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Featured: A beginner’s complete guide to form accessibility: The five things accessible forms needs and how to fix common errors
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Five months worth of takes on the digital accessibility space (blog post - forrester.com)
- How to write good alt text (blog post - gomakethings.com)
- The enormous impact of education accessibility (podcast - empoweredus.org)
- Inclusive name inputs – because not everyone is called Chad Pancreas (blog post – brucelawson.co.uk)
- Robert Jolly talks about cognitive impairments and complex interfaces (podcast – a11yrules.com)
- Proposed web and software accessibility legislation introduced in United States Congress (blog post - lflegal.com)
- Intro to why accessibility is important for good SEO (blog post - deque.com)
- Disability advocates say the response to John Fetterman using closed captioning in an interview as he recovers from a stroke was “deeply upsetting” and stigmatizing (article - buzzfeednews.com)
- Assistive technology and the campaign trail (video - youtube.com/c/CrystalPrestonWatson)
- Don’t disable me: How organisational culture and equipment enables inclusion (webinar - abilitynet-org-uk.zoom.us)
- Techshare Pro 2022 (event - hopin.com/events/techshare-pro-2022)
- AI could diagnose and help people with speech conditions—here’s how (blog post - lifewire.com)
New to A11y?
Ben Myers helps you figure out how to fix your low contrast text. I like how Ben touches on the technical parts behind color contrast ratios and gives you strategies for improving your work.
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