into different components to…
A Guide To Keyboard Accessibility: HTML And CSS (Part 1) β Smashing Magazine
In this article, Cristian Diaz covers how to use HTML and CSS to create an accessible experience for keyboard users while mentioning what WCAG criteria we should keep into consideration.
Using Automated Test Results To Improve Accessibility β Smashing Magazine
In this article, Noah Mashni and Mark Steadman share their approach to how to leverage the automated test results from the accessibility checks to drive change and reach sustainable digital…
Publications
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Smashing Magazine πΊπ¦ π³οΈβπ
An online magazine for designers and web developers. Questions? We've got your back: @SmashingSupport, @SmashingConf. Curated by Iris, Vitaly and the team.
UX Collective
Curated stories on user experience, usability, and product design. By @fabriciot and @caioab.
Search Engine Land
News & analysis on #SEO #PPC #Google #Bing & more. Sister to @martechismktg @smx @martechconf. Stay in the loop: http://searchengineland.com
Chrome Developers
News & guidance for developers from the Google Chrome Developer Relations team.
Stripe
Stripe is a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Help: @stripesupport. Read: @stripepress. Status: @stripestatus.
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