Issue #421
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Where web components shine (blog post - daverupert.com)
- Reference Target for Cross-Root ARIA (standard proposal - github.com/WICG)
- You need more enough (blog post/book - muledesign.com)
- Tips for inclusive and accessible hiring and recruiting (blog post – deque.com)
- Visualize a webpage’s memory usage during a performance recording (blog post - devtoolstips.org)
- PDF accessibility on the web: Tricks and traps – part 1 (blog post – tpgi.com)
- PDF accessibility on the web: Tricks and traps – part 2 (blog post – tpgi.com)
- Designing for anyone: The power of accessible products (blog post – antonsten.com)
- Ticketing challenges: Finding wheelchair accessible concert seats (blog post – tarnoff.info)
- Naming things is still a common and enduring challenge in accessibility (blog post – cerovac.com/a11y)
- What makes a font accessible? A designer’s guide (blog post – a11y-collective.com)
- Predictors of postsecondary web accessibility, 2012 to 2022 (academic article – scholarworks.calstate.edu)
- Reducing digital accessibility litigation risk (blog post – sheribyrnehaber.com)
- Twenty five accessibility tips to celebrate 25 years (blog post – webaim.org)
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New to A11y
WebAIM published the talks from its recent Web Accessibility in Mind Conference on its YouTube channel. I always appreciate free accessibility resources! Here are a few that I’m excited to watch:
- Talkin’ Tables from Adrian Roselli
- The internet is unusable - The disabled view from Nic Steenhout
- Accessibility for the Deaf / Hard of Hearing and progress over perfection from Meryl Evans
- Accessible UX: Design for the rest of us from Devon Persing
- Improving accessibility through design systems from Homer Gaines
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