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“Semantic HTML is not an accessibility chore. It is interface infrastructure.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Tech as cognitive accessibility: Designing systems for ADHD brains (event - a11ytalks.com)
- Crawling your site for the content a sample misses (Part 2) (blog post - convergeaccessibility.com)
- Modern CSS theming with light-dark(), contrast-color(), and style queries (blog post - una.im)
- A11y 101 – 3.2.3 Consistent navigation (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Your grid lanes will likely fail WCAG 2.4.3 (blog post - matuzo.at)
- Designing for people with reading disabilities (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- WCAG 3.0 will create a governance problem most organizations aren’t ready for (blog post - nicolas-steenhout.com)
- The myth of the difficult user (video/talk - youtube.com)
- Accessibility isn’t built into AI, and that’s a problem (blog post - onsman.com)
- Why accessibility is an operational capability, not a feature (blog post - smashingmagazine.com)
- Testing methods: Labels or instructions (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
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