Issue #495
Featured: The accessibility problem isn’t design. It’s engineering
“Audits get run. Boxes get ticked. Statements get published in footers. And then most teams move on. Nine months after the EAA deadline, it’s worth asking what actually changed.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Quick tip: Dialog focus (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- The other half of accessibility: Why soft skills determine whether programs succeed (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- How accessibility programs benefit from both manual and automated testing (blog post - deque.com)
- Accessibility in the end of deterministic design (again)
(video/talk - youtube.com) - Testing methods: Language of page (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Tests for CSS generated content alternative text (blog post – maxdesign.com.au)
- The 49MB web page (blog post – thatshubham.com)
- contrast-color() beyond black & white (blog post - una.im)
- Government tech largely falls short on accessibility requirements, GSA finds (article – fedscoop.com)
- 2026 Crystal ball: What to expect in the ADA Title III universe this year (blog post - adatitleiii.com)
- Fifty years of hard-won rights are on the line: The fight to save Section 504 (blog post - blindaccessjournal.com)
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New to A11y
I’ve covered accessibility overlays a lot in this space, but it’s good to see how different practitioners approach the topic. Claire Brotherton asks the question: Do accessibility overlays actually help? No, and Claire has examples of how overlays leave a lot of issues unaddressed.
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