Try your website at twice the text size
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBuilding a fully accessible website can be very challenging. While there are a lot of basics and easy wins to handle, there are a zillion…
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Your website is readable, so why did you add that PDF?
Reading Time: < 1 minutePDFs can be amazingly helpful at times, but they still are used far too often on websites. I wrote a short post about this year…
Scanning for accessibility
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve talked about the importance of solid website accessibility (making sure users with disabilities are able to use your site) for years now, and we…
You won’t use the web, Google will use the web for you
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’re quickly heading toward a world where we no longer interact directly with the web, and you can already see it happening. Google’s big changes…
Jakob’s Law has made the web boring
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you spent much time on the internet in the 90’s and early 2000’s, you likely remember how vibrant and wildly different many websites were….
Users with disabilities are visiting your website
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s getting increasingly difficult to track how users are finding your website, but there is one thing I can guarantee — users with disabilities are…
We all have accessibility needs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWebsite accessibility is something I’ve shared a lot about. We’ve written about it on the GreenMellen blog, devoted a podcast episode to it, and there…
Does accessibility help your website rank higher?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnline accessibility has become an important topic over the past few years. I’ve shared some tips on how you can improve accessibility on your site,…
Going beyond accessibility to reduce motion
Reading Time: 2 minutesBuilding websites that are accessible to all users is something that continues to be a problem on much of the web, but it’s continuing to…
Spot the imposter
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen dealing with a professional of any kind, you expect that they know the lingo. For example, I’m not very knowledgeable about how a car…
Don’t break the back button
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver the years, the “back” button on web browsers has consistently been shown to be one of the most-used features on a web browser. As…
They’re never called “alt tags”
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen working to make your website more accessible, one area to work on is adding alternative attributes to images. This text is what vision-impaired users…