WebAIM September 2022 Newsletter

Read this newsletter online at https://webaim.org/newsletter/2022/september

Upcoming WebAIM Events

Accessibility in Technology Procurement and Use

This new virtual training session to be held November 1 will provide insight into tools and processes that will help any organization, large or small, better account for accessibility when making decisions about purchasing or using third-party technology.

Zoom Accessibility Virtual Workshop

Register for WebAIM's new hands-on training on creating and hosting accessible Zoom meetings to be held October 11.

Web Accessibility Virtual Training

Registration for the October 19–20 training is full. Registration is now open for WebAIM's virtual web accessibility training to be held November 30-December 1.

Resources

Brief Note on Super- and Subscript text

Adrian Roselli provides an overview of screen reader support for superscript and subscript text.

Clarifying Color Contrast & Font Size Guidelines

Marcy Sutton breaks down the nuances of how font size impacts text vs. non-text contrast requirements in WCAG.

Accessibility is systemic

A discussion about accessibility implementation and inclusive design processes and how they are both necessary.

Inclusive Design 24

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) was a free 24-hour online event for the global community. All videos are publicly available.

Making Sense Of WAI-ARIA: A Comprehensive Guide

In this article, Kate Kalcevich explains when to use ARIA and how to use it properly so that you can use ARIA in a way that's helpful to the many disabled people who use assistive technology to navigate the Internet.

Closer to Ready: WCAG 2.2 is at the Candidate Recommendation stage

A new version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is coming! Glenda Sims provides an overview of the updates and the remaining steps for WCAG 2.2 to be finalized.

Focus appearance explained

There's some great stuff coming up in version 2.2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), but there's one rule that’s particularly difficult to understand: 2.4.11 Focus Appearance.

Quick Tip: Keyboard testing on pages without focus indicators

Focus indicators/outlines are critical to keyboard accessibility. When they are missing on a page, it can be difficult to do additional keyboard testing. When this occurs, temporarily enable the Chrome Flying Focus extension to add an animated focus indicator in your browser between elements as you navigate.

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