My name is Ashley Sheridan. I'm an engineering manager, full stack web developer, accessibility blogger and orator, dad of the most energetic boys in existence, and toy-fixer extraordinaire.
I operated as the web team lead and accessibility expert at Livedrive. I also write quite extensively in my blog about web accessibility, and have created various accessibility tools such as a HTML tag picker tool, and an accessibility checklist tool to help development at various stages.
The European Accessibility Act enters the enforcment stage on the 28th of June, giving website owners and maintainers just slightly over a week to make their websites and services compliant, or risk fines, sanctions, or even outright bans, depending on the severity of the non-compliance. Contents What is the EAA? What is Covered? How to Report
I've written before about how to make accessible graphs and charts, but one type of chart I didn't touch upon was a flowchart, which is different enough that it really warrants a bit more detail explaining how to best make it as accessible as possible. Contents Main Accessiblity Issues with Flowcharts The Initial Concept Identifying and Grouping Question and Statement
Icons on the Web are a natural extension of their use across computer systems since the early graphical user interfaces (GUIs) came about. For over 50 years, we've been using icons to summarise information in picture form, giving users ways to quickly identify objects and actions in order to make their tasks more efficient. But while the focus has always been on the graphical nature of these icons