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Newsletter on digital Accessibility

Here you can subscribe to the free monthly newsletter on digital accessibility.

Older Issues

Don't panic - Issue 12-2024

Arguments instead of authority - Issue 11-2024
It is the Accessibility, Stuppid - Issue 10-2024
Think beyond - Issue 9-2024
Trouble for the Accessibility Globoli - Issue 8-2024

Design and Conception

Accessible Print and font design

How to deal with low contrast in digital Accessibility

Dark Patterns and Accessibility

What is Consistent Navigation and Identification

Virtual Reality and Accessibility

Accessible web design and web conception

Tangible User Interfaces and Accessibility

Design Patterns and Best Practices for accessibility

Pattern recognition - a key to accessibility

Accessibility for Animations and Motion

Accessibility with Wordpress

Personas in accessible Web Design

Colors and Graphics

Integrated Text versions, style switchers and magnification

Accessibility Overlays kills Accessibility

Development

Why every Developer should know how to make Websites accessible

Hypertext Markup Language

Cascading Stylesheets

Javascript, AJAX & Dynamic

Accessible Rich Internet Applications - ARIA

Semantic and Machine Readibility for Accessibility

Understanding Keyboard Accessibility

Why CAPTCHA's are not accessible

Online Editing and Content Accessibility

Creating accessible E-Mails and Newsletters

Web Accessibility and Web Analytics

Testing Accessibility as a Web Editor

Accessibility in Social Media

Optimizing Workflows for accessible Online Editing

Search engine optimization SEO and digital Accessibility

Tipps and Tools

Multimedia

Accessible Podcasts

Accessible Multimedia

How to create Audio Description

Images

Accessibility and Visual Literacy

The Accessibility of Emojis

Accessible Information Graphics for Blind and visually Impaired

How to describe complex things for the Blind

A Guide to write good Alternative Alt Texts and Image Descriptions

How useful are Image Descriptions for blinds which have never had vision

Texts

Information Architecture of Texts

Rules and guidelines of plain language

Must everything be understandable for everyone

Does diversity Speak make the Language incomprehensible?

Making long Online Texts accessible

Redundancy makes texts more understandable

Texts for the blind - optimizing for screen reader and braille output

Office Documents and PDFs

Checklist for accessible PDF and office Documents

Preparing PDF and Documents for Accessibility

The awful Accessibility of PDF Documents

Dicision Tree: When does an accessible PDF make sense?

Checking PDFs for Accessibility with free Tools

Checking PDF for Accessibility with screen reader NVDA

Accessible and user-friendly PDFs

PDF Accessibility Checker and accessible PDF - why PAC Testing is not enough

PDF UA, EN 301549, WCAG or BITV for accessible PDF – what is the standard you should meet

How Disabled use PDF Documents

Copyright and DRM - Barriers for Disabled

Making eBooks accessible

Office Documents

Why Office generated PDF Documents don'T have to be optimized with Acrobat and Co.

Creating accessible PDF with LibreOffice

Comparison: LibreOffice or Microsoft Office for accessible PDF

Requirements for accessible documents

Business

The Value of Accessibility

Accessibility - a cross-cutting issue

Advertising and accessibility

How to introduce Accessibility in the Company

Why Companies benefits from being accessible

Innovation and digital Accessibility

Why even special Solutions should be accessible to everyone

Can you afford not to be accessible?

Competitive Disadvantage: lack of digital Accessibility

How to find a good Service Provider for digital Accessibility

Inclusion, accessibility and diversity - stop talking, start doing

Accessibility Specialist and Consulting

Digital Accessibility as Freelancer

Accessibility - the relationship between client and contractor

Which Abilities should an Specialist in digital Accessibility have

The gap between accessibility specialists and disabled persons

CONVINCE CUSTOMERS, COLLEAGUES and SUPERVISORS OF ACCESSIBILITY

What a Freelancer in digital Accessibility expects from a Contractor

scammers in digital Accessibility

We need more basic Knowledge and less Experts

Testing & Evaluation

Evaluating concepts for digital Accessibility

Writing effective Accessibility Bug Reports

Quality Management for digital Accessibility

Testing Usability with Disabled

Why Conformance is overrated

Is it accessibility or is the problem the disabled person?

Testing Concepts

Quick Checks for Web Accessibility

The Fails of the German BITV Test

Workplace

The Advantages of Remote Work for Accessibility

Are blind persons excluded from the modern world of digital work?

You want to employ more disabled people? Then make your website accessible

Data and Science

Crowdsourcing and Accessibility

The WebAIM Study - are 96 per cent of the websites not accessible

Be careful with studies on digital Accessibility

Open Data and Accessibility

Achieving local Accessibility with structured Open Data

Why you should operate digital Accessibility on Data

Doing Research with disabled Persons

Disability and Accessibility in Science Journalism

Social Factors

Waht social projects can learn from inclusion

Curb Cut - how Non Disabled profit form inventions made for Disabled

How everybody can contribute to Accessibility

Methods for designing with disabled persons

The human help as accessibility factor

The mobility revolution will fail without accessibility

Accessibility for civil protection for the disabled

Simulating Disabilities

Accessibility and inclusion - similarities and differences

Why we need to criticize more constructively

Can shared spaces be accessible?

Software Solutions

Artificial Intelligence and digital Accessibility

ChatGPT and digital Accessibility

Cognitive Bias and Accessibility

Can Software reduce discrimination

Why Technology will not solve all accessibility problems

Why digital Accessibility should be based on Open Source

Why digital Accessibility will fail without Automation

Digitization and accessibility - opportunities for disabled persons

Disabilities

Accessibility for Cognitive disabled

dyslexia and accessibility

Neuro Diversity

Visually Impaired

Motor Disabilities

Hearing Impairments

Multiple Disabilities

Complaining about poor accessibility

The Difference between blind-friendly and digital accessible

Age

Digital Accessibility for older Persons

The difference between age-friendly and accessible

Demographic change and the lack in Accessibility

Assistive Technology

Why some disabled avoid assistive Technology

Use of screen reader or assistive technology detectable?

The role of assistive Technology in Accessibility

Why we need better and other assistive technologies

Sense Subsitution for better Accessibility

How does implants and prosthetics change humans with disabilities

Caught in a lack of Accessibility

Integrated Text to Speech

Accessibility is not subjective, it needs rules

screen readers

screen reader and Speech output - why is it so fast and sounds artificial?

How does the Speech Output from blind Persons work?

Which screen readers do blind persons use?

Should Sighted test with screen readers?

Why NVDA is better than Jaws - screen reader Wars

Interview with the Screen Reader NVDA

Talkback for Sighted

How the Language Attribute is demaging Accessibility

Testing as a sighted person with iOS VoiceOver Screen Reader

Tutorial for Screenreader Narrator for Sighted

Android Talkback - An Alternative to VoiceOver for the Blind?

Accessible Online Events

Should you describe yourself to blind Persons?

Accessible Online Communication

How to make Online Events accessible

Project Management

Myths in digital Accessibility

Why digital accessibility projects often fail

The problem is not accessibility, it's the process

Digital Accessibility with low Ressources

Why you should involve Disabled in digital Accessibility Projects

IAAP and Certification

Is it worth to be a member In the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP)?

my Assessment on the WAS Web Accessibility Specialist of the IAAP

My assessment of the CPACC certificate from the IAAP

There's no valid certificate for digital Accessibility and you don'T need one

Talks with Accessibility Specialists

Talk with Sophie Johanning on founding an Accessibility Company

Talk with Meike Seidel on starting an App for blinds to buy in a Supermarket

An Interview with Flora from SUMM AI on automatic Translation in Easy Reading

Interview with Dana Pietralla from Paged on starting an accessibility-based company

Every Feedback is important - an Interview with Ulrike from the Accessibility monitoring center for the state of Bremen

Barriers for the visually Impaired - an Interview with the Editor Saskia von der Burg

Ask for services in digital accessibility