Issue #443
Featured: The WebAIM Million
“For the seventh consecutive year, WebAIM conducted an accessibility evaluation of the home pages for the top 1,000,000 web sites. The evaluation was conducted using the WAVE stand-alone API (with additional tools to collect site technology and category data). The results provide an overview of and insight into the current state of web accessibility for individuals with disabilities as well as trends over time.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- A11y 101: 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) (event - tarnoff.info)
- Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation are teaming up for Accessible Games Initiative (article - gamespot.com)
- Quick accessibility wins that are easy to implement (video - youtube.com)
- Mobile app accessibility: Best practices for inclusive design (blog post - afixt.com)
- Legal update: March 2025 (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
- How to prepare your agency for European Accessibility Act (blog post – cerovac.com/a11y)
- Benchmarking usability and the cognitive accessibility frontier (blog post – equalentry.com)
- West Virginia University sued over inaccessible educational technology (blog post – lflegal.com)
- My favorite tools for web accessibility testing (blog post – oidaisdes.org)
- Confused about web accessibility with ADA compliance and WCAG
conformance? (blog post - easya11yguide.com) - A guide to alt text across popular tools (blog post - blog.pope.tech)
- Top tips for hosting accessible and inclusive online events (blog post - accessibility.blog.gov.uk)
- Can businesses exclude service animals based on the allergies of others? (blog post - adatitleiii.com)
- Mainlining mains (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
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