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Accessible User Experience & Design Give Your Site Some Focus! Tips for Designing Useful and Usable Focus Indicators

New from Deque: Learn how to design effective focus indicators that are accessible and comply with WCAG standards for website a11y.

Accessibility Best Practices Widgets promise accessibility in the UAE, but they’re falling short. Discover a better approach.

Moving beyond accessibility widgets is essential to achieve compliance, limit risk, and ensure access to your products and services.

Company News & Updates Advancing AI for axe: The next leap in digital accessibility

New capabilities coming in 2025 include advanced rules, AI-assisted testing for Intelligent Guided Tests, accessible coding with AI agents, and Axe Assistant for Slack and Teams.

European Accessibility Act No budget, no program, and the EAA deadline looming.

In this client story, a retailer selling in multiple EU countries urgently needed to address EAA compliance. Discover the strategic guidance we gave them.

A11y for Developers The Anatomy of Accessible Forms: The Problem with Placeholders

Instructions help users to submit forms successfully. However, if the instructions are provided with a placeholder attribute, then the user might not be able to use that instruction effectively.

Accessible User Experience & Design How to Design Great Alt Text: An Introduction

For developers & designers, it is not easy to determine when to use alt text & how to make it effective. Visit our blog to learn how to write concise, accessible alt text.

Accessibility Best Practices Ensuring negative numbers are available for everyone

How do screen readers interpret negative numbers? Let's explore how negative numbers should be formatted and coded to be accessible to all.

Accessibility Best Practices My experience voting as a person with a disability

Follow along as Deque's Patrick Sturdivant goes through the process of voting in person using the latest accessible voting technology.

Accessibility Best Practices How keyboard testing improves digital accessibility

Keyboard testing improves digital experiences for all users. Learn how to boost keyboard accessibility with simple, effective steps.

Accessible User Experience & Design How to make interactive charts accessible

Follow these best practices to ensure that your interactive charts are accessible to all users, including those with disabilities.

A11y for Developers Now available: The new axe DevTools Jira integration! Save time on issue tracking today.

Thanks to our new axe DevTools Jira integration, you can now track and resolve accessibility issues as efficiently as any other development task.

A11y for Developers Building accessible apps with Next.js and axe DevTools

Learn about combining intelligent defaults from Next.js with specialized tools like Deque's axe DevTools to build apps that are both fast and accessible.

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