WebAIM June 2022 Newsletter

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Upcoming WebAIM Events

Web Accessibility in Mind Conference

This FREE online conference to be held September 7-8 will feature practical and helpful web accessibility presentations from top leaders in the field.

WebAIM Virtual Training

Registration is open for WebAIM's next virtual web accessibility training to be held August 24–25.

Zoom Accessibility Workshop

Register for WebAIM's new hands-on training on creating and hosting accessible Zoom meetings to be held July 12.

Resources

Using accessibility literacy to counter accessibility ignorance

Accessibility literacy must be a goal for any kind of sustainable, scalable accessibility program.

Accessibility Tools and Resources for Designers

I often suggest my clients to perform design accessibility audits and annotate their designs as this will help developers to write semantic code which in turn bakes in accessibility from start.

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users

In this article, we will be discussing how typefaces work, ways to test typefaces, and broader typographic issues.

WCAG SC 1.4.4 Resize Text & 1.4.10 Reflow

There seems to be a confusion about the relationship and how to test for the WCAG 2.1 Success Criteria 1.4.4 Resize Text and 1.4.10 Reflow. While these two success criteria seem related, they cover different use cases.

Robles v. Domino's settles after six years of litigation

One of the most famous accessibility lawsuits of all time finally settles before trial under terms that may never be known.

The Guide To Windows High Contrast Mode

In this article, we'll see how to make our sites friendly for Windows High Contrast Mode. We'll check a good set of practices we can use for that purpose, and we'll see the use of the media query forced-colors and its toolset to tweak our website as needed.

Quick Tip: WCAG Text Spacing

WCAG requires that no loss of content or functionality occurs when the end user overrides page styles for paragraph spacing to 200% of the font size, text line height/spacing to 150% of the font size, word spacing to 16% of the font size, and letter spacing to 12% of the font size. Ensure that your page text can be modified without it disappearing or overlapping other page content. This can be tested using the Text Spacing Bookmarklet

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