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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