Issue #254
Featured: Accessibility is a right. This restaurant treats it that way
Contento, in East Harlem, sets an example for an industry that is rarely welcoming to diners with disabilities.
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Gorillas’ nav: a case study (blog post – kittygiraudel.com)
- Accessibility strategy for procurement (blog post – tpgi.com)
- WCAGify (tool - npmjs.com)
- Five reasons to make websites accessible (video - equalizedigital.com)
- Sentence forms (not Mad Libs) (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- ARIA spec for the uninitiated: Part 1 (blog post - deque.com)
- What’s really wrong with the new Twitter font (blog post - slate.com)
- The Bumpy Typeface project challenges us to rethink our assumptions about gender through type design (blog post - itsnicethat.com)
- U.S. Federal Appeals Court slams unethical ADA practice (blog post - lflegal.com)
- Google announces seismic change to Docs (blog post - webaim.org)
- What’s on the menu? (blog post - marcus.io)
- Reviewing a design for accessibility (blog post - a11yproject.com)
- The Internet is for accessible porn (blog post - a11ysavvy.com)
- Eric Bailey and Ben Myers for a11y (video - youtube.com)
- How is COVID-19 still impacting digital accessibility? (survey - surveymonkey.com)
New to A11y?
Scott O’Hara asks the question: Is a JavaScript reliant website or application considered inaccessible if said JavaScript is unavailable? Scott takes a thoughtful, pragmatic approach here, and the answer may not be as simple as you think.
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