WebAIM March 2024 Newsletter

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Feature

The WebAIM Million - The 2024 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages

The annual WebAIM Million report is now available. This year saw an increase in detected errors, though decreases in WCAG failure rates and prevalence of several error types. This research is supported in part by BrowserStack.

Upcoming WebAIM Events

• Document Accessibility Course - April cohort is now open for registrations.
• Virtual Web Accessibility Training - May 7–8

Resources

10 takeaways from the WebAIM Screenreader Survey #10

Karl Groves provides insights into the recent screen reader user survey.

Jakob Nielsen's Bad Ideas about Accessibility

A response to Jakob Nielsen's blog post declaring accessibility to have failed and proposing an artificial intelligence-based solution. I critique his claims and his solution, and identify what I perceive to be a fundamental misconception of what accessibility is.

We need to talk about Jakob

Matt May's thoughts on Nielsen's "Accessibility has failed" post.

On popover accessibility: what the browser does and doesn't do

One of the premises of the new popover attribute is that it comes with general accessibility considerations "built in". What does "built in accessibility" actually mean for browsers that support popover?

Accessibility foundations

Our foundations series provides an overview of core accessibility considerations. They are a good starting point for visual designers, content designers, interaction designers, and developers when designing and building accessible products and service

How to test 3.3.8 Accessible Authentication (Minimum)

Another in TPGi's series of articles on how to test the new Success Criteria (SC) in WCAG 2.2.

A letter to my younger self, as an accessibility advocate

All of the things I get to say "I told you so" about, now.

Improve effectiveness and accuracy of web accessibility testing with sampling

Using sampling in your accessibility strategy means you'll get the most out of your accessibility testing without spending all your time and resources continually testing content.

Quick Tip: Blur test for text legibility

There are many aspects of typography and fonts that can impact accessibility and legibility - font size, weight, and spacing, character ambiguities, color contrast, typeface complexity and familiarity, and more. One relatively easy test to detect legibility issues is to blur the page to see how legible the text is with the fine details blurred. On most pages this can be easily done by opening DevTools and running document.body.style.filter='blur(2px)'; in the Console panel.

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