Issue #524
Featured: Atomic accessibility model
“That’s the trap. Not incompetence — arithmetic. A centralized model isn’t failing because the people in it are bad at their jobs. It’s failing because the workload scales linearly with the size of the estate while the team doesn’t scale at all. You can hire your way out of it temporarily, and then the estate grows again, and you’re back where you started with a bigger payroll. This is the problem the Atomic Accessibility Model exists to solve. Not by working harder, but by changing who does the work and where it happens. It starts with the idea of Hub-and-Spoke.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Bringing accessibility support data to developer tools (tool - acd.lolaslab.co)
- The accessibility compat data project has a homepage now, and you should support the project (blog post - ericwbailey.website)
- “It isn’t fair that they throw us out onto the streets” (blog post - disabilitydebrief.org)
- WCAG 3: A different future for accessibility (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- Making pinball accessible for everyone (blog post - wheelieoutthere.blogspot.com)
- What mobile development can learn from disabled testers (blog post - closetothedoor.com)
- Fix contrast that breaks on focus (WCAG 1.4.3) (blog post - accessibilityscanner.app)
- From CSS selector to source line: Instrumenting Angular templates (blog post - dev.to/oussama_laribi_dad54a6441)
- Life after Aphasia: Recovery, communication, adaptive sports (blog post - equalentry.com)
- Guided alt text generation: fill in the blanks, get alt text that actually works (blog post - pedalpoint.com)
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I’ve helped hire a lot of accessibility specialists. I detest when I’m asked to find a “unicorn,” the person who can do it all. However, what’s the common trait I see in the successful hires who build trust among teams? Technical understanding. It doesn’t mean they can do everything, but it does mean they can get to the why something won’t work, often tracing it to some technical reason. This article on why AI is exposing design’s craft crisis relates to accessibility too. Substitute design with accessibility and the parallels draw themselves.
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