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Featured: Color and contrast, what does it mean?
Erik Kroes teaches you more about how color contrast ratio gets determined, and what that means for you and your color palette.
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Four aria-mistakes worth solving (blog post – maxability.co.in)
- Why we can’t afford to ignore the needs of non-drivers with disabilities (blog post – usa.streetsblog.org)
- Why are hyperlinks blue? (blog post - blog.mozilla.org)
- Colorblind Accessibility Manifesto (resource - colorblindaccessibilitymanifesto.com)
- Element diversity (blog post - matuzo.at)
- Notes on synthetic speech (blog post - tink.uk)
- Image SVG aria-hack = resolved (blog post - scottohara.me)
- My experience as a visually impaired developer (video - edw.elementary.io)
- Getting started with Android Studio for mobile accessibility testing (video - youtube.com)
- Crossed out content (blog post - htmhell.dev)
- ‘Inspiration Porn’: Paralympians know it when they see it (news article - nytimes.com)
- Developing iOS apps with an accessibility mindset (video - youtube.com)
- Accessibility insights with Susanna Laurin of Funka and IAAP (webinar/event - abilitynet.org.uk)
- Accessible design with Cat Noone (webinar/event - dribbble.com)
New to A11y?
Andrey Yenin shared some tips for manual accessibility testing as a QA engineer. Andrey covers a lot of the basics here, and best of all, they don’t take a lot of time.
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