Issue #393
Featured: When security and accessibility clash: Why are banking applications so inaccessible?
“While using different bank applications, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend where so-called ‘security’ features are actively making the website a more hostile experience for disabled users. Below, I’ve rounded up some of the worst anti-patterns to discuss how they are creating blockers for disabled people.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- A comparison of automated testing tools for digital accessibility (blog post) - equalentry.com)
- Complete a VPAT: Show how accessible your product is (blog post) - deque.com)
- Designing accessible typefaces with Eleni Beveratou (talk/video - youtube.com)
- Don’t use the maxlength attribute to stop users from exceeding the limit (blog post - adamsilver.io)
- How web bloat impacts users with slow devices (blog post – danluu.com)
- Beware – automatic tools over-report accessibility issues and steal your time (blog post) – cerovac.com/a11y
- States can make digital accessibility easier for municipalities (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
- What the US DoJ adopting WCAG 2.1 A/AA in ADA Title II for web and mobile apps means for you (blog post – deque.com)
- U.S. Department of Justice accessibility rule announcement for state and local governments (blog post – equalentry.com
- Digital accessibility and legal updates in 2024: WCAG accessibility and beyond (blog post – tpgi.com)
- How to think about HTML responsive images (blog post – danburzo.ro
- Building a culture of accessibility (blog post – tetralogical.com)
New to A11y
Angelika Tyborska compiled a list of signs your frontend code has quality issues, and surprise, a lot relate to accessibility. Finding many of these during an accessibility audit also means you have cultural and educational challenges around accessibility in your organization.
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