2023 is over, this is a short reflection about it, primarily to remember the key accessibility efforts later in life.
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4 years went fast. A small self-reflection about the blog and a bit about the future of it.
Looking back at 2022 I can say it was not bad, not bad at all. Incredible experiences, knowledge getting and sharing, contributing to open source, starting my own company, and being invited as a professional head of an newly started institute.
On 25th of November 2022 I finally got my idea out as a sole proprietorship – under the name of IDEA-lab Cerovac (IDEA as Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility and lab as laboratory).
This post tries to explain a bit about the ideas behind IDEA-lab.
Time flies, and I am WAS for two years now. Short reflection about the past and the future that WAS has for me.
As I enjoy my vacation I decided to write a bit more personal post, still related to accessibility, but no technical details.
Just a brief reflection on the business side of the accessibility equation that can easily be set on side.
European Accessibility Act will for sure have huge positive effects on the e-commerce, and I hope it will help also other sectors and small-businesses.
It’s smart to have a plan before making changes and this post is sketching my plans to improve accessibility knowledge and also help others in 2022.
First days of new year are perfect for a summarization of previous year – I like to call it retrospective. What I did for myself and also something I did for my employer and our customers… Happy new year!
A short blog of my reflections about International Day of persons with disabilities and how we should span the meaning of this day throughout the year. Digital accessibility is way easier than physical so there should be no excuses.
Common effort, interdisciplinary competence and early dialog can be the only best practice for assuring the accessibility of the final product. If we leave that team members live in their own roles then we are almost surely to fail and get into situations where the issues on the end prevent launching accessible products and flood the team with issues. Cooperation and dialog are key!
Design, development and even search engines embraced the mobile first way of thinking we should probably also start to think about the accessibility from mobile first perspective. Maybe it really is time to think about digital accessibility from mobile first aspect as well.
Project management have the power to really add to better deliveries and scope management. So it must be natural for project managers to also treat accessibility as a first class citizen, always in scope and always a part of definition of done
We remember the rule for alternative text on decorative images, right. But is it really so clear what an decorative image is. Sometimes SEO wants us to have alternative text for images that do not directly add to the information. Should we do it for the bots or should we save time for screen-reader users? It depends. As always…
At the end of the day – an email is just an HTML. But also has plain text version baked into it. And is still using tables for positioning, chances are. So here are some thoughts on how to make them accessible.
Passion for accessibility and empathy helps a lot, but it do comes down to systematic integration if we want that our organization delivers accessible deliveries and products.
2020 was a special year and not only negative, it was especially positive for the accessibility, both for the world and for me as well.
Night before Christmas – and besides all the usual wishes – I also wish a more accessible web!
A link should navigate and a button should do something is the basic idea. Semantics will be rewarded with usability and even search engines will like it, so why break the pattern.
Just a short explanation to all the developers out there that may not understand the need for skip to content links.
Just some thoughts of mine on presenting the case for accessibility to stakeholders
Inspired by a YouTube video from Una Kravets and always knowing that aria reminded me of something I had to elaborate on that (and explain a small bit on dangers of aria as well)
There are still some myths out there about what we can and can not do and there are also some best practices around use of headings. Please do use them is my advice, but it is not a thing for compliance and SEO itself. It is more about usability.
Technical debt is also possible in accessibility and can easily grow when re-using code or components.
Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law on 26th of July 1990. And it has improved accessibility for other countries too.
A lot is written on Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration and I think they should also include accessibility. Maybe we should define Continuous Accessibility as a part of them as well.
It is interesting to compare accessibility errors from a million of popular websites and see if and how are they improving or deteriorating compared to previous year.
This API is just an interface that assistive technologies and user agents use to communicate. It is important to know that there are differences between vendor solutions so testing is a bit more complex but crucial.
Search engines are actually screen readers if we simplify them so accessibility is extremely important for search engine optimization as well.
Public sector in the European Union requires accessibility statement within Web Accessibility Directive, but that does not mean that you should not have such a statement even if you are not a part of public sector or even if you reside outside EU.