Tag: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Web Resources

ACE: the Accessible Colour Evaluator

ACE: A Colour Palette Design Tool for Balancing Aesthetics and Accessibility
Journal: ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, January 2017
By Garreth W. Tigwell, David R. Flatla, and Neil D. Archibald

This websites contains a web development tool, which can be found under the heading Palette. The purpose of the tool is to assist web designers and developers in selecting a range of colours to use on a website and quickly reveal which pairs will pass or fail at the three different WCAG 2.0 contrast ratio values.

ACE: the Accessible Colour Evaluator Read More
WCAG 2.1 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Web Resources

Web Accessibility Initiative

The World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) commitment to lead the Web to its full potential includes promoting a high degree of usability for people with disabilities. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is an initiative of the W3C.

WAI develops its work through W3C’s consensus-based process, involving different stakeholders in Web accessibility. These include industry, disability organizations, government, accessibility research organizations, and more.

Web Accessibility Initiative Read More