Section508.gov | GSA Government-wide IT Accessibility Program

.Gov site with great resources regarding color and accessibility

What's the best practice advice for ensuring glossary terms within a page are accessible to those using assistive technology? When I add a glossary term to a word, the screen reader will read the word as a link and then you can use the keyboard to open that glossary text box. However, this method doesn't recognise the glossary link when using the screen reader to search the hierarchy of the page. I've also tried adding a lightbox action to a word as a glossary pop-up. This is recognised by th...

Some of the key accessibility standards you should be aware of as you start your accessibility journey.

Hi there, I am experiencing an issue with focus on answer choices on Test questions. When tabbing through the question elements, focus will only appear on the first answer choice then goes straight to the Submit button. In some cases (not on our LMS unfortunately) - it's possible to Shift + Tab back up from the button to an answer choice, but this is not ideal. I checked the settings on the question and each choice element has "Focusable" selected.
 

Is there something else I could be missi...

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Keyboard Navigation Trick for displaying a button only when keyboard navigation gives the button focus

Jenny Wincek joins #IDIODC to talk about the Trusted Tester program, as well as some of the basics of 508 and WCAG compliance, and why accessibility is important.

is there a way to input a full width image? so you open your program in a web browser it goes full width?
 

Some tips and ideas for handling graphics for WCAG content

The Accessibility Settings tab includes context-specific tips and advice to help you make content more accessible to all learners