Issue #34
Featured: BBC’s mobile guidelines updated
As part of the annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, the BBC updated and annouced its mobile accessibility guidelines.
Read more of BBC HTML accessibility standards and BBC mobile accessibility standards and guidelines.
News and links
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 First public working draft: From the post, “This new version aims to build effectively on the previous foundations of WCAG 2.0 with particular attention being given to the three areas of accessibility on small-screen and touch mobile devices, to users with low vision, and to users with cognitive or learning disabilities.”
Resources, tools and tutorials
- Quick guide to WCAG 2.1 (blog post)
- Alexa 100 accessibility updates (blog post)
- Screen reader and browser combination for accessibility (blog post)
- Inclusive Design 24 (#ID24) – Call for presentations (call for papers)
- Inclusive design fundamentals (resource)
New to A11y
Speaking of Inclusive Design 24, the online-only conference has a huge collection of videos from past years on its home page, definitely worth exploring.
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