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Carry On Testing 2023
TPGi

Obscure CSS: Restoring Visibility
Roman Komarov

Turn your InDesign resume into an accessible PDF
Valarie Martin Stuart

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JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver Braille Viewers
Adrian Roselli

Federal Web Accessibility Focus Has Private Sector on Notice
Bloomberg Law

An Introduction to Image Accessibility
Accessible Social

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What Young People With Disabilities Wish Clubs Offered
Vice

Marking up colors, revisited with GitHub’s color swatches
DEV Community

Using text symbols in pseudo-elements accessibly
Mayank

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Android Accessibility: A Developers Guide
DEV Community

Overlapping interactive areas
tempertemper

“Mask off at the door” policies undermine our rights as disabled people
Disability Visibility Project

What's new

Please welcome our newest Spotlight member, Frank Elavsky!

Frank is a researcher, designer, engineer, and standards contributor with an interest in the intersection of data work and accessibility.

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What’s new

New post! What is Semantic HTML?, by David A. Kennedy.

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Ten blunt things I wish I could tell clients
Karl Groves

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Do No Harm Guide: Centering Accessibility in Data Visualization
Urban Institute

The problem with PDFs: It’s an accessibility thing
Community College Daily

Foundations: target sizes
TetraLogical

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The 411 on 4.1.1
Adrian Roselli

Accessibility and MVPs
David A. Kennedy

Making microservices accessible
craigabbott.co.uk

What's new

New post! The power of ChatGPT as a cognitive accessibility assistive technology for Traumatic Brain Injury survivors, by Jamie Vanderwall.

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The shape-shifting "a" element
Max Design

What’s new

New post! Getting started with TalkBack on Android, by Cooper Hollmaier.

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The World Mourns the Passing of Judy Heumann, Disability Rights Activist
Judy Heumann

What’s new?

New post! How-to: Are you making these five mistakes when writing alt text?, by Daniel Sage.

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Accessibility roles and hiring survey 2022 basic data
Devon Persing

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5 takeaways from screen reader usability interviews
Jess Budd

Accessible PowerPoint presentations
Benjy Stanton

Brief Note on aria-readonly Support
Adrian Roselli

What’s new

New post! Background: A guide to troublesome UI components, by Martin Lexelius.

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Twitter is getting rid of its free API tier. That’s a nightmare for accessibility activists.
Mashable

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The anatomy of visually-hidden
TPGi

Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS
Josh Collinsworth

How Traits of Successful Communities Can Inform Our Accessibility Initiatives
WebAIM

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Running usability sessions with assistive technology users: a guide for beginners
Ad Hoc

QA Tests for Accessibility
DEV Community

aria-description crash course
Darin Senneff

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A beginner’s complete guide to form accessibility: the 5 things accessible forms need and how to fix common errors
Pope Tech Blog

My experiences with inaccessible job applications & how to fix them
Deque

4 Required Tests Before Shipping New Features
Stephanie Eckles

What’s new

Please welcome our newest Spotlight member, Gertrude Nyenyeshi!

Gertrude is a Frontend Engineer who is passionate about building accessible and inclusive user interfaces for a wide range of users. She is the Founder of Accessibility Africa, championing the advancement of digital accessibility in the African continent.

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What’s new

The A11Y Project is now on Mastodon! You can follow our account at a11y.info/@thea11yproject, where we will be posting the same content we share on Twitter and this newsletter.

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An oversimplified guide to setting up Mastodon
Sarah Higley

What’s new

The A11Y Project is now on Mastodon! You can follow our account at a11y.info/@thea11yproject, where we will be posting the same content we share on Twitter and this newsletter.

You can learn more about Mastodon in Sarah Higley’s excellent post, An oversimplified guide to setting up Mastodon.

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What we shared this week

24 Semantic Terms Web Pros Should Know
Mike Mai

Human Voice Audio Description
3Play Media

A guide to designing accessible, WCAG-compliant focus indicators
Sara Soueidan

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What's Next for #CripTheVote?
#CripTheVote

#A11y: Accessibility Is Part of the Developer Experience
Container Solutions

The details and summary elements, again
Scott O'Hara

What’s new

A huge thank you to the contributors who helped to make these changes happen!

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What we shared this week

Accessibility and supporting Internet Explorer
TetraLogical

UX Principles that include Cognitive Accessibility
Ab11y

I’ve received the results of my accessibility audit – now what?
Deque

What’s new

A huge thank you to the contributors who helped to make these changes happen!

What we shared this week

What we shared this week

AI-Generated Images from AI-Generated Alt Text
Adrian Roselli

5 heading accessibility issues and how to fix them
Pope Tech

Taking The Small Wins in Accessibility
DEV Community

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What Are the Top 6 Problem Spots for Blind Testers in Accessibility Testing?
Equal Entry

The unexpected star of NASA’s Webb images — the alt text descriptions
The Washington Post

When Equal Isn’t Equitable
Microsoft Design

What’s new

Please welcome our newest sponsor, Hello Access! Hello Access provides an easy way for companies to improve their accessibility by offering user tests and audits, provided by people with disabilities.

Interesting in becoming a sponsor? Check out our Sponsorship page.

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What we shared this week

How Accessible Product Design Improves Business
Noupe

The Ballad of Text Overflow
TPGi

Use Legend and Fieldset
Adrian Roselli

What’s new

Please welcome our newest Spotlight member, Rachele DiTullio!

Rachele is an accessibility engineer who enjoys helping teams prevent accessibility problems by designing for people not like themselves while using semantic markup.

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What we shared this week

Twitter’s latest feature is a tool to make your feed more accessible
The Verge

Making videos and audio accessible
Pope Tech Blog

Make Yourself Accessible: Why It Matters
DEV Community

What we shared this week

The Subminimum Wage for Workers With Disabilities Is a Disgrace
Teen Vogue

Foundations: animations and flashing content
TetraLogical

Just How Long Should Alt Text Be?
CSS-Tricks

What's new

New post! Experience: Blind people need to be considered more when making data visualizations, by Johny Cassidy.

Interested in writing for us? Check out our contributing guidelines!

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What we shared this week

Expectations for wireframe accessibility annotations
University Information Technology Services

What’s Your Heading?
DEV Community

Preparing for an accessibility test
Rachele DiTullio

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Making PowerPoint decks more accessible
Sheri Byrne-Haber’s Blog

Why Captioning Non-Speech Elements Matters for Accuracy
3Play Media

Web Components as Progressive Enhancement
Cloud Four

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Let’s Keep the “Content” in WCAG
Sparkbox

Ensure third party content is accessible
TPGi

6 Reasons to Avoid Using Web Accessibility Overlays
University of Minnesota

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Beyond WCAG: Losing Spoons Online

Ableism has a massive impact
Part of a whole

Inclusive Language and Talking about Disabilities
Sparkbox

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How to talk about Autism respectfully
Public Neurodiversity Support Center

The business case for accessibility
TetraLogical

Style with Stateful, Semantic Selectors
Ben Myers

What’s new

New post! Background: What is WAI? The Web Accessibility Initiative, by Ilknur Eren.

What we shared this week

Cognitive Accessibility Guidance
WAI W3C

What's new

New featured resource! Learn more about Testing Accessibility, by Marcy Sutton.

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How to Make Your Web Content Accessible
Viget

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Accessible Social
Alexa Heinrich

Accessibility and Limited Fine Motor Skills
WeCo

How Captions In TikTok Videos And Dictionary.com Are Remaking Internet Culture And How We Literally Talk About Disability In Tech
Forbes

What's new

New post! How-to: Use Firefox for accessibility testing, by Todd Libby.

What we shared this week

Style with Stateful, Semantic Selectors
Ben Myers

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Braille’s Place in the Age of Technology
New University

How to Check for App Accessibility?
Perkins School for the Blind

(not so) short note on being owned
HTML5 Accessibility

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American Foundation for the Blind’s Workplace Technology Study
American Foundation for the Blind

7 tips for making your workplace more accessible
perfeqta

Disability And Representation: A Community Perspective
Fable

What we shared this week

Why This Electronic Health Records Accessibility Lawsuit Matters
Equal Entry

How to use the accessibility tree for a11y testing
Giovani Camara

In Defence of Garlic in a Jar: How Food Snobs Almost Ruined My Love of Cooking
The Walrus

What we shared this week

WCAG, but in language I can understand
tempertemper

How to check what item is in focus when accessibility testing
Giovani Camara

Are we live?
Scott O’Hara

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WCAG 3 compliant? Check again
Wholly Accessible

Two US Government Agencies Warn about Hiring Technology that Discriminates against Disabled Applicants
Law Office of Lainey Feingold

When DRM Comes For Your Wheelchair
Electronic Frontier Foundation

What’s new

Please join us in welcoming our newest Spotlight member, Kevin Mar-Molinero!

Kevin is an inclusive design strategist, speaker, researcher, and mentor. He is the Director of Experience Technologies for Kin+Carta EU, and sits on the British Interactive Media Association’s Inclusive Design Council.

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What we shared this week

Single Page Applications
TPGi

Scroll to top: Does it need to be accessible?
DigitalA11Y

short note on emoji text alternative variations
HTML Accessibility

What we shared this week

How to Make Sure Your Accessible PDFs Stay Accessible in WordPress
Lireo Designs

Don’t use Viewport Units for Font Size on their own
Chip Cullen

How Hospitality Needs to Address Accessibility
Level Access

What's new

On Thursday May 19th we celebrated Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD), an event "to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than One Billion people with disabilities/impairments."

We have updated the main navigation on our site to more prominently showcase our Spotlight feature, to help highlight people doing great work in the digital accessibility space.

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