Accessibility Weekly #187: Equivalent Experiences: Thinking Equivalently

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June 8, 2020 • Issue #187

Featured: Equivalent experiences: Thinking equivalently

Constructing an equivalent experience may mean changing the way you think about development and design, and potentially reevaluating your existing work.

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

How to write alt text and image descriptions for photojournalism images (blog post – veroniiiica.com)
10 Things to know about Twitter’s alternative text for images (blog post – lireo.com)
IBM Accessibility launches an open source toolkit (blog post – g3ict.org)
An app for everything, but can everyone use it? (blog post – medium.com/hci-design-at-uw)
POUR explained: A beginner's guide to accessibility (blog post – dev.to/stories_of_ren)
Race, representation and user experience research resources (document – docs.google.com)
National Federation of the Blind sues Duke University (press release – nfb.org)

New to A11y

Oscar Nilsson outlines fives notes about resilient design. You won't find accessibility mentioned here, but you will find principles that lead to thinking in a more inclusive way. Sometimes, it's important to examine what surrounds a subject in addition to the subject itself.

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