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The A11Y Collective Blog

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A list of blog articles

  • How to Use ARIA Alert Effectively

    Do you know how to make sure users of assistive technology don’t miss important updates on your website? The best strategy here is to use ARIA alerts – they’re like …

  • Building Accessible Tab Interfaces

    Tab interfaces are everywhere – product pages, dashboards, profile settings – and for good reason. They organise lots of content into a small space without overwhelming people. But when tabs …

  • 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.

  • Best Practices for Text Spacing to Ensure Accessibility

    Discover best practices and code examples for implementing accessible text spacing that meets WCAG guidelines while ensuring readability.

  • 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.

  • Are Accessibility Overlays a Good Investment?

    Accessibility overlays promise to fix your website’s accessibility issues with just one line of code. Sounds brilliant, right? For business owners and developers under pressure to meet compliance deadlines, these …

  • Magento Accessibility: Creating Stores Everyone Can Use

    Here’s a sobering fact: the average Magento homepage contains around 85 accessibility errors. That’s 85 barriers between you and potential customers. If you’re running an Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento) or …

  • How to Use Accessibility Bookmarklets for Better Testing

    You can’t always spot accessibility issues just by looking at a web page. The hidden problems – missing alt text, broken heading structures, poor keyboard navigation – these slip through …

  • How to Achieve ADA Compliance for Your Shopify Store

    Picture this: A Shopify merchant spends $400 on a premium theme. Months later, they’re slapped with a lawsuit. The settlement? $10,000. The cost to fix their store? Another $40,000. This …

  • Managing Content Visibility With aria-hidden

    Web accessibility is often overlooked in the hustle of development, but its importance cannot be overstated. One common issue many screen reader users know all too well is hearing the …