Issue #523
Featured: A design system is what it does
“The purpose of a system is what it does” is an old saw but it’s one that has earned its staying power. It also applies really well to design systems. USWDS was built to do the things government websites do, like make information easy to access and understand, and it does them really well."
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Is AI deskilling accessibility work? (blog post - equalentry.com)
- #Corpowid and #Skynet technologies will get you sued (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- Designing for people who are colour blind (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- Why I wait for research to prove something is needed before it’s added to the UI (blog post - adamsilver.io)
- A practical guide to naming things (blog post - smashingmagazine.com)
- This hue shall pass (resource - thishueshallpass.clearleft.com)
- Opening the can of tooltips (blog post - patrickbrosset.com)
- Writing disability rights (blog post - disabilitydebrief.org)
- How to convince people to care and invest in accessibility (event - a11ytalks.com)
- You can’t be accessible if people can’t understand you (video - youtube.com)
- Testing methods: Status messages (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
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Okay, hear me out. Not exactly accessibility related, but a challenge you’ll likely face in your accessibility work: How using LLMs will affect your work. A recent study explores how AI use affects performance on math and reasoning tasks. The study “found that spending just 10 minutes relying on an AI tool significantly impairs our ability to focus and persist with difficult tasks.” Much of accessibility work involves working through difficult tasks and decisions. Protect your ability to do that work.
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