Issue #160
Featured: Stop giving control hints to screen readers
Adrian Roselli reminds you that screen readers don’t need as much extra help as you might think.
Read Stop giving control hints to screen readers.
News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Breaking barriers with your CMS (blog post – hiddedevries.nl)
- Spectrum design system (tweet – twitter.com)
- Why are accessible websites so hard to build? (blog post – css-tricks.com)
- Focusing on focus (blog post – blog.whatwg.org)
- The perfect responsive menu (2019) (blog post – polypane.app)
- Accessible drop caps (blog post – adrianroselli.com)
- Section 508 conformance: A need-to-know guide (blog post – paciellogroup.com)
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