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- Aug 23 2022
“I want to spend time living life, instead of working on living”: Life as an Accessibility Tester
Friday, August 24, 2012, marked the closing of a chapter. It also opened the door to a new life that I never thought was ever in my reach. Courtesy of The Hatlen Center’s independent living program I was able to establish a foundation that allowed me to create the life I am living today as […]
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“I want to spend time living life, instead of working on living”: Life as an Accessibility Tester - May 20 2021
Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Resources for Getting Started with Digital Accessibility
Each year, on the third Thursday of May, millions across the globe come together to acknowledge and celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), an initiative started by Joe Devon and Jennison Asuncion. Devon and Asuncion created the day with the intention for people to gather and “learn about and experience digital accessibility.” Back in November […]
Continue ReadingHappy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Resources for Getting Started with Digital Accessibility - Feb 04 2021
Improving Wireframe Accessibility: A more inclusive Design process
Whether you are well-versed in UX Design or new to the field, you have likely heard the term “wireframe.” A wireframe is a low-fidelity visual representation of a website, application, or product that allows us to define the structure of the page, hierarchy, and placement of elements, and ultimately helps us plan the layout and […]
Continue ReadingImproving Wireframe Accessibility: A more inclusive Design process - Jul 26 2017
Accessibility for Robots
Maybe you’re not a “people person.” It’s not that you dislike other humans, but you recognize certain realities of your work. Your day job is maintaining a web application, after all, not carousing with your users. You know that accessibility is an important topic, but you haven’t been able to find the time to learn […]
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- Mar 02 2017
CSS Grid: Responsive and Accessibility
Reflow your content with ease In the first post I wrote about my very first learnings with CSS Grid, I showed how I took a pattern I’ve used many times and reproduced it with a lot less code. After learning about how to do something simple, I started wondering about the other properties of CSS […]
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- CSS,
- CSS Grid,
- responsive
- Feb 23 2017
Getting Started with VoiceOver & Accessibility
If you are a web developer working on a Mac, you can become a hero for thousands of people out there by assuring that anything you create for the web can be read properly by a screen reader. This blog post is going to teach you how to access and wield this super power that […]
Continue ReadingGetting Started with VoiceOver & Accessibility - Sep 21 2016
Accessibility Wins: Let’s talk color
In the last two posts we talked about laying the foundation for an accessible website and making sure keyboard users can navigate your site—this week we’re gonna dive into the visual and talk about color. As it turns out, color is a more complex topic than it might seem. We’ll start with a quick run-through […]
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- a11y,
- accessibility
- Sep 07 2016
Accessibility Wins: Keyboard navigation
Last week, in the first of our series on Accessibility Wins, we looked at setting up a good foundation by using HTML and ARIA roles properly. This week we’re going to dive into the world of making sure that people can navigate your site using their keyboard. Many, many people use just their keyboards for […]
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- Aug 30 2016
Accessibility Wins: Start with the foundations
Welcome to the first post in our Accessibility Wins series, which will detail techniques you can use today to improve the accessibility of your web projects. Through this process, you’ll gain insight into how we think about accessibility here at Bocoup. First up is the foundation on which it all rests: writing good HTML and […]
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- Mar 17 2025
Smuggling Words – The Challenge of Recording Screen Reader Output
We’ve spent years building systems that abscond with the messages that screen readers typically speak to their users. Spiriting away these parcels of text has been a thrill, but before we can get into all the intrigue, you’ll have to know a bit about how we got here. During our years-long participation in ARIA-AT, we’ve […]
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