Issue #118
Featured: JavaScript and civil rights
Marcy Sutton discusses the potential impact of web interfaces on users’ civil rights, particularly where it meets digital accessibility.
Read JavaScript and civil rights.
News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Not your father’s navigation strategy: There’s more than just the TAB key (blog post – 24a11y.com)
- Microsoft targets better accessibility in Chromium (blog post – thurrott.com)
- Accessibility pro certified: To be or not to be (blog post – 24a11y.com)
- Inclusive considerations when restyling form controls (blog post – 24ways.org)
- Prototyping empathy (blog post – medium.com/microsoft-design)
- Creating more inclusive and culturally sensitive forms (blog post – uxbooth.com)
- Case study – Podcast becomes a WCAG 2.1 implementation site (blog post – 24a11y.com)
- The accessibility elves (blog post – uxmas.com)
New to A11y
Christi Barker talks about the power of in-person usability demos. I still remember the first time I watched someone use the screen reader on a iPhone. How they navigated, and the pace of the screen reader voice piqued my curiousity in accessibility even more.
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