Let’s face it, accessibility is a topic that your organization is involved in whether you’re intentionally focused on it or not. If your website meets most guidelines, great! But since accessibility is not a one-and-done thing, what else can you do to make your website even friendlier, more helpful, and better? If you have not …
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Best practices for links: the art of linking
The Internet depends on connections – between computers, between people, between ideas. Links, or “hyperlinks” as they were originally called, are a basic tool for creating these connections. Yet so many websites offer unfriendly pages because their links are poorly written. Visitors can miss important content or be sent on wild goose chases. Those scenarios …
Read more »How can you make your website friendlier and more accessible?
Sarah Durham and Amanda Luker discuss how to constantly improve your website, create different ways to experience content, and run accessibility audits of your nonprofit’s website. Learn how you can make your website friendlier to all users, including those who are differently-abled. Sarah Durham: Welcome to the smart communications podcast. I’m Sarah Durham and I’m …
Read more »Advotalk: Friendlier, Useable, More Accessible Websites
What does it mean to make your website accessible? Compliant? Just plain easier to use?
Read more »Campaign Websites and Accessibility
Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, an accessibility advocacy organization, analyzed all the 2020 presidential candidates’ websites, and found that NONE of them were fully accessible. We went through the websites, and found several common issues, many of which are easily remedied.
Read more »The Advomatic Team Reflects on Drupalcon and NTC 2018
Two weeks ago, the Advomatic team divided up and went to both Drupalcon in Nashville and the Nonprofit Tech Conference in New Orleans – they happened at the same time this year. (A few of us went to both!) The short story is: We had a great time and met a lot of people and …
Read more »Accessibility As You Go: Part 3
Picking up where we left off in Part 2, in which we went over some of the tools and design considerations for accessibility, in Part 3 we’ll review some tips for minimizing accessibility issues by addressing them early in the development process. Plan Your DOM Order DOM is Document Object Model, which is the fancy …
Read more »Accessibility As You Go: Part 2
Picking up where we left off from the first in our Accessibility As You Go series: Testing Tools and Design Process Nip Color Contrast Issues in the Bud During the design phase, it’s important to verify that all text on the site has high enough contrast with its background color. Level AA contrast requires a …
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Introduction and Terminology Earlier this year, I went to a tech accessibility event here in Minneapolis (sponsored by Clockwork and WeCO) that was incredibly enlightening. Participants got a chance to watch and ask questions as several users with different impairments interacted with websites: A blind man was visibly frustrated using a screen reader that kept getting trapped …
Read more »Front-end Code Review Fundamentals
We’ve been thinking about code reviews lately here at Advomatic. Fellow Advo-teammate Oliver’s previous post covered the whys of our code review process, and Sarah covered the hows when she did a overview of some tools we use regularly. This post focuses on the front-end side, and deals more with the whats of front-end code …
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