Issue #284
Featured: A designer’s guide to documenting accessibility & user interactions
Stéphanie Walter reminds you that “… fixing [accessibility] later costs a LOT more than building it right to begin with. Great documentation helps teams implement accessibility requirements the right way.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- It needs to map back to a role (blog post – ericwbailey.design
- First impressions of forced colors emulation (blog post - melanie-richards.com)
- Inclusive Design 24 returns September 22, 2022: Call for speakers (blog post - lireo.com)
- The law on website and mobile accessibility continues to grow at a glacial pace even as lawsuit numbers reach all-time highs (blog post - americanbar.org)
- A look at the dialog element’s super powers (blog post - stefanjudis.com)
- An inclusive design workflow for product teams (blog post - ux.shopify.com)
- Appears to say: Microsoft Edge now provides auto-generated image labels (blog post - blogs.windows.com/msedgedev)
- Testing with speech recognition (blog post - tpgi.com)
New to A11y?
Léonie Watson continues the “Foundations” series on the Tetralogical blog, this time about landmarks. Léonie guides you through the basics of planning, implementing, and using landmarks in assistive technology. This series continues to provide just enough information for those new to the concepts.
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