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Accessibility Weekly

Weekly Accessibility Lessons brought to you by The Admin Bar in partnership with Equalize Digital

Week 47

How to Accessibility Test

We’ve gone through 46 weeks of technical accessibility from a design and dev perspective, covering everything from navigation menus to color contrast, ambiguous links, and more. If you missed an article, you …

Week 46

Accessible Tooltips

Tooltips are small floating boxes that appear near words, icons, or images and display short explanatory text on hover or keyboard focus. They can be a good way to provide additional information …

Week 45

E-commerce Accessibility

E-commerce has revolutionized how we shop, providing unparalleled convenience and access to products and services without ever stepping foot into a physical store. Think about how many things you have purchased online …

Week 44

Mobile Nav and Hamburger Menus

When I asked in The Admin Bar Facebook group what accessibility questions people have, there were questions about mobile nav and hamburger menu accessibility. I’ve previously written about navigation menu accessibility in …

Week 43

Accessible Search and Filter

One critical aspect of WordPress sites that frequently causes accessibility problems is advanced search and filtering. Whether it’s searching blog posts or products in a WooCommerce store, you want to make sure …

Week 42

Common Form Errors and How to Fix Them

Forms are one of the most important parts of a website to get right from an accessibility perspective because forms are a big way that we measure the success of a website. …

Week 41

Watch Out for Smooth Scroll

Smooth scroll is a website feature that enhances the way users navigate through a website’s content. It refers to the visual effect of gradually and smoothly moving from one part of a …

Week 40

Secondary Nav Menus

When I asked in The Admin Bar Facebook Group what accessibility topics people wanted to hear about in Accessibility Weekly, there were questions about secondary or other navigation menus. Last week, we …

Week 39

Accessible Breadcrumbs

This week’s Accessibility Weekly post is all about a small but impactful way of helping users navigate websites: breadcrumbs. Website “breadcrumbs” are the digital equivalent of Hansel and Gretel leaving – no, …

Week 38

Audio Description

Audio Description is an accessibility feature that started in live theater, moved to movies, and is increasingly relevant to websites with video content. Never heard of audio description? Read on to learn …

Week 37

The What, Why, and How of Accessibility Statements

You may have noticed “Accessibility Statements” popping up on more and more websites. Not sure if you or your clients need an accessibility statement? This article is for you. What is an …

Week 36

Coding Blockquotes

From testimonials to sentences highlighted in a blog post for more visual interest, most websites we build include quotes. Typically, quotes on websites are styled in a unique way to make them …