Issue #441
Featured: Digital accessibility legal update - United States
Lainey Feingold gives the always anticipated legal update at the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. Feingold covers U.S. legal updates about access to websites, apps, kiosks, and more, and about laws, regulations, lawsuits, negotiations, and government policies.
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Conducting accessibility user testing: Expert insights (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
- Running strong accessibility programs without DEI support (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- A11y 101: 1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Text (digitised) and videotape: video transcripts help everyone, not just people with access needs (blog post - accessibility.blog.gov.uk)
- Because we’re not alone (blog post – joedolson.com)
- CART is dead. Long live ASR (blog post – linkedin.com)
- A confession (blog post – adamsilver.io)
- Understanding the European Accessibility Act (EAA) (blog post – tetralogical.com)
- Style legend (blog post – adactio.com)
- Why UI Automation is insufficient as an accessibility API for the web (blog post - jantrid.net)
- Trump signs order aiming to close the Education Department (article - npr.org)
- How navigation should work for keyboard users (blog post - tempertemper.net)
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