There are a ton of cool resources out there for finding accessible, inclusive color schemes and sequences! I’ve collected a few of the ones I’ve found most useful (beyond the typical contrast-checkers out there) here. I’ll update these as I discover more!
Useful for: Generating Accessible Color Palettes
Color Safe
A nice, simple tool with a few extra features from a general contrast-checker. This tool lets you set up your background color + your font family, weight, and size, and it then generates a color palette you can explore and use based on the WCAG standard you’re targeting.
Cloudflare Design’s Color Tool
Each week(-ish) as I hop around on the #a11y-related web, I take note of the exciting things I find and put together my favorites for the following week. Welcome!
I just so love semantic HTML and all the awesome things we get out of using HTML elements, all for freeeee! New-to-me in this short, sweet little piece: <meter>
We need to start thinking critically about things that we perceive…
Each week as I hop around on the #a11y-related web, I take note of the exciting things I find and put together my favorites for the following week. Welcome to week 6!
WebAIM Analysis of 1 Million Web Pages
The big #a11y news going around is this analysis of a million web pages, done by WebAIM, called “damning” and “demoralizing” by some accessibility experts. Conversely, they found that websites with ARIA labels were more likely, not less, to have a11y issues. How is this so? Implementing accessibility with an…
Each week as I hop around on the #a11y-related web, I take note of the exciting things I find and put together my favorites for the following week. Welcome to week 5!
But while researchers have tried hard to address some of the most egregious issues, there’s one group of people they have overlooked: those with disabilities. Take self-driving cars. Their algorithms rely on training data to learn what pedestrians look like so the vehicles won’t run them over. …
Each week as I hop around on the #a11y-related web, I take note of the exciting things I find and put together my favorites for the following week. Welcome to week 4!
Crossing the Border While Disabled, How We Get To Next
“Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, many of my nondisabled American friends often blithely talk about leaving the country and settling elsewhere … When I post a comment mentioning the difficulties that a person with a disability faces when immigrating, the few replies are basically ‘I never knew.’ ”
Immigration…
Each week as I hop around on the #a11y-related web, I’ll be taking note of the exciting things I find and putting together some favorites at the end of the week. Welcome to week 3!
(Apologies for almost missing this week — President’s Day and snow in D.C. threw me off! But we’re back in business, now!)
A11Y Color Contrast, Button Triads, and the new Pivotal UI Color Palette, Me!
“…I came to an epiphany: in modern UI design, we are rarely if ever using colors on pure black or white…Since I had optimized the “default” colors to…
Recently, I joined the Pivotal Apps Manager team with one express purpose: make it more accessible. I chose this team because its development team also builds and maintains the Pivotal UI style guide.
By improving the accessibility of AppsMan, as it is so lovingly called, I hope to abstract many…
Each week, as I hop around on the #a11y web, I’ll be taking note of the interesting things I find, putting together some favorites at the end of the week. Welcome to week 2!
Color, Cloudflare.design
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
— Claude Monet”
An absolutely fabulous new tool from the Cloudflare designers that allows you to explore, discover, or adjust your own accessible color combinations. …
Each week, as I hop around on the #a11y web, I’ll be taking note of the interesting things I find, putting together some favorites at the end of the week. Welcome to week 1!
A11Y.me
“A good start on web accessibility for you.”
Another great primer, similar to mine, constantly-updated and intended to help those looking to start out in a11y! I’ve already made it a bookmark.
A DIY Web Accessibility Blueprint, A List Apart
“Good accessibility is good UX. We should seek to create the best user experience for all. And we…
Last updated Apr. 2019
In an effort to begin actually using Medium again, I wanted my first post of 2019 to be related to #a11y — namely, where do we even begin?
After recently giving a talk on this for our San Francisco office, I’ve compiled a short list of some of my favorite #a11y resources. This by no means a complete list, just a compendium of where I, personally, started out.
I’d love to make this an…
