December 11, 2023 • Issue #374

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Featured: Accessibility-specific tech requirements? It depends!

"One of the folks I work with has ongoing frustration with accessibility findings. They think we're changing the rule of the game all the time. One answer that seems particularly aggravating to them is 'this solution doesn't work across all assistive technologies.'"

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

• It depends, indeed (blog post - yatil.net)
• Leveraging Dyslexic thinking for success (event - meetup.com/a11ytokyo)
• Building accessibility checklists that are actually useful (blog post - accessarmada.com)
• Legal update: November 2023 (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
• Web Chat accessibility considerations (blog post – craigabbott.co.uk)
• Sizes="auto" pretty much requires width and height attributes (blog post – ericportis.com)
• Does web design matter? (blog post – danmall.com
• Accessibility Insights now supports WCAG 2.2 AA (blog post – devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft)
• The challenges of implementing accessibility in a digital twin for learning (event – meetup.com/a11yvr
• Holiday shopping with a screen reader: My Black Friday experience (blog post – blog.usablenet.com)
• Media queries in HTML video (blog post – adrianroselli.com)

New to A11y

Whitney Lewis created a beginner’s guide to accessible text, which covers a handful of issues you might overlook. Using simple language comes up in my daily work more often than not. It can be a challenge, depending on the content you're dealing with, but worth spending time on.