Issue #453
Featured: What I wish someone told me when I was getting into ARIA
"These are all things I wish someone had told me when I was getting started on my web accessibility journey. This post will:
- Provide a mindset for how to approach ARIA as a concept,
- Debunk some common misconceptions, and
- Provide some guiding thoughts to help you better understand and work with it."
Read more of What I wish someone told me when I was getting into ARIA.
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Testing methods: Info and relationships (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- A11y 101: 1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Accname unclarified (blog post - html5accessibility.com)
- Accessibility statements: The good, the bad, and the ugly (blog post – buttondown.com/access-ability)
- Accessible rickrolling (blog post – heydonworks.com)
- Don’t fix over it, demand it: Why you should require accessibility from your suppliers (blog post – nira11y.com)
- Digital accessibility’s gap: AI to bridge mobile and web barriers (event – meetup.com/a11ynyc)
- WCAG 2.2 card deck (resource - figma.com/community)
- From curiosity to creation: The story behind accessibility nerd (blog post - equalentry.com)
- WCAG 2.2 and beyond: Key updates and essential guidelines you need to know (event - a11ytalks.com)
- Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs (blog post - nolanlawson.com)
- Accessible UX Research (book) (book - smashingmagazine.com)
- Design systems help with accessibility, but they’re not the full solution (blog post - voorhoede.nl)
- You’re not an accessibility specialist until you’ve… (blog post – cerovac.com/a11y)
- iOS Accessibility Inspector: Beyond automation (blog post - dev.to/steady5063)
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Martin Underhill advises you to err on the side of caution in audits because it has advantages like better outcomes for your customers/users. A less strict approach has bitten me before, so I agree with the approach outlined here.
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