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En  Small Tweaks That Can Make a Huge Impact on Your Website’s Accessibility explican pequeños cambios que pueden mejorar enormemente la accesibilidad de una página web: Document Structure and Semantics Get Your Color Contrast Right Responsible Text Labels Small Typography Tweaks With a Big Impact Enhance Keyboard Support Don't Rely on Color Alone to Communicate State Changes Wrapping Up

Muy interesante todo lo que se cuenta en  What my color-blindness taught me about design : I can tell the difference between green and red most of the time depending on what light I’m under, but I’m pretty sure it’s not the same green and red other people see. The color blindness is typically inherited. After I was diagnosed, my grandpa and uncle from my mom’s side were also diagnosed color blindness (they always were but they didn’t notice). Also, there is no cure for color blindness. This means that I will have to adapt.  In fact, 8% of all men and 0.5% of all women suffer from color blindness. Although 99% of color blind people suffer from red-green color blindness, they don’t agree on the same colors. For example, I suffer from Deuteranomaly, and it is hard for me to tell violet from blue or yellow from light green; others who suffer from Protanomaly may see red, orange, yellow appear greener. 

Hoy se celebra el Global Accessibility Awareness Day : El 17 de mayo, le invitamos a participar en el Día Mundial para Promover la Concienciación sobre la Accesibilidad Web, conocido en inglés como Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). Cuando hablamos de la accesibilidad Web nos referimos a el contenido, la navegación y la interacción. El propósito de este día es para hablar, pensar y aprender sobre la accesibilidad de las tecnologías digitales (web, software, dispositivos móviles, etc.) y los diferente tipos de usuarios, incluyendo las personas con discapacidades. La audiencia que queremos atraer para GAAD son las comunidades de diseño, desarrollo, usabilidad y también los que crean, dan forma, apoyan financieramente e influencian la industria de tecnología y su uso. Aunque una persona este interesada en el tema de hacer la tecnología mas accesible y usable para las personas con discapacidades, la realidad es que muchas veces no saben como y donde comenzar. El conomocimento sobra

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition, 2010: 3.16 Age Age should be reported as part of the description of participants in the Method section. Be specific in providing age ranges; avoid open-ended definitions such as "under 18 years" or "over 65 years." Girl and boy are correct terms for referring to individuals under the age of 12 years. Young man and young woman and female adolescent and male adolescent may be used for individuals aged 13 to 17 years. For persons 18 years and older, use women and men. The terms elderly and senior are not acceptable as nouns; some may consider their use as adjectives pejorative. Generational descriptors such as boomer or baby boomer should not be used unless they are related to a study on this topic. The term older adults is preferred. Age groups may also be described with adjectives. Gerontologists may prefer to use combination terms for older age groups (youngold, old-old, very old, oldest ol

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition, 2010: 3.15 Disabilities The overall principle for "nonhandicapping" language is to maintain the integrity (worth) of all individuals as human beings. Avoid language that objectifies a person by her or his condition (e.g., autistic, neurotic), that uses pictorial metaphors (e.g., wheelchair bound or confined to a wheelchair), that uses excessive and negative labels (e.g., AIDS victim, brain damaged), or that can be regarded as a slur (e.g., cripple, invalid). Use people-first language, and do not focus on the individual's disabling or chronic condition (e.g., person with paraplegia, youth with autism). Also use people-first language to describe groups of people with disabilities. For instance, say people with intellectual disabilities in contrast to the retarded (University of Kansas, Research and Training Center on Independent Living, 2008). Avoid euphemisms that are condescending when describing

Muy interesante el artículo  The Trials and Tribulations of the Title Attribute . El primer consejo es "no uses el atributo title". Pero si lo tienes que usar, o lo quieres usar aunque te digan que no lo debes usar, entonces lee este artículo para saber cómo usarlo correctamente.

El próximo 17 de mayo se celebra el Global Accessibility Awareness Day : El 17 de mayo, le invitamos a participar en el Día Mundial para Promover la Concienciación sobre la Accesibilidad Web, conocido en inglés como Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). Cuando hablamos de la accesibilidad Web nos referimos a el contenido, la navegación y la interacción. El propósito de este día es para hablar, pensar y aprender sobre la accesibilidad de las tecnologías digitales (web, software, dispositivos móviles, etc.) y los diferente tipos de usuarios, incluyendo las personas con discapacidades. La audiencia que queremos atraer para GAAD son las comunidades de diseño, desarrollo, usabilidad y también los que crean, dan forma, apoyan financieramente e influencian la industria de tecnología y su uso. Aunque una persona este interesada en el tema de hacer la tecnología mas accesible y usable para las personas con discapacidades, la realidad es que muchas veces no saben como y donde comenzar. El c

Muy interesante el siguiente vídeo que muestra cómo se puede utilizar Twitter con la vista, creo que el sistema que emplea es Irisbond : pic.twitter.com/Q4J3XOQr5i — Alberto Moreno (@albertopajariyo) 27 de abril de 2018

En  EU Directive on the Accessibility of Public Sector Websites and Mobile Applications podemos leer que la directiva de la Unión Europea que obliga a los estados miembros a asegurar que sus sitios web y sus aplicaciones son accesibles se debe trasponer a la legislación de cada país hasta el 23 se septiembre de 2018: The European Union (EU) Directive on the Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications requires EU member states to make sure their websites and mobile apps meet common accessibility standards. The Directive will be transposed into the laws of each EU member state by September 23 2018. The Directive uses the four principles of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, requiring that public sector organisations across the EU take steps to make sure their websites are “Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust”. The Directive references EN 301 549 as the standard which will enable websites and apps to comply with the law. EN 301 549 is a set of Functi

No es reciente, es del año 2012, pero es la información más oficial y actualizada que existe:  Nearly 1 in 5 People Have a Disability in the U.S., Census Bureau Reports . Este dato se basa en el censo realizado en EEUU en el año 2010 . El censo se realiza cada 10 años, así que habrá que esperar un poco hasta el siguiente. La nota de prensa dice: About 56.7 million people — 19 percent of the population — had a disability in 2010, according to a broad definition of disability, with more than half of them reporting the disability was severe, according to a comprehensive report on this population released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. The report, Americans with Disabilities: 2010 , presents estimates of disability status and type and is the first such report with analysis since the Census Bureau published statistics in a similar report about the 2005 population of people with disabilities. According to the report, the total number of people with a disability increased by 2.2 million ove

En Accessibility according to actual people with disabilities se incluyen varias respuestas a la siguiente pregunta: If you have a disability, what’s the hardest thing about browsing the web? Las respuestas están agrupadas en: Lack of captions. Motion, animations and cluttered pages. Wall of text. Small font size. Zooming problems. Low contrasts and image of text. Bright color schemes. Relying only on color. Mouse-focused sites. Too small touch-targets. Captchas.