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How Australia's spy agency created accessible complex images
Semantic HTML can be used to describe differences visually as an alternative but less intrusive approach than screen reader text.
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Combining Tab and Arrow key navigation for Australian supermarket Coles
The challenges combining two separate components into one. Accessibility is maintained but can the user experience be improved?
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How Australian supermarket Coles creates accessible user stories
Accessibility Acceptance Criteria (AAC) are broad accessibility criteria applied when user stories are created. Instead of developer-focused, they’re BA-focused and describe key behaviours the finished feature needs to display.
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High standards and the quest for perfection
A fictional celebrity chef and a former British special forces soldier and their attitude to success embody the qualities to succeed with web accessibility.
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Effective live regions to convey the loading state of your web app
How to use an aria live region effectively to continuously output the loading state of dynamic page content.
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The challenge interpreting WCAG
Reduce incorrect opinions creeping into your builds and establish a baseline and a common vocabulary of what WCAG means with thisiswcag.com.
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Gotta Catch 'Em All
Automating accessibility testing is a convenient way to catch low hanging accessibility vulnerabilities. Using pa11y and GitHub actions means syntactic accessibility issues can be identified consistently.
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Using screen readers to evaluate the compatibility of a website
A structured approach towards screen reader testing means where time is often limited, our efforts are focused on the critical parts of the digital experience.
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Link labels to form controls using the FOR and ID attributes
Learn to link a label to a form control using the FOR and ID attributes and comfirm by viewing the accessibility tree in Chrome developer tools.
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How to create a session timeout using ARIA, CSS and JQuery
A session timeout message is a common UI design pattern in web applications. A robust accessible timeout message pattern which conforms to WCAG 2.1 can be created using two WCAG 2.1 success criteria.
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