Issue #487
Featured: Wishcessibility
“As I see it, wishcessibility isn’t a single specific bad practice, it’s anything that inadvertently hurts accessibility when you’re trying to improve it.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Using maturity models to build accessibility that lasts (blog post - last-child.com)
- Accessibility testing on Windows on Mac (blog post - tatanotes.com)
- Names are hard but they don’t have to be (blog post - toddl.dev)
- Testing methods: Pointer gestures (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- How does the Shadow DOM appear in the accessibility tree? (blog post – maxdesign.com.au)
- From plateau to progress: How proactive planning can revive accessibility (blog post – levelaccess.com)
- Accessibility 101 + core concepts (video/talk – youtube.com)
- CTA hierarchy in the wild (blog post – blog.jim-nielsen.com)
- Why I don’t call myself an accessibility expert (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- People with disabilities are more likely than those without to have court experience (possible paywall) (article - nytimes.com)
- The mistake of CES’s accessibility stage (blog post - accessaces.com)
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New to A11y
Patrick Sturdivant has a nice primer on how to design great alt text. Patrick covers different types of images, which will help you learn how alt text needs change, depending on the image type.
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