Category Archives: Accessibility
WCAG 3, increment or overhaul?
It’s charter time for the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, well, in 6 months, but we have to start the planning well in advance!
The charter (see the last charter) defines what we work on, and to some degree how we work on it. A question the group is considering …
Why doesn’t AI work for producing accessible code?
The short answer to the title is: Accessibility is not an average.
For a longer answer, read on.
When I run training a common refrain is: Computers don’t know what is appropriate. I illustrate that with a picture of a dog, and showing an alt text of “cat”.
Historically accessibility …
Accessibility improvements for user-agents
I’ve written about the accessibility-gap on the user-agent side before (back in 2007!), I thought it a useful time for an update. I’m trying to answer the question: What could user-agents (primarily browsers in this case) do to improve the experience of websites for people with disabilities?
You never know, …
Focus Appearance thoughts
This article was based on a previous draft of WCAG 2.2 and is no longer valid. I’m keeping it here for posterity, outlining the good ideas from the previous version, even though it was not thought practical in all cases.
I think it is fair to say that some folks …
WCAG – Priority of Constituencies
Overlay comments
There was a W3C session called “Accessibility at the Edge“, essentially trying to tackle the technical aspects of accessibility overlays. I’ll add links to the session and video if & when that is published.
I just wanted to capture my main point:
…From a first principles point of
Accessibility auditing and pushing for more
Oddities in color perception
I've seen a few posts/tweets recently highlighting apparent issues in the colour-contrast testing for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, but it isn't quite that simple.