Issue #438
Featured: When to use lists for better accessibility
“When creating HTML content, using lists appropriately is crucial for accessibility, especially for screen reader users. Here’s a breakdown of when to use different types of lists and why.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Accessible UX design: Six advanced techniques to elevate your process (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
- Rethinking find-in-page accessibility: Making hidden text work for everyone (blog post - schepp.dev)
- Digital accessibility and the cost of exclusion (blog post - deque.com)
- Web accessibility lawsuit moves forward against the state of Louisiana (blog post – lflegal.com)
- In defense of text labels (blog post - chrbutler.com)
- Skip links: what, why, and how (blog post – tempertemper.net)
- Section 508 compliance: What you need to know (blog post – afixt.com)
- WCAG 3 a change of context (blog post – html5accessibility.com)
- A11y 101: 1.3.4 Orientation (blog post – tarnoff.info)
- Older adults and digital inclusion (blog post - equalentry.com)
- Two Federal actions address disability and accessibility (blog post - lflegal.com)
- The six Cs of accessibility (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- Global digital accessibility salary survey results (blog post - webaim.org)
- Is the button focusable? (blog post - matuzo.at)
- Backlash leads Republican attorneys general to declare support for a landmark disability rights law (article - apnews.com)
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Gov.uk Accessibility Specialists share their key misconceptions, common issues, and tools. I like the “Unlocking Accessibility” series this post belongs to because it brings in many different viewpoints. Lots of angles to learn from.
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