Issue #454
Featured: WCAG 3, increment or overhaul?
“In the last charter we agreed to go full-steam ahead on WCAG3, an overhaul of the guidelines. That’s going reasonably well, and we’re tracking the plan. A question has been raised though: Should we be incrementally updating WCAG 2 instead?”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Testing methods: Meaningful sequence (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Quick tip: WCAG doesn’t round (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Pseudomotion, motion sensitivity, and accessibility (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- The state of digital accessibility in Europe (report – digitaltrustindex.eu)
- Getting started with manual testing webinar (video – youtube.com)
- Font size dimensions (blog post – blog.damato.design)
- Accessible Shopify themes (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
- Writing alt text with AI (blog post - jaredcunha.com)
- Implement WCAG rules in your infographics (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
- Understanding EN 17161 Design for All (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- The European Accessibility Act: Dreams and gratitude (blog post - lflegal.com)
- Design beyond barriers (resource - designbeyondbarriers.com)
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New to A11y
Ashley Willis has advice and potent messages about how feedback is not an attack. While this isn’t a post about accessibility specifically, longtime readers will know I like to throw in a few of those. Accessibility work happens in the feedback given. The main message here should resonate: “Feedback should be thoughtful, specific, grounded, and mutual. If you’re not doing it with intention, you’re not doing it right.”
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