July 25, 2022 • Issue #302

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Heads up accessibility friends: Last week in the New to A11y section, I included a link to a post by Veronica Lewis about great ideas for improving alt text on social media. I linked to the wrong site by mistake. So if you’re interested, check Veronica’s content out at the following link: My ideas for improving alt text features on social media. -DK

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

• Tech journalism’s accessibility problem (article – theverge.com)
• What does X% of issues mean? (blog post – adrianroselli.com)
• Welcome to the dark side (blog post - yatil.net)
• Abbreviations can be problematic (blog post - tempertemper.net)
• Subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines in HTML (blog post - tpgi.com)
• Accessibility roles and hiring survey (survey - docs.google.com)
• Research insight: Accessibility of images (blog post - tetralogical.com)
• With :focus-visible, you can have focus styles when it makes sense (blog post - hidde.blog)
• Where’s the fun in accessibility? (blog post - uxdesign.cc)

New to A11y

While not focused on accessibility, Kitty Giraudel has some advice around asking for help. A decade-plus into this this field, and it’s a good reminder for me too. Not a day goes by where I’m not asking for help because I’m in new territory or unsure of something. The tips around being explicit and patient are the ones I forget the easiest.