Vernon’s Reviews > Accessibility for Everyone > Status Update

Doing accessibility well is about merging your knowledge of accessibility with your project’s context to create a balance that serves the people who use your site.”

Testing with people who are likely to use your site is the best way to gauge accessibility.”

Accessibility isn’t about passing a test or ticking a box; it’s about making great experiences.”

Whenever you test or evaluate a product, you should do it against a test plan.”

The immortal: To ensure that content is meaningful to everyone—sighted users, screen readers, and search engines alike—a rigorous separation of structure and style is crucial.

Disabled buttons are generally not recommended as they rely on the user’s understanding of the “disabled” visual style.

Increasing the interactive area [of form controls] aids people who have motor difficulties or are using a touchscreen, where using a cursor accurately can be challenging.

We follow web standards so that our markup is correctly interpreted by browsers.”

Test designs in grayscale to quickly see whether the text is readable against the background.

Many assistive technologies are inexpensive or free and make for easy initial testing.