Issue #427
Featured: The myth of ‘accessible components and done’
“Think you’ve solved all your accessibility problems by using an accessible component library? Think again.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Step-by-step guide to provide accessibility in your mobile App (blog post - thedroidsonroids.com)
- Creating an inclusive eCommerce experience: Best practices (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
- Designing your own accessibility vendor monitoring program (video/talk - youtube.com)
- When is a skip link needed? (blog post – tpgi.com)
- Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike… (blog post - htmhell.dev)
- State websites don’t meet upcoming DOJ accessibility requirements (article – statescoop.com)
- XR Accessibility: For people with moving disabilities (blog post – tetralogical.com)
- A11y 101: WCAG 1.2.5 Audio Description (prerecorded) (blog post – tarnoff.info)
- How to include web accessibility in your content writing process (blog post – blog.pope.tech)
- Advent of iOS accessibility (blog post – dadederk.github.io)
- The “perilous pitfalls” of accessibility maturity (blog post – buttondown.com/access-ability)
- WCAG 3 December 2024 update and thoughts from the co-chairs (blog post – whollyaccessible.org)
- There’s more to digital accessibility than policy (blog post – deque.com)
- Colleges must fix millions of web pages. It’s about damn time. (blog post – ashleemboyer.com)
- Easily check for web accessibility problems in ten minutes or less (blog post – axesslab.com)
- aria-labelledby = self (blog post – htmhell.dev)
- ARIA in HTML (resource – w3.org)
- ShatGPT 4o (blog post – html5accessibility.com)
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New to A11y
Ashley Peacock created a Certificate of Professionals in Accessibility Core Competencies Quiz App that you might find helpful if you’re studying for the certification. Keep in mind that it’s not an official resource, and you don’t need a certification to understand accessibility, but it could be a good way for you to get some reps in when learning.
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