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GAAD – Global Accessibility Awareness Day
The third Thursday of May marks the annual GAAD – Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a day to raise awareness of accessibility and inclusion. May 15 2025 is the 14th GAAD to…
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Getting started with web accessibility (without feeling overwhelmed)
Web accessibility can feel intimidating for beginners. It’s easy to feel unqualified to even talk about them. But here’s the truth: most professionals I’ve met started without any formal certifications. The…
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Common mistake: Not performing manual checks and relying on only automated tools
“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” — Christian Lous Lange As accessibility professionals, we have an arsenal of tools and checkers to help us automate the WCAG, or…
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Web tip: WCAG in Plain English by AAArdvark
Have you ever read the official WCAG documents looking for answers regarding a specific problem, and found the requirements too vague? In that case, you are not alone. Fortunately, there are…
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Common mistake: Missing or unhelpful alt texts
One of the most common accessibility issues is missing or unhelpful alt texts. Text Alternatives is the very first guideline of WCAG: 1.1 Text AlternativesProvide text alternatives for any non-text content…
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Common mistake: Ignoring focus states on smaller screens (mobile)
I admit: in previous years you might have heard me say “focus states only apply to desktop”. Because that was often the universal truth among my project members, that is, until…
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Common mistake: Not adhering to HTML coding standards
As a frontend developer and accessibility expert, I often run into the same issues over and over again. In a series of blog posts, I will address some of these issues,…
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Welcome – and the whats and whys
Welcome to the a11yblog. That’s a-eleven-y blog, or rather accessibility blog, as the following image explains. Image by mARTin.Hinterdorfer via Wikimedia Commons This is going to be a blog on web…