59 Technical articles

1. #a11y technical watch, April-May 2024

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   • Watch

   June 07, 2024

   #a11y anthology, April-May 2024

2. #a11y technical watch, February - March 2024

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   April 05, 2024

   #a11y anthology, February - March 2024

3. Testing the accessibility of an iOS application

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   • Mobile
   • Beginner

   March 08, 2024

   Description of the main testing tools and methods to quickly assess the accessibility of an iOS application

4. #a11y technical watch, December-January 2024

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   February 05, 2024

   #a11y anthology, December-January 2024

5. #a11y technical watch, October-November 2023

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   December 05, 2023

   #a11y anthology, October-November 2023

6. #a11y technical watch, August-September 2023

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   October 05, 2023

   #a11y anthology, August-September 2023

7. #a11y technical watch, June-July 2023

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   August 05, 2023

   #a11y anthology, June-July 2023

8. #a11y technical watch, April-May 2023

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   June 05, 2023

   #a11y anthology, April-May 2023

9. #a11y technical watch, February - March 2023

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   March 31, 2023

   #a11y anthology, February - March 2023

10. Form part 2 - Submit your form

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    • Web
    • Intermediate
    • Component

    February 21, 2023

    Making a form accessible, part 2: Submitting your form, required field, error handling and the importance of the autocomplete attribute

11. #a11y technical watch, October 2022-January 2023

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    February 05, 2023

    #a11y anthology, October 2022 -January 2023

12. Form part 1 - Structure your form

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    • Web
    • Intermediate
    • Component

    December 12, 2022

    Making an accessible form, part 1: labeling your fields and structuring your form

13. Accessibility fact sheets

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    • Web
    • Mobile
    • Beginner

    November 21, 2022

    Our fact sheets on digital accessibility to download, print and share (Web, Android, Ios, Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

14. #a11y technical watch, August-October 2022

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    November 03, 2022

    #a11y anthology, August-October 2022

15. News on the Va11ydette

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    • Web
    • Beginner

    October 14, 2022

    Explanation of new features on the Va11ydette

16. #a11y technical watch, June-July 2022

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    August 03, 2022

    #a11y anthology, June-July 2022

17. How to maintain a logical sequential order (Wcag 1.3.2)

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    • Web
    • Advanced

    July 26, 2022

    Best practices for WCAG 1.3.2 criteria

18. How to test the WCAG 2.5.3 ?

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    • Web
    • Intermediate

    June 23, 2022

    Good practices for testing the WCAG 2.5.3 criterion (Label in Name)

19. #a11y technical watch, April-May 2022

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    June 02, 2022

    #a11y anthology, April-May 2022

20. Tables in accessibility

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    • Web
    • Beginner

    April 15, 2022

    All our recommendations so that the tables are accessible

21. #a11y technical watch, February-Maarch 2022

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    April 08, 2022

    #a11y anthology, February-Maarch 2022

22. Using the aria-current attribute

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    • Web
    • Intermediate

    March 10, 2022

    The different possible uses of the ARIA attribute: aria-current

23. #a11y technical watch, December-January 2022

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    February 02, 2022

    #a11y anthology, December-January 2022

24. #a11y technical watch, October-November 2021

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    November 27, 2021

    #a11y anthology, October-November 2021

25. Digital accessibility watch August - September 2021

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    September 27, 2021

    #a11y anthology, August-September 2021

26. #a11y technical watch, June-July 2021

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    August 03, 2021

    #a11y anthology, June-July 2021

27. Text size and color

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    • Web
    • Beginner

    July 05, 2021

    What size and what colors should the texts adopt?

28. Disable HTML elements

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    • Web
    • Beginner

    July 01, 2021

    How to disable HTML elements in the page?

29. Recommendations for Single Page Applications

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    • Web
    • Advanced

    June 25, 2021

    Recommendations for Single Page Applications

30. Digital accessibility watch March - May 2021

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    June 03, 2021

    #a11y anthology, March-May 2021

31. Digital accessibility watch January - February 2021

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    February 19, 2021

    #a11y anthology, January-February 2021

32. SVG images are used more and more on the web but what about their accessibility ?

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    • Web
    • Intermediate

    January 01, 2021

    How to make SVG images accessible

33. Best practices for the accessibility of an autocompletion component

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    • Web
    • Advanced

    December 23, 2020

    Presentation of our approach and selected guidelines for autocompletion components

34. Some best practices for downloading links

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    • Web
    • Intermediate

    September 01, 2020

    How to make usable and understandable downloading links

35. The aria-live attribute and the role alert

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    • Web
    • Intermediate

    January 08, 2020

    When and how to use roles and attributes of live content type

36. Skip links best practices

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    • Web
    • Beginner

    June 19, 2019

    Skip links, what is it and how to implement them

37. Use ARIA for status messages

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    • Web
    • Intermediate

    February 21, 2019

    Status messages, how to with ARIA

38. The accessible name in HTML

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    • Web
    • Intermediate

    February 20, 2019

    Accessible name, what is it and his link with Assistive Technologies

39. ARIA attributes that can save you

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    • Web
    • Intermediate

    July 18, 2018

    Some ARIA attributes you must know

40. CAPTCHA Accessibility

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    • Web
    • Advanced

    February 08, 2018

    CAPTCHA and accessibility

41. File Explorer

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    • Component

    January 19, 2018

    Example of accessible file explorer.

42. Dynamic focus

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    • Component

    January 18, 2018

    Focus management of content that updates dynamically in your pages.

43. Dropdown menu

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    • Component

    January 17, 2018

    Create an accessible drop-down menu.

44. Handling keyboard navigation for ARIA

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    • Component

    January 16, 2018

    Handling keyboard navigation is one of the mainstays of the W3c WAI ARIA recommendations

45. Landmarks ARIA

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    • Component

    January 15, 2018

    How to improve page navigation by adding semantics to content that makes it easier to find the major regions of the page

46. Price vocalization

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    • Component

    January 14, 2018

    Showing and vocalizing prices.

47. Hiding technical iframe

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    January 13, 2018

    Hidding iframe to assistive technology.

48. Accessible hiding and aria-hidden example

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    • Component

    January 12, 2018

    Elements not visible on the screen but accessible to assistive technology.

49. Handling Zoom, enlarging text size

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    January 11, 2018

    Text size enlargement is used by many users (elderly people, people with visual impairments and people that should wear glasses and don’t…)

50. Listbox and keyboard navigation

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    • Component

    January 09, 2018

    Example of ARIA list (part 3)

51. Listbox with checkboxes

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    • Component

    January 08, 2018

    Example of ARIA list (part 2).

52. Listbox

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    January 07, 2018

    Example of ARIA list (part 1).

53. Creating accessible “tags” 2/2

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    • Component

    January 06, 2018

    Sample code to make accessible tags (part 2) examples.

54. Creating accessible “tags” 1/2

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    • Component

    January 05, 2018

    Sample code to make accessible tags (part 1).

55. Make a screen reader talk with JavaScript and ARIA

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    • Component

    January 04, 2018

    Sample code to make screen reader speech.

56. Dialogs 2/2

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    January 03, 2018

    Example of an accessible dialog (part 2).

57. Dialogs 1/2

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    • Component

    January 02, 2018

    Example of an accessible dialog (part 1).

58. Best practices for a chatbot

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    • Advanced
    • Component

    January 01, 2018

    Create an accessible chatbot.

59. HTML5 & ARIA

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    • Web
    • Beginner

    September 08, 2016

    HTML 5 and ARIA introduction