Issue #470
Featured: Should you outsource accessibility or build it in-house?
“What you’re really asking is you can just throw money at the problem. As tempting as that is, like most things in product development, it’s not that simple.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Testing methods: Reflow (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- ADA Title II and PDFs: Fix, archive, or delete? (blog post - afixt.com)
- How to conduct user testing with people with disabilities (blog post - intopia.digital)
- Essential visually hidden CSS techniques for web accessibility (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
- Accessibility audits: Because everyone deserves to stay in focus (blog post – equalentry.com)
- Star raters are more challenging to make accessible than you might think (blog post – elevenways.be)
- Todd Libby on deceptive patterns (podcast – shoptalkshow.com)
- Tables: Beyond rows and columns (blog post – tpgi.com)
- Stop inviting overlay employees & bad actors into Accessibility spaces (blog post - chrisyoong.com)
- Why WordPress themes require underlines on links (blog post - joedolson.com)
- Crafting an all-inclusive narrative (video/talk - youtube.com)
- HTML dialog: Getting accessibility and UX right (blog post - jaredcunha.com)
- Why every search needs an announced empty state (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- Page headings don’t belong in the header (blog post - tempertemper.net)
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