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Company News & Updates 1 Billion Downloads later, axe-core is the source of truth for automated digital accessibility testing

Deque Systems, the trusted leader in digital accessibility, announced today that the fourth annual axe-con conference will return next year on February 20-22nd, 2024

Accessible User Experience & Design Supporting the Design Phase with Accessibility Heuristics Evaluations

Accessibility heuristics are a set of rules to help designers understand WCAG in design, which can be difficult to interpret if you’re not an expert.

Accessibility Best Practices Understanding WCAG 2.1: A History of WCAG

A WCAG standards contributor walks through the history of WCAG and what to expect from the upcoming WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards.

Accessibility Best Practices WCAG 2.2 Removes 4.1.1 Parsing and How axe-core is Impacted

Earlier this year, for the first time ever the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) proposed to remove a success criterion from WCAG 2. Success Criterion…

Accessible User Experience & Design Top 5 Most Common Accessibility Annotations

Let's review the top five most common accessibility annotations for wireframes: tabs, buttons and links, headings, roles, accessible names.

Accessible User Experience & Design 7 tactics that benefit both accessibility and SEO

Read this guide to learn about specific areas of optimization that legitimately benefit from both SEO and Accessibility best practices.

Company News & Updates Axe-core 4.5: First WCAG 2.2 Support and More

Axe-core version 4.5.0 is here, which significantly improves axe-core’s support for new World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) resources.

Accessible User Experience & Design SEO and Accessibility Are Symbiotic

Let's explore how making websites accessible for screen readers is very similar to making websites accessible for crawlers.

Accessibility Compliance Matters Why User Documentation Is Important

In this post, our technical writer explains the importance of high-quality user documentation with examples from Deque University.

Accessibility Compliance Matters What WCAG 2.2 Means for Native Mobile Accessibility

WCAG 2.2 wasn’t created to specifically govern native mobile apps but it can be applied directly or with some thoughtful interpretation. Let's review how.

Accessibility Best Practices iOS Color Contrast Best Practice: Increase Contrast

Learn how to check if your app responds to iOS Increase Contrast and some best practices for supporting it.

Accessible User Experience & Design Design Systems Teams: Understand Your Users So They Can Serve Theirs

For a design system to be consumable and gain traction, teams should understand their users while focusing on usability and accessibility simultaneously. The accessibility information included in the system will be useless if it’s not targeted and appropriate to the audience.

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