Accessibility – More Than Headers and Alt-Text

You probably already know to use headers and alt-text to improve website accessibility, but it’s so much more than that. Accessibility is not just for the blind. Come learn about the different aspects of accessibility and the simple steps you can take to improve accessibility for every website you work on.

Resources

Standards

• Introduction to Accessibility
• Section 508 Standards
• Section 508 Checklist
• WCAG 2.0
• WCAG 2.0 Checklist

General

• GSA 18F department guide on accessibility
• US Web Design Standards
• WebAIM
• Simply Accessibile
• Tools and Techniques for Evaluating Accessibility by Rachel Carden

Articles

• Cognitive Disabilities and the Web: Where Accessibility and Usability Meet?
• The 6 Simplest Web Accessibility Tests Anyone Can Do
• The Web Accessibility Basics

Tools and Learning

Content

• Amara
• Readability-Score.com

Design

• WebAIM Color Contrast Checker
• Color Safe
• Color Oracle for color blindness
• What Are Affordances in Web Design?

Development

• Five Rules For Using ARIA Roles
• HTML_CodeSniffer
• axe

QA

• WebAIM Testing with Screen Readers
• Access Monitor plugin from Tenon
• Tenon
• List of Screen Readers
• WAVE
• High Contrast Mode Primer
• Manual Accessibility Testing