Issue #444
Featured: What disabled people have to give up in the name of accessibility
“For years, I have been saying that detecting the use of access technology, in apps and on websites, violates a person’s right to keep their disability information private. Consider that if a person has a disability that is not out there for everyone to know about, having an application or website that detects assistive technology makes it so that they are having to let someone know things about their disability. How would you feel if to be able to shop in a store, your medical information was how you got in through the door?”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Tweaking text level styles, reprised (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- A note about WCAG conformance levels (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- A11y 101: 1.4.4 Resize Text (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Prioritizing accessibility bugs for maximum impact (blog post – accessibility.civicactions.com)
- Follow up questions: WCAG 3 CSUN talk (blog post – whollyaccessible.org)
- Debunking the myths of the iOS Accessibility Inspector (blog post – dev.to/steady5063)
- WebAIM Million results show that shopping sites have worst accessibility (blog post – cerovac.com/a11y)
- Overengineered anchor links (blog post – thirty-five.com)
- Default styles for h1 elements are changing (blog post - developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog)
- Do politics belong at web events? (blog post - remysharp.com)
- Is “ethical AI” an oxymoron? (blog post - hidde.blog)
- Free webinar: Simple tech tips for hearing loss (blog post - abilitynet.org.uk)
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Michael Beck writes about the importance of alt text for images. I like the examples shared here since they walk you through common challenges in writing solid alt text.
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