#bc i think w3 does a great job on its own w that

[borutosdad]

oh boy do i have resources :3c

with most things around web content, WCAG is your first and best point of call. the W3 site has a very comprehensive breakdown of what each item means and how to meet it. (WCAG 2 Overview, W3.org)

what WCAG does really well is discuss many facets of accessibility, from content to user pathways to technical specifics. this is often left out of discussions on accessibility -- often web accessibility conversations begin and end with "is this screen-reader friendly". (which isn't to say that everyone is really great about making things screen-reader friendly, because they're not.)

i'll link the rest of my resources under the cut. they're australia-centric because most of them i sourced for work and i am australian. but many are relevant regardless of where you are from.

i've also tried not to link a whole bunch of resources that all say the same thing. i have read all these documents and they've all been very helpful to me in increasing the accessibility of what i produce.

i've organised this list in order of what i feel is probably most relevant to people on tumblr reading this list. i'll cover:

General content guidance (readability, etc.)

Colour

Websites

Images and diagrams

Audio and video

Digital documents

PDFs (get their own special spot because they fucking SUCK irt accessibility)

Forms and surveys

General content guidance

Readability Guidelines (Content Design London) 

Accessible information (Inclusion Australia) A good introductory resource on Easy Read

Inclusive communication tips (Council for Intellectual Disability) 

Colour & graphic design

Contrast (W3C) 

Colour Contrast Analyser (Vision Australia. Blindness and low vision services) 

Communicating data with colour (Department of Transport and Planning, Victoria) 

AccessAbility 2: A practical handbook on accessible graphic design (RGD in Partnership with the Government of Ontario) 

A Guide to Understanding What Makes a Typeface Accessible (The Readability Group) 

Websites

Online accessibility toolkit (Government of South Australia) Great compilation which covers many different stages of a web build and accessibility considerations for different roles.

Accessibility testing toolkit (Digital.NSW) Walks you through running different types of tests on your page

Easy Checks – A First Review of Web Accessibility (W3C) Quick and easy checks to go through before hitting publish

Screen Reader Testing (University of Melbourne) Screen reader checker tools

Online and print inclusive design and legibility considerations (Vision Australia) 

Guidelines for producing accessible e-text (2018) (Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities) 

Images and diagrams

Alt decision tree (W3C) This is the best resource to learn about producing alt text, what to write, and when to use alt text!

Alternative Text (WebAIM) 

How to make social media accessible: Our top three tips (Vision Australia) 

Images (Australian Government Style Manual) 

Guidelines for producing accessible graphics (2022) (Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities)

Audio and video

Requirements and standards for video and audio (Australian Government Style Manual) 

Description of Visual Information | Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) | W3C 

Audio description for videos | Digital Accessibility​ (harvard.edu) 

Quick reference to audio and video requirements under WCAG (Media Access Australia)   

Sign language – Auslan (Better Health Channel) 

Making audio and video media accessible (W3C) 

Guidance on using captions, transcripts and audio descriptions (WebAIM) 

Audio description of visual information (W3C) 

Creating accessible videos (Education NSW) 

Digital documents

Ace by DAISY. A free tool to check accessibility of EPUB files

Microsoft Word documents (Digital.NSW) 

Microsoft Word accessibility (WebAIM) 

Make your Word documents accessible to people with disabilities (Microsoft) 

Create accessible Word documents video tutorials (Microsoft) 

Make your Google Doc more accessible (Google) 

Microsoft Excel (WebAIM) 

Make your Excel documents accessible to people with disabilities (Microsoft) 

Forms and surveys

Forms (Australian Government Style Manual) 

How to make more inclusive surveys (SurveyMonkey) 

Surveys (Listen Include Respect) 

last thing about this from me i promise. actually i don't, fuck you if you don't like it

the "old web" space is extremely hostile to disabled people. there is a show of patting themselves on the back for linking accessibility resources they've never read, while at the same time flat out promoting inaccessible practices. the thing is, they don't make the page slightly more difficult to read, they make it impossible to.

if you're photosensitive, using an inaccessible page can flat out give you seizures in the case of epilepsy, or otherwise cause massive disabling migraines and other painful effects. if you're a screen reader user, be it because of blindness, dyslexia, or other print disabilities, depending on exactly what nonsense you've done to your website, it can read things in a nonsensical order, refuse to read at all, or flat out CRASH.

if you're out here saying that html is so easy and anyone can learn it, put your effort where your own mouth is and learn accessibility standards. don't be so fucking apathetic - if you think inaccessibility will save you from data harvesting, you frankly deserve it getting stolen