May 27, 2024 • Issue #398

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Featured: contrast-color() is a good thing, but also solving the problem at the wrong layer

"Functionality that would be genuinely beneficial to the people using these applications day in and day out take a backseat to things like optimizing esoteric JavaScript debugging techniques, inventing new ways to generate advertising metrics, and collapse our climate via an unrelenting torrent of AI hype. To further explain this point of view, I’d like to talk about contrast-color(), a new CSS function."

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

• HHS new Section 504 requires WCAG 2.1 A/AA compliance (blog post) - convergeaccessibility.com)
• Creating effective automated accessibility test cases (blog post - dev.to/steady506)
• Quick incremental accessibility audits for small business websites (blog post) - cerovac.com/a11y)
• What every engineer should know about digital accessibility (book) - routledge.com)
• Apple announces new accessibility features, including Eye Tracking, Music Haptics, and Vocal Shortcuts (press release – apple.com)
• Eight new accessibility updates across Lookout, Google Maps and more (blog post) – blog.google
• The accessibility community is not the disability community (newsletter issue – buttondown.email/practicaltips)
• Hidden vs. disabled in UX (blog post – smashingmagazine.com
• A taste of ReelAbilities New York 2024 (blog post – equalentry.com)
• Rethinking text resizing on web (blog post – scribe.rip/airbnb-engineering
• Two important AI developments affecting accessibility (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
• A complete guide for adding captions to YouTube videos (blog post – blog.pope.tech
• The basics of legibility (blog post – nubero.ch

New to A11y

The mobile accessibility experts at Moba11y have shared some tips on Android accessibility testing with TalkBack. I love how the article gives you settings to help optimize the device and Talkback for accessibility testing.