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WCAG Principles, Guidelines, and Success Criteria

May 8, 2024 • 6 min read

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provide a framework for making websites accessible to people with disabilities. The POUR principles (perceivable, operable, understandable, robust) encompass guidelines and success criteria that ensure content can be perceived by senses, operated through interfaces, understood clearly, and interpreted by various devices and assistive technologies. Let's dig deeper into POUR.

Understanding WCAG

May 1, 2024 • 4+ min read

Continuing the topic on what accessibility "is", I start to look into WCAG. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, or WCAG, are a set of recommendations for making web content more accessible to disabled persons. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) established these as part of their Web Accessibility Initiative.

Disability and Accessible Gaming

April 28, 2024 • 7 min read

Every day, billions of people play video games worldwide, and a sizable portion of them activate accessibility features. This isn't just about disability inclusion, although that's vitally important. This article is based on my takeaways from SXSW 2024 and the session "Designing Accessible Games for All to Play".

What Do We Mean by Disability?

April 24, 2024 • 5+ min read

Digital accessibility is crucial for ensuring universal internet access and use. Individuals with disabilities use a range of assistive tools and tactics to use the internet, and it is critical that developers offer accessible material that matches their requirements.

What About Accessibility?

April 17, 2024 • 3 min read

Ever feel like you're battling an invisible enemy that seems to be holding you back or making your daily life a little harder? Turns out, I was! It wasn't the revelation that I was living with my own challenges, but more so the realization that countless others are living with both visible and invisible disabilities.

What is accessibility

December 17, 2022 • 2 min read

So, what do I mean by accessible? Accessible, in the context of digital content, means that the content is perceivable, understandable, and navigable by any user interacting with it. There are finer guidelines, but we'll dig into those in another post.

In the Beginning

May 17, 2022 • 4 min read

I'm sure that my story isn't that different from most that are self-taught. When I began my coding/web development journey years ago I was simply trying to replicate the amazing work that I found, already available, online. Right down to the inaccessibility.