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Featured: Designing for Dyslexia: Accessibility requirements and best practices
“Dyslexia impacts fluency, comprehension, and reading comfort, but careful accessibility practices can lower those barriers. Although there isn’t a single “fix,” practical steps based on WCAG 2.2 can enhance usability for people with dyslexia and promote inclusivity for all readers."
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- A quick primer on accessible pagination (blog post - afixt.com)
- Rethinking cookie dialogs (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Make navigation accessible with aria-current (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
- Accessibility testing comparison: Automated testing vs human auditing vs usability testing (blog post - intopia.digital)
- Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Now he wants to save it (paywall) (article – newyorker.com)
- Guide to the Inclusive Design Principles (blog post – tetralogical.com)
- Accessible form validation with examples and code (blog post – blog.pope.tech)
- Design as care: Building what speed alone can’t deliver (video/talk – youtube.com)
- The “Don’t ask, don’t tell” era of DEI (blog post - anildash.com)
- Eyeing accessibility deadline, states root out ancient web issues (article - statescoop.com)
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Dennis Deacon reminds you that accessibility is a journey, and shares some concise advice for starting that journey. My favorite? Adding accessibility to your work every day. It’s the quicklest way to make progress.
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