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The A11Y Collective Blog

Stay up to date about the ins & outs of Web Accessibility!

A list of blog articles

  • Smooth UX: A Handy Accessible Design Checklist

    Looking to improve your website’s UX? Our handy, accessible design checklist offers effective guidelines to ensure compliance and avoid discrimination.

  • Ensuring Website Accessibility for the Blind: A Comprehensive Guide

    Struggling with website accessibility for the visually impaired? Discover effective design tips, understand legal standards, and identify helpful tools.

  • Decoding WCAG, Section 508, and ADA: A Comprehensive Guide

    This guide simplifies WCAG, Section 508, and ADA accessibility guidelines for professionals, offering clear explanations, comparisons, and compliance steps.

  • An Introduction to Colour Blindness Accessibility

    Searching for ways to make your content accessible for users with colour blindness? This guide is packed with practical solutions!

  • The Accessibility Collective

    The term “a11y” is becoming more popular, especially among those who focus on accessibility. While it might look like a strange code at first, it’s just a shorter way of saying “accessibility”.

  • Interview with Wouter: I am stronger than stuttering

    Our colleague Wouter stutters, a disability that is not often mentioned in the well-known list of disabilities. What is the impact of stuttering on Wouter’s life, and how can we best support him?

  • Interview with Lilly: Two different socks

    Yoga, good for the body and soul. I love it, a moment of reflection, drinking tea afterwards with interesting conversations. Like with Lilly Pagrach. Purple hair, cheerful, sun-tanned face and …

  • Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023

    The A11Y Collective is the e-learning platform for anyone who wants to learn more about web accessibility. We offer IAAP approved courses on accessibility basics, accessible design, code and content and we offer masterclasses and advanced coding courses. On Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) we want to give everyone the chance to enroll in one of our courses by letting you decide the price yourself.

  • Accessible heading structure

    Heading levels have meaning, especially for screen reader users and search engines. That means one unique first level heading per page, with the other headings representing the page content similar to the index of a book: easily scannable and semantic.

  • 5 reasons why flashy websites destroy the user experience!

    Why flashy websites destroy the user experience? We share 5 main reasons and explain how. You can also learn more about this in our online accessibility courses.