Dig’s accessibility consultants and partners write for our blog to share their knowledge and ideas, start conversations, and to learn.
Thursday 20 May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. The day perhaps doesn’t turn as many heads as National Doughnut Day or National Limerick Day (there was once a lass from Montrose, who knew there was one of those) but it is an im…
Read more of “Global Accessibility Awareness Day – Why It Matters”Oh my word! Firstly, I am very excited to announce that we have, after 4 years of hard work, got to the stage we can launch our BETA version of Hugr. There are so many people who have been part of the journey we want to thank. Ever…
Read more of “Hugr BETA launches!”The Importance of Navigation System They are a crucial part of any website. Steve Krug, in his book: “Don’t Make Me Think” says that a good navigation system should answer the following questions: Where am I? How did I get here? Wha…
Read more of “Multiple Navigation Panels and Their Labelling at Apple inc.”Working within the disability sector the language around people with disabilities becomes second nature. Every now and then we get an enquiry in, or look at the search terms people use to find us and are surprised by the terms peo…
Read more of “Disability vocabulary”Many people, including people using assistive technologies, use Microsoft office for personal, business and academic purposes. For this reason, it is very important to include basic design principles to make sure that everyone has eq…
Read more of “How to make documents accessible using Microsoft Word”Working for Dig Inclusion, part of my role has involved adding captions and transcripts to videos and showing organisations how to do so themselves. In my spare time I’m also on the board of Covenham Plough Community Hub (CPCH), a no…
Read more of “Setting up captions for videos for social media: YouTube and Facebook”What is ARIA? ARIA is an acronym that stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. Developed as part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and first published in 2014, the main purpose of ARI…
Read more of “Use of ARIA with assistive technologies”It’s been over a year since I starting working in the web accessibility sector. The past year has been a steep learning curve and after a year I am by no means the expert on all things accessibility as there is always more to lear…
Read more of “My First Year as an Accessibility Consultant”The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are a set of criteria that measure different elements of a website. There are 78 success criteria across four sections that are separated into three levels of conformance: A, AA and AA…
Read more of “What is involved in AAA WCAG conformance?”One of my early memories of working in a web development company was an incident that happened with one of my colleagues over an error message (or lack of one). I was making a couple of hurried Christmas purchases online during a l…
Read more of “Error messages: The good, the bad, and the terrible”