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Accessibility Best Practices Deque’s Awareness Lab: hands-on accessibility awareness

In celebration of this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), we would like to cover ways your company can promote empathy around accessibility.

A11y for Developers This Is The Way: A Phased Approach to Accessibility in the Development Lifecycle

There is no absolute solution that will add accessibility into the development process in one sprint. However, you can add accessibility as part of the development process in small increments, which will eventually create a well-oiled and agile accessibility process within your development team!

Accessibility Best Practices The 10 affirmations of good digital accessibility

July 26th, 2022 marks the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Consider these 10 affirmations when building good accessible experiences online.

Accessibility Best Practices How To Get Development on Board With Accessibility Testing

Developers are constantly learning new tools, tech stacks, and development practices. When they’re told they have to learn accessibility, it can often feel like an…

Accessibility Best Practices Where are the Accessibility Statements? Digital Accessibility shouldn’t be a surprise.

I'm a screen reader user. Let’s break down “a day in the life of Patrick” for you in the spirit of NDEAM. We'll explore a few of my user experiences & my hunt for accessibility statements.

A11y for Developers SwiftUI & Accessibility: Goodies & Gotchas Part 2

SwiftUI has been a game-changer for both iOS development and accessibility, but there are some "gotchas", or potential ways to make accessibility mistakes, to watch out for.

Accessibility in the News W3C Publishes WCAG Testers Consistency List

If you’ve used 2 different accessibility testing tools, you may have noticed that the results can vary. To try & improve this, the W3C created ACT Rules.

Company News & Updates Deque Unifies Accessibility Software Offerings Under The axe™ Brand

Deque’s WorldSpace Suite of enterprise products, all built on the axe-core accessibility rules library, will now be repackaged using the “axe” name.

Accessibility Best Practices Change Management in Accessibility: Strategic Execution Framework

Note: This blog post is part five, our final post in a series on change management for accessibility. Read part 1, part 2, part 3, or part…

A11y for Developers Prevent Confusing Acronym Announcements in Android

Google TalkBack doesn't always handle acronyms correctly. Here are best practices to prevent confusing announcements in Android.

A11y for Developers Angular Component Libraries and Accessibility

MaterialUI, Ngx-Bootstrap, and primeNg are the top Angular UI frameworks, let's see how they each stack up against accessibility.

Accessibility Best Practices Multimedia Accessibility: Is it important?

The core areas of multimedia accessibility are - synchronized captions, text transcripts and audio descriptions. Let's explore each of these further.

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