Issue #489
Featured: A new path for digital accessibility?
“I’d like to propose a term for the space where assistive technology, digital accessibility, and artificial intelligence converge: Intelligent Digital Accessibility Assistance.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Why we teach our students progressive enhancement (blog post - cydstumpel.nl)
- AI will eliminate the need for accessibility professionals? I think not (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- How the same content always has multiple different versions (blog post - a11yblog.com)
- Testing methods: Label in name (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Does Chrome get the header element wrong? (blog post – maxdesign.com.au)
- On affordances (blog post – karlkoch.me)
- Accessibility progress and healthy engineering teams (blog post – heather-buchel.com)
- Accessible inline collapsible (blog post – erikkroes.nl)
- You probably shouldn’t be annotating focus order (blog post - ericwbailey.website)
- A new meta tag for respecting text scaling on mobile (blog post - matuzo.at)
- WCAG-EM 2.0 lets you report on accessibility of more than just websites (blog post - hidde.blog)
- I used Claude Code and GSD to build the accessibility tool I’ve always wanted (blog post - blakewatson.com)
- Webinar: Lunchtime! What EN 301 549 brings to the table (webinar - axesslab.com)
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