June 24, 2024 • Issue #403

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Featured: In detail: 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast (User Interface Components)

"The Web Content Accessibility Guideline’s (WCAG) Success Criterion 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast is one of the harder to understand requirements. Here’s a deep-dive into the details of it, including practical examples, concerning only its “User Interface Components” section."

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

• Semantic code in HTML: What is it and does it still matter? (blog post) - boagworld.com)
• Furiosa and the disability wasteland (blog post - reactormag.com)
• Typographer vs. accessibility (video/talk) - youtube.com)
• Design extremes of custom Accessibility Actions (blog post) - moba11y.com)
• How the European Accessibility Act (EAA) will impact product accessibility (blog post) - deque.com)
• Why is it so difficult to give best in class accessibility examples of websites? (blog post – cerovac.com/a11y)
• How people with disabilities use the web (updated) (blog post) – w3.org
• How to make a strong case for accessibility (blog post – smashingmagazine.com)
• Two new artificial intelligence laws and their effects on accessibility (blog post – equalentry.com
• How React 19 (almost) made the internet slower (blog post – blog.codeminer42.com

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Geoff Graham praises the basics of frontend work, like HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript. Learn those first, instead of the frameworks and tools. I like the essence of this post, even though it's a selling point for Geoff's course on the same subject.