💡 One Thing – April’s roundup
May is nearly upon us, and on the 19th it’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day (or GAAD). I have a challenge for you! Take some time to do one thing to make the world a wee bit more accessible:
- Use your keyboard alone for your normal workflow for 15 minutes
- Finally take some time to learn how to use a screen reader
- Talk to someone you know who has a disability about the digital barriers they face regularly
- Run axe DevTools on your website to find out what accessibility issues you have
In return for your effort, I’ve written you some articles:
- If one person is remote, everyone should be remote
- Upgrading from iPhone XS to 13 Mini
- CSS Naked Day
- HTML isn’t quite accessible out of the box
- I deleted 1Password
From the archives
On CSS Naked Day, when I removed all styling from my website, someone I spoke to was surprised that it still had a dark theme. This was because they were using Dark Mode on their device, and HTML can check for Dark/Light Mode settings; no styling necessary!
Since writing the article last summer, Firefox has added support, so around 90% of all web browsers now support HTML-only Dark Mode.
Elsewhere on the web
Here are some more interesting articles from around the web that I read during April:
- WebAIM Million report for 2022
- Accessible Typefaces, Fonts, and Text
- What if… one day everything got better?
- Common accessibility issues that you can fix today
- Twitter exposes ‘+ALT’ button on images
Anyway, good luck with your GAAD challenge and I’d love to hear what you do between now and the 19th of May: let me know on Twitter! See you again this time next month 🚀