Issue #488
Featured: Here’s how to instruct a LLM to reference the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide
“Given that, you need to get creative about how to handle the LLM’s training. It might seem like a good idea to instruct an LLM—reference, skill, agent, sub-agent, what have you—to reference the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG), because it lists a lot of common UI patterns, right? Well, sorta.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- “WCAG is difficult to read, don’t read it” is a self-fulfilling prophecy (blog post - yatil.net)
- Please do not use auto-scrolling content on the web and in applications (blog post - cerovac.com/a11y)
- AI is becoming a new sales channel. Here’s how to make sure your products show up (blog post - davedavies.dev)
- Testing methods: Pointer cancellation (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Using the browser console for accessibility testing (blog post – maxdesign.com.au)
- How to create more accessible presentations (blog post – intopia.digital)
- Between the dots: What designers miss without Braille users (blog post – helenkeller.org)
- Do we all see the same colors? (blog post – tatanotes.com)
- System generated PDF accessibility (blog post - axesslab.com)
- Legal update: January 2026 (blog post - convergeaccessibility.com)
- Fashioning an identity: On style, vision impairment and belonging (blog post - myblurredworld.com)
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