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  • Accessibility, Globalization, and Internationalization: Designing for a World Wide Web

    Accessibility, Globalization, and Internationalization: Designing for a World Wide Web

    This post is based on a presentation I gave in 2019 for Intuit’s Accessibility Week in Bangalore, India: Accessibility, Globalization, and Internationalization. When we talk about building global products, we often throw around acronyms like G11n (Globalization), I18n (Internationalization), and A11y (Accessibility). Too often, these are treated as separate silos. But the truth is, if…

  • Notes from W3C Workshop on Permissions and User Consent

    Notes from W3C Workshop on Permissions and User Consent

    The problems with web permissions – W3C User consent and permissions working group Jo Franchetti developer advocate at Samsung @thisisjofrank A Crisis of Permissions Much of the value of the internet is based on user trust of the internet. As this trust is broken, the internet is devalued. The overload of permission requests is causing…

  • W3C Workshop on Permissions and User Consent

    This is a restored article from a workshop I attended in 2018. I still incorporate elements I learned from this day. Some links have been lost in time, these link to archived versions on Internet Archive. The problems with web permissions – W3C User consent and permissions working group Jo Franchetti developer advocate at Samsung…

  • Trickle Down Accessibility

    Ted Drake, Intuit Accessibility Sarah Margolis-Greenbaum, Intuit Accessibility CSUN 2018 Trickle-Down Accessibility – CSUN 2018 from Ted Drake Disclaimer This presentation is not about reducing your support for blind and low-vision. It’s about building better products by expanding your outreach. This topic could be considered controversial, but that’s not the intention. This is about expansion.…

  • Accessibility Keywords for Data Mining

    List of accessibility keywords How do you know what your customers with a disability are sharing with your company’s feedback forms and surveys? Is there an option for them to self-declare they have a disability? Probably not. The following list of keywords has been compiled from various sources and will help you data mine your…

  • Trickle Down Accessibility – A proposal for CSUN 18

    Matt May tweeted an observation in 2016 introducing Trickle-Down Accessibility and recognized prioritizing our blind customers could lead to less support for others. Sarah Margolis-Greenbaum and I will be discussing Trickle-Down Accessibility at the 2018 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference on Wednesday, March 21 at 2:20 pm in Cortez Hill C, 3rd Floor, Seaport Tower. The…

  • Find aria-hidden with this bookmarklet

    I love purpose built bookmarklets that help you find problematic code. I got an email yesterday from Travis Roth (Wayback Machine) about a potential vestigial aria-hidden attribute on an otherwise visible element. Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon to find an element that has aria-hidden=”true” on an element that is visible and should have either “false” or…

  • Accessible Font Sizing

    Accessible Font Sizing

    The biggest font size requirement is that the user is able to adjust their font size and the application inherits their preference. In Web, this means we use a relational font, such as em, rem, percentages, vm, and vh. Pixels are passable, but we don’t want to use points. Containers need to grow The BBC…

  • ARIA Label Bookmarklet

    I love simple bookmarklets that visualize coding patterns. I was working on a project today and wanted to verify that aria-labels were sufficiently descriptive. So I put together this quick bookmarklet. aria-label bookmarklet Simply drag that up to your bookmark bar and click on it whenever you need to test a page. If an element…

  • How to build your brand and get your dream job

    Update: This post was originally written in 2015. The post has been updated to reflect the accessibility community has shifted from Twitter to LinkedIn and Mastadon. I’ve also removed resources that are no longer available. I had the opportunity to visit many colleges and meet with the students as a Yahoo! Developer Evangelist. During these…

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