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
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
🌐 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