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Featured: All accessibility is political: Understanding the intersection of accessibility, disability, and politics
“You can’t talk about accessibility without talking about disability because accessibility is inherently tied to the experiences and needs of people with disabilities. When we explore accessibility for people with disabilities, we are talking about physical access to buildings as well as digital access to information, technology, education, employment, and every facet of life. Accessibility is a fundamental issue of civil rights and social justice.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- ARC Toolkit now available for Firefox (blog post - tpgi.com)
- Comparison of accessibility of e-government websites in Europe in 2024 (blog post - cerovac.com/a11y)
- How to incorporate accessibility into your Agile sprints (blog post - accessibilityfirstsolutions.com)
- Legal update: July 2024 (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
- Mootness and its effects on serial accessibility plaintiffs (blog post - equalentry.com)
- How the European Accessibility Act (EAA) will impact the way services are provided (blog post – deque.com)
- Developing a RACI matrix for accessibility (blog post – afixt.com)
- Important Apple-focused accessibility site to shut down (blog post – sixcolors.com)
- WCAG, VPAT, s508, Level A – What on earth? (blog post – intopia.digital)
- Decoding WCAG: “Change of Context” and “Change of Content” (blog post – webaim.org)
- A handful of reasons JavaScript won’t be available (blog post – piccalil.li)
- TPGi® unveils the next generation of their Accessibility Management Platform (press release – tpgi.com)
- User ‘wants’ versus accessibility (blog post – tempertemper.net)
- Interop 2024: Chrome at 100% for the accessibility focus area (blog post – web.dev)
- Top five iOS mobile app accessibility issues, part one (blog post – dev.to/steady5063)
New to A11y
Whitney Lewis tackles a tricky topic: accessible heading structures for home pages. I like the tip about checking if the visual emphasis matches the semantic emphasis.
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