I knew I was a bit different when I was in school. I did well academically, so it wasn’t immediately obvious that I had ADHD, which I was diagnosed with in my late twenties. As a child, everything seemed normal because I was doing well in exams, but I struggled to make friends and had…
Over a decade ago, I acquired the domain DigitalA11Y and began writing articles for the blog. However, it wasn’t until 2019 that I took the blog seriously. At that time, I was undergoing dialysis and needed something to focus my energy on during my free time. While working part-time, I penned my thoughts on accessibility…
Recently, while going through my LinkedIn feed, I came across a list of resources for designing for neurodiversity and decided to share it here with a wider group. As someone who posts on social media, I realized that whatever we share or create on social platforms has a short lifespan and is also hard to…
Global Accessibility Awareness Day, also known as GAAD has been celebrated since 2012 on the third Thursday in the month of May every year by all the accessibility professionals, accessibility enthusiasts, accessibility advocates in and around the globe. Founded by Jo Devon and Jenison Asuncion, GAAD aims to bring digital accessibility awareness and disrupt the…
When WCAG 2.1 came out in 2018, it introduced a new success criterion namely 1.3.5 – Identify Input Purpose. It aims to ease the auto-fill capability of browsers and other assistive technologies when web sites and apps ask the users to fill out personal information. One of the sufficient techniques suggested to test for the…
An element that represents a specific point in time. Description An element that represents a specific point in time. NOTE: At the present time, there are no WAI-ARIA properties corresponding to the datetime attribute supported on <time> in [HTML]. The addition of this property will be considered for ARIA version 1.3. Authors SHOULD limit text contents to a valid date- or time-related string,…
