Issue #507
Featured: If I want more IRL, I must go AFK
“Or maybe you totally relate because you actually have the same problem. Either way this technology enabled that. I was able to use a computer to take my thoughts, record them, and eventually turn them into HTML, where I published them to the web and you managed to find them. And just think, other people are out there doing the same thing. Despite feeling that I already spend too much time using a computer, I can’t help but think that I’m missing out on interesting things to do and see online. It really is great. But it’s still not a replacement for the real world.”
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Automated scanners are good at catching missing alt text and broken heading hierarchies. But color contrast on gradients, whether an image is decorative or meaningful, whether link purpose is clear from context - those need a human. The problem is most tools dump all of those into a bucket with no way to work through them. AAArdvark’s manual review workflow gives you a structured process: evaluate each item, confirm or dismiss it, and track your progress. Confirmed issues get full workflow treatment. Dismissed items stop cluttering your view.
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Where automated scanning fits in your accessibility effort (Part 1: Getting started) (blog post - convergeaccessibility.com)
- AIMAC, the AI model accessibility checker (resource - aimac.ai)
- How to detect when an element’s visibility changes with JavaScript (blog post - gomakethings.com)
- A11y 101 – 3.2.1 On focus (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Testing methods: Error identification (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- WIIFM: The motivational question behind every accessibility conversation (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- SEO is not accessibility, and we have the data to prove it (blog post - afixt.com)
- Open source web accessibility tools from the University of Illinois (video/talk - mediaspace.umn.edu)
- How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight (blog post - mohkohn.co.uk)
- headingoffset is not the Document Outline Algorithm (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- Semantica11y - semantic HTML for everyone (blog post - dev.to/steady5063)
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