Issue #347
Featured: display: contents considered harmful
“Another way to put it: When people say “HTML is accessible by default”, display: contents blows the “by default” part away. Not good.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Two US government agencies address online accessibility in higher education: Are regulations Next? (blog post - lflegal.com)
- Don’t meddle with user input (blog post - tempertemper.net)
- A new, exciting era for WebAIM (blog post - webaim.org)
- Legal update: May 2023 (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
- AI? Artificial intelligence? Accessible intelligence! (blog post – deque.com)
- How to create audio descriptions for accessible YouTube videos (blog post – blog.pope.tech)
- $240,000.00 jury verdict in blind students’ accessibility lawsuit against community college (blog post - lflegal.com)
- PDF accessibility (updated) (resource – webaim.org)
- The road to good intentions is paved with hell: A deep dive into accessibility APIs, Part 2 (blog post – knowbility.org)
- Performance is not a checklist (blog post – timkadlec.com)
- WCAG 2.2 misses mark on defining visible focus (blog post – yatil.net)
New to A11y
Adam Liptrot created a few screeen reader guides that you might find useful if you’re learning to test with a screen reader. WebAIM and Deque also have popular guides, but I love seeing people putting their own spin on things.
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