December 9, 2024 • Issue #426

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Featured: Don’t use aria-label on static text elements

"Don’t use the aria-label or aria-labelledby attributes on divs, spans, or other elements representing static/noninteractive text-level semantics, such as p, strong, em, and so forth, unless those elements’ roles have been overriden with roles that expect accessible names."

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

• Why accessibility matters for your SEO strategy (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
• Alt text: Not always needed (blog post - css-tricks.com)
• A framework for evaluating browser support (blog post) - joshwcomeau.com
• Legal update: November 2024 (blog post – convergeaccessibility.com)
• A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be? (blog post - htmhell.dev)
• The many faces of digital accessibility (video/talk – youtube.com)
• A false sense of accessibility: What automated testing tools are missing (video/talk – youtube.com)
• Dataviz accessibility principles, demonstrated by the 2024 presidential election dashboards (blog post – fossheim.io)
• Stop aiming for compliance: Craft a better product strategy instead (blog post – thoughtbot.com)
• How to include web accessibility in your web development process (blog post – blog.pope.tech)
• A11Y 101: WCAG 1.2.4 Captions (live) (blog post – tarnoff.info)
• The importance of graceful degradation in accessible interface design (blog post – smashingmagazine.com)
• 2024 festive accessibility quiz (blog post – accessibility.blog.gov.uk)
• Accessibility reads: Thursday, December 5 (blog post – deque.com)
• A disability policy champion’s time in Congress has come to an end (news article – 19thnews.org)

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