Digital Accessibility Books
Digital accessibility books: does anyone still write them? Or read them? You bet they do!
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developing the web
web development and design
Web Directions Summit 2023
This is the conference that almost 20 years ago inspired me to throw myself wholeheartedly into the web tech industry as a freelance web designer / front end developer.
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Digital Accessibility Blogs and Newsletters
There are a lot of people out there writing blog posts and email newsletters about digital accessibility.
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Writing Accessible Form Messages
Forms are everywhere on the web. The words we use to tell users how to fill in online forms are very important, and become critical for people with some kinds of disabilities.
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Overlays: Just Another Disability Dongle
Accessibility overlays are nothing more than Disability Dongles, “contemporary fairy tales that appeal to the abled imagination”.
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Web Directions and Me
Web Directions and I go way back. Back even to before Web Directions was Web Directions.
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You Deserve a Tech Union, by Ethan Marcotte
For someone brought up in a family with an abiding belief in the power of collective bargaining and the need for unionisation, it may seem odd that I’ve only ever been a union member for the relatively short period when I was an actor and a member of Actors Equity of Australia, before it merged
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Managing Multiple WCAG Failures
Identifying different kinds of multiple failures and understanding their nature helps web developers, designers, and content authors create accessible websites, and auditors to provide better guidance when they don’t.
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WCAG 3.0: Further On Up the Road
Back in December 2022, we published a blog post covering what was in the latest Working Draft of the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Version 3, published on 7 December 2021. We’ll call that WCAG3, for short. WCAG3 is designed to be the replacement for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2. Note the difference in name,
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Making Numbers in Web Content Accessible
Numbers are a key part of how we express ourselves and communicate with each other. They are often used to express concepts that are critical to our way of life: cultural, financial, medical, legal … numbers play an enormously important role in our lives. It makes sense, then, that when we use numbers in web
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