Issue #263
Featured: Disability: Let’s say the word
Emily Ogle reminds us that disability as a minority group is the only one that everyone can enter in and exit out of during their lifetime. So why are some people reluctant to say the word?
Read more of Disability: Let’s say the word.
News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Accessibility for e-commerce: Three best practices for navigational links (blog post – baymard.com)
- Fix web accessibility systematically (blog post – yatil.net)
- U.S. federal judge rules for Walmart, against blind shoppers, in self-checkout kiosk case (blog post - lflegal.com)
- Tips for inclusive and accessible hiring and recruiting (blog post - deque.com)
- The ADA lawsuit settlement involving an accessibility overlay (blog post - sheribyrnehaber.medium.com)
- UX design has a dirty secret (blog post - fastcompany.com)
- Stark for FigJam (tool - figma.com)
- What the tag? (tool - whatthetag.com)
- This is the way: A phased approach to accessibility in the development lifecycle (blog post - deque.com)
- Respecting users’ Motion Preferences (blog post - smashingmagazine.com)
- Semantic menu context (blog post - scottohara.me)
- Hocus :focus (game - focus.hteumeuleu.com)
- Declaring page language—and declaring changes in language (game - meiert.com)
- AI & disability inclusion toolkit (resource - peatworks.org)
New to A11y?
Manuel Matuzović shares a few quick tips on using landmarks in the HTML Heaven newsletter. Lankmarks come up a lot in my accessibility reviews. People overlook them easily. I like the bulleted list of tips here: straightforward and useful.
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