Issue #436
Featured: Evaluating overlay-adjacent accessibility products
“There’s a category of third party products out there that are almost, but not quite an accessibility overlay. By this I mean that they seem a little less predatory, and a little more grounded in terms of the promises they make.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Effective steps for conducting a thorough ADA audit (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
- How to perform comprehensive ADA testing (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
- When the Federal Goverment refuses to follow its own laws, chaos reigns (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- Why do some people think of screen readers when they think of accessibility? (blog post – cerovac.com/a11y)
- Accessible rating stars (blog post - netzartist.de)
- How I learned to code with my voice (blog post – whitep4nth3r.com)
- Audio description in advertising (blog post – equalentry.com)
- Why state and local governments are failing at digital accessibility (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
- A11y 101: 1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence (blog post – tarnoff.info)
- Focus styles and programmatic focus (blog post - fullystacked.net)
- Don’t make me feel bad (blog post - heather-buchel.com)
- Speech Accessibility Project data leads to recognition improvements on Microsoft Azure (blog post - speechaccessibilityproject.beckman.illinois.edu)
- Lawsuit filed to block Trump DEIA executive orders (blog post - lflegal.com)
- Did the US government cancel accessibility? (blog post - a11yquest.com)
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Erik Kroes shares the advice: Don’t start testing accessibility with a screen reader. Erik recommends the keyboard to start, and I agree. Using this tool, you can catch a lot of issues and potential trouble spots without the complexity of learning a screen reader, especially if you’re not a native screen reader user.
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