Pollyana de Jesus
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Test your website with The Tab Key!
How to quickly check if a website is accessible When I use the word "website accessibility", I mean "website accessibility...
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Aren’t all websites accessible for disabled people?
It is easy to know if a building is likely to be accessible for someone in a wheelchair.For example:...
![A person in a wheelchair, dressed in a blue blazer and jeans, looks to their right at the base of a flight of stairs. They are on a paved outdoor area with a lamppost in the background.](https://accessbydesign.uk/abd/wp-content/themes/access2022/images/timthumb/timthumb.php?src=https://accessbydesign.uk/abd/wp-content/gallery/blog-images/GettyImages-475992862-w.jpg&w=500&h=500)
What are the benefits of having an accessible website?
What does website accessibility mean? The benefits of having an accessible website are almost too many to mention! However, firstly,...
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Why is it important that disabled people audit your website?
This may seem to be a completely obvious question but, sadly, not everyone who carries out a website accessibility...
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Why accessibility plugins are a bad idea
I am passionate about website accessibility for disabled people. I have the privilege of knowing many other people who...
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Clive interviewed on Vectis Radio
The day before my TEDx Talk, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Ian Mac, the owner of...
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You can see but you cannot touch. What do you do?
Iona is one of my fab website accessibility testers. She used to photograph some of the world’s biggest rock...
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So what is wrong with dropdown menus?
The benefits of using a dropdown menuDropdown menus are a convenient way of keeping your website clean and uncluttered....