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WebAIM August 2024 Newsletter

Read this newsletter online at https://webaim.org/newsletter/2024/august

Feature

Headings

This new WebAIM article shows how to properly implement headings and demonstrates how to identify and fix common heading accessibility issues.

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Resources

How Can You Be Blind if You Still Can See?

Defining blindness, low vision, and visual impairment.

WCAG's A and AA distinction is mostly academic

Eric Eggert provides details on WCAG success criteria levels and how they often don't align with impact or importance.

80 / 20 accessibility

80% of the subject of accessibility consists of fairly simple basics that can probably be learnt in 20% of the time available.

Creating accessible digital colour palettes using the 60-30-10 design rule

This ratio became popular in interior design for its balanced visual appeal, but the 60-30-10 rule is finding its place in digital designs for its ability to enhance navigation and digital accessibility.

Foundations: labelling text fields with input and label

In this post about forms, we explore how to effectively label text fields using <input> and <label> elements to create form inputs that are both accessible and user-friendly.

The importance of communication in accessibility testing

An unstable environment paired with a lack of communication causes inaccuracies, wastes time, and hinders the accessibility effort. Proper communication is key to successfully incorporating accessibility into the product development life cycle.

WCAG 2.2 map by theme

This diagram groups all the success criteria from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) by theme, to version 2.2, levels A and AA.

The Inclusive UX Research Playbook from CVS Health® Inclusive Design

We hope that these plays will help other design and research teams adapt their approaches to be more inclusive and that they will encourage reflection on, and discussion of, the ethics and interpersonal dynamics of research with historically underrepresented communities.

All Accessibility is Political: Understanding the Intersection of Accessibility, Disability, and Politics

You can’t talk about accessibility without talking about disability because accessibility is inherently tied to the experiences and needs of people with disabilities. Accessibility is a fundamental issue of civil rights and social justice.

Quick Tip: First-level Heading

When a page is missing a first-level heading (<h1>), screen reader users have to rely on other context clues to determine the content of the page. Make sure that every page has a descriptive (but succinct!) first-level heading to help users quickly determine what content the page contains and where the main content of the page begins.

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