The idea for this article sparked during a recent prep for a training program. I was collaborating with another accessibility professional on presentation slides when the topic of landmarks and their significance for screen reader users came up. My co-speaker pointedly asked, “Raghav, I’ve never noticed you emphasizing the importance of landmarks or using them…
Digital accessibility is an immense subject, and jobs within the accessibility space have seen a tremendous uptick in the last few years. When I initially started in web accessibility, there werehardly any jobs available, and the one or two openings had a lot of competition. The rise in awareness and active pursuit of accessible services…
The goal of this success criterion is to make the processes where repeated steps are found easier by: For example, a checkout flow in an e-commerce site asks shipping address and billing address to be entered. If both the addresses are the same, the site can provide a “My shipping address is the same as…
The goal of this success criterion is to ensure that the users find the help to complete a task in a consistent location across a set of web pages. When a help the mechanism is available in a set of web pages it is available in the same order relative to other contents of the…
The intent of this success criterion is to ensure the target of any UI element has 24 by 24 CSS PX target size or there is enough spacing provided between two targets that have undersize targets. Note that zooming or other style changes adopted by users with disabilities must not modify the target sizes. So,…
A cognitive function test (such as remembering a password or solving a puzzle) is not required for any step in an authentication process unless that step provides at least one of the following: AlternativeAnother authentication method that does not rely on a cognitive function test. MechanismA mechanism is available to assist the user in completing the cognitive function test. Object RecognitionThe…
