Issue #484
Featured: 2026 Web Almanac: Accessibility
“Our approach is similar to that of the WebAim Million but with differences in sites crawled and analysis tools used. The HTTP Archive crawls 17 million sites each month across home and secondary pages using Lighthouse and other tools. WebAim surveys the top million home pages with WAVE.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Optimizing VoiceOver in an iOS e-commerce app with conditional accessibility (blog post - axesslab.com)
- Brief note on application keyboard shortcuts (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- The curb-cut effect (blog post - sketchplanations.com)
- Testing methods: Focus not obscured (minimum) (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Did you know your browser has two accessibility trees? (blog post – maxdesign.com.au)
- How to create audio description for YouTube videos (blog post – 3playmedia.com)
- On abbreviating accessibility (blog post – onsman.com)
- Everyone loses when paying fines becomes a business strategy (blog post – buttondown.com/access-ability)
- These artists are on a mission to make photography more accessible (article - cpr.org)
- Beyond manual audits: How automation strengthens accessibility (blog post - equalentry.com)
- Traveling abroad With a service dog: Part 3 (blog post - accessaces.com)
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Fable has a short post on how early accessibility solutions evolved into core UX design principles. The post cites a number of well-known inventions that started to solve a problem in the disability space, but went much further. Maybe the list includes a few you didn’t realize?
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