Issue #517
Featured: WCAG 3 update
“The conformance model in this draft changes the approach from trying to fix everything within conformance to balancing flexibility and harmonization by adding reporting tiers alongside conformance.”
Read more of WCAG 3 update.
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- WCAG 3’s road to hell is paved with supplemental requirements (blog post - yatil.net)
- Web Accessibility in Mind Conference (event - conference.webaim.org)
- Teach Access – Accessibility, ethics & AI panel (video - youtube.com)
- Life after aphasia: Recovery, communication, and adaptive sports (blog post - equalentry.com)
- Does this menu work with keyboard? The surprising number of big brands that fail (blog post - a11yblog.com)
- Little websites everywhere (blog post - michellebarker.co.uk)
- You don’t have a design system (blog post - mattrothenberg.com)
- A11y 101 – 4.1.2 Name, role, value (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Testing methods: Error prevention (all) (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Using the browser console for accessibility testing - Part 2 (blog post - maxdesign.com.au)
- The 2.1.1 “specific timings” clause (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
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