63 Stories To Learn About Accessibility

Let's learn about Accessibility via these 63 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

1. How to Use HTML to Improve Accessibility for Low-Vision Users

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect. Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web

2. Why Senior Citizens Should Learn to Code

Seniors - learn to code! As a mind-stimulating leisure activity, learning to code has many health and social benefits for older adults.

3. Just Use Rem: Choosing between Pixels and Rems in CSS

When choosing between pixels and rems in CSS, you should almost always use rems. It's a simple rule to follow. This article explains why.

4. NEW: Audio Player Now Available on HackerNoon

Our stellar team of developers is busy devoting their coding talents to improve HackerNoon's usability, accessibility, design, and overall awesomeness.

5. Tech For All: How To Improve App Accessibility For People With Disabilities

For brands, app development is a way to get closer to their users. But do they think about digital accessibility of people with disabilities? Let's find out!

6. How to Write Helpful and Accessible UX Copy for Every User

A guide on how to write UX copy that accommodates every kind of user.

7. Shortcuts for Quick Key Command Formatting with ksc and Siri

Using a command line utility on iOS/iPadOS to translate natural language keyboard commands into symbolized format.

8. Building an Internet for All

The idea that the internet reached 4.5B people in 2019 is insane. According to internetworldstats.com, 58.8% of the world population is online. But how much of the internet is actually for everyone? A study from Perrill (formerly first scribe), shows that only 1% of websites and web apps are ADA compliant. Investing in UI/UX is a great deal for anybody building a website/app, but always think of all users, not just the majority of users.

9. Responsive Web Design: Understand And Apply It Once And For All

As a Microverse student for one month, I realized that my first clone webpages didn’t have a responsive layout. I was using pixels in the Navbars, percentages in one section and rem in another, I didn’t have a rule or a standard procedure. The goal was to make it look like the original webpage IN MY SCREEN.

As I advanced through the course, I learned that these units made all the difference to the webpage’s response in different screen sizes. My code reviewers would tell me to adjust my webpage because it looked different when they were viewing it.

When I started having these issues, I made a lot of research on the subject, but I was still a little confused about it. This article’s goal is to create a simple and direct rule to achieve the required responsiveness any developer needs in their code.

10. iOS UI Testing: How to Troubleshoot CI Machine & Element Identifying Issues

How troubleshooting CI Machines and identifying elements is helpful when testing your iOS UI mockup for your project as well as how to speed up the process.

11. Accessibility in the Workplace: "Companies Don't Give Me a Fair Shot," says a Blind Developer

An interview with a talented software developer who is also blind brings the reader into his world and helps us all see why accessibility matters.

12. A Cheat Sheet to Understand Web Content Accessibility

The idea of this post is to outline the most important aspects of accessibility, that’s why please treat it more like a cheat sheet than a compendium.

13. Choose Your Color: HackerNoon Green, and Beyond!

Colors. Some people talk about how HackerNoon green is a thing. And it is, 100M+ people have visited HackerNoon, and some percentage thought, hmm are they really leading with #00FF00? It made us stand out. It paid homage to limitation of our past and present machines. How colors make us feel and how colors frame our ability to focus on the story or wander into the metaverse, this is because the individual's emotional relationship with color is entirely their own. As we work to make our software more accessible, this new release by Jeferson Borba provides all visitors with the ability to choose the primary color of the site and primary color of the ad placement. Just because I like green without red or blue does not mean you have to too. Choose your colors!

14. Importance of Accessibility Tech and the Tech Trends Helping Millions of People

Why Accessibility Tech Is So Important and what Tech Trends Are Helping Millions Of People

15. 12 Steps to Make Online Meetings Accessible for People With Disabilities

There are simple steps to make online meetings more accessible to people with disabilities. Here are a few of them.

16. Making Sense of AI on Blockchain (Part 2)

In the first article of this series, I introduced the lifecycle of AI (which consists of training and inference) and discussed blockchain use cases for AI inferences. If you are not familiar with what these terms mean, I suggest reading my first article before this one.

17. Lets Try To Solve The Problem of Web Accessibility Together

Despite the fact that the Internet is 30 years old, a fair amount of the Internet is still unreachable or barely usable for visually impaired people.

18. Improving Accessibility And Inclusion In UX By Understanding Exclusionary Aspects of Design

I stumbled on the topic of accessibility and inclusion while learning user experience (UX) design from MOOCs. At first, I thought it's a reasonably familiar topic but I couldn't have been more wrong.

19. How To Generate WCAG Compliant Contrast Color in Bootstrap

The intent of this Success Criterion is to provide enough contrast between text and its background so that it can be read by people with moderately low vision.

20. 4 ways CSS :has() can make your HTML forms even better

Learn how the CSS :has() pseudo-class can improve HTML forms through validation hints, conditional content, fancier designs, and more.

21. The Website Accessibility Checklist

Cheatsheet to make your web app more accessible with little effort

22. What is Web Accessibility and Why You Should Care

It's amazing how easily we tend to forget about some set of people who don't have the ability to use the web to its fullness because of some form of impairedness or the other. When building websites, web designers often forget(or not in the habit) to make their sites accessible by people of less abilities such as blindness, deafness and so on.

23. Me, You, and Us in Software

It shows me that #OwnYourData is not just about privacy or autonomy, but also about the cool cybernetic possibilities of a future we haven't imagined yet.

24. 6 Tips to Host a Successful Virtual Networking Event

Here, we'll walk you through the 6 steps you can take to make your virtual event truly engaging and unique to your attendees.

25. Why Websites Need To Be ADA Compliant

Did you know when a company website is not ADA Compliant, a lawsuit can be filed?

26. I Automated My Whatsapp Chats on Android and Here's How You Can Too

Android Accessibility Service to Alter the Way You Use Your Mobile

27. I Added Text to My ‘Pure Icon’ Site after 8 Years. Here’s Why

After many years, I went from pure icons to adding descriptive text.

28. How Tablets Can Make Computing More Accessible for Everyone

It's easy for many to think of digital accessibility features as sort of an add-on, a set of features that live off to the side, there for only a small group of people. But that isn't the case. According to the CDC, 61 million Americans — and roughly one in four adults — live with a disability of some sort.

29. Make Fonts More Accessible on your Website with these Tricks

How to do a thorough accessibility review for your website. In this article, we cover how to handle font size, font color, and font style.

30. What is Digital Accessibility and Why is it Important?

Digital accessibility refers to computer-based and web-based information and activities.

31. iHack Alpha Inspires AI-Powered Solutions to Address Social Challenges

Discover AI-powered solutions that empower social challenges and disabled persons. This includes text-to-speech for the blind-deaf and virtual mentors.

32. The Role of Airdrops for Loyalty, Rewards, Brand Awareness and Scale in Web 3.0

Christos Makridis, co-founder, COO, and CTO of Living Opera shares how airdops are a comprehensive marketing and loyalty mechanism for many web3 projects.

33. Devised for Design: Top FIGMA Plugins

Figma has been top of its game since its launch in 2016. Here's a list of our team's 12 most used plugins.

34. What is the TL;DR Feature at HackerNoon?

What is the TL;DR feature at HackerNoon and how can both readers and writers make full use of it?

35. How to Automate Web Accessibility Testing

...and make it part of your continuous integration pipeline

36. 8 UX Writing Resources to Help You Master the Art of Microcopy

UX really isn’t a one-angle solution. You may be a product manager or copywriter, either way - your microcopy needs to be on point.

37. Building a Better Web: A Guide to Accessibility for Developers

Web accessibility is a growing focus for developers, and this guide will show you five ways to incorporate accessibility elements into your web design.

38. Inverting The Colors on Your PC for Accessibility

Learn how to handle the inverted color schemes that are available on Windows computers. You may want to invert the colors for readability and accessibility.

39. 4 Quick and Easy Tips to Make Your WordPress Website ADA Compliant

Making your website accessible to everyone goes beyond being the right thing to do. It can protect you from legal repercussions as well.

40. Accessibility Tools and Resources for Designers and Developers

Today we’ll talk about accessibility.

41. Vue Amsterdam 2022: Part V - Reusable Widgets That Work!

How to build accessible reusable widgets and reusable components with the help of ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Application)

42. How to Better Build for Accessibility and Inclusion in UX Decisions

In a nutshell, accessibility in user experience gauges whether users with various abilities can easily interact with the product or service.

43. How I Built a Missing GitHub Feature using GitHub itself

After the Microsoft acquisition, GitHub has been on a roller coaster ride. It has been winning the developer community’s affinity by launching a series of offerings, one after another, starting from the free private repositories to the GitHub Sponsors program.

44. Removing that ugly :focus ring (and keeping it too)

Photo by Jeremy Perkins on Unsplash

45. Let's Talk IT Security Without Getting Very Technical

Most articles about IT Security get way too technical too fast. Let's change that for a second.

46. Improving the Internet for Those With Disabilities (feat. Artificial Intelligence)

There is no denying that AI and automation have had a significant impact on the way companies run their business — particularly online. Automation tools help brands track everything from inventory levels to sales rep interactions.

47. How to Prevent ADA Website Accessibility Lawsuits

In the wave of a recent Supreme Court judgment, we take a look at how companies can prevent ADA website accessibility lawsuits. From catching them unawares and potentially even bringing them down as a result of it. Here's everything you need to know about making your website ADA compliant.

48. Why Paid Commercial Web Accessibility Plugins Is Better Than Free Plugins

Building website these is one thing, building an accessible and useable website is another thing entirely as it requires some expertise and use of accessibility tools.

49. The Universal Benefits of PDF/UA

With over one billion people worldwide affected by disabilities, there is good reason to make digital content more accessible. When it comes to digital PDF docu

50. The Problem with Screen Reader Testing

Screen readers are an essential part of using the web for people who are vision impaired, illiterate or have a learning disability.

51. Security.org Knows 15 Million Americans Will Be Buying Cryptocurrency in the Next Year

Twelve years after the Bitcoin network came into existence in 2009, we asked nearly 1,300 U.S adults about their familiarity, ownership, and confidence in cryptocurrencies, from Dogecoin to Ethereum, and everything in between. One highlight?  Nearly 15 million Americans plan to purchase crypto for the first time in the next year.

52. Lets Make an Internet for Everybody

What is web accessibility? And why should you care?

53. The Importance of Testing For Accessibility and Tool Recommendations

Accessibility Testing is gaining popularity as devs becoming more concerned about the accessibility of their products and services. Learn some basics and tools.

54. Sony Introduces a PS5 Controller for Disabled Gamers

Project Leonardo is an extremely configurable PlayStation 5 controller for disabled gamers.

55. How Relearning HTML Gave Me New Insights as a Web Developer

I relearned HTML to discover my unknown unknowns by taking an Introduction to HTML5 course and by reading the MDN documentation for every HTML element.

56. Web Accessibility Checklist For Your Project

Web accessibility is important. Making your app accessible is morally the right thing to do, it helps you win more business, and it may even be legally or contractually required. However, not many software engineers or web designers know how to make their apps accessible.

57. Making Use of QR Codes for Effective Marketing and Reach

How to create QR Codes for contacts (phone number and email) and QR Codes for websites (web address URL)

58. NPM ReactJS package for Microsoft Immersive Reader

Immersive Reader is an Azure Cognitive Service for developers who want to embed inclusive capabilities into their apps for enhancing text reading and comprehension for users regardless of age or ability.  Students can color code and label words to indicate their part of speech, user read the text aloud feature, translate words and more.

59. The Rationale for Making DeFi Available to All

DeFi has the potential to make life better for everyone. But only if it works. Proposing the 3 S's of Defi to make it truly accessible: Secure, safe, simple.

60. Semantic HTML: What, Why, and How

There are around 100 semantic HTML elements - don't build what HTML hands to you on a silver platter.

61. How to Make Your Website Accessible: WCAG 2.1 W3C Recommendation

Web accessibility is an incredibly vital aspect to consider when developing a website or web application, yet so many companies either ignore accessibility guidelines or don’t understand how to implement them properly.

62. Making Games More Accessible With Accessibility Specialist Ian Hamilton

In this AMA, Ian talks about his role in the gaming industry, what games he has worked on and how he sees the future of accessibility in gaming.

63. Here are the best 11 Website Accessibility Testing Tools for 2022

Website Accessibility Tools help make sure that your website is well-equipped for users to access by testing common problems that many other sites experience.

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