Issue #168
Featured: Four ways design systems can promote accessibility – and what they can’t do
Amy Hupe on the four main ways design systems can promote accessible design within an organization, and what design systems can’t do.
Read Four ways design systems can promote accessibility – and what they can’t do.
News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Pixels vs. relative units in CSS: why it’s still a big deal (blog post – 24a11y.com)
- The customer is always right (blog post – 24a11y.com)
- When to open links in a new tab (blog post – meiert.com)
- Select your poison (blog post – 24a11y.com)
- Select your poison part 2: Test all the things (blog post – 24a11y.com)
- Making data tables more accessible (blog post – benjystanton.co.uk)
- Pro Tip: Making images accessible to screen readers doesn’t need to be hard (blog post – searchengineland.com)
- How accessible is the HTML video player? (blog post – scottvinkle.me)
- Color theory and contrast ratios (blog post – 24a11y.com)
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