Featured: A letter to my younger self, as an accessibility advocate

“I thought I’d make a list of things I wish I could go back and tell my younger self as a web developer who was just beginning to lean into web accessibility as part of her career path.”

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

• Minnesota class action lawsuit accuses company website of inaccessibility (blog post – equalentry.com)
• Building your accessibility capability: In-house skills vs external suppliers (webinar - abilitynet-org-uk.zoom.us)
• Check-all / expand-all controls (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
• Distinguishing between ARIA and native HTML attributes (blog post - deque.com)
• Common ARIA problems found in accessibility audits (blog post – cerovac.com/a11y)
• Accessibility Myths (resource – a11ymyths.com)
• Alt text for CSS generated content (blog post – tempertemper.net)
• Thoughts on embedding alternative text metadata into images (blog post – ericwbailey.website)
• The importance of web performance to information equity (talk – fosdem.org)
• WCAG 2.2 detective skills (blog post – accessibility.blog.gov.uk)
• What is inclusive design, and how does it relate to accessibility? – Part 1 (blog post – uxmag.com)
• Best practices for inclusive design – Part 2 (blog post – uxmag.com)

New to A11y

Ben Myers shares the difference between subtitles, closed captions, and open captions. I mix these up all the time, and Ben covers this topic well.

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