Issue #512
Featured: Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake
“I made an accessibility error, and I want you to learn from my mistakes.”
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Wed, August 12th at 1pm PT on YouTube. It’s a fair question, and the answers out there are more confident than the draft is. Search WCAG 3 and you’ll find articles laying out the Bronze, Silver, and Gold conformance levels and exactly how to prepare. Open the actual Working Draft and the conformance section is labeled Exploratory, with the Bronze threshold still listed as “to be determined.” Join Natalie from AAArdvark to read the real document together, sort the settled parts from the unsettled ones, and leave with a two-minute way to check any claim like this yourself.
News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Legal update: July 2026 (blog post - convergeaccessibility.com)
- Accessibility is not for a group of disabled people (blog post - erikkroes.nl)
- Oh, it’s happening to me (blog post - disabilitydebrief.org)
- What counts as experience? (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Writing for understanding (blog post - a11yblog.com)
- Return of CSS outline (blog post - morganwebdev.org)
- How to build a design system strategy you’ll actually deliver (blog post - amyhupe.co.uk)
- Inclusion is hollow without safety (blog post - gracedowwrites.com)
- Can we make default Tailwind a more accessible choice? (blog post - spatie.be)
- Accessibility is resistance! (blog post - tink.uk)
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New to A11y
Ela Gorla at Tetralogical discusses accessibility in the age of AI. I like the breakdown here about the different ways accessibility and AI meet. This piece proposes a measured, value-driven approach. Use it as a guide for your own thinking.
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