Most accessibility conversations stop at the web layer. Documents, PDFs, and EPUBs are where a huge chunk of real content lives, and TetraLogical's guide covers the full picture. If you're building workflows that produce documents, this is the WCAG and Section 508 foundation you need.
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https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/05/13/creating-accessible-documents/?ref=frontenddogma.com

ADA Title II Deadlines: Why So Many Teams Were Unprepared

Many cities, libraries, police departments, and public agencies are only now realizing they need to meet WCAG 2.1 AA requirements under ADA Title II.

#Accessibility #ADACompliance #WebAccessibility #WCAG #DigitalAccessibility

🚨 NEWS: HTML Semantico: La Base dell’Accessibilità senza Sforzo per le PMI

Ecco i punti chiave in breve:
💡 Hai mai aperto un sito con lo screen reader sentendo solo “div, div, div, link, div”? Noi lo sentiamo spesso. E non è un errore di chi usa il lettore vocale: è un errore di...

🚀 LINK: https://meteoraweb.com/design-web-comunicazione/html-semantico-la-base-dellaccessibilita-senza-sforzo-per-le-pmi

#accessibilità #sviluppoWeb #wCAG #form #aRIA

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The shop has 92 listings, including 25 curated template sets for varying needs and different industries.

Here’s how I preserved equal access:

- Used a semantic heading structure in the Word templates.
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I’m also providing six guides on accessible PDF export and best practices, two for each document type to help you keep your content accessible as you create.

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Accessibility Deadlines Were Delayed. Now There’s a Lawsuit

A new lawsuit from the National Federation of the Blind is challenging the delay of ADA Title II web accessibility requirements.

In this clip, Chris and Amber discuss what changed, why the deadline extensions matter, and why disability advocates are pushing back.

#Accessibility #ADACompliance #WebAccessibility #WCAG #DisabilityRights

52% — это цифра, которую дизайнерам стоит знать

Свежее исследование Стэнфорда (Nature Health, январь 2026) связало дальтонизм с поздней диагностикой рака мочевого пузыря — у пациентов-дальтоников смертность за 20 лет на 52% выше. Причина в том, что главный ранний симптом, кровь в моче, они просто не видят: цвет для них не считывается. Это медицинская история, но она точно описывает ошибку, которую дизайнеры делают каждый день — кодируют критическую информацию одним только цветом. Разбираю, как устроена эта ошибка в интерфейсах и что с ней делать на практике.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1049384/

#дальтонизм #accessibility #доступность_интерфейсов #цветовая_слепота #UXдизайн #WCAG #контраст #инклюзивный_дизайн #медицинский_UX #цветовое_кодирование

How do you make sure your apps are accessible?

We all know the reasons why our apps need to be accessible. Section 508 mandates that federal agencies and organizations receiving federal funding make their digital technology accessible to people with disabilities. Even for private companies, conforming to accessibility standards (such as WCAG, which underpins Section 508) significantly mitigates the risk of costly digital ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) discrimination lawsuits. Beyond the legal requirements of Section 508 compliance, if you make your app work primarily for you on the phone, laptop, or iPad you own, you are leaving money on the table.

If you want a way to determine whether your project is accessible, WebAIM is a great resource. WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) is a nonprofit organization based at the Institute for Disability Research, Policy, and Practice at Utah State University. Founded in 1999, it has grown into an internationally recognized leader in digital accessibility, driven by a mission to expand the web’s potential for people with disabilities. WebAIM provides comprehensive accessibility solutions, expert consulting, and specialized training to help organizations design and deliver inclusive digital content. It is perhaps best known for creating WAVE, a widely used suite of free evaluation tools that empowers web developers and content creators to easily identify and fix accessibility barriers on their sites.

WAVE (The Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool) can be used on the WAVE website, or you can do the same thing using the WAVE Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browser extensions. Because the extension runs entirely within your web browser, no information is sent to the WAVE server. This ensures 100% private, secure access to reporting. The extension can check intranet, password-protected, dynamically generated, or sensitive web pages.

No matter where your website/web application lives, if you want to see how accessible it is, you can just open the extension and get a sidebar with a score out of 10 and a list of errors to fix. As you fix the errors, you can watch the score increase until all of the errors are fixed.

Brèves d'audit #2 🔎

Aujourd'hui, on aborde le cas des intitulés de liens « lien vers… ». À vous de jouer !

L’audit révèle une non-conformité au critère 6.2 avec la recommandation suivante :

« Le lien sur le logo "Toto" n’a pas d’intitulé. Renseignez une valeur pour l’attribut alt de l’image, par exemple : alt="Lien vers le site de Toto". ».

Alors, qu’en pensez-vous ?

La réponse dans l’article : https://a42.fr/breves-audit-2

#a11y #accessibilité #RGAA #RAWeb #WCAG