Comments on: 10 Simple Web Accessibility Tips You Can Do Today

By: sorol say

sorol say — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:55:32 +0000

Very nice article, Jacob. I’m really interested about this kind of articles

By: Prakash

Prakash — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:49:35 +0000

Very Simple summary of very practical steps. Good Job.

By: Arun

Arun — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:47:54 +0000

thanks Jacob, tahnks So much sharing it:)

By: Vincent

Vincent — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:57:28 +0000

Cool article, Jacob. I’m really interested about this kind of articles. Accessibilty is a very important thing, and everyone should know at least the basics.

Thanks for sharing

By: cancel bubble

cancel bubble — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:37:48 +0000

To piggyback on those commenting on screenreaders and JavaScript, 10% have it disabled according to an October, 2009 WebAIM survey (http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey2/#javascript)

Also, here’s a good article, “Easy Accessibility Testing with the NVDA Screen Reader”. NVDA is free but only available on the Windows platform, I think.

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/12/easy_accessibility_testing_with_the_nvda_screen_reader.html

By: Jacob Gube

Jacob Gube — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:04:13 +0000

@devolved: That’s strange, because the second paragraph says:

But, with a growing number of ways that users access the web, creating highly-accessible and universal designs that can be viewed in as many ways as possible is critical to the success of a website.

I didn’t open up with “web accessibility is only a disability issue”.

By: devolved

devolved — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:40:50 +0000

Not sure why but every article on accessibility immediately starts to talk as if it’s a disability issue …

it isn’t

Accessiblity is about making your content *accessible* to the widest possible audience so #1 should really be THINK.

Big images, no ie6 support, poor colour/contrast use, lack of suitable indications that things are links …

These are real issues, not just the product of lazy mark up.

By: Savannah W

Savannah W — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:03:47 +0000

The most valuable part of this post (thank you for mentioning it) is the “skip navigation” – So often overlooked, and if any of your visitors use screen readers, it’s very useful.

Don’t know if your visitors use screen readers? Take a look at your analytics reports and peek at the user agents. Don’t know what to look for? Google is your friend!

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:56:59 +0000

That’s really wow I say because this would be a source of getting inspiration and that is all what is required to start the things, thank you.

By: Rhyno

Rhyno — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:25:56 +0000

Excellent article. It is difficult for some web developers and designers to believe in accessibility, often thinking it is a huge cost with little payoff. I like to compare it to having a bricks-and-mortar business with a ladder to get into the front door. Sure – most people can still get in. But would you really do that and turn away business because you thought an accessible front door costs too much or didn’t look as interesting?