Issue #19
Featured: A quickie on landmark discoverability
Scott O’Hara expands on a piece of advice about menu buttons from Heydon Pickering in a post about landmark discoverability. It’s a great read about some of the finer points of document structure.
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News and links
Accessibility Summit scheduled for Sept. 6: Environments for Humans will put on its annual virtual, online accessibility conference in a few weeks.
10k Apart: From the contest site, sponsored by Microsoft and An Event Apart, “With so much of an emphasis on front-end frameworks and JavaScript runtimes, it’s time to get back to basics—back to optimizing every little byte like your life depends on it and ensuring your site can work, no matter what. The Challenge? Build a compelling web experience that can be delivered in 10kB and works without JavaScript.”
Resources, tools and tutorials
- Detecting screen readers in analytics (blog post)
- You shouldn’t worry about Section 508 – it’s Section 504 (blog post)
- Some thoughts on accessibility (blog post)
- Looping video backgrounds: pointers and pitfalls (blog post)
- Captcha alternatives and thoughts (resource)
- Hello Color (resource)
- Better keyboard navigation with progressive enhancement (blog post)
- Testing component accessibility with CSS (blog post)
- Writing less damn code (blog post)
- New wA11y plugin scans WordPress sites for accessibility issues (tool)
- On customer Service & video accessibility (blog post)
- Making web accessibility great again: auditing the U.S. presidential candidates’ websites for accessibility (blog post)
- Mastering GitHub with a screen reader, part 1 (blog post)
New to A11y
Marcy Sutton teaches you how to start building accessible web applications today in a free course on Egghead.
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