This is a list of sources I personally found useful to learn about accessibility. I will keep this list up to date and add new great resources. If you know great resources which aren’t covered here please create a pull request.
- Accessibility standards
- Accessibility by project roles
- Courses
- Developer Resources
- Design Resources
- Articles
- Books
- Videos
- Tools
- Assistive Technologies
- Accessibility Specialists
- Data sources
- Conferences and Events
- W3C: WCAG 2.1 (06/2018)
- W3C: WCAG 2.0 (11/2008
- WCAG 2.1 at a glance
- How to Meet WCAG 2 (Quick Reference)
- WCAG 2.1 Map by Intopia
- Accessibility Checklist for different project roles
- Web Accessibility byGoogle, Developing with Empathy, Udacity (free)
- Deque University (free)
- Introduction to Web Accessibility (Google) (free)
- Start Building Accessible Web Applications Today, Marcy Sutton (free)
- Teach access Tutorial (free)
- Patterns & Strategies for accessible web-apps,
- HTML5 Accessibility Status of common browsers
- Mozilla Web Accessibility Guide
- Inclusive Components - pattern library
- Accessibility Developer Guide
- The A11y Project
- WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices (The ARIA Authoring Practices doc (or "ARIA Design Patterns doc") is a great resource for figuring out what kind of keyboard support your complex components should implement.)
- ARIA 1.0 roles
- ARIA 1.1 practices guide (draft)
- ARIA 1.1 roles (draft)
- ARIA in HTML spec, including guidance on what ARIA roles may and may not be used with which HTML elements
- WebAIM's WCAG 2.0 Checklist
- Keyboard Accessibility
- Ally.js - JavaScript library to help modern web applications with accessibility concerns by making accessibility simpler
- Chrome DevTools: Increase your understanding of accessibility with the accessibility tree, Umar Hansa
- The Accessibility Cheatsheet, Ire Aderinokun, 06/2015
- Microsoft: Inclusive Design: Cards, Movies, PDF
- Posters: Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility
- Accessibility for teams, Rob Dodson, 07/2018
- I Used The Web For A Day With Just A Keyboard, 06/2018
- Accessibility at trivago, Ian Devlin, 09/2017
- Getting Started with Website Accessibility, Carie Fisher, 09/2017
- Accessibility according to actual people with disabilities, Hampus Sethfors, 06/2017
- 8 things parenting taught me about accessibility, Melanie Jones, 01/2017
- Accessible maps on iOS, Minh Nguyễn, 08/2016
- GOV UK accessibility posters
- BBC - How to design for accessibility
- Create useful accessibility bug tickets
- Techniques for The Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force (COGA)
- Easy steps for including disabled people in your workforce
- Accessibility Lipstick on a Usability Pig, Jared Smith, 03/2014
- Your skip links are broken, Hampus Sethfors, 06/2018
- Don’t Use The Placeholder Attribute, 06/2018
- Title Texts Suck, Hampus Sethfors, 02/2018
- Captchas Suck, Hampus Sethfors, 11/2017
- A Responsive Accessible Table, Adrian Roselli, 11/2017
- Building inclusive Toggle Buttons, Heydon Pickering, 09/2017
- Disabled buttons suck, Hampus Sethfors, 07/2017
- Responsive Design for Motion, James Craig, 05/2017
- An Introduction to the Reduced Motion Media Query, Eric Bailey, 02/2017
- Alternative Text and Images, Ire Aderinokun, 10/2016
- Re-approaching Color, Kevyn Arnott, 09/2018
- Hand tremors and the giant-button-problem, Hampus Sethfors, 03/2018
- Practical accessibility improvements, Hampus Sethfors, 12/2017
- Trends that exclude, Hampus Sethfors, 10/2017
- How to make your site accessible for screen magnifiers, Daniel Göransson, 07/2017
- Accessibility for visual design, Nick Babich, 06/2017
- Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility, Karwai Pun, 09/2016
- Accessible UI Components For The Web, Addy Osmani, 07/2016
- Ways to Make a UI Accessible, Chris Pearce, 06/2016
- Improving The Color Accessibility For Color-Blind Users, Adam Silver, 06/2016
- Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity, Val Head, 09/2015
- 7 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about Accessibility, Jesse Hausler, 04/2015
- Should I use a carousel?
- Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide, Daniel Göransson, 10/2017
- BITV Prüfschritte (German)
- Using Pa11y CI and Drone as accessibility testing gatekeepers, Dominic Fraser (07/2018)
- A smartphone accessibility primer; or, how I learned to stop worrying and master mobile accessibility, Kara Van Roekel, 10/2017
- Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility, 06/2017
- Three things you should know before using VoiceOver for testing, Jon Whiting, 08/2016
- Understanding screen reader interaction modes, Leonie Watson, 09/2014
- How to use the NVDA screen reader
- Website Access and Other ADA Title III Lawsuits Hit Record Numbers, 07/2018
- It’s illegal to have an inaccessible website in Norway — and that’s good news for all of us, Ida Aalen, 02/2017
- Website Accessibility Lawsuit Filings Still Going Strong, 08/2017
- Web accessibility will now be the law of the land in Europe
- Inclusive Components by Heydon Pickering, Smashing Magazine (12/2019)
- Form Design Patterns by Adam Silver, Smashing Magazine (10/2018)
- Inclusive Design Patterns by Heydon Pickering, Smashing Magazine (10/2016)
- Accessibility for everyone by Laura Kalbag, A Book Apart (09/2017)
- A web for everyone by Sarah Horton & Whitney Quesenbery (01/2014)
- Design for Accessibility, Núria Peña, 10/2019
- Access - A short documentary about accessibility and universal design featuring Cory Joseph, 01/2019
- Marcy Sutton on Accessibility Audit, 10/2018
- Change is hard, automating Web Accessibility isn't, 07/2018
- A11Y Talks - What’s new with WCAG 2.1, 06/2018
- An Introduction to Screen Readers, NVDA/iOS, 05/2018
- How to use a switch, Christopher Hills, 04/2018
- A11Y Talks - Embracing Plain Language for Better Accessibility, 01/2018
- Accessibility by Design - Conference Talks 2018
- Creating accessible Apps, Apple
- A11ycasts, Rob Dodson (Google)
- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- What’s new in Android accessibility, Google I/O '18
- What's new in web accessibility, Rob Dotson, Google I/O '18
- Accessibility UX Insights: Designing for the Next Billion Users, Google I/O '17
- Technologic (Human Afterall): Accessibility mix, Léonie Watson, 2017
- The velvet rope, Henny Swan, 07/2016
- Developer's Guide to Accessibility Mechanics, Leonie Watson, 07/2016
- Death to icon fonts, Seren Davies, 10/2015
- ThePacielloGroup Blog
- GOV.UK: Accessibility Blog
- GOV.UK: Design notes
- Heydon Works
- Tink - Leonie Watson
- Marco's Accessibility Blog
- Adrian Roselli
- ADA Title III News & Insights (US law)
- Axesslab - Articles
- WebAxe
- Intopia Blog
- Better living through technology
- Microsoft - I see AI
- WAI Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List
- Top seven free color contrast checkers & analyzers, Hampus Sethfors, 06/2017
- ColorBox, Lyft Design
- Leonardo Color
- Microsoft Accessibility Insights
- Funkify disability simulators, Chrome
- AXE, Firefox, Chrome
- Lighthouse Audit, Chrome
- WAVE: Firefox, Chrome
- Siteimprove Accessibility Checker (Chrome)
- ChromeLens - Chrome DevTools extension to develop for the visually impaired, Chrome
- NoCoffee vision simulator (Chrome)
- Deque Accessibility Testing Tools
- Tenon
- Siteimprove
- Pa11y
- TotalValidator Pro, Total Validator will validate your HTML and CSS, check that pages are accessible, run a spell check, and check for broken links.
- Stark – The color-blind simulator and contrast checker for Sketch.
- JAWS
- NVDA
- Narrator - Windows
- VoiceOver - macOS
- VoiceOver - iOS
- TalkBack - Android
- ChromeVox - Chrome Browser
- ZoomText
- W3C: Web Accessibility Initiative
- Apple Accessibility
- Google Accessibility
- Microsoft Accessibility
- GOV UK accessibility blog
- Axesslab (Sweden)
- Einfach für alle (only in German)
- Simply Accessibile (USA, Canada)
- Bureau of internet accessibility
- The Paciello Group (USA, UK)
- Zugang für alle (Swiss)
- Deque (USA)
- AccessibilityOz (Australia, USA)
- Section508 - GSA Government-wide IT Accessibility Program
- Intopia (Australia)
- Screen Reader User Survey #8 Results, 09/2019
- Screen Reader User Survey #7 Results, 11/2017
- Annual Disability Statistics Compendium (US)
- Colour Blindness (US): 1 in 12 men, 1 in 200 women, approximately 320.000.000 worldwide
- Dexterity difficulties: 7% of working age adults have a severe dexterity difficulty. Severe dexterity difficulties mean users are unlikely to use a mouse and rely on the keyboard instead.
- Disability Statistics (US), Disability in Canada, UK: 4%-5% of people in the US, UK, and Canada suffer from difficulty hearing
- Reading difficulties (US): 15%-20% of people in the US have reading difficulties, including dyslexia
- census.gov, Statistics Canada, UK ONS: 3%-4% of people in the US, UK and Canada can't see well enough to read
- Website Accessibility Disability Statistics
- EU disability statistics: 1 person out of 7 in age group 15-64 has a basic disability
- WHO health statistic: Approximately 15% of all people have a disability. This is more than 1.000.000.000 people worldwide
- Mindscreen Accessibility Event Calendar
- A11yproject Events
- Web4All, San Francisco, USA
- Web Accessibility Summit, Columbia, USA
- Inclusive Design 24
- DSAI Conference, Europe
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 17)
- #a11yTOConf, Toronto, Canada
- A11yCamp, Melburne, Australia
- Accessibility Camp Chicago, USA
- Accessibility Club Conference, Berlin, Germany
- Munich Accessibility Meetup