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Accessibility Weekly #183: Prioritizing Users in a Crisis
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Accessibility Weekly

May 4, 2020 • Issue #183

Featured: Prioritizing users in a crisis: Building the California COVID-19 response site
The CA.gov Alpha team talks about how it took on the challenge to create a scalable, accessible, stable website that is easy to update in a fast changing public health crisis.

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Sponsored: What’s the difference between PDF and accessible PDF?
An accessible PDF is a PDF document that can be read and accessed by people with disabilities, primarily for the vision-impaired that may use assistive technology to read the file through text-to-speech or a Braille printout. Can your PDFs do that?

Read more of What’s the difference between PDF and accessible PDF?

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Kate Kalcevich has curated a nice list of resources called Accessible Accessibility. I love seeing how people gather resources useful to them. Everyone does it differently, and these should prove useful to you.

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