Issue #397
Featured: Best intention barriers (ARIA edition)
“But there is a certain type of barrier that are more, well, tragic than others. Instead of not being aware about the problematic approach the developer chose, they try to improve accessibility but – unbeknownst to them - create new barriers in the first place doing it. Let’s talk about three types of barriers, specifically related to WAI-ARIA, created with the best intentions[.]”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- All I want for GAAD (blog post - accessarmada.com)
- States can make digital accessibility easier for municipalities (part 3) (blog post - convergeaccessibility.com)
- Level-setting heading levels (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- Paris promised the Olympics would be accessible. The clock is ticking (article - nytimes.com)
- Android users may soon have an easier, faster way to magnify on-screen elements (blog post – techradar.com)
- Celebrating one year of A11y Design Bootcamp: Takeaways and tips) (blog post – github.blog
- Regarding keyboard testing (blog post – moba11y.com)
- Choosing your accessibility UI testing library (blog post – dev.to/steady5063)
- Understanding the role of ARIA role=alert: Best practices and common issues (blog post – scribe.rip/@askParamSingh
- Dark mode and accessibility myth (blog post – stephaniewalter.design)
- The value of open source in furthering accessibility goals (video/talk – youtube.com)
- 3D model accessibility (blog post – scottvinkle.me)
- I’m worried about the tabbing behaviour, rather than the syntax and name of CSS masonry (blog post – piccalil.li
- W3C unveils 174 new outcomes for WCAG 3.0 (blog post – deque.com)
- On compliance vs readability: Generating text colors with CSS (blog post – lea.verou.me)
- At this student encampment, Deaf protesters built a model for accessibility (article – 19thnews.org)
- The monsters that made me: Growing up disabled, all of my heroes were villains (article – polygon.com)
New to A11y
QR codes show up in all sorts of places. Daniel Göransson has a guide to accessible QR codes. I like how in depth this guide goes, and how it touches on different assistive technology.
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