Issue #467
Featured: forced-color-adjust: none is an unavoidable foot gun
“This post is aimed at anyone working in an environment with multiple other developers or development teams while needing to maintain a codebase over time. If: you lovingly handcraft all your styles, and everyone who contributes is familiar with all CSS in the codebase, and this stays true both now and in perpetuity, then this probably won’t be a problem. However if you, like me, work in a large and chaotic system where code you write is copied, consumed, customized, and maintained away from your control by many other people, then it is a matter of when and not if a forced-color-adjust: none style will cause high contrast mode bugs.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Testing methods: Visual presentation (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Reviewing the logic and value of the W3C’s accessibility maturity model (blog post - afixt.com)
- Screen reader HTML support – lookup (resource - tetralogical.github.io)
- The Unruh Act: Understand the lawsuits and how state and federal regulations could combine to create blockbuster settlements (blog post - deque.com)
- YNAB adds a Home screen to its iOS mobile app; but is it accessible? (blog post – racheleditullio.com)
- Taking a shot at the double focus ring problem using modern CSS (blog post – piccalil.li)
- The 5th motivation for accessibility: Brand and marketing - The binary choice (blog post – nira11y.com)
- Black Friday and Cyber Monday: Why accessibility could be your biggest sales advantage (blog post – davedavies.dev)
- Custom carets and users: When the Caret is no longer a stick (yes, that’s a poor attempt at a pun) (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- Simple ways to make your workplace communications accessible (blog post - digitalaccesstraining.com)
- Why moving away from SPAs improves usability, accessibility, and SEO (blog post - innoweb.com.au)
- Captioning videos in Vimeo (blog post - convergeaccessibility.com)
- Creating a truly accessible flip card (blog post - tpgi.com)
- Why sticky navigation can undermine accessibility (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- The forgotten history of disabled children under Nazism (article - motherjones.com)
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