WebAIM November 2023 Newsletter

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Feature

Mobile Accessibility Evaluation Tools

Testing a mobile app for accessibility relies on most of the same rules as web accessibility, but it requires different tools. This article introduces a few tools that make evaluating mobile accessibility more straightforward.

Upcoming WebAIM Events

• Document Accessibility Course - November/December cohort is now open for registrations
• Virtual Web Accessibility Training - January 9-10
• Virtual Strategic Web Accessibility Workshop - January 10-11 & 17-18

Resources

How To Avoid Breaking Web Pages For Keyboard Users

When we are not considering the experience of keyboard users, we should expect that our websites are significantly more difficult to use for many people with disabilities.

Top 5 ARIA Implementation Errors

When we perform accessibility testing of these web pages, we come across several incorrect implementations of ARIA attributes. Such incorrect implementations are found not only in components but also in static web page content.

Name/Role/Value – Whose Role Is It Anyway?

As I started to wade through this client’s assessment results, I noticed some key themes. In this case, more than half... HALF!!!... of the issues were related to Name/Role/Value.

The true cost of not prioritizing accessibility: Avoid risk and maximize product ROI

Any product manager who's been around long enough knows that accessibility for people with disabilities is important. Making products digitally accessible is the right thing to do. And if you're not accessible, it creates risk for litigation.

Accessibility annotation kits only annotate

An uncomfortable truth is that the vast majority of access-related issues are created in the design phase. Accessibility annotation kits help tackle this problem, and in doing so lower the downstream issues that would be created without their presence.

Creating Accessible UI Animations

Animation and accessibility are often seen as two separate powers at odds with one another. How is it possible to strike a balance between elements that move and the possible negative effects they expose to users who are sensitive to motion?

Lost in Translation: Tips for Multilingual Web Accessibility

Internationalization and localization efforts have a lot in common with web accessibility. Both are domains of usability with the express goal of ensuring audiences are included by an interface, rather than excluded from it.

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.

Quick Tip: VoiceOver Mobile Testing

iPhones, iPads, and most other Apple devices include the VoiceOver screen reader. On mobile devices, basic testing can be accomplished as simply as starting the screen reader in the settings, navigating to a web page, and swiping with two fingers upward on the screen to cause the screen reader to read the entire screen. Other VoiceOver functionality is described in WebAIM's VoiceOver on Mobile article.

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