Issue #521
Featured: The web needs interactive lists
“Developers and designers will always create new innovative ways to be weird and inaccessible in their UI (intense side-eye at stuffing tabs and tables into comboboxes), and spec authors will always struggle to decide how far to support the chaos. However, every once in a while developers and designers create a perfectly normal, understandable, and theoretically accessible UI pattern that for whatever reason is not supported on the web. One of those patterns is an interactive list.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- It’s official: Airline websites are slow, but they don’t have to be (blog post - calibreapp.com)
- Crafting WCAG 3 for more accessible user experiences (blog post - w3.org)
- WCAG process for assigning levels (blog post - alastairc.uk)
- Today is the day I realised (blog post - disabilitydebrief.org)
- “AI, make the website good” (blog post - zachleat.com)
- Return to sender: Accessible voting and the fight over mail-in ballots (blog post - crystalprestonwatson.com)
- Spotting accessibility issues early (talk/video - youtube.com)
- Twenty years later: Measuring the accessibility of the U.S. state government websites (academic paper - scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu)
- We need more choices in automated testing (blog post - karlgroves.com)
- Respecting your users’ preferences (blog post - tempertemper.net)
- WordPress Accessibility Day: 2026 (blog post - joedolson.com)
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