Issue #431
Featured: Progressive enhancement brings everyone in
“Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we needed something different. We needed progressive enhancement.”
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Sponsored: I filed an ADA grievance against my city on Accessibility Craft
In this Accessibility Craft podcast episode, hosts Amber, Chris, and Steve discuss Amber’s experience filing an ADA grievance with the city of Georgetown, TX, for their inaccessible website and the lack of digital accessibility expertise among local governments.
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- SUC-o-meter: A new way of measuring accessibility (event - a11ytalks.com)
- Misleading Icons: Icon-Only-Buttons and Their Impact on Screen Readers (blog post - htmhell.dev)
- No ARIA is better than bad ARIA (video - youtube.com)
- Relatively new things you should know about HTML heading into 2025 (blog post – frontendmasters.com)
- Quick note: Limit use of “logo” in alt text (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Brief note on figure and figcaption support (blog post – adrianroselli.com)
- Unlocking accessibility: User researchers share their approach to digital accessibility and recruiting people with disabilities (blog post – accessibility.blog.gov.uk)
- HTML is actually a programming language. Fight me (blog post – wired.com)
- Accessibility under a new U.S. president (blog post – equalentry.com)
- Can AI be used as an accessibility testing partner? (blog post - thoughtbot.com)
- Automated and manual accessibility testing work best together (blog post - blog.pope.tech)
- Programmers: Stop calling yourselves engineers (blog post - theatlantic.com)
- Should accordions auto-close sections? (blog post - ashleemboyer.com)
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