Issue #471
Featured: What state ARIA in?
“Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) attributes play a vital role in communicating dynamic interface states to assistive technologies. However, attributes like aria-selected, aria-pressed, aria-current, and aria-checked are often confused because they all express some form of “state” or “selection.” In this article, we’ll clarify what each of these attributes does, when to use them, and common mistakes developers make, helping ensure your ARIA implementation accurately reflects the user interface state and supports a predictable experience for assistive technology users.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Baby steps accessibility – PDFs (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- When to Use modal vs dialog components (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
- “Straight to the pool room”: The risks and pitfalls of placing accessibility issues in the backlog (blog post - intopia.digital)
- The architecture of anxiety and shame, part one (blog post - toddl.dev)
- Identifying accessibility data gaps in codeGen models (blog post – aaron-gustafson.com)
- Queens library agrees to major accessibility upgrades after disability rights lawsuit (article – gothamist.com)
- YouTube studio update: Where to find captions and add audio description (blog post – meryl.net)
- Headers, headings, and titles (blog post – tempertemper.net)
- AI has an accessibility problem: What devs can do about it (blog post - blog.logrocket.com)
- Be a digital ally: Tools and techniques of a blind accessibility auditor (blog post - knowbility.org)
- Got data, now what? Storytelling through accessible design (blog post - equalentry.com)
- Atlas ableism (blog post - html5accessibility.com)
- Yes, let’s teach LLMs accessibility, but also provide the companies using them with better strategies (blog post - hidde.blog)
- OpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the web worse (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
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