January 15, 2024 • Issue #379

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Featured: Money talks! Formatting currency in web content

"I was aware that money in web content is a bit unusual, in that money amounts are not typically spoken in the same sequence they are written, i.e., we write “$58.96” but say 'fifty-eight dollars and ninety-six cents'. I figured the best thing to do is to follow my own “best advice” and conduct some testing. In particular, I wanted to test how various screen readers announce different variations in how currency is formatted."

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Sponsored: Presentation - Building a low-code accessible WooCommerce website

Monday, January 15 at 7 PM US Central. Case study presentation from Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital on building an accessible drop-shipping WooCommerce website. Amber will share the process for building, testing, and remediating in WooCommerce, including specific plugin findings (good and bad). Held via Zoom with live captions.

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

• 2.5.8: Adversarial conformance (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
• What every leader must know about 2023’s accessibility lawsuits (blog post - inklusiv.ca)
• SASS products and accessibility (blog post - convergeaccessibility.com)
• Are human powered accessibility overlays really the future? (blog post – cerovac.com/a11y)
• The road to HTMHell is paved with semantics (blog post – pepelsbey.dev)
• Sixteen lesser known accessibility issues (blog post – toward.studio
• Lots of comments on the Level Access/Userway acquisition (blog post – linkedin.com)
• States need to pay attention to Oklahoma Mobile ID app accessibility court case (blog post – equalentry.com
• Accessible fart machines (blog post – daverupert.com)
• Designing better target sizes (blog post – ishadeed.com
• Proposed Census changes would drastically undercount disabled Americans) (blog post – urban.org)
• The website vs. web app dichotomy doesn't exist (blog post – jakelazaroff.com
• Get to WCAG 2.2 faster with the GOV.UK Design System (blog post – accessibility.blog.gov.uk)

New to A11y

Alex Cabal writes about a side project that serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS and a simple tech stack. Alex makes the point that the approach allows for easier long-term maintainability and accessibility.