What we shared this week

How to test the accessibility of your components with Storybook
Adrian Bolonio

Shifting the Mindset About Accessible Content: Focus on Personalizing the Data
Minnesota IT Services

Why Motion on Websites and Digital Content Is a Problem
Equal Entry

What we shared this week

Wheelchair Users Block the Seoul Subway as the Right Takes Power
The Nation

It’s high time subtitles were mandatory across the board
Broadcast Magazine

All About Assistive Technologies
E-Learning Heroes

What we shared this week

Create accessible designs using the Figma A11y Annotation kit
Paul Adam

A guide to the visual language of closed captions and subtitles
Gareth Ford Williams

Changeling’s Guide to Mastodon for screen Reader Users
The Starship Changeling

What's new

We are thrilled to announce that The A11Y Project now has a dark mode theme. Read more about it in our announcement. A huge thank you to the contributors who helped to make these changes happen!

What we shared this week

A report on violence against kids with disabilities is sobering — if not surprising
NPR

What we shared this week

Twitter launches improved alt text accessibility features globally
TechCrunch

Understanding WCAG 2.1 Level AAA
Tetralogical

Software Developers Shouldn’t Overlook Alt Text
Built In

What we shared this week

Can we say “disabled”?
Kitty Giraudel

Browsing with speech recognition
Tetralogical

Olay’s new lid was made for disabled people. Too bad you can’t find it in stores
Fast Company

What's new

WebAIM's Millions report has updated for 2022. It provides valuable insight into the accessibility of the top million websites.

What we shared this week

Language Wars: Callouts Obscure Vital Truths About Disabilities
Bitch Media

What we shared this week

Justice Department Issues Web Accessibility Guidance Under the Americans with Disabilities Act
The United States Department of Justice

Why You Need to Do User Testing with Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
Fab le

Lessons from the 2021 Federal Plain Language Report Card
Digital.gov

What we shared this week

Blind People Won the Right to Break Ebook DRM. In 3 Years, They'll Have to Do It Again
Wired

The ADA lawsuit settlement involving an accessibility overlay
UX Collective

Disability Hacktivism
Computers and Composition

What's new

Please welcome our newest Spotlight member, Josh Kim! Josh is a researcher who believes in including disabled people from the start, rather than remediating solutions after the fact.

What we shared this week

Tips for Inclusive and Accessible Hiring and Recruiting
Deque

What we shared this week

Links, missing href attributes, and over-engineered code
tempertemper

Remote work has finally made me — a legally-blind person — feel like I can thrive at my job. I’m sad it took this long.
Business Insider

The price is…which?
Cloud Four

What we shared this week

Using JavaScript to detect high contrast and dark modes
Scott O’Hara

Top 8 Accessibility Issues to Avoid on Your Website
Usablenet

New Database Helps Players Find Games With Accessibility Features
Kotaku

What we shared this week

An update on the accessibility of conditionally revealed questions
GOV.UK

One last time: custom styling radio buttons and checkboxes
Scott O’Hara

Structuring accessible forms
Rachele DiTullio

What we shared this week

How can screen readers be used in accessibility testing?
TPGi

ARIA Spec for the Uninitiated: Part 3
Deque

Is Your Website Accessible?
Viget

What we shared this week

Please fund accessibility work!
pleasefunda11y.com

WCAGify
GitHub

ARIA Spec for the Uninitiated: Part 1
Deque

What we shared this week

From Nothing to Something: How A Team of 2 Kickstarted an Accessibility Program
Deque

Building a resilient frontend using progressive enhancement
GOV.UK

Mobile Screen Reader 101: How a Blind Person Uses a Smartphone
Equal Entry

What we shared this week

How to Keep Calm and Carry on When Captions Disappear During a Live Video
Diamond

OpenACR
U.S. General Services Administration

Creating Accessible CSS Art
Alvaro Montoro

What we shared this week

Biden and CDC's Covid-19 variant guidelines have disabled people feeling left for dead
MSNBC

Best Practices for Prototyping Keyboard Accessibility
Adobe XD Ideas

Color and contrast, what does it mean?
Erik Kroes

What's new

New post! How-to: Accessible heading structure, by Rian Rietveld.

Interested in writing a post for us? Check out our Contributing Guidelines.

What we shared this week

The A11Y Project team wishes you a happy and safe new year. Thank you for your support in helping to make the world a more accessible place!

What we shared this week

ARIA Spec for the Uninitiated: Part 1
Deque

Accessibility from the Ground Up
Kitty Giraudel

What we shared this week

Screen Reader 101: How Advice from a Blind Person Helps a Deaf Person
Equal Entry

How to Handle Live Closed Captioning – and the Challenges
3Play Media

Accessible contrast ratios and A-levels explained
Stark

What we shared this week

How To Access Images Without Alt Text
Veroniiiica

Cognitive Disability & Digital Accessibility
Barrier Break

Accessibility testing with Storybook
Storybook

What we shared this week

Part II, Chapter 9: Accessibility
The Web Almanac

Accessibility Strategy for Product Management
TPGi

The price is… which?
Cloud Four

What we shared this week

Make things obvious
Andrew Duckworth

Screen readers: hearing the unseen
LiveChat

Building Accessible Public Health Tools
Viget

What we shared this week

Enough with the role-play—let’s get back to the basics
TPGi

Why the GOV.UK Design System team changed the input type for numbers
GOV.UK

‘People think you can’t be blind and use a phone’
BBC News

What we shared this week

Using CSS to Enforce Accessibility
Adrian Roselli

Web Designers Grapple With Downside to Flashy Animation: Motion Sickness

The Access Series
Bitch Media

What we shared this week

Legal Update: Accessibility Overlay Edition
Law office of Lainey Feingold

Empathy Cannot Sustain Action in Technology Accessibility
Frontiers

An accessibility strategy
LinkedIn

What we shared this week

The hidden world of aria-hidden
HTML Accessibility

Accessibility Concerns for Content Staff
Tenon.io

How to get started with website accessibility design and testing
BitBakery

What we shared this week

Why I wrote “Giving a Damn About Accessibility” and why you should read it
Sheri Byrne-Haber's Blog

The perfect link
The A11Y Collective

When disability tech is just a marketing exercise
The Outline

What's new

New post! Disability: let’s say the word, by Emily Ogle.

We're also thrilled to showcase Alex Chen in our Spotlight. Alex is a product designer who specializes in usability and accessibility, and runs Access Guide.

What we shared this week

What's new

New post! Background: How I deal with colorblindness as a digital product designer, by Federico Monaco.

Interested in writing for us? Check out our Contribution Guidelines!

What we shared this week

What’s new

We are thrilled to announce being awarded a Jammy award for social impact by the 2021 Jamstack conference! Here is an announcement about the news, as well.

What’s new

Michael Fairchild, who runs a11ysupport.io, is looking for co-maintainer volunteers. This website is a vital resource for documenting assistive technology support.

What we shared this week

Marvel's Eternals Star Lauren Ridloff Wants Movie Theaters to Be More Accessible for Everyone
Gizmodo

An accessible toggle
Kitty Giraudel

Chartability
Fizz Studio

What we shared this week

Ten Accessibility Errors Automated Tools Miss on PDF Documents
Microassist

What's new

New post! Assistive technology: Getting started with Orca screen reader on Gnome desktop environment on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, by Joseph Mawa.

What we shared this week

Be Wary of Accessibility Guarantees from Vendors
Adrian Roselli

What's new New post!

Quick tip: Starting a design with accessibility, by Steve Barnett.

What we shared this week

EA shares five innovations via Accessibility Patent Pledge, wants other devs to do the same
gamesindustry.biz

What’s new

We’re thrilled to announce Ashley Bischoff has joined our team as a maintainer!

What we shared this week

What’s new

New post! Quick tip: Reviewing a design for accessibility, by Steve Barnet.

What’s new

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

What’s new

Please welcome our newest Spotlight member, Nic Steenhout! Nic is a speaker, trainer, and independent consultant on web accessibility, inclusion, and disability.

What we shared this week

What’s new

New post!

Myth: Accessibility and SEO, by .

What we shared this week

True Newsroom Diversity Must Account for Disability Status, Too
Nieman Reports

What’s new

New post! Quick Tip: Everyday Accessibility, by Michele A. Williams, PhD.

What we shared this week

Neurotypicals: Listen to Our Words, Not Our Tone
Autistic Science Person

Accessibility Frontiers

In this short section, Sam, Accessibility Evangelist at Fable, and full-time screen reader user, will share something interesting that’s happening at the frontier of accessibility:

Gaming

The accessibility of mainstream games is a conversation that’s been slowly gaining in momentum for several years, now. With a slow start involving games like Skullgirls adding screen reader accessibility to the PC version in 2014, Sony and Microsoft adding accessibility features to their consoles over the last three years, and the widely reported accessibility of The Last of Us II in 2020, the interest in gaming accessibility has never been higher.

What we shared this week

Overreliance on Overlays is Counter to Enculturation of Accessibility
National Federation of the Blind

Are Accessibility Overlays Overbaked?
WeCo Digital Accessibility

Design tools have improved dramatically. But they’re still failing users in one key way
Fast Company

What we shared this week

Web Accessible Code Libraries and Design Patterns
Web Axe

I’m a Disability Activist Because I Have to Be, But Not Always Because I Want to Be
Rooted in Rights

Using TalkBack to Evaluate Web Accessibility
WebAIM

What's new

New post! Assistive technology: Fixing contrast issues, on your own site and elsewhere, by Kilian Valkhof.

What we shared this week

Do accessible websites still need to support Internet Explorer 11?
Hassell Inclusion

What's new

WebAIM is conducting its 9th screen reader survey, an important resource for helping to collect info, track trends, and help guide "development choices for those creating accessible web content and web standards."

WebAIM encourages "All screen reader users, even those who use screen readers only for evaluation and testing" to participate.

What we shared this week