Issue #460
Featured: Accessibility and the agentic web
“What all this really has me wondering, is why bother with a website? I don’t mean the Innosearch website, I mean any retail website and, really, any website at all?”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Quick tip: Use fewer links (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Testing methods: Use of color (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Using AI for accessibility work (blog post - accessaces.com)
- 1.2.5: Adversarial conformance (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- Legal update: July 2025 (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
- WCAG vs EAA: Understanding where WCAG stops and where the EAA starts (blog post – getstark.co)
- When “neutral” isn’t really neutral: Twelve everyday practices that disproportionately impact people with disabilities (blog post – buttondown.com/access-ability)
- Why semantic HTML still matters (blog post – jonoalderson.com)
- HTML is dead, long live HTML (blog post - acko.net)
- A few things about the anchor element’s href you might not have known (blog post - blog.jim-nielsen.com)
- Built-in accessibility: Blessing or curse? (video/talk - youtube.com)
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Nicolas Steenhout says that accessibility represents just one part of a quality website. It, performance and security make up three critical parts of a good, quality site. As Nic points out, these aspects also factor into what should make it into a minimum viable product.
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