Issue #430
Featured: FTC orders AI accessibility startup accessiBe to pay $1M for misleading advertising
“The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has fined accessiBe, a startup that claims to make websites more compatible with the screen readers blind people rely on to access the internet, for false advertising and compensating reviewers without disclosing that it sponsored the reviews.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- FTC catches up to #accessiBe (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- How to integrate accessibility into UX research (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
- Using iframes to embed arbitrary content is probably a bad idea (blog post - tempertemper.net)
- Legal update: December 2024 (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
- Improve accessibility of user authentication (blog post - cerovac.com/a11y)
- How to do alt text on social media for artists and photographers (blog post – nicolas-steenhout.com)
- Page by page: How pagination makes the web accessible (blog post – htmhell.dev)
- Nothing moves (blog post – kylefiedler.com)
- Super short note on links in iOS with VoiceOver (blog post – html5accessibility.com)
- Updated brief note on description list support (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- Mobile accessibility advent calendar Part 1 (blog post - dev.to/steady5063)
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