Issue #384
Featured: I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind
“Other times, however, Copilot is clearly just regurgitating irrelevant code samples that aren’t at all useful. Sometimes, it’s so far off base its suggestions are hilarious. (It regularly suggests that I start my components with about 25 nested divs, for example.)”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Can generative AI help write accessible code? (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- Micro-note on aria-roledescription (blog post - html5accessibility.com)
- Don’t disable form controls (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- Consider accessibility when using horizontally scrollable regions in webpages and apps (blog post – cerovac.com/a11y)
- What does leadership look like in the accessibility space? (blog post – linkedin.com)
- Spatial computing vs. differentiated accessibility solutions (blog post – linkedin.com)
- Vision Pro accessibility in the real(ish) world (blog post – sixcolors.com)
- The performance inequality gap, 2024 (blog post – infrequently.org)
- New York state will require accessibility guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 for state and county websites (blog post – equalentry.com)
- The accessibility mindset: Moving beyond remediating, fixing, and reacting (talk – a11ytalks.com)
- Deque Systems sues BrowserStack for intellectual property theft (press release – deque.com)
- Australia’s Digital Service Standard gets an upgrade (blog post – intopia.digital
New to A11y
Jason Grigsby writes about an often overlooked part of a product: Handling death gracefully in digital experiences. This is where minimum viable product gets a lot of teams. Maybe someone identified these features, but they’re rotting in a backlog. Instead of delight, the product drags people down.
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