Issue #515
Featured: Accessibility getting dropped in the process
“It’s easy to explain this away by saying developers don’t care about accessibility. I don’t think that’s true. It’s just as easy to say they need more training. Sometimes that’s true, but it doesn’t explain what happened here.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Building accessible digital experiences through user journey testing (blog post - equalentry.com)
- M-Enabling Summit 2026 (event - m-enabling.com)
- A11y 101 – 3.3.4 Error prevention (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Inventing the wheel (blog post - dev.to/martinlex)
- Is your board getting accessibility governance right? (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- Accessible is conformant (blog post - afixt.com)
- Practical guidelines for making destructive actions accessible (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- WCAG-EM Report Tool (updated) (tool - w3.org)
- Ignore the code: toggles considered harmful (blog post - ignorethecode.net)
- AI and accessibility for ecommerce: What the tools really do and what they don’t (blog post - blog.usablenet.com)
- Should a dialog close when clicked outside? (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
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