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User-testing Gutenberg

30 October 2017 | 4 Comments Tim Hengeveld

At Yoast, we organize a company-wide user testing session each month. In these sessions, we ask our employees to take a look at a product or feature. On October 12th we focused on user-testing Gutenberg. We did this to gain a better understanding of how different users work with Gutenberg. This knowledge is sure to »

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User-testing Gutenberg

The a11y Monthly: Give your HTML elements an accessible name

30 October 2017 Andrea Fercia

Recently, I joined a conversation where someone said a great part of accessibility is “subjective.” While I’d agree that sometimes the perception of accessibility is subjective, there are objective rules. I’m not referring just to the official specifications such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines or the ARIA Authoring Practices. There are practical rules every »

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The a11y Monthly: Give your HTML elements an accessible name


a11y Monthly: Spruce up website accessibility with aria-current

28 September 2017 | 2 Comments Andrea Fercia

The aria-current attribute is a new, tiny bit of HTML in the upcoming ARIA 1.1 specification. It’s a simple, effective way to communicate to assistive technologies which the current item within a set of related items is. Here, I’ll try to explain how such a small attribute can improve your website accessibility. I’ll also show how »

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a11y Monthly: Spruce up website accessibility with aria-current

WordPress UI library choice: extensibility vs. interoperability

25 September 2017 | 2 Comments Omar Reiss

In the upcoming weeks, WordPress will choose a UI rendering framework. I’ve heard many claims plugin / theme developers will still be able to use whatever they like, regardless of what WordPress chooses. I think we shouldn’t count on that, nor should we focus on providing interoperability at this point. Instead we should focus first »

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a11y Monthly: Does Accessibility slow down development?

31 August 2017 | 1 Comment Andrea Fercia

I’ve been focusing on web accessibility for a few years now. One of the complaints I’ve often heard from business owners and managers is that implementing accessibility is hard and slows down the development process. For this reason, sometimes accessibility gets postponed or set aside in the erroneous belief that’s something that can be “added” »

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a11y Monthly: Does Accessibility slow down development?




The a11y Monthly: 5 easy things you can do now to improve accessibility

1 May 2017 | 1 Comment Andrea Fercia

One of the concerns I often hear about accessibility is that it’s hard to implement and expensive. It’s true that retrofitting accessibility requirements on an existing website can be expensive. But that’s because it’s too late. Plan accessibility from the start and ensure that it’s embedded in the culture of your organization. This will make »

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The a11y Monthly: 5 easy things you can do now to improve accessibility

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