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TianxuanLiu
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2 months ago

Useful Tools and Resources

Hi everyone,

I'd like to share some accessibility (a11y) resources. I hope these will be helpful in making your content more inclusive and accessible to everyone. Whether you're new to accessibility or looking to deepen your understanding, these resources provide valuable insights, and best practices to ensure your work is accessible to all users, regardless of their abilities. Thanks.

Understood: Understood is the leading nonprofit empowering the 70 million people with learning and thinking differences in the United States.
https://www.understood.org/

Funkify: A disability simulator that helps you experience the web and interfaces through the eyes of extreme users.
https://www.funkify.org/

Accessible Numbers: Presenting numbers and data clearly.
https://accessiblenumbers.com/

Neurodiversity Design System: A set of standards and principles that combine neurodiversity and UX design for Learning Management Systems.
https://neurodiversity.design/

WhoCanUse: A tool that brings attention and understanding to how colour contrast can affect people with different visual impairments.
https://www.whocanuse.com/

Viz Palette: Colors in action.
https://projects.susielu.com/viz-palette

  • I highly recommend aXe DevTools Chrome plugin. A great tool for identifying some of the hidden issues with HTML pages. From memory, there is a free and premium version. Before I purchased the premium tool, the free version offered some good tests.

  • I love this. Thanks for sharing. I also sometimes use WebAIM Contrast Checker: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/  I do a fair amount of turning instructor led training into e-learning and don't always have control over the color palette. This quick tool helps me make the case for making adjustments to text and background colors.

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    AryAranguiz
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    Thank you so much for curating and sharing these amazing resources!