August 8, 2022 • Issue #304

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I need your help readers. Thanks to many of you who responded to this call for help last week. If you haven’t, this week is your last chance. If this newsletter has impacted you in a positive way, I want to hear about it. I hope to take a few of these stories and share them on the Accessibility Weekly website. If you’re open to sharing your name and a few sentences about about the content you get from me every week, hit reply to this email and tell me about it. Thank you! -DK

Featured: Keyboard shortcuts need modifier keys

Hidde de Vries dives into how keyboard shortcuts and modifier keys impact accessibility.

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

• Android accessibility: Labels and hints (blog post – qbalsdon.github.io)
• Interview with Crystal Preston-Watson (blog post – inklusiv.ca)
• Inclusive user research: Recruiting participants (blog post - tetralogical.com)
• Underengineer your websites (with Adrian Roselli) (video - youtube.com)
• Appealing to different types of learners (blog post - inklusiv.ca)
• AI-generated images from AI-generated alt text (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
• Making the Quip editor accessible (blog post - quip.com)

New to A11y

The team from Intopia has put together a useful accessibility not-checklist. They describe it this way: “The Not-Checklist acts as a guide to make sure you haven’t missed anything.” I like how you can filter the items by role and WCAG level. This resource could prove handy in everyday work.