If you happen to be building a Windows Universal app (or know someone who is), I just stumbled on this awesome series of posts with invaluable advice for making it more accessible.
The Best Of The Internets
Building Accessible Windows Universal Apps
The Full StackOverflow Developer
Fantastic piece on the StackOverflow-ification of our industry and the importance of craft.
Winning technology with a social purpose
This is about tech for social good, which is awesome, but one of the most interesting bits is buried near the bottom and concerns us as web designers:
According to the Office for National Statistics, in May, 27% of disabled adults had never used the internet, compared with 7% of non-disabled adults. And last month’s report by the Extra Costs Commission found that part of the reason disabled people typically face £550 in extra living costs is due to the lack of ability of many of them to shop around online. Too many sites are not accessible to those with disabilities.
Microsoft Edge and Web Components
A follow-up to yesterday’s post, answering many of your questions about Web Component support in Edge.
Thinking About Web Accessibility Differently
This is a fantastic piece and perfectly echoes what many of us have been saying:
Accessibility isn’t just a legal mandate or list of requirements. It’s really about people. You.
Bringing componentization to the web: An overview of Web Components
Travis Leithead and Arron Eicholz offer some insight into the state of Web Components and what it means with regard to Microsoft’s Edge browser.
Braille tablet can convert text for blind users and let them read, write and chat
This looks so cool!
Introduction to mobile accessibility, 2015
Slides from Henny Swan’s AccessU 2015 workshop. Fantastic material in here—definitely worth a look.
And if work like this is your cup of tea, Twitter is hiring a mobile accessibility engineer.
The National Federation of the Blind Announces Partnership with Expedia, Inc. to Optimize Accessibility of Expedia.com and Travelocity.com Sites
Proof that not all accessibility issues require a lawsuit to effect change.
Using the Web Speech API to simulate CSS Speech support
A nice overview of the promise of CSS Speech—which is not implemented anywhere, yet—and how it can be (roughly) simulated using JavaScript’s Web Speech API.