You can have a comprehensive design system that contains a slew of well-structured components, thorough documentation, thoughtful guidelines, and a well-considered design language. But if a design system user can't get done what they're trying to get done, the whole system risks obsolescence. Produ| Brad Frost
Well structured content helps everybody understand and navigate documents. When coded properly in the HTML, headings, lists, and landmarks help people who use screen readers (software that reads what’s on screen) both scan and navigate pages.| TetraLogical
It takes time and effort to embed sustainable accessibility into an organisation. It cannot be achieved through disconnected activities like assessments or training (although such things can be useful in their own right); sustainable accessibility needs a co-ordinated and evolving plan that encompasses every aspect of the organisation.| TetraLogical
Visible focus styles help us to understand which part of a web page we may be interacting with. You may have seen visible focus styles appear as an outline around a link or a button for example. For people who only use a keyboard to navigate the web, visible focus styles may be one of the few ways to understand where they are in a page and what it is that they are interacting with.| TetraLogical
A target size is the area that can be activated in order to interact with an element. For people who have dexterity issues, the smaller a target size is, the more difficult it may be to use the website. This post explores how to create usable, consistent, and well-spaced target sizes.| TetraLogical
Most websites have common areas of content like a header and footer, a main content area, and one or more navigation blocks. Sighted people can identify these areas based on the way they're styled and the content they contain, but people who are blind cannot do that quite as efficiently. Landmarks, like headings and lists, offer screen reader users a more comparable experience for identifying and navigating between these areas of content.| TetraLogical
Good contrast is about using colours that provide enough variation between the content and background. This is particularly important for people who have conditions that affect vision or colour perception, as well as people browsing on mobile in different light conditions.| TetraLogical
Text descriptions are primary content, and when images do not have a text description, anyone who cannot see the image will not know its purpose. This means people may be unable to access content or perform related tasks.| TetraLogical
In our fifth and final post from our browsing with assistive technology series, we discuss browsing with speech recognition. You can also explore browsing with a desktop screen reader, browsing with a mobile screen reader, browsing with a keyboard, and browsing with screen magnification.| TetraLogical
In our third post from our browsing with assistive technology series, we discuss browsing with a keyboard. You can also explore browsing with a desktop screen reader, browsing with a mobile screen reader, browsing with screen magnification and browsing with speech recognition.| TetraLogical
An Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) is a document that formally summarises the extent to which an information and communications technology (ICT) product or service conforms to an agreed set of international accessibility guidelines and standards.| TetraLogical
In our second post from our browsing with assistive technology series, we discuss mobile screen readers. You can also explore browsing with desktop screen readers, browsing with a keyboard, browsing with screen magnification and browsing with speech recognition.| TetraLogical
In our first post from our browsing with assistive technologies series, we discuss desktop screen readers. You can also explore browsing with a mobile screen reader, browsing with a keyboard, browsing with screen magnification and browsing with speech recognition.| TetraLogical
