Issue #461
Featured: Can components conform to WCAG?
“We can build UI components with accessibility in mind. We can also document accessibility specifics alongside them, or review them for obvious barriers during development. All helpful and recommended. What about claiming conformance? In this post, I’ll talk about how WCAG technically doesn’t allow for that, and why I believe WCAG is right.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- A11y 101: 2.3.1 Three flashes or below threshold (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Testing methods: Audio control (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Web vs mobile accessibility: Challenges, gaps and best practices (event - a11ytalks.com)
- True disability inclusion requires planning for the unexpected (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- The needs of people with cognitive disabilities (blog post – ozewai.org)
- Rebuilding graphs for accessibility: Inside Khan Academy’s inclusive design (blog post – blog.khanacademy.org)
- Avoiding the word “help” (blog post – yatil.net)
- Accessibility pushback (blog post – chrisyoong.com)
- What’s the European Accessibility Act got to do with my design system? (blog post - zeroheight.com)
- Five heading accessibility issues to avoid (blog post - blog.pope.tech)
- How a blind person uses social media and AI to drive accessibility (blog post - equalentry.com)
- On dashes, A.I., and screen readers (blog post - tpgi.com)
- Style your underlines (blog post - adactio.com)
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Jason Grigsby writes about how a dog increased an appreciation for accessibility. Spoiler: Disability can happen to anyone. And all kinds of “features” quickly become more than features, but must-haves.
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