It’s no secret: I like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Not only do they give us the four base principles of accessibility (perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust), but they also have neat guidelines and checkpoints to test for. We call each checkpoint a …

Just to preemptively state it: I appreciate what the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) is trying to do with the “In Brief” sections in WCAG’s Understanding documents. My criticism is about the execution of the information. In addition, this is not a plea to change …

On Mastodon, Steve Faulkner shared a link to a GitHub discussion around the A, AA, and AAA levels of WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines). In it, the question is asked what makes a Success Criterion (SC) A, AA, or AAA. Basically, the question is what criteria are used to …

Accessibility, especially on the web but also elsewhere, is a complicated combination of people with different roles working together. At any point during the creation of a web page, a blog post, its design, sourcing of images, or writing, issues can creep in. As accessibility …

The name “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines” (WCAG) has always been a source of misunderstanding and contention. “Guidelines” implies that this document only guides you, gives you hints on how to make web content accessible. But that is only half of WCAG. The other half are …

This post is basically a short addendum to my article about text resize and reflow. I stumbled over some instances of text-overflow: ellipsis the other day and it broke resize and/or reflow. The whole reason text-overflow exists is to specify the behavior of text once it flows …

There seems to be a confusion about the relationship and how to test for the WCAG 2.1 Success Criteria 1.4.4 Resize Text and 1.4.10 Reflow. While these two success criteria seem related, they cover different use cases. 1.4.4 Resize Text This success criterion that was introduced …