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Featured: Accessibility is personal
“Oh well. As the go-to guy, I get lots of questions. In the last year, these conversations became more frequent and more challenging. It’s almost as if there’s been some kind of deadline in 2025.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- The three semantics of HTML (blog post - htmhell.dev)
- Don’t fall into the “Accessibility grade/score” trap (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- Testing methods: Location (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- What are DOM mutations? (blog post – maxdesign.com.au)
- TPAC accessibility updates, 2025 (video – youtube.com)
- German auditors reject accessibility overlays in EAA context (blog post – chrisyoong.com)
- Open sourcing the GitHub Annotation Toolkit (blog post/resource – github.blog)
- Legal update: December 2025 (blog post - convergeaccessibility.com)
- The final nail in the HTML5 document outline coffin (blog post - tempertemper.net)
- Traveling with a service dog: Part 1 (blog post - accessaces.com)
New to A11y
Ela Gorla shares some: common misconceptions about implementing accessibility. Five to be exact. All of them have shown up in my career. The one where I spend the most time though? “It’s only developers’ responsibility.” Moving accessibility earlier in the design process means everything gets easier during development.
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