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We're thrilled to announce our newest sponsor, The A11Y Collective! They provide courses for designers, developers, product owners, and content creators about how to create accessible web experiences.

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Dashboard expands to include accessibility rankings of state vaccine websites
John Hopkins Univerity Hub

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The A11Y Project celebrated the 10th anniversary of Global Accessibility Awareness Day on Thursday, May 20th, a day dedicated to spreading awareness of digital access and inclusion.

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We now list annual conferences on our Resources page!

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We reached 10k followers on Twitter! Thank you so much for your support. To commemorate this milestone, we have donated to NV Access, and encourage you to do the same!

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We are beyond thrilled to welcome EJ Mason to our Team!

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The A11Y Project has opted out of Google FLoC trial due to privacy concerns.

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VPAT Primer: What is a VPAT?
Microassist

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Please welcome our newest Spotlight member, Eriol Fox! Eriol is a human-rights centered designer, lead designer at The Open Food Network, Open Source contributor, and PhD research candidate for humanitarian open source software and designer contributions.

If you would like to recommend someone doing good work in the accessibility and inclusive design space for our Spotlight, please use our contact form.

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New featured resource! Lindsey Kopacz‘s Bootcamper’s Guide to Web Accessibility explains the crucial takeaways of accessibility standards and makes them less intimidating.

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Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners #3 Results
WebAIM

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New posts!

• Background: An introduction to WCAG 2.x, by Hamsa Harcourt.
• Myth: Alternate text and automation, by Eric Bailey

Please check out our Contributing Guidelines if you are interested in writing a post.

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Overlay Fact Sheet is an open letter decrying the deceptive and predatory marketing practices of some overlay vendors. The A11Y Project encourages you to sign it.

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The A11Y Project does not recommend using accessibility overlay products. These kinds of products are actively harmful, and a step backwards for digital accessibility efforts.

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Covid Vaccine Websites Violate Disability Laws, Create Inequity for the Blind
Kaiser Health News

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New post! Background: Dyslexia fonts, by Hamsa Harcourt.

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New post! Assistive technology: Text resizing in iOS and Android, by Lucia Cerchie.

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What does the Biden Presidency mean for accessibility?
Tenon.io

State-Switch Controls: The Infamous Case of the "Mute" Button
Nielsen Norman Group

Understanding SC 2.5.3 Label in Name
Digital A11Y

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We're thrilled to share our newest Spotlight member! Anna E. Cook is a Senior Product Designer at Recurly, leading product design efforts within one of their Scrum teams.

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How to write better website content for people with dyslexia
The Big Hack

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We are thrilled to announce our newest sponsor, Fable! Fable is a leading accessibility testing platform powered by people with disabilities. If your organization is interested in sponsoring, check out our Sponsorship page.

We also have a new post on how to use the tabindex attribute, written by Eric Bailey.

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The first public draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 is open for comments. We encourage you to review it!

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On The Pandemic And Accessibility -Forbes

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ComicA11y - An all inclusive online comic experiment.

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The start of the new year is a time for both celebration and reflection. We hope you have a safe, accessible, and inclusive 2021!

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Designing accessible animation, by Kelly Gillit.

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VoiceOver Preview for macOS Firefox – Mozilla Accessibility

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When there is no content between headings

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Alt-Text as Poetry

Coming Next: WCAG 2.2 - The User Is Out There

Accessibility Challenges in an Emergency (Web Design for Disaster Part 3) - Kalamuna

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• WebAIM: Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners #3

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New post! Getting started with VoiceOver on iOS, by Anh Pham.

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• Sia, Stories About Autism Should Center Autistic People. Period. - Refinery29
• One Line of Code Will Not Save Your Accessibility Status - The User Is Out There
• Understanding SC 2.5.2 Pointer Cancellation - Digital A11Y
• Tactile Art by John Lee Clark - Poetry Magazine
• Resources for developing accessible cards/tiles - Web Axe
• WCAG 2.1 Is the Current Standard, Not WCAG 2.0 — and WCAG 2.2 Is Coming - Adrian Roselli
• PlayStation 5: The Accessibility Review - IGN
• Shona Louise: 5 Books To Read By Disabled Authors
• Magica11y

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Retraction

We retracted a tweet containing misinformation about Comic Sans and Dyslexia. We apologize for this error and encourage you to read this post about how to make accessible type choices.

Open Prioritization and inert

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• Deadline for the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) is fast approaching - The Paciello Group

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We're delighted to announce our newest sponsor, Assistiv Labs. They provide instant access to assistive technology right from your browser.

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• Co-creator of Apple VoiceOver talks importance of accessibility tech - Cult of Mac
• Solid Start
• Q&A with Jaipreet Virdi – Disability Visibility Project
• Equal Entry Website Mistakenly Called Out as Inaccessible - Equal Entry
• Adobe Inclusive Design Workshop - GitHub
• 6-Step Mobile App Accessibility Checklist - Usablenet
• 5 easy ways to make your data visualization more accessible — storytelling with data
• Depressed Jobs Market Hits People with Disabilities Hard - The Paciello Group
• What If Accessibility Was Also Inclusive? - s.e. smith - Catapult

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• Voters With Disabilities Face Barriers in 2020 From COVID-19 - Teen Vogue
• YouTube Axes Community Captions Feature, Citing Low Usage - Liam O'Dell
• Disability Futures Fellows - Ford Foundation
• Laura Kalbag – Accessibility in 2020
• ADA Compliance: Why Does the Definition of "Compliant" Seem to Change?
• What’s New in WCAG 2.2 - Adrian Roselli
• Accessibility In Chrome DevTools — Smashing Magazine
• Maintaining Focus Outlines for Windows High Contrast Mode - Ben Myers
• Sidestepping Ableist Language - Ashley Bischoff
• Common PDF Accessibility Mistakes to Avoid - Microassist

From our archives

• Quick tip: Browser Keyboard Navigation in macOS
• Background: ARIA properties

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• Background: Introduction to Web Accessibility Initiative, by Hamsa Harcourt
• How-to: Enabling keyboard culture with No Mouse Days

If you're interested in writing a post for us, check out our contribution guidelines.

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Our newest featured resource is Introduction to Web Accessibility, by Michele A. Williams, PhD.

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• How-to: Create accessible forms

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We are not participating in Digital Ocean's annual Hacktober event in its current form, due to the unnecessary stress it places on Open Source maintainers.

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• Bolt-on Accessibility – 5 gears in reverse | TPG – The Accessibility Experts
• 12 Screen Reader Facts for Accessible Web Design - Designmodo
• Accessibility and video on-demand streaming services - The Big Hack
• Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities - W3C
• 3 Amazing resources to help you design for diversity and inclusion - Aarron Walter
• How to include accessibility in the Definition of Done — Accessibility for Teams
• What would an ethical overlay look like? - Tenon.io
• Disability language is a nuanced thing - Part of a Whole
• A skip link on Squarespace and a little about z-index (Part one of two) — Knowbility

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• Color Craft & Counterpoint: A Designer’s Life with Color Vision Deficiency – A List Apart

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• Online events can be a lifeline for fans with disabilities - The A.V. Club

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• Remember Neli Latson, the black teen with autism who seemed ‘suspicious’ sitting outside a library? Ten years after his arrest, he still isn’t fully free - The Washington Post

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We're delighted to feature Segun Ola for our new Spotlight feature. Segun is a frontend web developer working with Andela Nigeria to build highly interactive and accessible web applications.

We also published a new article: Background: An in-depth guide to ARIA roles. Thank you to Duncan Jimbo for writing it!

Our initiative to match up to $1,000 USD for the support of the inert attribute in WebKit has reached $830! Please consider making a pledge, if you are able.

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Thanks to your generous pledges, we have raised $700 to support the development inert in WebKit! The A11Y Project is committed to matching up to $1,000 USD in pledges, so please consider pledging if you are able. No amount is too small.

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We are matching up to $1000 USD for Igalia's Open Prioritization experiment to do development work for the inert attribute in Webkit! Cross-browser support for inert would dramatically improve web accessibility.

• Read more about how to pledge your support.
• Read more about Igalia's $200 contribution.

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We redesigned! If you're reading this newsletter you probably already know that, but have you read our redesign announcement yet?

We've also:

• Added the ability to mark Checklist items complete.
• Added a contact form.
• Launched the newsletter you're currently reading.
• Added a professional testers section to our Resources
• Welcomed Jen, Soren, and Wayne to our team!
• Added redirects for broken links (thank you for reporting them 😅).