Table of Contents
Featured Resource
Assistive Technology Glossary
A list of assistive technology terms and what they mean.
Media
Books
Physical and eBooks written to discuss different accessibility topics.
Accessibility for Everyone
Get sure footing on the path to designing with accessibility.
Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement
Building an elegant, functional website requires more than just knowing how to code. In Adaptive Web Design, Second Edition, you’ll learn how to use progressive enhancement to build websites that won’t break, work anywhere, are accessible by anyone—on any device, and are designed to work well into the future.
Against Technoableism
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability.
Agile Accessibility Handbook
Free ebook: A Practical Guide to Accessible Software Development at Scale.
Approachable Accessibility: Planning for Success
Understand the realities of modern web accessibility and what considerations should be made to include everyone. This book makes the topic of web accessibility as approachable as possible to help every web professional become an accessibility advocate at their companies, on their projects, and in their communities.
Apps For All: Coding Accessible Web Applications
Web accessibility is quite a large topic — far too large to fit into a small book. So, what will this book cover? Though we shall encounter visual design challenges, deal with performance issues, and adopt progressive enhancement — all of which are accessibility concerns — the underlying theme of this book is about making the interactivity of web applications include keyboard and screen reader users.
Appt Accessibility Handbook
The Appt Foundation is working towards a world where everyone can use apps equally. To make this vision a reality, we have written a handbook. It helps you learn the basics of app accessibility in a straightforward way.
Automating Inequality
In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America.
Beyond Accessibility Compliance
Take a deep look at accessibility as it applies to mobile and wearables. This book covers topics within the accessibility domain that are rarely covered or understood, despite the fact that nearly half of the world’s population uses smartphones.
Branding and Designing Disability: Reconceptualising Disability Studies
Given their potential to divide humans into categories and label their worth and value, design and branding can wield immense but currently unharnessed powers of social change. Groups designed as devalued can be undesigned, redesigned and rebranded to seamlessly and equivalently participate in community, work and civic life.
Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability
Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for designing the world with disability in mind.
Color Accessibility Workflows
Make sure accessibility and aesthetics go hand-in-hand with every design.
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies.
Cross-Cultural Design
Explore how to create culturally relevant and responsible experiences that reach a truly global audience.
Demystifying Disability
An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do) and how you can help make the world a more inclusive place.
Design for Cognitive Bias
In Design for Cognitive Bias, David Dylan Thomas lays bare the irrational forces that shape our everyday decisions and, inevitably, inform the experiences we craft. Once we grasp the logic powering these forces, we stand a fighting chance of confronting them, tempering them, and even harnessing them for good.
Design Meets Disability
How design for disabled people and mainstream design could inspire, provoke, and radically change each other.
Design for Real Life
You can’t know every user, but you can develop inclusive practices to create experiences that support a wider range of people, more of the time.
Designing with the Body: Somaesthetic Interaction Design
Interaction design that entails a qualitative shift from a symbolic, language-oriented stance to an experiential stance that encompasses the entire design and use cycle.
Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web that Works for Everyone
Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience, and simplifies coding and testing as well. Whether users are viewing your sites on an iPhone, the latest and greatest high-end system, or even hearing them on a screen-reader, their experience should be easy to understand and use, and as fully-featured and functional as possible.
Designing with Web Standards
Designing with Web Standards remains your essential guide to creating sites that load faster, reach more users, and cost less to design and maintain.
Designing Learning Experiences for Inclusivity and Diversity: Advice for Learning Designers
The development and implementation of inclusive and diverse learning experiences is a vital consideration for educators in higher education. Increasingly, learning designers play a significant role in this process. This textbook offers postgraduate students a comprehensive guide to designing learning experiences that are accessible, equitable, and inclusive.
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.
Giving a damn about accessibility
A candid and practical handbook for designers.
The Glossary of Accessibility Design
A guide to navigating the crucial field of accessibility design with precision and clarity. This comprehensive dictionary comprises over 700 meticulously defined terms, offering a vital resource for designers, developers, policymakers, and anyone dedicated to creating inclusive digital experiences.
Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams
How do we find that happy medium where workers can demonstrate their individuality while also feeling they belong?
Inclusive Design for a Digital World
What is inclusive design? It is simple. It means that your product has been created with the intention of being accessible to as many different users as possible.
Inclusive Design for Organisations
In this book, award-winning international accessibility thought-leader Jonathan Hassell shows you how to transform your organisation to consistently and cost-efficiently create websites, mobile apps and other digital products that are usable for all of your customers.
Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace & The Will To Change
The Inclusion Dividend provides a framework to tap the bottom line impact that results from an inclusive culture.
The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity and Inclusion Pays Off
The Inclusion Dividend provides a framework to tap the bottom line impact that results from an inclusive culture.
Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy, and Belonging across Differences
Effective dialogue across different dimensions of diversity, such as race, gender, age, religion, or sexual orientation, fosters a sense of belonging and inclusion, which in turn leads to greater productivity, performance, and innovation.
Inclusive Design Patterns
Inclusive Design Handbook gets to the bottom of it all: accessibility myths and rules of thumbs, WAI-ARIA roles, content accessibility guidelines, landmark roles, keyboard and touch accessibility, accessible markup and interaction patterns, accessible forms and widgets, multimedia accessibility and inclusive prototyping.
Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places
Websites and apps are places where critical parts of our lives happen. We shop, bank, learn, gossip, and select our leaders there. But many of these places weren’t intended to support these activities. Instead, they’re designed to capture your attention and sell it to the highest bidder.
Making Disability Modern
Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day, and in homes, offices, and schools to realms of national and international politics.
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.
No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as “unproductive citizens.” Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labor market, reflecting the fact that Americans had long viewed productivity as a spectrum that varied by age, gender, and ability.
Practical Web Inclusion & Accessibility
This book will guide you through a broad range of access needs, the barriers users often face, and provide practical advice on how your sites can help rather than hinder. Going beyond advice tailored solely for developers, this book offers potential improvements for designers, developers, user experience professionals, QA and testers, so that everyone involved in building a website can benefit.
Pro HTML5 Accessibility
Pro HTML5 Accessibility helps designers come to grips with building exciting, accessible and usable web sites and applications with HTML5. The book covers how to use HTML5 in order to serve the needs of people with disabilities and older persons using assistive technology (AT).
Sound Is Not Enough: Captioning as Universal Design
Do you have a podcast, video series, or an upcoming live event? Do you want to increase your audience tenfold? We have the solution, and it’s captioning. In her book, Sound Is Not Enough: Captioning as Universal Design, Svetlana Kouznetsova will show you how to capture those new viewers and take your audience to a whole new, and diverse level.
Technically Wrong
In Technically Wrong, Sara Wachter-Boettcher demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed choices about the services we use—and to demand more from the companies behind them.
Universal Design for Learning: Principles, Framework, and Practice
A practical, research-based framework that enables all educators to respond to individual learning differences through the design of inclusive goals, methods, materials, assessments, and environments.
WCAG for Designers: Accessibility Reference Manual
This accessibility reference manual is geared toward designers working on digital products.
We Are Not Users: Dialogues, Diversity, and Design
A call to reclaim and rethink the field of designing as a liberal art where diverse voices come together to shape the material world.