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Overlay Fact Sheet
A website dedicated to comprehensive communication on why “accessibility overlays” are not a good fix for inaccessible websites. At best, overlays are redundant; at worst, overlays reduce accessibility.
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AccessAbility 2: A Practical Handbook on Accessible Graphic Design
A guide on how to plan and execute a graphic design project to help ensure it is as accessible as possible.
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Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion
The Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI) is a made-in-Canada solution designed to help employers, diversity and inclusion/human rights/equity, and human resources practitioners effectively address the full picture of diversity, equity and inclusion within the workplace.
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Creator: Molly Burke
Molly makes a wide range of content on her own YouTube channel and in collaboration with others. She shows many aspects of her life living as a blind woman with a guide dog. From technology to fashion, Molly speaks to the impacts on daily life that can be improved by universal design.
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Creator: Rikki Poynter
Rikki makes deaf and accessibility/closed captioning awareness content on YouTube. She advocates for making YouTube (video content) a better, more accessible experience, and for accessible mental health care.
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The A11y Project Checklist
This checklist includes prompts to check for a variety of issues that cover a wide range of disability conditions. It is organized into useful categories such as Content, Images, Forms, etc.
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Your Interactions Make Me Sick
This article provides perspective on why movement, noise and other website interactions can create an accessibility issue, particularly when they can't be controlled by the user.
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Who Can Use This Colour Combination
This tool demonstrates how colour contrast can affect people with different visual impairments, such as low vision, achromatopsia or protanopia.
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Web AIM Contrast Checker
A useful tool that allows designers to check contrast levels between foreground and background colours in order to see if they pass Level AA or Level AAA.