Issue #464
Featured: Focus on the people that make things happen
“I’ve written about how, in my half-decade at one of the UK’s biggest tech companies, I approached creating a culture of accessibility. Broadly speaking, there are two ways to do it […]”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- A11y 101: 2.4.3 Focus Order (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Testing methods: Images of text (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Why inclusive products are green products (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- Accessible authentication (blog post - afixt.com)
- How to create an accessible table with clickable rows (blog post – oidaisdes.org)
- Why digital accessibility starts within: Lessons from Crystal Preston-Watson (blog post – hackernoon.com)
- Accessibility statements are not legal contracts. They’re value signals (blog post – pedalpoint.com)
- Legal update: August 2025 (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
- active-descendant console debugger (blog post - html5accessibility.com)
- Do you know your ADA digital accessibility risk? (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- Accessible numbers (resource - accessiblenumbers.com)
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