December 23, 2024 • Issue #428

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Hey accessibility friends! It's the time of year where news and information slows down as many people take time away to rest and recharge. If I have enough good links to send your way next week, I will. If not, I'll catch you in 2025.

Featured: Putting AI to the (accessibility) test

"What about AI’s capability to help with testing for accessibility? Over the past few months, I’ve been incorporating generative AI into my workflow as a blind Accessibility Engineer here at TPGi and there are three vital ways it has provided me great aid."

Read more of Putting AI to the (accessibility) test.

Sponsored: I filed an ADA grievance against my city on Accessibility Craft

In this Accessibility Craft podcast episode, hosts Amber, Chris, and Steve discuss Amber's experience filing an ADA grievance with the city of Georgetown, TX, for their inaccessible website and the lack of digital accessibility expertise among local governments.

Listen or watch the episode of Accessibility Craft.

News, resources, tools and tutorials

• U.S. General Services Administration is seeking input from vendors on accessibility tools, training, and services to strengthen the U.S. Government's accessibility for everyone (government request for information - sam.gov)
• Headaches with FCC reporting on captioning problems per CVAA (blog post - equalentry.com)
• Nine key accessibility laws for mobile apps: What you need to know (blog post - thedroidsonroids.com)
• The complete guide to ARIA live regions for developers (blog post – a11y-collective.com)
• Accessibility Procurement Toolkit (resource - oit.colorado.gov)
• How to dehumanize accessibility with AI (blog post – ashleemboyer.com)
• Site-speed that sticks (video/talk – youtube.com)
• Simple web performance mentoring (blog post – calendar.perfplanet.com)
• A11y 101: 1.2.6 Sign Language (pre-recorded) (blog post – tarnoff.info)
• Potential dangers of status messages (blog post – cerovac.com/a11y)
• Accessibility reads: Thursday, December 19 (blog post – deque.com)
• What I learned about design by helping my grandfather send an email (blog post – thoughtbot.com)
• How I gained a new perspective on ARIA (blog post – htmhell.dev)
• My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red (blog post – htmhell.dev)
• GitHub’s updated Commits page and the interactive list component (blog post – ericwbailey.website)
• A progress update on reading-flow (blog post – rachelandrew.co.uk)
• HTML inert attribute (blog post – 12daysofweb.dev)
• Websites are not places of public accommodation subject to Title III of the ADA, Federal court in New York rules (blog post – ogletree.com)

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New to A11y

I have a soft spot for the WAVE accessibility extension. Why? Because it's one of the first accessibility tools I used extensively when I went deep into this field. It's nice to see that friends of WAVE, Pope Tech wrote about how to use the WAVE extension for accessibility testing. It's thorough and includes a video too.