Featured: Good designers, bad websites: A proposal

“I want to discuss accessibility because it is the most important thing for making websites. Other A List Apart articles give you innovation and insight. This article will give you homework. These are just my personal views, but they’re pretty good.”

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

• Solving for the edges (event - a11ytalks.com)
• Scaling accessibility with design systems (event - meetup.com)
• Checking accessibility with SwiftUI previews (blog post - mobilea11y.com)
• My thoughts on the “focusgroup” attribute proposal (blog post - stevefrenzel.dev)
• Testing methods: On focus (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
• Do screen readers announce “bullet” when a list uses list (blog post - maxdesign.com.au)
• A11y 101: 3.1.1 language of page (blog post - tarnoff.info)
• Session timeouts: The overlooked accessibility barrier in authentication design (blog post - smashingmagazine.com)
• How AI transforms PDF accessibility at scale (blog post - equalentry.com)
• Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process (blog post - github.blog)
• Tolerating inaccessibility (blog post - webaim.org)

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