Issue #505
Featured: The siren song of arianotify()
“That might look like a simple solution to an equally simple use case here in print, but historically this has a tricky problem that could only be solved by slightly off-label usage of ARIA’s live regions. That means that understanding live regions — and their shortcomings — is the key to understanding what ariaNotify does for us.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- AT for iPhone: Voice control speech input (blog post - racheleditullio.com)
- Maybe don’t rely on Google’s “Modern Web Guidance” (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- AI-generated accessibility, an update — Frontier models still fail, but skills change the game (blog post - dev.to/mfairchild365)
- Lost, forgotten, and unfamiliar HTML (blog post - thoughtbot.com)
- How I limit overwhelm when auditing (blog post - intopia.digital)
- Navigating the age-old problem of checkmarks in UI with progressive enhancement (blog post - piccalil.li)
- The impact of AI on digital accessibility, Part I (blog post - onsman.com)
- Testing methods: Change on request (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Where can aria-label and aria-labelledby be used for naming elements? (blog post - maxdesign.com.au)
- Visual impairment doesn’t keep these birders out of the hobby (article - npr.org)
- Our CSS isn’t opinionated enough (blog post - craigabbott.co.uk)
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