Issue #432
Featured: What makes a good accessibility designer?
“Someone asked me recently what skills a designer needs. Since I work in the accessibility space, I started thinking about how the question translates to designers who tackle accessibility every day.”
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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
- aria-description does not translate (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- New techniques for accessible PDF (resource - pdfa.org)
- Doing research with disabled people (blog post - bluetiger.digital)
- Mobile accessibility advent calendar part 2 (blog post – dev.to/steady5063)
- A11y 101: 1.3.1 Info and Relationships (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- ADA Title II: Top 20 questions answered (blog post – deque.com)
- State and local governments: First steps toward complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act Title II Web and Mobile Application Accessibility Rule (resource – ada.gov)
- On certification (blog post – marcus.io)
- What people with disabilities should do as DEI Programs begin to disappear (blog post – buttondown.com/access-ability)
- Implementing ARIA: Avoid common pitfalls and optimise performance (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
- Our 2024 ADA Title III recap and predictions for 2025 (blog post - adatitleiii.com)
- Fleeing the LA fires alone on a wheelchair: ‘I had to take my chances’ (blog post - theguardian.com)
- Digital accessibility portal: Criteria and tests (resource - /accessibilite.public.lu/en)
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New to A11y
I’m a fan of good documentation, and the Gov.uk Service Manual has a lot of it. Its Testing with assistive technologies page covers a lot of ground with minimal content. The section on how to test with instructions, although brief, can help you get a good start on testing with assistive technology.
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