Issue #492
Featured: I tried to educate an accessibility overlay company from the inside
“Storytime. I recently interviewed for an Accessibility Developer role. I hadn’t heard of the company before, and when I checked the overlay fact sheet, they weren’t listed. I noticed several prominent figures in the accessibility space promoting the role, and even some well-known disability activists were endorsing the company. However, as the interview progressed, my heart dropped. I realised with a sinking feeling …”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Thoughts on people-first language (blog post - erikkroes.nl)
- Red Alert: The DOJ Title II web accessibility rule is in danger! (blog post - convergeaccessibility.com)
- Tell the Federal Government not to change the Title II accessibility regulations (blog post - lflegal.com)
- Native HTML components don’t guarantee good UX (blog post - adamsilver.io)
- Testing methods: Concurrent input mechanisms (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Tests for aria-labelledby and aria-describedby (blog post – maxdesign.com.au)
- On matters of accessibility (blog post – bethdeconinck.com)
- The accessibility D.E.N.N.I.S. system (blog post - jaredcunha.com)
- Everything you never wanted to know about visually-hidden (blog post – dbushell.com)
- WCAG 3 March update (blog post - whollyaccessible.org)
- What I like about WCAG 3.0 (blog post – afixt.com)
- Put aria-hidden=true on decorative SVGs (blog post - matuzo.at)
- How many AIs does it take to read a PDF (article - theverge.com)
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