Issue #418
Featured: A11y at work: When team opinions differ
“Sometimes working with a larger team means that you’ll get more varied opinions about how something should be done. Now, this is good when the final result is one that covers more gaps and includes more use cases. But what about accessibility? WCAG is the conformance standard, but it’s the bare minimum. Specifications can be confusing or interpreted differently depending on your background. Teams have a lot of challenges, and accessibility is one of the big ones.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- 57/30 (video - html5accessibility.com)
- ARIA DevTools (tool - chromewebstore.google.com)
- What’s the difference between HTML’s dialog element and popovers? (blog post - frontendmasters.com)
- Captioning lyrics and copyright laws (blog post – equalentry.com)
- Reminder – automatic accessibility testing can detect inaccessibility but can’t detect accessibility (blog post - cerovac.com/a11y)
- Shopify, accessibility lawsuits & ‘compliance’ (blog post – nicchan.me)
- Accessibility reads: Thursday, October 10 (blog post – deque.com)
- AI for accessibility conformance testing? Why? (blog post – html5accessibility.com)
New to A11y
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