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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

What we shared this week

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

What we shared this week

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.

What we shared this week

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