Accessibility

Checklists
​18F Accessibility Guide Checklist — WCAG 2.0 compliance checklist for developers, driven by priority
​HHS.gov’s checklist for creating accessible PDFs — designing accessibly for artifacts that aren’t apps or websites is important, too!
​Vox Media Accessibility Guidelines Checklist — best practices for designers, engineers, PMs, QA, and editorial staff (with sources to read more — great to send to coworkers on different teams)
Guidelines
​18F Accessibility Guide — hub of accessibility resources and principles by government office 18F
​Empathy Prompts — open source list of considerations & challenges to help build empathy
​Google Material Design Accessibility Principles — practices for color, sound, motion, layout, copy, hierarchy, focus, and implementation
​Inclusive Design Principles — seven clear principles to follow to put people first, by leading experts The Paciello Group
​Microsoft Inclusive Design Principles — Microsoft’s guidelines for designing accessible and inclusive experiences, including a detailed manual (.pdf) with awesome visualizations, and activity cards for considerations & challenges while brainstorming
Industry leaders, educators, and consultants
​Deque​
​Karl Groves​
​Knowability​
​Level Access​
​Marcy Sutton​
​The Paciello Group​
​Simply Accessible​
​WebAIM​
Online courses
​Pluralsight “Meeting Web Accssibility Guidelines” course — [paid] — practical course with code examples to meet Section 508 and/or WCAG 2.0 requirements for government/education projects
​Udacity Web Accessibility course, by Google — [free] — practical course focused on front-end design and development regarding markup and visual styling
Pattern/component libraries
​A11y Style Guide​
​eBay MIND Patterns​
Requirements and standards
​🌐 WCAG 2.0 — the W3C’s “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines” web standards specification
​🇺🇸 ADA — Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities
​🇺🇸 Section 508 — amendment to the Workforce Rehabilitation Act federally mandating all tech developed, procured, maintained, or used by the federal government be accessible to persons with disabilities
​🇨🇦 AODA — Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, enacted for the province to become “accessible for people with disabilities by 2025”
​Accessible-email.org — browser-based semantic analysis to report a11y and usability issues errors in marketing emails
​Colors palettes & contrast testing tools — listed in the “Colors” category 👇
​HTML5 Accessibility — lists current accessibility support status of HTML5 features across major browsers
​pa11y — automated accessibility testing on the command line for programmatic accessibility reporting
​tota11y — Khan Academy’s jQuery-based semantic analysis that can be inserted into a page or run as a bookmarklet
Further reading
​Accessibility Wins — single-serving Tumblr showcasing small victories in accessible web design and development
​Awesome Accessibility — a curated list of awesome accessibility tools, articles and resources on GitHub
​Books on accessibility — listed in the “Books” category 👇

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