WebAIM November 2024 Newsletter

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Features

Using Severity Ratings to Prioritize Web Accessibility Remediation

When it comes to prioritizing web accessibility fixes, ranking the severity of each issue is an effective way to prioritize and make impactful improvements.

WebAIM's Roadmap to Meeting the ADA Title II Requirements

If your organization qualifies as a covered entity, you must plan how to comply by the deadline and sustain that accessibility moving forward. This roadmap helps entities identify and prioritize compliance activities.

Global Digital Accessibility Salary Survey

This survey seeks to collect salary and job-related data from professionals whose job responsibilities primarily focus on making technology and digital products accessible and usable to people with disabilities.

Upcoming WebAIM Events

• WebAIM is again hosting an *in-person* web accessibility workshop - December 10-11 in Logan, Utah
• Document Accessibility Course - November/December cohort is now open for registrations
• Accessibility in Technology Procurement and Use - December 2

Resources

NCADEMI Webinars

Schools are on a tight deadline to meet digital accessibility requirements under the new Title II rule of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). NCADEMI is hosting two free webinars to help administrators and educators understand the regulations and how to start preparing.

Beautiful focus outlines

When we treat focus outlines as essential design elements rather than afterthoughts, we create interfaces that are both beautiful and inclusive.

How to Identify Decorative Images and Boost Accessibility

Boost accessibility and user experience by mastering decorative images. Learn best practices for empty alt attributes and inclusive design.

Two different kinds of "focusable" UI elements

In accessibility, "focusable" UI elements are represented by two separate yet equally important concepts: the elements who can be focused sequentially and those who can only receive focus programmatically.

The European Accessibility Act – Get ready!

In this article, we'll help you understand what the EAA covers, whether you need to comply, timelines, enforcement, and exceptions.

10 Simple Ways to Make Your Social Media Posts Accessible

Making your social media content accessible doesn't have to be difficult. From clear writing to proper image descriptions, this guide will show you how.

Mind The (Remediation) Gap

I can't definitively say whether these frameworks are the root cause of the barriers that I've found, I can say that they've created their own challenges.

Accessibility and inclusive design manual

Everything you need to understand how we create accessible, inclusive products and services in the Department for Education.

Naming things is still a common and enduring challenge in accessibility

Naming is one of the most difficult and enduring challenges in software engineering, and it is obvious that it's also a giant problem in accessibility. How can you help?

What Makes a Font Accessible? A Designer's Guide

Discover the key characteristics of accessible fonts and learn best practices for selecting and combining typefaces that ensure readability for all users.

Quick Tip: Required Inputs

When completing a form, it should be apparent which inputs are required for submission. Unless it's very obvious from the visual presentations (such as a single input form or username/password), there should be a visual indication for required fields - often text located inside the input's label. In cases where users can visually tell which fields are required, but where this information is not present within the label, the aria-required="true" attribute should be added to required inputs to inform screen reader users. Be sure to include informative, accessible error messaging if a form is submitted with required fields incomplete.

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