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News, resources, tools and tutorials

• The future of independence is interdependence (blog post - onlys.ky)
• Using maths to balance your heading styles (blog post - craigabbott.co.uk)
• Support for headers attribute (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
• Native HTML and CSS features that replaced JavaScript · ronalds vilciņš (blog post - ronaldsvilcins.com)
• Sustainable accessibility: Compliance, culture, and capability (blog post - tetralogical.com)
• Axe-con 2027 registration is now open (blog post - deque.com)
• Foldable phones and accessibility: Benefits, barriers, weight, care, and cost (blog post - sheribyrnehaber.com)
• The blind birdwatcher (blog post - kottke.org)
• A Trump team wants to automate U.S. Web Design System accessibility testing. Experts are worried. (article - fedscoop.com)
• USWDS is dead. Long live USWDS. (blog post - matthenry.fyi)
• Testing methods: Accessible authentication (enhanced) (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
• Understanding aria-valuemin and aria-valuemax (blog post - maxdesign.com.au)

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