Issue #450
Featured: Are you sure that table isn’t a list?
“The thing about a table is, it’s rigid; necessarily so. All that information needs to be exactly where it is in that two-dimensional grid in order for the table to be useful for things like: Comparing data, Finding patterns, Looking for relationships…”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Keyboard navigation: Ensuring usability without a mouse (blog post - afixt.com)
- Dialog is for modals, popover is for everything else (blog post - mayank.co)
- Inclusive user research: Building rapport (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- How to (not) use aria-label, -labelledby and -describedby (blog post – stevefrenzel.dev)
- The caption element (blog post – heydonworks.com)
- Empathy in automation (video – linkedin.com)
- Testing methods: Prerecorded extended audio description (blog post – dennisdeacon.com)
- A deep dive into the Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act of 2025 (blog post – karlgroves.com)
- Defining RACI roles for improving digital accessibility (blog post - accessarmada.com)
- Making scannable web pages for assistive technology (blog post - coforma.io)
- WordPress needs documentation about accessibility, help me work on it (blog post - rianrietveld.com)
- Deploying accessibility at scale: Strategy, tactics, and battle stories (video/webinar - youtube.com)
- Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year (press release - apple.com)
- New AI and accessibility updates across Android, Chrome and more (press release - blog.google)
- AI in action: Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day (press release - blogs.microsoft.com/accessibility)
- GAAD Foundation, ServiceNow announce AI model accessibility checker API for software developers (blog post - curbcuts.co)
- Re: broken promises (blog post - heather-buchel.com)
- Introducing: Webbed Sites (video - briefs.video)
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New to A11y
Another useful, “new to accessibility” post from Nat Tarnoff. This time, Nat shares knowledge on how to test manually. Manual testing can be a lot for people new to it to grasp, so I like how this post lays out a method for doing it that’s easy to follow.
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