Issue #172
Featured: Roles and relationships
Sarah Higley reminds you that some ARIA roles can be brittle; even small mistakes in using these roles can take a user on a very bad trip.
Read Roles and relationships.
News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Inclusion Week with Derek Featherstone (videos – levelaccess.com)
- Standards for writing accessibly (blog post – alistapart.com)
- Overlays are not the solution to your accessibility problem (blog post – medium.com/@sheribyrnehaber)
- Building an inclusive experience: Why accessibility matters (blog post – blogs.intuit.com)
- The new generation of performance metrics for better user experience (blog post – calibreapp.com)
- Form Design Patterns with Adam Silver (video – vimeo.com)
New to A11y
This 99 Percent Invisible episode dives into the history of blind reading. The universal page is a facinating listen or read. It’s so interesting how it comes back to lines and dots.
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