Testing with assistive technologies is an important part of any accessibility review. However, especially when auditing against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), they should not be the primary tools to use for testing. Here’s why: Support Eric’s independent work …

My friend Nicolas Steenhout has published an article about the impossibility of specificity in accessibility recommendations. It is excellent, and I strongly recommend reading it before continuing here. The reason we often cannot be super specific has its roots in three areas: …

Over the past few years, accessibility companies have started to develop tools that claim to find accessibility problems automatically. Often the idea is that “automated testing is not quite there yet, but in a few years there will be a revolution”. I don't believe that. Human …

JAWS, Job Access With Speech, is the world’s most popular screen reader, developed for computer users whose vision loss prevents them from seeing screen content or navigating with a mouse. Freedom Scientific A tweet from my friend Nicolas Steenhout reminded me of one issue I …