Free online editor that will enable you to create an animated background SVG graphic. These graphics can then be loaded into your dominKnow | ONE course as a background or anywhere in the course.

Mapping of Screen Reader Compatibility (Jaws, NVDA, VoiceOver, etc.) with different versions of browsers and support for WCAG ARIA.

Shows how different WAI-ARIA attributes behave in commonly used screen readers.

The results include two types of test:

Expected to work - these tests show support when accessibility features are used correctly

Expected to fail - these tests show what happens when accessibility features are used incorrectly (marked with Expected to Fail)

A Chrome plugin that will assist you in simulating different disability situations and testing your content. It is meant to provide some general guidance, but not provide a definitive answer for a given disability.

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Deque - a great collection of accessibility webinars.

Hear from our innovative thought leaders on topics ranging from native mobile, UX design, development, Higher Ed, and Federal and how they relate to today’s accessibility trends.

From time to time people think about adding a background "soundtrack" to learning, with the idea that this will enhance the experience. We strongly discourage this and in fact have taken measures to eliminate making it easy to add this functionality in dominKnow | ONE as it is actually a detriment to the learning experience. This article provides a good summary as to why you should avoid falling into this trap.

The article also points out the fallacy of seeking to have "narration" that simpl...

Get a Professional Certificate in Accessibility and Universal Design in an online and Cohort based learning course.

A free tool to check your entire site to see if it meets accessibility requirements. The tool is capable of automatically crawling an entire website (up to 60 seconds or 500 URLs, whichever comes first.

Use AI to create text to speech - free (for now at least)!

A group working on accessibility standards for virtual environments

ADL xAPI Profile Server to search, create and publish xAPI profiles.

Body text is often a forgotten aspect of design. After all, it doesn't really seem to jazzy, does it?

But it also conveys the vast majority of the information we're trying to get across, so maybe it really should be one of our first design considerations?

This article offers some really interesting thoughts and recommendations about body text as a design element.

COVID Proof your eLearning Development

I shared the Pantone color of the year for 2020 and just realized I missed sharing it this year. So... better late than never.
Check out the Pantone Color of the Year for 2021.




Spoiler alert: This year it seems to be 2 colors...a combo.

A great short video on gaining perspective on different people's experiences and how it ties to accessibility.