This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman and was originally published on the TPGi website. Back in November last year, I wrote a blog post listing 20 books on digital accessibility published between 2012 and 2023. At the time, I commented, “Books?! Are you kidding? Who reads books any more, right?” That was, […]
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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
This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman and was originally published on the TPGi website. Success Criterion 1.4.10 Reflow was added to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) in version 2.1. This requires that: “Content can be presented without loss of information or functionality, and without requiring scrolling in two dimensions for: Vertical
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This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman and was originally published on the TPGi website. I’ve been working lately on providing guidance to TPGi accessibility engineers and our clients on PDF accessibility. It probably won’t astonish anyone that this has thrown up a few surprises, quirks, quibbles and tips. In this article, I’m
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In December last year, I was invited join a new LinkedIn group, Accessibility Book Club. My invitation probably came about because of my TPGi blog post in November last year about Digital Accessibility Books
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This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman and was originally published on the TPGi website. Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) gets bigger and bigger every year. When Los Angeles-based web developer Joe Devon blogged back in 2011 about how Accessibility know-how needs to go mainstream with developers, he was contacted by Canadian accessibility
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Why do we keep acting as if a website is a book? We speak of web “pages”, we “bookmark” websites, we use software to “browse” websites – we seem determined to pretend that the web is some kind of bookshop. It’s not, and that language doesn’t help. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against
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This year, I’ve joined the organising committee for WordPress Accessibility Day as an Asia-Pacific liaison. The idea of the event is to host 24 online talks related to WordPress and accessibility in a 24 hour period: one every hour. That means some of them will be in the middle of the night for the US
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By OZeWAI member Andrew Downie, Accessibility Consultant. Introduction Amidst all the discussion and controversy over so-called AI (artificial intelligence) this is a very positive story. We all know (he wrote optimistically) that images should be accompanied by meaningful alternative text. Those of us who use screen readers know that many images lack text descriptions or,
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This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman and was originally published on the TPGi website. It’s based on the first part of a presentation delivered by the author and Hans Hillen at CSUN 2024 Conference. It includes content that was not used in the conference presentation due to time constraints. You can also
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