Issue #301
Featured: The hidden history of screen readers
“For decades, blind programmers have been creating the tools their community needs.”
Read more of The hidden history of screen readers.
News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Am I disabled? (blog post – aeon.co)
- Digital accessibility legal updates on LFLegal (May 1 – July 10, 2022) (blog post – lflegal.com)
- Generating accessibility test results for a whole website with Pa11y CI (blog post - matthiasott.com)
- What are the top 6 problem spots for blind testers in accessibility testing? (blog post - equalentry.com)
- Change management in accessibility: Strategic execution framework (blog post - deque.com)
- For blind internet users, the fix can be worse than the flaws (article - nytimes.com)
- Image description reminder coming to Twitter (tweet - twitter.com/TwitterA11y)
- Perceived affordances and the functionality mismatch (blog post - tink.uk)
- My war on animation (blog post - theverge.com)
New to A11y?
Veronica Lewis has some great ideas for improving alt text on social media. I like a lot of these suggestions, especially the ones centered around allowing users to take action on images without alternative text. Perhaps it could spread awareness about the issue?
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