October 28, 2024 • Issue #420

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Featured: The Accessibility Operations Guidebook is out

"The accessibility field has a burnout problem. People get into this work to make accessible products and services. But, they often find themselves doing a lot of other work—program management, legal compliance, and constant, constant advocacy—instead. This isn't usually what people sign up for, and it leads directly to burnout. This book seeks to help break that cycle. It's not about accessibility work itself, but about building digital accessibility programs that are more sustainable, intersectional, and data-driven."

Read more of The Accessibility Operations Guidebook is out.

Sponsored: The Small Business Accessibility Playbook for WordPress

This 44-page ebook created by Equalize Digital discusses accessibility on small business websites, including relevant accessibility laws, accessibility benefits, and recommended WordPress tools.

Download the Small Business Accessibility Playbook ebook.

News, resources, tools and tutorials

• Designing for accessibility: enhancing math learning for the blind using the NVDA screen reader (blog post - scribe.rip/design-bootcamp)
• The value of accessibility annotations in inclusive design (blog post - tangible.is)
• How is this website so fast!? (blog post - video)
• Why GOV.UK’s Exit this Page component doesn’t use the Escape key (blog post – beeps.website)
• Real talk on web accessibility with Marcy Sutton Todd (podcast - syntax.fm)
• October deer hunt offers community, accessibility to hunters with disabilities (news article – wpr.org)
• Nintendo's lack of accessibility options is unacceptable (blog post – pocket-lint.com)
• If you care (blog post – melsumner.github.io)
• Accessibility reads: Thursday, October 24 (blog post – deque.com)
• The dos and don’ts of disability representation in media (blog post – equalentry.com)
• Patrick’s European vacation: My experience traveling internationally as a person with a disability (part two) (blog post – deque.com)
• Six things NOT related to accessibility that will improve your disability inclusion efforts (blog post – buttondown.com/access-ability)
• Making accessibility accessible (blog post – basbroek.nl)
• How should selectedoption work? (blog post – jakearchibald.com)
• Native mobile app accessibility – choice of platform is essential (blog post – cerovac.com/a11y)

New to A11y

Demelza Feltham covers how to handle form validation and error messages in another foundations post from Tetralogical. This is timely for me as I'm working to improve error messages in a project. The pragmatic advice of combining inline and post-submission validation is gold.