Issue #463
Featured: A notional design studio
“Last week, my country’s far-right administration announced they were establishing an “America by Design” initiative, along with a so-called National Design Studio to oversee it. That studio will, to quote its own homepage, “improve how Americans experience their government — online, in person, and the spaces in between.” After seeing the announcement, I read through the “America by Design” web page. And I have some thoughts.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Web Accessibility in Mind Conference (event - conference.webaim.org)
- Testing methods: Resize text (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- When HTML speaks clearly (blog post - a11yblog.com)
- A11M - Part II (blog post - nira11y.com)
- Design for all: Reading between the lines (blog post – frank.computer)
- Time to prepare for Apple’s accessibility nutrition labels (blog post – accessarmada.com)
- The web is about to get better for everyone, everywhere (blog post – denodell.com)
- Web accessibility in government: Common misses and practical fixes (blog post – lullabot.com)
- Tactile Maps Automated Production (TMAP) (app - madlabdesign.org)
- Interaction design and accessibility: UX without barriers (blog post - alicia.design)
- Nested scroll bars are one of the biggest accessibility evils, ever (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- New bookmarklet: WCAG SCs lookup tool (blog post - a11y-tools.com)
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