Issue #434
Featured: The politics of accessibility
“The core concept of digital accessibility is that everyone, including people with disabilities, should be able to access information and accomplish tasks via computer independently. We code for compatibility with assistive technologies and we design to reduce cognitive load and we provide transcripts and alt text and so on, all for the purpose of ensuring that any person can use their device, on their own and without assistance from us or anyone else.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Ladybird and the old-world boulevardier (blog post - html5accessibility.com)
- How to use ARIA alert effectively (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
- The effect of Donald Trump’s DEI Executive Order on accessibility (blog post - lflegal.com)
- Legal update: January 2025 (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
- Updates to the customizable select API (blog post - una.im)
- There are plenty of non-men in tech to speak at your conference (blog post – blog.stephaniestimac.com)
- Automated accessibility testing at Slack (blog post – slack.engineering)
- Accessibility technology and innovation lab at Verizon (blog post – equalentry.com)
- Can you have accessibility without DEI? (blog post – buttondown.com/access-ability)
- AI agents that do tasks for you will need accessibility as well (blog post - cerovac.com/a11y)
- Mobile accessibility advent calendar, Part 3 (blog post - dev.to/steady5063)
- Who’s afraid of a hard page load? (blog post - unplannedobsolescence.com)
- Tooltips are presentational (blog post - tpgi.com)
- Trump’s Executive Orders rolling back DEI and accessibility efforts, explained (blog post - aclu.org)
- Accessibility tooling and good intentions (blog post - heather-buchel.com)
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New to A11y
Eric Eggert wrote a post about being anti-ableist that pairs well with the lead article from Brian DeConinck about the political nature of accessibility work. Eric’s shares that if you want to succeed in accessibility, you need focus on it and do it intentionally.
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