Issue #479
Featured: You can’t opt-out of accessibility
“There is a look that certain individuals give you when you explain that a slightly different approach would be optimal for accessibility or that some changes are necessary. It’s a sort of sneer. The same thinly veiled look of discontent that one might pull while subtly investigating the dog poo smell originating from the base of their shoe as they arrive at a dinner party.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- What’s wrong with this HTML, and is it valid? (blog post - htmhell.dev)
- Discover Dialog (blog post - htmhell.dev)
- A11y freedom beaver (blog post - htmhell.dev)
- Testing methods: Headings and labels (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Accessibility office in limbo as it calls out federal government’s failures (article – vancouver.citynews.ca)
- AI’s role in improving accessibility (article – marketplace.org)
- Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they’re disabled? (article – reason.com)
- End-to-end browser and accessibility event architecture (blog post – maxdesign.com.au)
- Solving small text and contrast issues for large-screen readability (blog post - alicia.design)
- The next revolution in design: Emotional accessibility (article - fastcompany.com)
- Design accessible animation and movement with code examples (blog post - blog.pope.tech)
- From reactive to proactive: Building a sustainable accessibility program (blog post - equalentry.com)
- What about “Nothing about us without us?” (blog post - anildash.com)
- Getting a close button to hang off of a dialog (blog post - darins.page)
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