Issue #519
Featured: The Dunning-Kruger effect in accessibility
“The people that can’t use it usually won’t file a bug report. They’ll just close your website or delete your app. So you don’t really get any signals telling you that something is wrong. And, a lack of signals, feels a lot like you’re doing everything right! I’ve been thinking about why this happens so often in accessibility, and it keeps bringing me back to an old study, and a term which gets thrown around a lot in product development. The Dunning-Kruger effect.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Accessibility is currently required to let us spend money, but still not to let us earn money (blog post - cerovac.com)
- Meta smart glasses empower blind people to participate in corporate surveillance (blog post/satire - thesqueakywheel.org)
- A11y 101 – 4.1.3 Status messages (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Reusability determines value (blog post - erikkroes.nl)
- EN 301 549 v4.1.1 is final! What changed, what it means, and what you should do (blog post - deque.com)
- New things you should know about HTML here in mid 2026 (blog post - blog.master.dev)
- Build interfaces that survive translation (blog post - rene.wang)
- Why LEGO was never the right metaphor for a design system (blog post - zeroheight.com)
- Testing methods: Accessible authentication (minimum) (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Understanding aria-valuetext (blog post - maxdesign.com.au)
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New to A11y
Homer Gaines has created a set of browser tools called SpotCheck that you might find helpful if you’re getting into the auditing game. These are similar to some tools already out there, but I like how Homer has it packaged. It has clear instructions, examples of how each tool works, and how the checks link to WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines). Super valuable as a learning tool too!
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