Issue #452
Featured: Pride, shame, and accessibility
“I’m talking about professional shame: the shame accompanying doing a bad job. Developers, more than anyone else I know, identify with being capable. Pushing poor development work is not just embarrassing, it threatens their very sense of self.”
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Sponsored: Remediation or rebuild?
Watch a recording (or read a summary) of a presentation where Amber Hinds and Steve Jones explored the critical decision-making process behind determining whether a website can be remediated for accessibility compliance or needs to be rebuilt entirely from scratch.
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- The role of captions and transcripts in accessibility (blog post - afixt.com)
- Quick tip: Context is key (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Testing methods: Live audio-only (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- How to make accessibility “stick” (blog post – buttondown.com/access-ability)
- It’s not too late for European Accessibility Act activities (blog post – cerovac.com/a11y)
- aria-selected: Practical examples and use cases (blog post – a11y-collective.com)
- Mobile accessibility task force (video – youtube.com)
- The hero of my own story (blog post – briandeconinck.com)
- Can accessibility be whimsical? (blog post - goodinternetmagazine.com)
- Where to put focus when opening a modal dialog (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- ARIA/HTML relationship severance (blog post - html5accessibility.com)
- So, you screwed up your EAA compliance. What now? (blog post - yatil.net)
- Liquid glass: Apple vs accessibility (blog post - reverttosaved.com)
- The European Accessibility Act: What APAC needs to know about EAA compliance (blog post - deque.com)
- Mission impossible - Accessibility job roles (blog post - craigabbott.co.uk)
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New to A11y
Not accessibility focused, but something that comes up a lot in this work: When to document things. Ted Drake has a policy, if you answer it twice, make it an article. Love this take, and I’ve landed on a similar approach, though Ted put it into words better than I could.
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