Issue #449
Featured: How to convince people to care and invest in accessibility
“This talk, article, is for anyone who’s ever said “we need to make this accessible,” and got ignored, brushed off, or told, “We’ll do that later.” If you’re not in a leadership role, if you’re not officially “the accessibility person,” but you still want to drive change, this is for you.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- The challenge of measuring accessibility impact (blog post - nira11y.com)
- How to make your videos accessible: A guide to inclusive content creation (blog post - afixt.com)
- Color in CSS (event - a11ytalks.com)
- ARIA code demos (resource – codepen.io)
- Third-party solutions & accessibility – A primer (blog post – dennisdeacon.com)
- ChatGPT didn’t know about crip life — So I changed that (blog post – volviergosum.substack.com)
- 3Play Media releases annual study, finds ASR technology showing signs of plateau (press release – 3playmedia.com)
- Finding the joy in alt text (blog post – bryn.codes)
- So you think you want an Accessibility Advisory Council? (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- There is no spoon (video/talk - youtube.com)
- Inclusive design for accessibility: A practical guide to digital accessibility, UX, and inclusive web & app design (book - packtpub.com)
- Making an LLM/AI web app for GOV.UK prototyping (blog post - joelanman.com)
- Accessibility vs. usability in PDFs: What the checker doesn’t catch (blog post - coforma.io)
- Colorado OIT amends accessibility rule (blog post - convergeaccessibility.com)
- Accessibility in email report 2025 (blog post - emailmarkup.org)
- Three tools to help fix the web’s most common WCAG 2.2 failures (blog post - spin.atomicobject.com)
- You can style alt text like any other text (blog post - piccalil.li)
- The problem(s) with image accessibility (blog post - blog.scottlogic.com)
- The problem(s) with image accessibility (event - meetup.com/a11ynyc)
- My request to Google on accessibility (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
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New to A11y
Nat Tarnoff writes that it’s okay, if not good to be wrong and offers advice on how to deal with that. While this doesn’t tie to the ins and outs of accessibility, it resonated with me. When you work in this field, you’ll likely feel like you have to have all the answers and know what’s around every corner. That’s a lot of pressure, and if you learn to be wrong, you can learn a lot more, faster.
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