Technical articles

This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman. Subtitled “How Inclusion Shapes Design”, Mismatch (MIT Press, 2018) is an enlightening guide to what inclusive design is and its benefits to both designers and users of the digital world. I have a major quibble, though, and that is with the title. Kat Holmes uses “mismatch”

Article by by: Jeff Mills Introduction Digital accessibility has become a critical global issue as more of our daily lives, from work and education to socialization and entertainment, take place online. With an estimated 1 billion people worldwide living with some form of disability, ensuring that digital platforms, websites, apps, and content are accessible to everyone

This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman. My day job has me focus on digital accessibility – making sure websites and apps are accessible to people with any type of disability that might affect their ability to understand and operate web content. Increasingly, this extends to anything with a digital interface, including native

This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman. This is the second part of a two-part blog post adapted from a presentation I gave to the WordPress Accessibility Meetup, based on some learning I acquired while I was working on training modules on PDF accessibility. In Part One, we looked at some general background

This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman. This blog post is Part One of two adapted from a presentation I gave to the WordPress Accessibility Meetup. PDF accessibility is only a part of my focus at the TPGi Knowledge Center, but in the past few months I’ve been writing a series of self-directed

By OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman, Principal Technical Writer, TPGI. I am an unabashed fan of RSS. If you’re not sure what this, or have never heard of it, let me explain. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (or RDF Site Summary, according to some). The way Wikipedia puts it is that it “allows users and