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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- A11Y theme builder (open-source project) (event - a11ytalks.com)
- Mastering accessible modals with ARIA and keyboard navigation (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
- Doing the numbers: Digital accessibility and shifting left (blog post - deque.com)
- Old alt text advice (blog post – html5accessibility.com)
- U.S. Access Board presents preliminary findings on artificial intelligence (AI) for disability community and AI practitioners (event - access-board.gov)
- How to comply with DOJ’s seemingly impossible web accessibility regulation (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
- Patrick’s European vacation: My experience traveling internationally as a person with a disability (Part three: The conclusion!) (blog post – deque.com)
- Be a dolphin not a shark: Using cooperation over conflict to advance digital accessibility (video/talk – paris-web.fr)
- Assume the position—A labeling story (blog post – tpgi.com)
- Designing (and evolving) a new web performance score (blog post – csswizardry.com)
- What accessibility statements are really for (blog post – linkedin.com)
- Most disabled people “excluded” by unfit designs (blog post – designweek.co.uk)
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