The Accessibility Project The A11Y Project

Repository

https://github.com/HelpToGrow/RanaTalhaTraiq

Introduction

The Accessibility Project is an open source project committed to making web accessibility easier for frontend designers and developers to understand and adopt into a daily workflow. The project started in mid-January 2013 in response to a general feeling among developers that core accessibility concepts, features and code examples are overly difficult to extract.

The project has three core tenets. It aims to be digestible (offering short, easy to understand pieces of content), up-to-date (in line with the latest standards) and forgiving (because people make mistakes, and web accessibility is tricky).

At the time of writing, 102 people have contributed to The Accessibility Project and it has become an invaluable resource for any developer looking to make their sites more accessible to all.

Post Body

Accessibility can be a complex and difficult topic. The Accessibility Project understands this and wants to help make it easier to implement on the web. Our goal is to accomplish this with three principles in mind:

Digestible. We strive to feature short, digestible pieces of content.

Up-to-date. The project is hosted on GitHub so information can be current with the latest standards.

Forgiving. People make mistakes, so we seek to be encouraging.

Accessibility is important Why Blind and visually impaired make up 285,000,000 people according to the World Health Organization (June 2012) with 39,000,000 categorized as legally blind and the remaining 246,000,000 visually impaired. Deaf and hearing impaired make up 275,000,000 (2004) in the moderate-to-profound hearing impairment category. To put these in perspective, the population of the United States of America is 315,000,000 (January 2013). Disabilities can also be conditional. A broken arm, a loud restaurant, harsh glare, not speaking the local language all are examples where someone may benefit from accessible practices. Another motivation is discoverability. You can find more relevant resources, and with greater precision. Using the term “accessibility” to search, you will find many irrelevant resources using that word in various other contexts. You may also miss resources in languages other than English. Many accessibility specialists from around the world use “a11y” as an international technical term when speaking about their work.

Resources of this site

Newsletters

Accessibility Weekly

Axess Lab Newsletter

Skip Links - A monthly newsletter curated by the HackerYou Web Accessibility Club

The WebAIM Newsletter

Development Tools

AccessLint - A GitHub App that finds accessibility issues in your pull requests.

Accessibility Testing API - By Tenon.io

Pa11y - Automated accessibility testing

Quail JS Testing Plugin - A jQuery plugin for checking content against accessibility guidelines

Sass a11y - A Compass plugin

Sublime WAI-ARIA - WAI-ARIA Roles, States and Properties auto-completion for Sublime Text

ally.js - Helps JavaScript applications become more accessible

axe-core - Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing

eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y - Static AST checker for a11y rules on JSX elements

PDFs

AcceDe PDF Project

Adobe: Create and verify PDF accessibility, Acrobat Pro

WebAIM: PDF Accessibility

HTML Related

A collection of accessible, modern front-end components - By Frend

Bootstrap accessibility plugin - By PayPal

HTML5 Accessibility - By Steve Faulkner

Periodic Table of ARIA roles - By dylanb

Using ARIA - By W3C

WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices - By W3C

WAI-ARIA Specification - By W3C

Web Accessibility Tutorials - By W3C

Courses

Accessibility courses, and more - List curated by Mike Gifford

Start Building Accessible Web Applications Today - By egghead.io

Web Accessibility by Google - Developing with Empathy - By udacity.com

Resources

https://a11yproject.com