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Removing form barriers: When to use the fieldset and legend elements

Learn how to improve accessibility for screen reader users when creating online forms and surveys.

3 typography mistakes that hurt accessibility (and how to fix them)

There are no recommended typefaces in accessibility guidelines, so we uncover how to identify and avoid fonts that create access issues in your digital assets.

Creating accessible digital colour palettes using the 60-30-10 design rule

Explore how this popular design principle can help build accessible and inclusive colour palettes for your digital assets.

WCAG conformance and why it matters

The internet is an essential part of daily life now so it’s vital that websites work for everyone. That is the goal of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines or ‘WCAG’.

What is digital accessibility? How to remove barriers to access

If you discovered an error that locked out 1 in every 6 customers, you would want this fixed as a matter of urgency. Yet for many organisations, this is already happening every day. The cause is inaccessible digital assets.

Update to our interpretation of WCAG 2.4.1 A – Bypass Blocks

We are adjusting our interpretation of the minimum functionality required to comply with WCAG 2.4.1 A – Bypass Blocks to bring our recommendations more in line with user needs and the broader consensus within the digital accessibility community.

Five Tips for Writing Alt-text

If you’d like to learn more principles like this to practice your alt-text writing skills, Digital Access have just launched our on-demand course on how to write alternative text (alt-text) to describe images for people who are blind or have low vision.

Five tips for focus groups with people who are blind or have low vision

Five learnings to add to your toolbox to help make your focus groups more inclusive

Accessible PDFs are easier than you think

What makes PDF documents seem much worse than other formats? If I had to put it into one word, it would have to be ‘familiarity’.

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