Issue #518
Featured: Using AI as your accessibility testing partner
“But it still needs expertise, purposeful testing, critical thinking, and human judgement in order to deliver meaningful outcomes, as well as specific mechanisms to ensure the voices of people with disabilities are heard.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Legal update: August 2026 (blog post - convergeaccessibility.com)
- Exclusion by design: How disability gets erased from concept to product (and how to fix it) (event - a11ytalks.com)
- If you have to ask, is it accessible? (blog post - webaim.org)
- Speech recognition and complex tables with fields (blog post - blog.pope.tech)
- Is AI ruining my brain? (blog post - feed.thoughtbot.com)
- How many pages is enough in an accessibility audit? (blog post - afixt.com)
- Exploring my relationship with the word ‘disabled’ (blog post - myblurredworld.com)
- Testing methods: Redundant entry (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Understanding aria-valuenow (blog post - maxdesign.com.au)
- Why TalkBack keeps switching accents (blog post - craigabbott.co.uk)
- Evaluating a success criterion (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
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New to A11y
Mayi Wilson at Tetralogical shares the company’s view on accessibility roles and responsibilities. There are a few of these type of lists around, but I like the simplicity of this one, and the links to other helpful Tetralogical posts.
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