WebAIM August 2023 Newsletter

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Feature

Decoding WCAG: "Alternative for Time-based Media" and "Media Alternative for Text"

WebAIM's Jonathan Whiting deciphers two important terms used in WCAG's media accessibility guidelines.

Upcoming WebAIM Events

• Document Accessibility Course - September cohort is now open for registrations
• Virtual Strategic Web Accessibility Workshop - October 25-26 & November 1-2
• Virtual Web Accessibility Training - November 15-16

Resources

Navigating web with VoiceOver rotor in iPhone and iPad

The rotor is one of the features of the VoiceOver, which lets you navigate through a set of elements on the web, apps and system utilities.

European Accessibility Act: What you need to know

Craig Abbott explains what it means, especially for private sector organisations, and shares some tips to help you prepare for the deadline in 2025.

Where to Put Focus When Deleting a Thing

When deleting something you should generally move focus to the prior equivalent control or its grouping container.

Main-ly Speaking

If you can use <main>, get it in there and make the experience just a little more accessible.

Accessibility is not inclusive design or disability rights. It’s a part of it.

Making inaccessibility a moral failure can mean that people go in a defending position, resulting in less progress than otherwise.

New DOJ Web Accessibility Regulation is a Disaster

The NPRM hurts state and local governments, hurts people with disabilities, and only benefits the wrong people.

Web and app ADA lawsuits: Six trends so far in 2023

UsableNet's biannual accessibility lawsuit report to help you understand your risk of digital accessibility lawsuits, advocate for app and web accessibility with your internal stakeholders, and plan your company's digital accessibility initiatives. .

Quick Tip: Using DevTools to Find Page Elements

The Elements panel in DevTools provides an easy way to find page elements of a particular type - just perform a search for the element or attribute name (e.g., "<h2>" or "aria-label"). You can also find elements based on their CSS selectors (e.g., "[aria-label]").

Use the Console panel to quickly list elements. As examples, typing document.querySelectorAll("button"); into the Console and hitting Enter will return a list of all buttons on the page. document.querySelectorAll("[aria-label]"); will list all elements with an aria-label attribute. Click on an element in the list to view it in the Elements panel.

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