May 13, 2024 • Issue #396

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Featured: Global Accessibility Awareness Day is Thursday

"Thursday, May 16, 2024, help us celebrate the 13th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than One Billion people with disabilities/impairments."

Check out the GAAD site to learn how to get involved.

Read more of Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

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In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), join us for a conversation about how different WordPress plugins and theme developers are working to improve and promote accessibility in their products.

Register for the WordPress Accessibility Showcase for Global Accessibility Awareness Day webinar.

News, resources, tools and tutorials

• Web accessibility regulation for the private sector? (blog post) - convergeaccessibility.com)
• Lawsuits say charging extra for lactose-free options violates ADA (blog post - equalentry.com)
• WCAG after quarter of a century – we still need more awareness (blog post) - cerovac.com/a11y)
• A brief note on highlighted text (blog post) - adrianroselli.com)
• Focus vs Accessibility Focus (blog post – moba11y.com)
• An introduction to the European Accessibility Act (EAA) (blog post) – deque.com
• Why don’t we talk about minifying CSS anymore? (blog post – blog.sentry.io)
• Quick-and-dirty accessibility (blog post – tpgi.com)
• How we’re building more inclusive and accessible components at GitHub (blog post – github.blog
• Transparent borders (blog post – bradfrost.com)
• Errors aren’t all bad (blog post – blog.jim-nielsen.com
• No, I don’t want to fill out your contact form (blog post – adamjones.me)
• Manifesto for a humane web (resource – humanewebmanifesto.com
• What UX professionals need to know about accessibility (webinar – resources.testingtime.com

New to A11y

Ashlee M. Boyer has a cool resource for you if you're looking to learn more about accessibility on Global Accessibility Awareness Day and beyond: a totally free, 16-day email course to level up. It looks like one lesson per day, and delivered in bite-sized chunks. Love the concept.