Issue #390
Featured: Use your Mac the way I do: A thought experiment
“I’m now going to transport you to a place of wonder. A place of limitless creative possibility. A place to hang with friends. A place to work. A place to write. That place is my most important technological possession—my Mac.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Solar eclipse accessibility resources: Assistive technology for blind and low vision (blog post – veroniiiica.com
- Asking users for their pronouns: A guide for UX designers (blog post) - scribe.rip)
- How screen readers read special characters: An update (blog post - elevenways.be)
- ARIA role=”application” and mobile screen readers (blog post - cerovac.com/a11y)
- Be flexible about what people need (and don’t assume) (blog post – erikkroes.nl)
- Exploring the power of ARIA live attribute in web accessibility (blog post – scribe.rip/@askParamSingh)
- CSUN Assistive Technology Conference Keynote Address by Haben Girma (video/talk) – youtube.com
- WCAG? More like, W-what?! (blog post – stevefrenzel.dev)
- Accommodating neurodivergent learners (video/talk – a11ytalks.com
- Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can’t run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG (blog post – tomshardware.com)
- On disabled and aria-disabled attributes (blog post – kittygiraudel.com
New to A11y
The Minnesota IT Services Communications has a good resource introducing how plain language and accessibility work together. This article doesn’t cover everything, but it’s a great start. I like the list of resources at the end to learn more and keep going deeper into the topic.
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