Issue #74
Featured: Image description tips on Twitter
A few weeks ago, a tweet about how important it was to add descriptions to images on Twitter made the rounds. This week, another tweet popped up worth reading, all about how to write well-crafted image descriptions.
Read Image description tips on Twitter.
News, resources, tools and tutorials
- A11y Wins: Expedia (blog post)
- Little steps for accessibility at N26 (blog post)
- Improving your tweet accessibility (blog post)
- What’s New in HTML 5.2? (blog post)
- Screen reader user survey 7 results from WebAIM (blog post)
- Section 508 refresh (Part 2) (blog post)
New to A11y
Heydon Pickering talks about prioritizing accessibility and what Taylor Swift’s website taught him. One of my favorite quotes: “It’s certainly not more difficult to do accessibility than to learn JavaScript… The reason people find it hard and don’t want to get into it so much is because they haven’t prioritized it…” It’s an important lesson to take with you if you’re just digging into accessibility.
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