November 18, 2024 • Issue #423

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Featured: Beautiful focus outlines

"Unfortunately, focus outlines are often overlooked in web design. Clients and designers might not even notice them, leaving developers to handle design and implementation. Some might even suggest removing focus outlines for a cleaner aesthetic"

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

• How to identify decorative images and boost accessibility (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
• Don’t forget to localize your icons (blog post - ericwbailey.website)
• Two different kinds of “focusable” UI elements (blog post) - yatil.net
• Should destructive buttons be hard to find? (blog post – adamsilver.io)
• Accessibility group – often overlooked native mobile app pattern (blog post - cerovac.com/a11y)
• A11y 101: WCAG 1.2.1 Audio-only and Video-only (prerecorded) (blog post – tarnoff.info)
• Image accessibility on Bluesky (blog post – crystalprestonwatson.com)
• The European Accessibility Act – Get ready! (blog post – intopia.digital)
• Why should all organizations establish feedback mechanisms for accessibility? (resource – almanac.httparchive.org)
• I never knew a website could hurt someone (video/talk – youtube.com)
• Accessibility misinformation (blog post – toddl.dev)

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New to A11y

Okay, fair warning: This next link doesn't have to do with accessibility. At least not in an obvious way. In a talk called It all means nothing in the end, Amy Hupe discusses what do you do when you've attached your sense of self to work, and work suddenly feels meaningless. Amy explores burnout, purpose and making meaning in an increasingly confusing and calamitous world. This talk relates to accessibility because if you're in this field, you're going to hit walls and wonder why people fight so hard against something that makes complete sense ethically. And we need you to keep going.