Issue #498
Featured: Nine accessibility myths and pushbacks (and how to answer them)
“Many designers care about accessibility. Developers do too. Tech people in general care. Caring about accessibility is easy. Convincing others is the hard part. You raise accessibility in a meeting. Then people push back. “We have no disabled users” “We’ll fix it later” “Branding won’t allow it”. It feels like you fight the same battles again and again. Friends, you’re not failing, you’re just having the wrong conversations.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- A11y 101: 2.5.4 motion actuation (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- A bugbear about aria (blog post - tempertemper.net)
- Designing for people who are blind (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- Testing methods: unusual words (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Why role=“button” on a button does nothing (blog post - maxdesign.com.au)
- Tips and tricks to build accessible iOS apps (resource - accessibilityupto11.com)
- Legal update: March 2026 (blog post - convergeaccessibility.com)
- Locked out: why OTP and 2fa often fail users with disabilities (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- The AI design gap: a student’s journey in accessifying visual layouts (blog post - blindaccessjournal.com)
- The last quiet thing (blog post - terrygodier.com)
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New to A11y
Forms are hard. They don’t have to be that way. Beeps has put together a newbie’s guide to designing good web forms with a few helpful tips. My favorite tip? Accept answers. “As much as possible, be flexible with what format an answer can be given in” Nods enthusiastically.
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