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- Mar 21 2017
Using NVDA Screen Reader on Windows
NVDA stands for NonVisual Desktop Access and is a FREE screen reading app for Windows OS. Emphasis on the “free”, as there are other Windows screen readers out there with prices that will make you spit-take across your monitor. (Is there such a thing as a subtweet inside a blog post?) If you do end […]
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Using NVDA Screen Reader on Windows- Tagged in:
- a11y,
- accessibility,
- nvda,
- screen reader
- Mar 02 2017
CSS Grid: Responsive and Accessibility
Reflow your content with ease In the first post I wrote about my very first learnings with CSS Grid, I showed how I took a pattern I’ve used many times and reproduced it with a lot less code. After learning about how to do something simple, I started wondering about the other properties of CSS […]
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- CSS,
- CSS Grid,
- responsive
- Feb 23 2017
Getting Started with VoiceOver & Accessibility
If you are a web developer working on a Mac, you can become a hero for thousands of people out there by assuring that anything you create for the web can be read properly by a screen reader. This blog post is going to teach you how to access and wield this super power that […]
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Accessibility Wins: Let’s talk color
In the last two posts we talked about laying the foundation for an accessible website and making sure keyboard users can navigate your site—this week we’re gonna dive into the visual and talk about color. As it turns out, color is a more complex topic than it might seem. We’ll start with a quick run-through […]
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- Sep 07 2016
Accessibility Wins: Keyboard navigation
Last week, in the first of our series on Accessibility Wins, we looked at setting up a good foundation by using HTML and ARIA roles properly. This week we’re going to dive into the world of making sure that people can navigate your site using their keyboard. Many, many people use just their keyboards for […]
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- accessibility
- Aug 30 2016
Accessibility Wins: Start with the foundations
Welcome to the first post in our Accessibility Wins series, which will detail techniques you can use today to improve the accessibility of your web projects. Through this process, you’ll gain insight into how we think about accessibility here at Bocoup. First up is the foundation on which it all rests: writing good HTML and […]
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- accessibility,
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