In the September 2021 Accessibility Talks virtual meetup, Michele Williams spoke about how sighted designers often don’t perceive the differences in how a sighted person navigates a page vs. the strategies a blind person uses to explore a page.
And those designers may not understand why their designs are problematic for people who are not sighted.
Continue reading How Sighted and Blind Web Navigation Differs
It’s a common issue for many websites: your audience consists of people with different levels of understanding of the words and phrasing used on your website.
You may have new employees or new customers unfamiliar with the jargon, acronyms, and language on your site. In addition, you may have customers and others who interact with your website frequently and understand your words and phrasing.
And you may have long-time employees who are well-versed in your wording, who have no need for terminology definitions.
How do you serve all your audiences?
Continue reading 2021 Federal Plain Language Summit: Online Glossaries
In this week’s web design and development news roundup, you’ll learn strategies for managing difficult usability participants, find features and tools to create accessible content, discover how to use the accent-color CSS property, and more. Continue reading September 24, 2021: Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News