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 👇