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How the European Accessibility Act (EAA) Enhances Digital Accessibility Laws Across the EU
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is a law that was originally passed just over 5 years ago, in mid 2019, and will finally come into full effect and be implemented on the 28th June 2025. It aims to put into place a stronger set of rules for what products and services need to be more accessible, what that accessibility looks like, and what happens if peoples needs are not met. Contents …
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Creating a Weather Based Email Image Generator
Some years ago I built out a tool to generate dynamic images for email campaigns based on a variety of different parameters, like random selections from an Instagram gallery, animated gifs marking a countdown, and product images based on the weather in a given area. The latter of those is very simple to do with free APIs. Contents Concept Creating the App Outline …
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How to Conduct an Accessibility Audit on Your Website
Web accessibility is an incredibly important topic, and should be considered as essential as subjects like security, UX (user experience), and design. Not only can poor accessibility cause usability problems for some people, but it can act as a complete barrier to entry. Your audience may be left feeling that you don't care about them, leading to them go elsewhere, to your competitors (be that in information…
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Form Validation Essentials
Form validation is an essential process for maintaining data integrity, enhancing the user experience, and ensuring security of your website or service. The importance of form validation cannot be overstated. It plays a vital role in protecting both the user and the system from potential harm. For users, it ensures that their input is acknowledged and processed correctly, reducing frustration and improving…
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How To Get The Best Out Of WAI ARIA
WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications), or ARIA for short, is a way of adding further accessibility to elements that you cannot by using HTML alone. Most usually it's used to add a label to something that assistive technology (such as screen readers) can access and present to the user, where the existing text inside the HTML is lacking or would be confusing…
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Accessibility Issues With Cookie Banners
Since the inception of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), cookie banners have been a common part of the web, and like all things on the web, there is plenty of room for accessibility issues. Contents What Are Cookies? How They Are Used To Track You? The GDPR The Accessibility of Cookie Banners metro.co.uk thenerdstash.com telegraph…
