Issue #407
Featured: The infuriating inefficiency of accessibility audits
“Accessibility audits are the bread and butter of every accessibility consultancy. It’s an easy to package product that clients have learned to ask for and buy. They have expectations on the deliverables and the form of an audit. Audits are usually also thorough, following established international guidelines (usually the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines).”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Navigating the accessibility challenges of LinkedIn carousels (blog post - intopia.digital)
- Preparing for your digital accessibility journey (blog post - tpgi.com)
- Does WCAG 2.2 apply to native apps (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- Getting to the bottom of minimum WCAG-conformant interactive element size (blog post – smashingmagazine.com)
- Screen reading eff eff conf (blog post - remysharp.com)
- New advice on WCAG for software and documents: Part 1 (blog post – tpgi.com)
- New advice on WCAG for software and documents: Part 2 (blog post – tpgi.com)
- Leveling the playing field: Toward equivalently accessible video game worlds (blog post – equalentry.com)
- Navigating the new web accessibility ruling in the U.S. (blog post – thoughtbot.com)
- Believe, but pursue: Our interview with Tony Coelho, celebrating the 34th anniversary of the ADA (blog post – deque.com)
- Landmark disability law now applies to life online (news article – marketplace.org)
- The state of digital accessibility in Europe (resource – digitaltrustindex.eu)
- Digital accessibility from the voice of accessibility experts (survey – forms.zohopublic.in)
New to A11y
Bogdan Cerovac reminds you to check all website variations when testing accessibility. It’s a good reminder, even if it takes much more time. It’s an important part of catching all possible problems.
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