Issue #339
Featured: Establishing metrics for accessibility ROI
Karl Groves continues to discuss the cost of accessibility, inaccessibility and how to track that with metrics.
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Interview with Paul Sweeney Jr. (blog post - inklusiv.ca)
- Accessibility and design systems: The deep-dive Q&A (blog post - supernova.io)
- Accessible but never boring: Rebranding the Wise design system for everyone (part 2) (blog post - wise.design)
- Legal update: March 2023 (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
- Exposing field errors (blog post – adrianroselli.com)
- Contrast Ratio has a new home — and this is great news! (blog post – lea.verou.me)
- 50.1% empty links (blog post - matuzo.at)
- The alt text war! SEO vs accessibility (blog post - digitala11y.com)
- Foundations: Accessible names and descriptions (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- Chasing rainbows (blog post - theverge.com)
- Designing for reduced motion (blog post - craftcms.com)
- Software accessibility for users with Dyslexia (blog post - uxdesign.cc)
New to A11y
I wrote a post for the A11y Project about semantic HTML that could help you if you keep hearing that term and are unsure about what it means. It comes down to picking the right HTML element for the job.
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