I am now available to hire for speaking, consulting, training, and media engagements.| Gerard K. Cohen
The web was created for everyone, but you don't have to be an accessibility expert to make your site accessible. This course will help you attain the knowledge and skills to meet web accessibility guidelines and make your site accessible to all users.| gerardkcohen.me
It's time to shift accessibility past the designer-to-engineer handoff & expand further left, up, down, & right into other areas. This discussion is for Accessibility/DEI leaders, or anyone looking to move digital accessibility to higher levels.| Gerard K. Cohen
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.| Gerard K. Cohen
Semantics are the backbone of digital accessibility. Not just for developers, this is also crucial for designers, especially when expected to provide accessibility annotations.| Gerard K. Cohen
A massive amount of work has been done over the years to shift digital accessibility from an engineering afterthought to better planning in the design stages. However, there are lots of gaps remaining in other directions and areas to truly achieve full digital accessibility. It's time to move past the focus and responsibility being strictly on engineers.| Gerard K. Cohen
With that bit of additional CSS, we are able to return the list semantics for VoiceOver users without needing to touch the markup.| gerardkcohen.me
UPDATE June 2018 â I would like to assume that, based on this post/ conversation, Google has updated the checkbox...| gerardkcohen.me
UPDATE: A more recent version of this article was posted on CSS-Tricks: How to Disable Links. The topic of disabling...| Gerard K. Cohen
There has been a lot of talk in the last couple of weeks about whether JavaScript is needed or not...| Gerard K. Cohen
I have to be honest and say that I totally don't get the trend around Code of Conduct declarations for...| Gerard K. Cohen
I've had the great fortune of being able to stand on the shoulders of giants, whom have allowed me to reach such great heights.| gerardkcohen.me
As part of Workday's Global Accessibility Awareness Day celebration in 2023, I was invited to speak about the importance of Digital Inclusion. In this presentation, I talk about the importance and impact that companies like Workday and Atlassian have on the disability community.| gerardkcohen.me
Introducing my new course on Plurasight, Accessibility: Testing and Screen Reader Use!| gerardkcohen.me
I am extremely proud to announce that my second course, Introduction to Developing Custom Components with ARIA, has just published!| gerardkcohen.me
My first course on Plurasight, updated to include WCAG version 2.1 was just published.| gerardkcohen.me
A few months ago, I wrote about solving an issue with VoiceOver and list–style–type: none;. The response that I got was surprising, for a few different reasons.| gerardkcohen.me
Back in July, the fine folks at ForwardJS allowed me to give an| gerardkcohen.me
After being approached almost a year ago, and with about 4 months of video production and editing, I am extremely...| gerardkcohen.me
Being two former co-founders of well-known browsers and releasing brand new ones that cater specifically to user needs are not the only things in common. Unfortunately, these browser are also not...| gerardkcohen.me
Nobody ever explained to me why/ how this actually made a form accessible, but understanding why makes this even more important to get right. The answer lies in how screen readers handle interaction via keyboard.| gerardkcohen.me