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Checklists

  • — WCAG 2.0 compliance checklist for developers, driven by priority

  • — designing accessibly for artifacts that aren’t apps or websites is important, too!

  • — best practices for designers, engineers, PMs, QA, and editorial staff (with sources to read more — great to send to coworkers on different teams)

Guidelines

  • — hub of accessibility resources and principles by government office 18F

  • — open source list of considerations & challenges to help build empathy

  • — practices for color, sound, motion, layout, copy, hierarchy, focus, and implementation

  • — seven clear principles to follow to put people first, by leading experts The Paciello Group

  • — 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

Online courses

Pattern/component libraries

Requirements and standards

  • Colors palettes & contrast testing tools — listed in the “Colors” category 👇

Further reading

  • Books on accessibility — listed in the “Books” category 👇

— [paid] — practical course with code examples to meet Section 508 and/or WCAG 2.0 requirements for government/education projects

— [free] — practical course focused on front-end design and development regarding markup and visual styling

— the W3C’s “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines” web standards specification

— Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities

— 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

— Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, enacted for the province to become “accessible for people with disabilities by 2025”

— browser-based semantic analysis to report a11y and usability issues errors in marketing emails

— lists current accessibility support status of HTML5 features across major browsers

— automated accessibility testing on the command line for programmatic accessibility reporting

— Khan Academy’s jQuery-based semantic analysis that can be inserted into a page or run as a bookmarklet

— single-serving Tumblr showcasing small victories in accessible web design and development

— a curated list of awesome accessibility tools, articles and resources on GitHub

18F Accessibility Guide Checklist
HHS.gov’s checklist for creating accessible PDFs
Vox Media Accessibility Guidelines Checklist
18F Accessibility Guide
Empathy Prompts
Google Material Design Accessibility Principles
Inclusive Design Principles
Microsoft Inclusive Design Principles
Deque
Karl Groves
Knowability
Level Access
Marcy Sutton
The Paciello Group
Simply Accessible
WebAIM
Pluralsight “Meeting Web Accssibility Guidelines” course
Udacity Web Accessibility course, by Google
A11y Style Guide
eBay MIND Patterns
🌐 WCAG 2.0
🇺🇸 ADA
🇺🇸 Section 508
🇨🇦 AODA
Accessible-email.org
HTML5 Accessibility
pa11y
tota11y
Accessibility Wins
Awesome Accessibility