What's new

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

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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

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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

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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.

What we shared this week

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

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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.

What we shared this week

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

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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

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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!

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Tips for Inclusive and Accessible Hiring and Recruiting
Deque