Category: A11y for developers

Browse our collection of helpful resources to aide in your accessible development efforts, without impacting your development velocity.

Collaborative planning, the forgotten step of accessible development

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November 3, 2021 By Michael Fairchild

You want to create accessible user experiences. Everyone in the development team agrees. But does everyone define success in the same way? If your team…

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This Is The Way: A Phased Approach to Accessibility in the Development Lifecycle

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October 21, 2021 By Mark Steadman

In the web development community, accessibility has a bad reputation for adding more overhead and time to the development process. With almost all the development…

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Axe DevTools Updates: UI Improvements, Edge Browser Extension, and a brand new Structure Intelligent Guided Test™

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September 16, 2021 By Preety Kumar

Ahoy! We have made some exciting updates in the 4.17.x release of the axe DevTools browser extension.  In this release, you will find that Intelligent…

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ARIA Spec for the Uninitiated: Part 3

September 15, 2021 By Gerard Cohen

In the second part of this 3 part series, I went over the ARIA Authoring Practices to highlight key notices to hopefully dispel the incorrect…

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ARIA Spec for the Uninitiated: Part 2

August 24, 2021 By Gerard Cohen

In the first part of this 3-part series, I went over the ARIA standard, highlighting important sections to be aware of, and then reviewed the…

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ARIA Spec for the Uninitiated: Part 1

August 17, 2021 By Gerard Cohen

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) is a set of attributes that define ways to make web content and web applications (especially those developed with JavaScript)…

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