Monthly Accessibility Focus

Videos and audio have specific accessibility guidelines, which means we know exactly what we need to do. But, it can take time and resources to make accessible videos, so this month, we’ll go over tips and hints to making accessible videos.

ARIA is mainly a developer topic, but it’s good for everyone to understand what it is. We’ve organized this month’s resources by the basics for everyone and the developer content, so everyone on your team can learn what they need.

All users benefit from a clear heading hierarchy. This month, we’ll go over what a good heading heirarchy is, how it impacts assistive technology users, and 5 heading errors and how you can fix them.

Creating accessible data tables and lists can be easy if you know what’s needed. We’ll review how to make them accessible, different types of tables, and how assistive technology reads and navigates them.

While forms and error messages might require some HTML to create, anyone can learn what they need to be accessible and test forms to find accessibility issues. This month, learn the 5 things forms need to be accessible and how to test your own forms for each of them.

Contrast has different rules depending on the content. Plus, there are a handful of tools to help find and fix low contrast errors.

Learn about free accessibility tools anyone can use to test webpages and make updates right away. With tools like the WAVE extension and Chrome’s accessibility tree, your team is ready to incorporate accessibility into their processes.

Links and text make up most of the internet. Since links and text are everywhere and serve such an important purpose, inaccessible links and text can cause a lot of problems for someone with a disability. This month goes over errors to avoid but also best practices to adopt when writing and formatting links and text, so they are more readable for everyone.

This month we’ll learn to set up an accessible webpage with skip links, language, titles, and HTML5 region elements such as navigation, main, sections, asides, footers, etc.

Manual testing (like screen reader, keyboard, and zoom testing) and automated testing work together to make accessible websites. Learn more about how to get started manual testing including screen reader basics and how to keyboard and zoom test.

This complete guide for beginners goes over what alternative text, the different types of images and which ones need alternative text, the right way to use the alt attritbute, and how to write great alternative text.