WebAIM February 2023 Newsletter

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Feature

The WebAIM Strategic Accessibility Framework: Indicators and Benchmarks for Success

Empower your teams to plan, implement, and maintain accessibility using a structured, proven approach.

Upcoming WebAIM Events

• Zoom Accessibility Virtual Workshop - March 1
• Strategic Web Accessibility Virtual Workshop - April 5–6 and April 12–13
• In-Person Web Accessibility Training in Logan, Utah - April 26–27
• Virtual Web Accessibility Training - May 3–4

News

Senator Markey Demands Musk Reinstate Twitter's Accessibility Team, Online Features for Users with Disabilities

Markey's letter to Musk: "All of these changes under your leadership signal a disregard for the needs of disabled people."

Resources

The Troublesome Life and Lamentable Death of Success Criterion 4.1.1

And that was the end of success criterion 4.1.1: born as a bastard child of XML, much maligned and misunderstood while alive, and eventually killed in ignominy. RIP.

How to boost accessibility, according to The Washington Post's first accessibility engineer

Holden Foreman is the first person at the media conglomerate to hold the title. He has some suggestions for other engineers and designers.

How to set up an accessible page structure and navigation

In this article, we'll go over how to make your page structure and navigation more accessible. Once you know these strategies, you’ll be able to either use them to code your website or work with a developer to apply them.

Automation is not the enemy

The statement "automated testing won't solve web accessibility" is, frankly, absurd. On one hand, it is almost too obvious to bother saying. But on the other hand, it is absurd because it implies that automated testing is bad and should not be used.

A guide to troublesome UI components

A common opinion is that accessibility is expensive, and that if you think accessibility is expensive, you can deal with it later. Here's the twist: it will be expensive if you deal with it later.

How to Be a Disability Ally

Even allies of disabled people don't always know what to do. That's because everyone has different lived experiences and preferences. Here are ten ways to be a disability ally.

Quick Tip: WCAG Structure and Terminology

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines have two primary components - the normative materials (meaning the guidelines themselves that only change with each new version - 2.2 will likely be released in the coming months) and supporting materials (voluminous resources and materials to help better understand the normative materials). At the foundation of WCAG are principles - Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust. Each principles has guidelines - high level goals for better accessibility. Each guidelines has testable success criteria which are used to determine WCAG conformance. Each success criterion is assigned a level - A, AA, or AAA.

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