virtual conferences have gained importance than never before. With very low attendance and presence and withdrawal of some accessibility conferences such as CSUN 2020, South by Southwest, there was a buzz in #a11y community to have a platform to have the missed sessions through. A Future Date Online Conference Was Born Few voluntary accessibility enthusiasts […]

Accessibility Inspector is now built into Mozilla FireFox 61. This feature will give a wonderful opportunity for the accessibility testers and consultants to review the accessibility properties of any element and provide a detailed description for the audit report. In this article let us understand , how to enable it and use the feature. Screen […]

This document is updated on December 28th, 2019 after the Web AIM 8th screen reader survey results published in second half of 2019. Jump directly to the comparison table Picking up the right screen reader and browser combination is critical for accessibility testing. Use of NVDA on windows desktop and laptop platform is increasing from […]

Testing with a screen reader is one of the major activities while making a website accessible. For non-screen reader users it will be hard hearing the robotic voice output through-out the day. On the other hand they might be missing important information spoken out by the screen reader. Sometimes that make huge difference in identifying […]

Paul J Adam the well known expert in the accessibility industry has published bookmarklets for testing the accessibility bugs on web pages. These bookmarklets are easy to use. All that you need is a web browser and internet connection to use them. Installing and using Paul Adam accessibility bookmarklets Point your browser to http://www.pauljadam.com/bookmarklets/index.html or […]

The visual presentation of text and images of text has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1, except for the following: (Level AA) Large Text: Large-scale text and images of large-scale text have a contrast ratio of at least 3:1; Incidental: Text or images of text that are part of an inactive user interface component, […]