Accessibility: recommended links and reading
There are numerous valuable resources about digital accessibility. Here we list the ones that we’ve found most helpful, particularly in our everyday work. Additional comments and suggestions are welcome.
Screen reader and braille (© Stock.Adobe / en images)
Accessibility resources at ETH
- Barrier-free at ETH programme
- Seven golden rules for more accessibility
- protected page Examples from the “Barrier-free websites: AEM focus” course
- Digital accessibility in teaching
- ETH colours and contrast settings
- Download Checkliste für Entwickler:innen (German) (PDF, 256 KB)
- protected page Making a webpage accessible
- protected page Creating accessible documents
- protected page Colour accessibility for web graphics
Useful everyday tools for web editing
- Tipps and tricks for more accessibility
- external page Bookmarklet: Show Headings
- external page Bookmarklet: Text Spacing
- external page Browser extension: Web Developer Toolbar
- external page Accessibility inspector in Firefox
- external page Bookmarklet: Semantify
- external page Bookmarklets you can use for accessibility testing (DigitalA11Y)
- external page Blogpost by Slava Shestopalov: Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails
Tools and tipps for developer
- Download Checklist for developer (German) (PDF, 256 KB)
- external page Accessibility Myths - debunked
- external page The Web Field Manual: Accessibility-Ressourcen
- external page Screenreader NVDA (open source)
- external page Accessibility Developer Guide
- external page Blogpost by David Ball: I thought title text improved accessibility. I was wrong.
- external page Blogpost by Datawrapper: What to consider when visualizing data for colorblind readers
- external page Blogpost by CSS-Tricks: Focusing on Focus Styles
Tools and tipps for graphics and design
- Download Colour Contrast Analyser by TPGi (zum Download)
- external page Color Contrast Checker by WebAIM (Online-Nutzung)
- external page Color Contrast Analyzer by Adobe (Online-Nutzung)
- external page Blogpost by Envoy Design: How to design an accessible color scheme
- external page Blogpost by Datawrapper: How your colorblind and colorweak readers see your colors
Conformity status WCAG 2.1 AA
ETH strives to achieve external page WCAG 2.1 AA conformity status, which follows the international Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the national standard eCH-0059 Version 3.0, as stipulated in Article 10, Paragraph 1 of the Disability Equality Ordinance. The meaning of these standards is elaborated in our accessibility statement.
Contact
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Digital & Medien
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