Accessibility 2015
Accessibility
I recently did a short contract focussed around web accessibility for a client. It’s an interesting field that comes under the banner of responsive design that has it’s own set of compatability issues thanks to the many different devices and proprietary platforms that vendors provide for reading web sites accessibly.
Resources
There are a multitude of different tools and several standard’s for web accessibility.
Web Sites & Blogs
The Roles Model
The aria roles taxonomy.
Accessible Culture
This is a great resource for accessibility info. Here is a useful infographic.
Accessibility APIs
Why AAPI’s Matter W3C Guidelines
Screenreaders
Chromevox Google Talkback JAWS VoiceOver (Mac) NVDA
Validation & Checking Tools
Google Chrome - Accessibility Developer Tools
Picks up CSS Doesn’t pick up table scopes
MauveWeb
Seems to have good coverage. I found this tool to be quite useful for checking aria.
MauvWebValidate td’s with no scope don’t get flagged
AChecker
Table Scopes Support | No Support ——————— MauveWeb | | Chrome Accessibility Developer Tools | AChecker
Access Lint
Access Lint Ruby Gem
Accessibility Librarys
Platform testing
Android Studio - Google Talkback Android Emulator - install Google Play Servicces modern.ie