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People

Alex
Chen
Product designer & accessibility advocate. Runs the Access Guide website and has made many resources about accessibility.

Hope
Turner
User experience designer and accessibility advocate.

Sara
Soueidan
Inclusive design engineer and trainer that works with companies and agencies around the world, building Web user interfaces and digital products with focus on responsive design, accessibility, performance, and cutting-edge tech.

Sarah
Fossheim
A front-end developer and inclusive designer passionate about accessibility, dataviz, and building ethical technology.
Podcasts
Accessible Design = Better Design with Derek Featherstone
Derek Featherstone teaches us how designing for people with disabilities is really just better design for everybody.
Giving a damn about accessibility
A candid handbook for designers who want to get started building digital products that everyone can use.
The Universal Page
History podcast covering Boston line type, Braille and more
Organisations
Digital.gov
Guidance on building better digital services in government.
InterAccess
An Irish accessibility consultancy that offers services in accessibility training, usability testing involving people with disabilities, audits, accessibility design reviews and conformance.
Knowbility
Leader in accessible information technology. Their mission is to create an inclusive digital world for people with disabilities.
The Centre for Excellence in Universal Design
CEUD is dedicated to enabling the design of environments that can be accessed, understood and used regardless of a person's age, size, ability or disability.
Tools
Articles
“An accessible website won’t be beautiful”… really?!
Fortunately, accessibility has been discussed a lot lately, but evidently, some biases and myths are still to be debunked.
Accessibility Myths
A list of accessibility myths debunked
Quick and Small Accessibility
Learn something new about accessibility with short and solid posts (less than 150 words).
Chasing rainbows
Andy Baio takes a shot at visualising what is like to live with colourblindness
An interactive guide to colour & contrast
A comprehensive guide for exploring and learning about the theory, science, and perception of colour and contrast.
Creative inclusion and bias breaking
Unlocking Creativity in the Name of Inclusion
Disability Language and Navigating Its Nuances
Meryl Evans talks about how to navigate the nuances of disability language. Meryl lays out the different sides of disability language, how to recover from mistakes and different scenarios to help you learn.
How People with Disabilities Use the Web
This resource introduces how people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments, use the Web.
Inaccessible PDFs? How to know when to use HTML webpages instead of PDFs
An article that goes through why to choose HTML webpages over PDFs, when to use a PDF and some scenarios.
Inclusive Design Principles
These Inclusive Design Principles are about putting people first. They are intended to give anyone involved in the design and development of websites a broad approach to inclusive design
Neurodiversity Design System
Standards and principles that combine neurodiversity and user experience design for Learning Management Systems.
Overlay Fact Sheet
No overlay product on the market can cause a website to become fully compliant with any existing accessibility standard and therefore cannot eliminate legal risk. This page is a fact sheet and gives a broad overview about accessibility overlays.
Should I Use An Accessibility Overlay?
No, and why not.
Subtitles, Closed Captions, and Open Captions: What's the Difference?
Ben Myers shares the difference between subtitles, closed captions, and open captions.
The Current State of Web Accessibility
Why are so many websites not accessible and what can be done about that
Uncovering the New Accessibility Crisis in Scholarly PDFs
A study of 20,000 academic PDFs from 2014 to 2023 has revealed an alarming trend: accessibility is getting worse, not better. Less than 3.2% of these documents meet basic accessibility standards, making it nearly impossible for blind or low-vision users to engage with the content
Why Website Accessibility Overlay Widgets & Plugins Fail Compliance
Why overlays don’t work with demonstrations from a users perspective.
WTAF is WCAG: 1.2 Time-based media?
This episode looks at 1.2 Time-based media. What if you couldn't hear a podcast, or see an action scene in a movie? There should be alternative ways to experience the things you enjoy.