Resources

Laura Kalbag

Get sure footing on the path to designing with accessibility.

Aaron Gustafson

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.

Ashley Shew

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.

Dylan Barrell

Free ebook: A Practical Guide to Accessible Software Development at Scale.

Martine Dowden and Michael Dowden

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.

Heydon Pickering

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.

Jan Jaap de Groot and Paul van Workum

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.

Virginia Eubanks

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.

Sukriti Chadha

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.

Elizabeth DePoy, Stephen Gilson

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.

Aimi Hamraie

Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for designing the world with disability in mind.

Geri Coady

Make sure accessibility and aesthetics go hand-in-hand with every design.

Robert McRuer

A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies.

Senongo Akpem

Explore how to create culturally relevant and responsible experiences that reach a truly global audience.

Change is never easy, but in this case, it’s crucial. Whether you are an employee, manager, HR/DEI leader, or company owner, this guide provides practical and achievable steps to ensure everybody can fulfill their role to the best of their abilities while feeling respected.

Stephanie Warlick

Emily Ladau

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.

David Dylan Thomas

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.

Graham Pullin

How design for disabled people and mainstream design could inspire, provoke, and radically change each other.

Eric Meyer, Sara Wachter-Boettcher

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.

Kristina Höök

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.

Todd Parker, Scott Jehl, Maggie Costello Wachs, and Patty Toland

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.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Designing with Web Standards remains your essential guide to creating sites that load faster, reach more users, and cost less to design and maintain.

Keith Heggart et al

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.

Alice Wong

Activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.

Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC.

A candid and practical handbook for designers.

Vimal Gupta

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.

Stefanie K. Johnson

How do we find that happy medium where workers can demonstrate their individuality while also feeling they belong?

Regine Gilbert

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.

Jonathan Hassell

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.

Jennifer Brown

The Inclusion Dividend provides a framework to tap the bottom line impact that results from an inclusive culture.

Mason Donovan, Mark Kaplan

The Inclusion Dividend provides a framework to tap the bottom line impact that results from an inclusive culture.

Mary-Frances Winters

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.

Heydon Pickering

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.

Jorge Arango

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.

Bess Williamson, Elizabeth Guffey

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.

Kat Holmes

How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.

Sarah F. Rose

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.

Ashley Firth

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.

Joshue O Connor

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).

Svetlana Kouznetsova

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.

Sara Wachter-Boettcher

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.

David Gordon

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.

Stacey Swinehart Ganderson

This accessibility reference manual is geared toward designers working on digital products.

Eswaran Subrahmanian, Yoram Reich, Sruthi Krishnan

A call to reclaim and rethink the field of designing as a liberal art where diverse voices come together to shape the material world.

Jason C. Taylor

Your Roadmap to Digital Inclusion is made up of four instructive chapters, focused on the resource considerations for each stage of a typical digital accessibility program and how to integrate the disability community across your program.

Manuel Matuzovic

The Web Accessibility Cookbook provides you with dozens of recipes to help you avoid creating accessibility failures. You'll learn how to build common components, such as main navigation, filters, and dialogs, in an accessible manner. Each recipe not only explains how to build things but also why.

Narayanan Palani

By applying the accessibility best practices covered in this book, developers can help their organizations rise to a whole new level of accessibility adherence, innovation, and inclusive design. They will also see greater work satisfaction in their professional lives and a way to help improve digital accessibility for end users.

Jim Thatcher and Mark Urban

The power of the Web lies in the fact that anyone and everyone can access it, and this should also extend to users with disabilities. Accessibility is about making websites accessible to those with aural, visual, or physical disabilities, or rather, constructing websites that don't exclude these people from accessing the content or services provided.

Sarah Horton and Whitney Quesenbery

If you are in charge of the user experience, development, or strategy for a web site, A Web for Everyone will help you make your site accessible without sacrificing design or innovation. Rooted in universal design principles, this book provides solutions: practical advice and examples of how to create sites that everyone can use.

Sara Hendren

A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all.

Sarah Horton and David Sloan

What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility will prepare readers to integrate digital accessibility into their engineering practices. Readers will learn how to accurately frame accessibility as an engineering challenge so they are able to address the correct problems in the correct way.

Verizon

For people living with disabilities, accessibility doesn’t just mean how reachable something is — oftentimes, the level of accessibility can define their ability to interact with and participate in certain activities or events, including entertainment.

Microsoft Xbox

An introductory course to accessibility in gaming and how to create inclusive gaming experiences.

A centralized resource for game accessibility reviews and information.

AbleGamers

A resource for accessible player experiences and connecting with gamers with disabilities.

Robin Kanatzar

News from the accessibility community, links to developer tools and frameworks, and more.

TetraLogical

A free six day newsletter series that covers who benefits from accessibility, and how you can start designing, building, measuring, testing, and managing accessibility.