Issue #490
Featured: Accessibility people are a superpower
“People who know accessibility well possess a collaboration superpower. If you’re only calling them in to check compliance boxes, you’re missing a tremendous opportunity to to improve your entire design and development processes, and your team culture.”
Read more of Accessibility people are a superpower.
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Most people know they should test with a keyboard. Fewer know what correct behavior actually looks like for each element - when to expect Enter vs Space, Tab vs arrow keys, or what a proper focus indicator should be. This Tuesday, March 11th at 1pm PT, Natalie from AAArdvark walks through keyboard interactions for links, buttons, form fields, menus, modals, and more on real sites, live. You’ll see what working keyboard access looks like and what broken looks like, so you actually know what to flag.
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- You know what? Just don’t split words into letters (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- Nice select (blog post - nerdy.dev)
- The ultimate mobile accessibility resource guide (blog post - dev.to/steady5063)
- Testing methods: Motion actuation (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- How aria-labelledby really works (blog post – maxdesign.com.au)
- The ultimate mobile accessibility resource guide (blog post – dev.to/steady5063)
- Does your navigation need an ARIA menu? Probably not. (blog post – blog.pope.tech)
- Vibe prototyping isn’t solving any problems. But it’s creating many new ones (newsletter issue – productpicnic.beehiiv.com)
- Designing together: How design and development built accessible multi-brand experiences (talk/video - a11ytalks.com)
- Request for developer feedback: focusgroup (blog post - developer.chrome.com)
- You might not need role=“presentation” (blog post - piccalil.li)
- Accessibility contractors have their place-but it’s not everywhere (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- Traveling with mobility equipment: The hidden hurdles (blog post - accessaces.com)
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New to A11y
Nat Tarnoff encourges you to not replicate OS behavior in websites and applications. Automated testing covers only so much, and it’s a signal of progress, but not the end of it.
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