Issue #261
Featured: Redundantly redundant a11y accessibility
Scott O’Hara guides you through one example of creating concise HTML markup and ARIA so the experience sounds better to those who need it.
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Links, missing href attributes, and over-engineered code (blog post – tempertemper.net)
- The ARIA in HTML rules are implemented in the following tools (tweet – twitter.com/stevefaulkner)
- Nothing about us without us: The importance of involving users with disabilities in your accessibility efforts (blog post - medium.com/push-ux)
- How to build an expandable accessible gallery (blog post - smashingmagazine.com)
- Browsing with a mobile screen reader (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- Six tips for improving podcast accessibility (blog post - 3playmedia.com)
- United States reaches agreements with New York state and local government agencies to improve accessibility to Covid-19 vaccination websites for people with vision impairments (press release - justice.gov)
- Remote work has finally made me — a legally-blind person — feel like I can thrive at my job. I’m sad it took this long (blog post - businessinsider.com)
- Have single-page apps ruined the web? (video - youtube.com)
New to A11y?
I confess to sharing a lot of links about writing better HTML in this space. It’s a bit of an obsession. I may enjoy HTML more than your average web worker. We have to dive into a lot these days. Yes, spend time on the frameworks and tools when you need to do so. But don’t ignore the fundamentals. All that to say that Eric Eggert’s post about buttons vs. links lays out some of those fundamentals that you shouldn’t ignore.
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