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SwiftUI & Accessibility: Goodies & Gotchas Part 1
Let's review the out of the box accessibility features that come with the SwiftUI framework for native iOS development.
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Design Systems Teams: Understand Your Users So They Can Serve Theirs
For a design system to be consumable and gain traction, teams should understand their users while focusing on usability and accessibility simultaneously. The accessibility information included in the system will be useless if it’s not targeted and appropriate to the audience.
One fish jumping away from group into a new bowl with an accessibility icon in it (Change Management illustration for part 3)
Change Management for Accessibility: Plan Do Check Act (PDCA) Model
Let's review the plan, do, check, act (PDCA) change management model for accessibility, which includes monitoring and adjusting steps to help foster organizational change.
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Accessibility Legislation & Regulation Roundup – A LOT Happened in Just July
Let's look at the regulatory and legislative movements and pending deadlines around the world for digital accessibility compliance.
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Accessibility in Agile Transformational Practices
There are a lot of myths out there that you can’t do accessibility in an agile development environment. This posts disproves those myths and covers how your team can practice accessibility in your agile transformational practices.
Aria-required=true: WCAG 2 Compliance versus Best Practice
When developing an accessible form, consider these four situations to determine the best way to indicate that a field is required.
One fish jumping away from group into a new bowl with an accessibility icon in it (Change Management illustration for part 4)
Change Management for Accessibility: ADKAR Model
To achieve accessibility with larger organizations, changes just get more complex, and the ADKAR Change Management Model is the strategy to best follow.
Screenshots of the new color contrast analyzer tool in the axe DevTools extension showing (1) the tool has found color contrast issues that need further review, (2) the tool using machine learning to see if any issues can be resolved automatically, and (3) the results: some issues were resolved, some were move to automatic issues, and some still need to be manually reviewed.
Axe DevTools Extension Update: New Color Contrast Analyzer
With this release, Pro users can now leverage the power of our machine learning algorithms to determine if any “needs review” color contrast issues are, in fact, are issues or not.
Will Accessibility Become Increasingly Important for SEO?
With Google's upcoming Core Web Vitals update, the SEO community is focused on UX. Will we see a similar algorithm update promoting accessibility soon?
Accessibility Testing with aXe-core and WebdriverJS
integrating axe-core into your tests, you can add coverage for accessibility without having to become an expert
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Accessibility Program Fundamentals: Choosing the right accessibility metrics
Choosing the right digital accessibility analytics is critical to the long-term success of your accessibility testing efforts.
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Name/Role/Value – Whose Role Is It Anyway?
Leverage the testing results and data you already have on hand to identify micro-education moments for your team. Use this to quickly solve issues to root cause and improve quality, which in turn will allow you to scale quickly.