Issue #525
Featured: I am not a developer or an accessibility specialist. Hire me?
“In any case, being asked to either code or design is not attractive to me, since it means doing either pointless or rote work. I simply cannot solve as many problems, as effectively, by being confined to either of these arbitrary and nonsensical camps. It’s debilitating. There’s also just so much more I’m able to do, if you let me be a whole person: typography and type design, animation, even sound design.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Exceptions to 1.1.1: When the alt text isn’t the answer (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- What is lost when disability data vanishes (blog post - gracedowwrites.com)
- AI can operate a screen reader. What does that actually test? (blog post - nicolas-steenhout.com)
- Alt text for e-learning: What to write, and what to check (blog post - nextgenailearning.com)
- Accessible load more pattern (blog post - wcagmadesimple.com)
- Little stories on my journey to making Xarra as accessible as possible (Part 1) (blog post - accessibilityupto11.com)
- What the 500 in blue-500 means (blog post - hipuku.dev)
- Web accessibility smoke testing (blog post - racheleditullio.com)
- Automated screen reader testing with Claude Code, VoiceOver and Gherkin (blog post - craigabbott.co.uk)
- Understanding aria-activedescendant (blog post - maxdesign.com.au)
- Designing for cognitive difference: Reducing friction in digital interfaces (video - youtube.com)
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Junaid Masoodi asks Can AI fix web accessibility? And they look into the actual evidence. Short answer: No. It’s not a shortcut, but can help in spots when used right and with a human in the loop. Keep this in mind when you get asked to do this and that with AI and accessibility.
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