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Let's make the web accessible!

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Our newsletter comes out roughly once per month. To make the wait more enjoyable we will send you four more messages in the next three weeks. This will be a "greatest hits" compilation of our blog posts and available courses.

In each edition we will try to give you the "why" and the "how" of digital accessibility and other more or less related finds from around the web!

From our blog

In “Blind people don’t visit my website.” web accessibility expert Rian Rietveld gives you a broader view on web accessibility, who benefits from it and why you should bother. Spoiler alert: everyone benefits from an accessible web!

Minuscule models of hurdlers jumping over computer internals

“Blind people don’t visit my website.”

“Who benefits from web accessibility?” That’s a question I get a lot. Why bother to care? It’s obviously only for that one blind guy who never visits the website anyway. So why invest in making the site accessible?

From the web

Mastering Web Accessibility: Making Drop-Down Menus User-Friendly

WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) success criteria grouped by practical theme in a transport network style map. A super cool project by Andrew Hick. The page linked above also contains a detailed description for people with visual disabilities.

The map resembles an underground train map, showing 55 success criteria as stations across 7 lines. Each station marker...

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