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Accessibility Tune-Up

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We’re starting the year with short, practical guides to help you evaluate and improve the accessibility of your website. Join us for an accessibility tune-up based on our popular blog series written by Alexis Block.

We’re going to take a deep dive into the basics we all have to get right, such as having a clear navigation and hierarchy of content, correctly using headings and hyperlinks and take a look at how to use a free (or paid) accessibility checker.

  • Dropdown Menu Generator (used to demo and visualize hierarchy of our headings): https://www.dropdownmenugenerator.com/
  • Forum referenced on using headings inside of lists: https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/using-headings-inside-lists/4279
  • WebAIM Color Contrast Checker: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
  • altText Decision Tree: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decision-tree/
  • axe DevTools extension for Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/axe-devtools-web-accessib/lhdoppojpmngadmnindnejefpokejbdd?hl=en-US
  • axe DevTools extension for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/axe-devtools/
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