Issue #387
Featured: How to test 2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum)
“Success Criterion 2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum) is about ensuring that interactive targets can be easily activated by pointer users, without accidentally hitting an adjacent target. When targets are small and close together, some users may find it very difficult to accurately hit the intended one.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Apple Vision Pro – with 1% vision (blog post – axesslab.com
- A web designer’s accessibility advocacy toolkit (blog post - smashingmagazine.com)
- Building accessibility into social virtual reality experiences (event - meetup.com/a11yvr)
- Difference between the accessibility page and the accessibility statement (blog post - evengrounds.com)
- Performing accessibility audits with UI tests on iOS (blog post – augmentedcode.io)
- Android Ally (tool – github.com/qbalsdon)
- Accessibility darkness (blog post) – html5accessibility.com
- How to become an accessibility designer for free (blog post – linkedin.com)
- The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend (blog post – joshcollinsworth.com
- Jakob has jumped the shark (blog post – adrianroselli.com)
- We need to talk about Jakob (blog post – buttondown.email/practicaltips
- Accessibility has not failed – it has not even started for real (blog post – cerovac.com/a11y
- Nielsen needs to think again (blog post – tink.uk
- Access by a thousand curb cuts (blog post – yatil.net
- I’ve seen much discussion circulating around Jakob Nielsen’s Substack piece "Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI = Individualized UX (blog post – linkedin.com
New to A11y
Jeff Bridgforth shares an accessibility journey, and the front-end developer got more serious about accessibility over time. I appreciate the honesty in this post. Sometimes, it’s not one experience that makes it all click, but several.
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