Issue #386
Featured: Jakob Nielsen’s bad ideas about accessibility
“A response to Jakob Nielsen’s blog post declaring accessibility to have failed and proposing an artificial intelligence-based solution. I critique his claims and his solution, and identify what I perceive to be a fundamental misconception of what accessibility is.”
Read more of Jakob Nielsen’s bad ideas about accessibility.
News, resources, tools and tutorials
- On Nielsen’s ideas about generative UI for resolving accessibility (blog post – axbom.com)
- A practical guide to designing for colorblind people (blog post - smashingmagazine.com)
- A developer’s guide for web accessibility (blog post - scribe.rip/@askParamSingh)
- The deaf experience in telehealth accessibility (blog post - meryl.net)
- Inaccessible marketing emails suck! (blog post – axesslab.com)
- Ten takeaways from the WebAIM screenreader survey #10 (blog post – afixt.com)
- Improve effectiveness and accuracy of web accessibility testing with sampling (blog post – blog.pope.tech)
- JavaScript bloat in 2024 (blog post – tonsky.me)
- Screen readers and drag-and-drop, part 2: Grabbing and releasing elements (blog post – darins.page)
- What is a single-page application? (blog post – heydonworks.com)
- Making math accessible (blog post – tpgi.com)
- “AI” and accessible front-end components: is the nuance generatable? (blog post – hidde.blog
New to A11y
The annual free, virtual axe-con accessibility conference happened a few weeks ago. If you missed it, you can still catch all the talks. Check out the conference schedule, and create an account on the site, which allows you to view talks on demand. I’m still working my way through the list, and hope to have some favorites in the future.
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