Issue #458
Featured: The ‘accessibility’ link is a lie: My adventures in weaponizing corporate virtue signaling
“In the corporate world, there’s a special kind of lie. It’s not a loud, brazen falsehood; it’s a quiet, self-congratulatory link. It lives in the footer of websites, usually next to the copyright notice, a tidy little link that says ‘Accessibility Statement.’”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Making content accessible for people with limited English proficiency (event - meetup.com/a11ynyc
- A11y 101: 2.2.1 Timing Adjustable (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Testing Methods: Identify input purpose (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- We need to talk about your accessibility statement (blog post - cerovac.com/a11y)
- Why I’m writing pure HTML & CSS in 2025 (blog post – joeldare.com)
- From word fluff to real impact: Achieving specific, measurable, and accountable accessibility (blog post – theideaplace.net)
- European Accessibility Act (EAA) FAQ (blog post – tetralogical.com)
- Why use Able Player instead of
video? (blog post – joedolson.com) - Super short note: Placeholder perfidy (blog post - html5accessibility.com)
- 5.15 million reasons to settle web accessibility lawsuits quickly (blog post - convergeaccessibility.com)
- Embedding accessibility SMEs in remote teams (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- Implementing accessible SVG elements (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
- State of HTML 2025 now open! (blog post - lea.verou.me)
- What Medicaid cuts mean for Americans, part II (article - npr.org)
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New to A11y
Robert Jolly list five accessibility opportunities for design Systems that can help make them more inclusive from a design standpoint. Design systems can form a good foundation for accessibility inside organizations. It’s good to pay attention to them.
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