Issue #513
Featured: Dark mode toggles: Two states are enough
“Yes, the underlying model must have three states, but one is always irrelevant to the actual user goal. Users do not seek out solutions to problems they don’t currently have. A lot of the hate towards two-state toggles is based on poor implementations.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Red Alert: SBA advocacy threatens entire DOJ Title II web rule (blog post - convergeaccessibility.com)
- Design systems need evals (blog post - blog.murphytrueman.com)
- Should native app screen titles be headings? (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- Jimothy’s acceptance should extend to disabled people too (blog post - gracedowwrites.com)
- Media obsesses over regular disabled guy just livin’ life and eatin’ trash (blog post - thesqueakywheel.org)
- Accessibility rant: Reader mode (blog post - unattributed.cc)
- Accessibility bugs are often architecture bugs (blog post - hackernoon.com)
- Testing methods: Error prevention (legal, financial, data) (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Will agentic browsing scoring actually help accessibility for people? (blog post - cerovac.com/a11y)
- A11y 101 – 3.3.2 labels or instructions (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Prefers-reduced-motion, explained (and how to test it) (blog post - motionspec.dev)
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New to A11y
While not accessibility related, this post from Ran Craycraft on how a prototype is not a product. it’s a conversation carries over to the work. Why? A prototype can also help you think through accessibility challenges of building something new.
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