June 5, 2023 • Issue #347

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Featured: display: contents considered harmful

“Another way to put it: When people say “HTML is accessible by default”, display: contents blows the “by default” part away. Not good.”

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

• Two US government agencies address online accessibility in higher education: Are regulations Next? (blog post - lflegal.com)
• Don’t meddle with user input (blog post - tempertemper.net)
• A new, exciting era for WebAIM (blog post - webaim.org)
• Legal update: May 2023 (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
• AI? Artificial intelligence? Accessible intelligence! (blog post – deque.com
• How to create audio descriptions for accessible YouTube videos (blog post – blog.pope.tech)
• $240,000.00 jury verdict in blind students’ accessibility lawsuit against community college (blog post - lflegal.com)
• PDF accessibility (updated) (resource – webaim.org)
• The road to good intentions is paved with hell: A deep dive into accessibility APIs, Part 2 (blog post – knowbility.org)
• Performance is not a checklist (blog post – timkadlec.com)
• WCAG 2.2 misses mark on defining visible focus (blog post – yatil.net)

New to A11y

Adam Liptrot created a few screeen reader guides that you might find useful if you’re learning to test with a screen reader. WebAIM and Deque also have popular guides, but I love seeing people putting their own spin on things.