Issue #448
Featured: Everything’s more complicated in groups: Required groups
“Sometimes accessibility engineers forget about the nuance of groups when we teach accessible forms or provide general guidance. As in life, there is more nuance to groups. When developers encounter this nuance for the first time, they can feel overwhelmed.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- The 4 motivations for accessibility - The big why? (blog post - nira11y.com)
- Color contrast and readability: The cornerstones of accessible design (blog post - afixt.com)
- Testing Methods: Prerecorded audio description or media alternative (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- WCAG 3.0’s proposed scoring model: A shift in accessibility evaluation (blog post – smashingmagazine.com)
- K.I.S.S. ARIA (blog post – tarnoff.info)
- The code element (blog post – heydonworks.com)
- Guidance on applying WCAG 2.2 to mobile applications (resource – w3.org)
- Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components (blog post – github.blog)
- The impact of accessibility laws in Canada: A critical perspective (blog post - equalentry.com)
- The impact of the first 100 days of the Trump regime on Americans with disabilities (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- Unlocking Accessibility: Information Architects share their approach to digital accessibility and design with people with disabilities (blog post - accessibility.blog.gov.uk)
- Companion personas from What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility (resource - knowaboutaccessibility.org)
- Remediate a PDF for accessibility using Adobe’s Accessibility Checker (blog post - blog.pope.tech)
- Advancing accessibility standards (blog post - accessiblecommunity.org)
- The disability caste system: Who gets to be “disabled enough”? (blog post - linkedin.com)
- The impact of web accessibility overlays on the usability and user experience for people with permanent visual impairments (academic paper - overlays.dnikub.dev)
- Awareness (blog post - adactio.com)
- One-click fix: Get suggestions to make your code accessible in the IDE (press release - deque.com)
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