Issue #417
Featured: Alt text for avatars or user photos
“User photos and avatars are informational images. Do use clear and concise alternate text to describe them. Otherwise blind screen reader users won’t have access to the same information as sighted people.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Ceefax and the birth of interactive TV (article - bbc.com)
- WCAG and accessibility beyond naive misconceptions (blog post - dev.to/ingosteinke)
- Web Accessibility Directive with positive accessibility effects beyond public sector (blog post - cerovac.com/a11y)
- Introducing NCADEMI: The National Center on Accessible Digital Educational Materials & Instruction (blog post – webaim.org)
- Celebrating WebAIM’s 25th Anniversary (blog post - webaim.org)
- Legal update: September 2024 (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
- XR Accessibility: for people with hearing disabilities (blog post – tetralogical.com)
- Practical accessibility tips you can apply today (blog post – piccalil.li)
- JAWS (only) no more (blog post – html5accessibility.com)
- “Straight to the pool room”: The pitfalls of placing accessibility issues in the backlog (blog post – intopia.digital)
- How a bottom-up design approach enhances site accessibility (blog post – smashingmagazine.com)
- How to identify a toxic accessibility culture, and what you can do about it (blog post – buttondown.com/access-ability)
New to A11y
Lots of resources exist for learning different screen readers. But I always like new takes, and Martin Underhill has a getting started with NVDA guide, which you might find useful. I appreciate how Martin has tips for configuring NVDA, which isn’t often covered elsewhere.
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