Issue #424
Featured: Using severity ratings to prioritize web accessibility remediation
“So, you’ve found your website’s accessibility issues using WAVE or other testing tools, and by completing manual testing using a keyboard, a screen reader, and zooming the browser window. Now what? When it comes to prioritizing web accessibility fixes, ranking the severity of each issue is an effective way to prioritize and make impactful improvements.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Verizon’s accessibility technology and innovation lab (event - meetup.com/a11ynyc)
- Inclusive mindset workbook (tool - figma.com/community)
- Some tips for keyboard support on native mobile applications (blog post - cerovac.com/a11y)
- Web accessibility and the second Trump administration (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
- Foundations: types of disability (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- A11y 101: WCAG 1.2.2 Captions (prerecorded) (blog post – tarnoff.info)
- Designing for low literacy: Enhancing accessibility and understanding (video/talk – youtube.com)
- Unlocking digital access: Insights from a community-driven survey (video/talk – 2024.wpaccessibility.day)
- The full axe-con 2025 schedule is here (blog post – deque.com)
- Introducing the Leader’s Guide to Accessibility (blog post – accessibility.blog.gov.uk)
- Accessibility challenges with single page applications (video/talk – youtube.com)
- Avoid read-only controls (blog post – adrianroselli.com)
- Global digital accessibility salary survey (survey – webaim.org)
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