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July 17, 2016 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

July 2016 Handout: Accessibility Resources

The good news about web accessibility is that there are a lot of resources out there for developers who want to build accessible websites. Here are a few of the ones I’ve bookmarked.

These are not the result of a comprehensive search, which I’m sure would turn up many more resources, but rather articles I have come across in my regular WordPress and web development reading.

WordPress Accessibility Handbook

[contentcards url=”https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/handbook/”]

Rian Rietveld’s State of Accessibility Presentation from WordCamp Europe

Elise Roy’s TED Talk: When We Design for Accessibility, We All Benefit

Web Accessibility Basics from Marco Zehe

[contentcards url=”https://www.marcozehe.de/2015/12/14/the-web-accessibility-basics/”]

Free Web Accessibility Course from Udacity

[contentcards url=”https://www.udacity.com/course/web-accessibility–ud891″]

WordPress.org Accessibility Support Forum

WordPress > Support > Accessibility

The A11y Project

[contentcards url=”http://a11yproject.com/”]

ChromeLens

[contentcards url=”http://chromelens.xyz/”]

Tota11y Accessibility Visualization Kit

[contentcards url=”https://khan.github.io/tota11y/”]

WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool

Enter your URL to check the accessibility of your website.

Yoast’s Must-Read Accessibility Posts (A11y and SEO)

[contentcards url=”https://yoast.com/tag/accessibility/”]

Carrie Dils: An Intro to Accessible WordPress Themes

[contentcards url=”http://www.carriedils.com/intro-accessible-wordpress-themes/”]

7 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about Accessibility

Article on Medium by Jesse Hausler from Salesforce. Doesn’t want to do the content card thing.

Color Safe WCAG Palette Generator

[contentcards url=”http://colorsafe.co/”]

Presentation by Michael Beil: How do I know if my web project is accessible?

More WordCamp Accessibility Videos

[contentcards url=”http://wordpress.tv/tag/accessibility/”]

tuts+ Accessibility Learning Guide

[contentcards url=”http://code.tutsplus.com/series/accessibility–cms-799″]

How to Make Your Website More Accessible (WPMU DEV)

[contentcards url=”https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/make-wordpress-accessible/”]

PageGauge: Quickly Assess Your Website’s Usability

[contentcards url=”http://www.pagegauge.io/”]

How to Create More Accessible Content

[contentcards url=”https://www.viget.com/articles/how-to-create-more-accessible-content-part-1″]

WP Accessibility Plugin

[contentcards url=”https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility/”]

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