December 30, 2024 • Issue #429

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Featured: Navigating imperfect accessibility frameworks for trauma-informed outcomes

"So what is it then? Am I disabled? Am I not? And, more practically, how might that impact my interactions with the real world where accessibility is both intentionally (and unintentionally) designed, developed, and litigated? The answer may largely depend on how you, your team, or your client chooses to define and approach accessibility."

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In this webinar recording, Ron Zasadzinski and Kevin Sholander present their approach to building an accessible route schedule for a city bus website in Colorado. Learn how they approached the development of the site and included user testing to confirm accessibility.

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

• AI and accessibility: Ethical considerations and solutions (blog post - a11y-collective.com)
• When to use audio description on your content (blog post - 3playmedia.com)
• The gift you do not want: A div in a button's clothing (blog post - htmhell.dev)
• How strict should we be when testing for WCAG conformance? (video/talk – youtube.com)
• Don’t hide skip links (blog post - ozewai.org)
• Please keep your HTML tables clean and lean, if you really need to use them (blog post – cerovac.com/a11y)
• You don’t need the isOpen class (blog post – htmhell.dev)
• Why are we so rubbish at accessibility? (blog post – carmemias.com)
• My restaurant was named one of New York City’s best. Here’s why it closed (blog post – nytimes.com)

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I don't have hard metrics on it, but grouping form fields comes up quite often in my accessibility work. Maybe one of the issues I raise the most. Matthias Kittsteiner explains the what and why behind the use of fieldsets, which I'm sure I'll refernce in the future.