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Featured: Accessible iOS design: How Forza Football included blind users
“In my early teens, when my sight was slowly entering the low-vision territory, I loved football (soccer, if you’re American). These days, despite being blind, I still follow scores and a few leagues. My favorite iOS app for keeping up with football is Forza Football, thanks to its outstanding support for VoiceOver, Apple’s built-in screen reader for blind and low-vision users.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Testing methods: Non-text contrast (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Your accessibility score is lying to you (blog post - chrisyoong.com)
- Grayscale testing: The missing step in color accessibility (blog post - blog.pope.tech)
- Better accessibility context for your artificial intelligence agents – help them help you (blog post - cerovac.com/a11y)
- How to test WCAG 1.4.10: Reflow (level AA) - Easy website accessibility test you can do (video – youtube.com)
- Actually shifting left: Technical accessibility for designers (video – youtube.com)
- Never delegate understanding: Foundations of digital accessibility (video – youtube.com)
- DOJ to re-examine all ADA Title II and III regulations on a “TBD” timetable (blog post – adatitleiii.com)
- Beyond the page: How an inclusive library model is redefining accessible literacy (blog post - equalentry.com)
- Why separate guest and logged in states create accessibility barriers (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- Evaluating Fable’s pay-per-project offering (blog post - ericwbailey.website)
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