1. Hello, Directive (EU) 2019/882

    It's true, "Directive 2019/882" is a boring, bureaucratic and technocratic name. But this directive is actually a very important piece of legislation when it comes to accessibility in the European Union since it's the official name for the legal act formerly known as "European Accessibility Act (EAA)". But the EAA not ...

  2. Accessibility challenges in web apps

    A web application is a computer program that runs in your browser. It is hard to expand the general definition further. Wikipedia says: The general distinction between a dynamic web page of any kind and a "web application" is unclear. Web sites most likely to be referred to as "web ...

  3. Building accessible-app.com: The shopping cart and aria-live regions

    While the last two blog posts revolved around accessibility challenges I found along the way, this post is about the topic I wanted to cover initially - the shopping cart. I consider this feature actually as one of the core ones of my example app, and it's the feature that ...

  4. Building accessible-app.com: Accessible animations

    To make the user experience pleasant and - above all - more app-like web-app authors use not only the strategy of asynchronous loading data but also animation. While the user experience of your app could benefit from it (see: "How Functional Animation Helps Improve User Experience") sudden movements could cause, ...

  5. Building accessible-app.com: New menu button for Accessibook's shopping cart

    My original intention for the next article of the #accessibleapp project was to look at "notifying users of changes", especially regarding content reloads that do not trigger a full page reload (that lack of a full page reload in Single Page Apps leads to the necessity to come up with ...