Accessibility is often discussed through the lens of Western, alphabetic scripts. But what happens when a single character can have five different meanings and three different pronunciations…

米国の非営利団体 WebAIM による、恒例のスクリーンリーダー利用者調査 (第11回) の結果が発表されました。調査結果の中から私自身が興味深く感じた事項を中心に、スクリーンリーダー利用に関するトレンドについてまとめたいと思います。

Very few images are truly decorative. An image can add meaning, mood, or context without providing information. It may be time for WCAG to use a better category.

米国の非営利団体 WebAIM による、恒例のスクリーンリーダー利用者調査 (第11回) の結果が発表されました。調査結果の中から私自身が興味深く感じた事項を中心に、スクリーンリーダー利用に関するトレンドについてまとめたいと思います。

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Colour blindness can get overlooked in accessible design, but it can have a significant impact on how people access the web, making it harder to notice important information, distinguish interactive…

Learn small choices you can make for a more accessible Google Form.

Adam Silver – interaction designer – London, UK

WCAG is a standard most digital accessibility professionals will have used in one way or another. Many have thoughts on how to make it better. The good news is: a new version is in progress. In this…

These principles when followed together support greater numbers of users with diverse and dysfluent speech patterns.

Principles for voice based and conversational UX design are lacking. Fluency disorders such as stuttering mean a users speech can sometimes be different or disjointed and unless this is understood…

I hear the following sentences quite often while talking to organisations about accessibility: “We have an accessibility statement available as a PDF”, “we have a contact form available” and “all the…

You’re using a password manager. The site forces you to type the password manually because it doesn’t allow clipboard access. Or you’re trying to log in. The site asks you to prov…

The market is flooded with so many accessibility overlays that it’s impossible to keep up. I’ve written about the biggest players (plus some also-rans) and provided enough technical details that most…

This session will introduce the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework and show how it is applied to several aspects of tech and accessibility. These include procurement, development, leadership,…

ウェブコンテンツに関する基本概念を整理し、アクセシビリティを確保するための原則、ガイドライン、達成基準、および適合レベルの考え方について解説するコンテンツです。あわせて、ISOの改訂に伴うJIS改正のプロセスも取り上げています。

In this post, W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Director Shawn Lawton Henry covers some of the stakes and challenges in developing W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3 that is under active…

突然ですが私は漫画が好きです。読むのも好きですが、実は自分でも描いたりしています。 ここ数年、漫画のアクセシビリティについて少しずつですが試してみており、約1年前に試みたアクセシブル漫画の裏側について紹介したいと思います。 noteでアクセシブル漫画をつくってみた …

PDF を見出し・リスト・表・リンクを持つ HTML に組み直すブラウザ拡張機能。解析はすべてブラウザ内で行い、文書を外部へ送信しません。

『具体例と解決策で学ぶ Web アクセシビリティの教科書』を読みました。ウェブサイト構築プロセスの各ステップにおいて、ユーザーの困りごとを理解し防ぐという観点で、おさえておくべき基本を解説した本です。ウェブ制作に携わる人はもちろんのこと、日頃から顧客体験を重要視しているウェブサイト運用側の人にも、ぜひ熟読してほしい一冊です。

Q&A with digital accessibility advocate Lainey Feingold Most people can agree that accessible technology is a good thing — even an essential thing. Beyond the legal requirements for digital…

Meet your hosts for the next 24 hours. We'll be having a general chat about accessibility, inclusive design, and talking about the sessions we are most looking forward to in the upcoming 24…

For most of the past decade, one project has been at the center of automated accessibility testing. It made accessibility checks a normal part of continuous integration, brought useful findings into…

There's a common misconception that when browsing the web using a screen reader, it's reading the actual screen. This is not really surprising, as the name suggests that's exactly what it's doing.…

Learn what a VPAT audit involves, how accessibility conformance testing supports an ACR, and when independent third-party testing is appropriate.

If your automated accessibility tests pass but a disabled person can’t complete a purchase, what have you actually tested? You’ve tested whatever rules the tool applies to whatever content you gave…

Nearly a month since the last newsletter. That's ok, I promised 1 or 2 editions a month, so I'm still on track! I've been busy writing. Just not for the...

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

Registration is now open for Axe-con, the world’s largest digital accessibility event, to be held virtually February 23-24, 2027.

Learn more about disability and accessibility in the business and educational settings from the expert in the field - Sheri Byrne Haber.

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

Discover the importance of cognitive accessibility in ecommerce, how it affects user experience, and how to improve it for better customer engagement.

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

アクセシビリティ関連の本を所蔵している全国の図書館を調べて一覧にしています。毎週更新。

The Web Accessibility in Mind Conference is presented by WebAIM in partnership with Pope Tech. This virtual conference will provide conference participants with content that will help them mature…

Accessibility programmes often fail to make an impact. But, in our experience, they don't fail because of a lack of standards or budget. They fail because the organisation focuses all of their…

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