Issue #72
Featured: Talking to Léonie Watson about computer vision and blindness
In an interview transcript, Léonie Watson talks with Peter Gasston about computer vision – extracting semantic data from photos and video using machine learning.
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Accessibility testing tools for desktop and mobile websites (blog post)
- React’s accessibility code linter (blog post)
- Building a culture of accessibility: Leadership roles (blog post)
- Writing automated tests for accessibility (blog post)
- Dear public speaker… you lost me at “hello” (blog post)
- ARIA Switch Demo (code)
- Excluded from Confoo speaker dinner – what happened and how it made me feel (blog post)
- Assistive tech: Switch device (video podcast)
- Screen reader user survey #7 results (resource)
- A11y Rules Podcast Episode 21 - Interview with Jeffrey Zeldman - Part 1 (podcast)
- The trials and tribulations of the title attribute (blog post)
- How to boost your website’s accessibility + SEO (blog post)
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