May 30, 2022 • Issue #294

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Featured: How to write user stories for accessibility

“A user story usually focuses on the value a software feature will deliver to an end-user, and an accessibility user story is no different.”

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

• Two approaches to accessibility on the web (blog post – meiert.com
• Triaging WCAG 2.1 Level AAA (blog post - tetralogical.com)
• Accessibility from different perspectives (blog post - hidde.blog)
• Peering into the accessibility of dark mode (blog post - uxdesign.cc)
• How not to do accessible design (blog post - uxdesign.cc)
• Alt writing (blog post - adactio.com)
• Just how long should alt text be? (blog post - css-tricks.com)
• Making accessible documents – the movie (blog post/video - brucelawson.co.uk)
• SwiftUI and accessibility: Goodies and gotchas, part 1 (blog post - deque.com)
• The importance of organizational leadership in developing an accessibility culture: Buy-in, metrics, and structure (blog post - microassist.com)
• Manage accessible design system themes With CSS color-contrast() (blog post - smashingmagazine.com)
• Automate accessibility tests with Storybook (blog post - storybook.js.org)
• Making accessibility in tech the rule, not the exception (blog post - github.com)
• What’s the alternative (text)? (blog post - dev.to/colabottles)

New to A11y

Nicolas Steenhout shares that accessibility is everyone’s responsibility, yes, but more nuance exists in the real answer. I like the case that Nicolas lays out here. Everyone has a part to play, but not everyone needs to be an expert.