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Accessibility Weekly #189: Inclusively Hiding & Styling Checkboxes and Radio Buttons
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Accessibility Weekly

June 22, 2020 • Issue #189

Featured: Inclusively hiding & styling checkboxes and radio buttons
Sara Soueidan covers the different techniques for hiding elements, how each of them affects the accessibility of the content, and how to properly hide checkboxes and radio buttons taking their own accessibility and usability considerations into account to make sure we aren’t leaving any users out.

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Sponsored: What’s the difference between PDF and accessible PDF?
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News, resources, tools and tutorials

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Amber Wilson shares some learnings after recently debugging code, wondering where did the focus go? Amber talks about document.activeElement and how it can help you when working on maintaining focus with JavaScript.

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