WCAG 1.1.1 Non-text content
Success Criterion 1.1.1 Non-text content All non-text content that is presented to the user has a text alternative that serves the equivalent purpose, except for the situations listed below. Controls,…
Accessibility Courses and Certifications
It’s good to see there is increased interest to pursue career in the area of accessibility. There are also growing opportunities. It’s important to have more people with accessibility knowledge…
Accessibility Review: IRCTC Next Generation Ticketing System portal
IRCTC (Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation) has recently revamped it’s portal and good news is that users do not require to login to check availability of tickets, search trains etc.,…
WCAG 2.1 is now a proposed recommendation
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 has become a proposed recommendation a while ago. This is possibly a last step before a standard becomes W3C recommendation. In short, this process…
Missing alternate text: GAAD count down!
To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we will posting about common accessibility issues each day from today. Objective of this initiative is to let product owners know about how they are…
Updated Web Accessibility Checklist – Perceivable
Back in 2010, we have published a Quick Web Accessibility Checklist that received a good response and we have also received a good feedback. It’s true that users prefer to have a…
How to add alternate text to images?
Authors note: This is a re-published post due to an unavoidable technical issue. In continuation to our post <alt> Campaign: Let’s make images on the web accessible, here are a…
<alt> Campaign: Let’s make images on the web accessible
Authors note: This is re-published post due to an unavoidable technical issue. A picture speaks several words. Use of images over the internet is increasing everyday. It’s essential they are…
Colours with Good Contrast – Accessibility Tips
Today colours play a big role in design. It’s important to ensure that there is sufficient contrast between foreground and background. For regular text, there should be minimum ratio of…
Heading Structure – Accessibility Tips
Right heading structure improves user experience and provide easy access to content. It’s essential to mark up using real HTML heading mark-up and not just styling as headings. Often times…
WordPress goes WCAG – a big achievement
Yes, this is big achievement for a content management software to be WCAG complaint! We love Word Press for several years now and one of the main reasons for that…
Skip links – What, why and how?
What are Skip links? Skip links is something we don’t see in most of the websites. “Skip links” helps users (especially the keyboard users) to jump directly to a block…
