"HOW CAN I MAKE X ACCESSIBLE?" As an web accessibility specialist, I get this question all the time. Not only novices ask these questions; sometimes seasoned web developers like myself get stum...
IE is dead. It should have died a long time ago (didn't it die already). But I have nostalgia for that nightmarish piece of software because, ironically, it made people care about web standards...
http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2022/06/16/r-i-p-internet-explorer-a-hate-filled-love-letter/
A lot of people call people who can't use inaccessible technology "disabled". As someone who has a blind father and a deaf mother, I challenge the use of that word. If we make inaccessible digit...
http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2020/07/24/people-are-not-disabled-we-create-disabling-things/
In the past, I have been an accessibility lead on a project that had videos with scenes that could potentially cause seizures. When I approached the video creators about these issues, they said ...
http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2020/07/19/how-to-fix-seizure-inducing-sequences-in-videos/
A lot of tech savvy people are over 35, which is the age when a lot of people normally lose sharpness in their vision. They use their browser's text resize functionality in order to read pages w...
Accessible modals aren’t hard to make, and you can make your modal dialogs accessible if you keep four simple requirements. Implementing them can be done easily by using the code examples in t...
Photosensitive Epilepsy should be a concern to anyone creating any type of animated media. As a matter of fact, in order to pass WCAG Level A, a web page cannot "contain anything that flashes mo...
http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2017/04/02/using-peat-to-create-seizureless-web-animations/
Placeholder text is used quite a bit in modern HTML5 forms. It is not meant to replace form labels, but is intended to be a hint about the format of what the form field data should take. While c...
http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2017/02/20/accessible-form-placeholder-text/
Firefox, unlike every other browser on the planet, changes the way that keyboard navigation works in designs that use the CSS order property. Since a lot of developers use flexbox, this can crea...
One of the most common and straightforward accessible features of a web site is the "skip navigation" link. These links are intended to make it easier for users with screen readers to skip all t...