Eric Eggert

First, I want to apologize to the participants of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) at W3C, as this blog post will …

Testing with assistive technologies is an important part of any accessibility review. However, especially when auditing against the Web …

First things first: Yes, WCAG (the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) are not easy to read. This is not the point that I try to make …

A notion that I always hear and have heard for a long time is that meeting the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) feels like not …

I really wished I could sit back and let the whole “AI” frenzy play out without speaking up or getting involved. Usually these types of …

It’s no secret: I like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Not only do they give us the four base principles of accessibility …

Craig Abbott wrote about the term “best practice” today. Thanks to posting his thoughts on Mastodon, I had time to kick my brain into gear …

I frequently see the word “help” used in accessibility, and I don’t like it. This is certainly a personal gripe, but I want to share my …

Auf der Seite barrieren-gutachten.de hat die wundervolle Casey Kreer Gutachten zum Stand der Barrierefreiheit in Deutschland erstmals …

The deadline of the European Accessibility Act (EAA) is near (June 28 is just 20 days away as I write this), and you just realized that …

Steve Faulkner tagged me in this chain letter/interview style post, and I foolishly agreed in advance to respond. So here we are 😂 Why did …

Last weekend, I launched WAI A Day, the daily random WAI resource fun and information. I added some things: A web page lists the URLs now …

When I worked for W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative, we often discussed ways to spread the good word of our resources better. One idea …

Why we do what we do and why others don’t share the same reasons.

In accessibility, “focusable” UI elements are represented by two separate yet equally important concepts: the elements who can be focused …

Just to preemptively state it: I appreciate what the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) is trying to do with the “In Brief” sections in WCAG’s Understanding documents. My criticism is about the execution of the information. In addition,…

On Mastodon, Steve Faulkner shared a link to a GitHub discussion around the A, AA, and AAA levels of WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines). In it, the question is asked what makes a Success Criterion (SC) A, AA, or AAA. Basically, the question…

and what to do about it Accessibility audits are the bread and butter of every accessibility consultancy. It’s an easy to package product that clients have learned to ask for and buy. They have expectations on the deliverables and the form of an…

The Web Content Accessibility Guideline’s (WCAG) Success Criterion 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast is one of the harder to understand requirements. Here’s a deep-dive into the details of it, including practical examples, concerning only its “User Interface…

In the last couple of weeks, I had some encounters that made me think about the state of ableism. Turns out that despite a lot of slow but meaningful progress, the world overall is still pretty much ableist. This is not news for anyone who is…