Accessibility Weekly #192: Disability Language is a Nuanced Thing

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July 13, 2020 • Issue #192

Featured: Disability language is a nuanced thing

Nicolas Steenhout reminds us that "Disability language is never straightforward. It’s always nuanced. It always evolves."

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

We need more inclusive web performance metrics (blog post – filamentgroup.com)
Broadening our Impact (blog post – blog.mozilla.org/accessibility)
Accessibility is too hard (video – youtube.com)
Build vs. buy: Automated accessibility tools (blog post – deque.com)
Patreon digital accessibility agreement (blog post – lflegal.com)
CSS news July 2020 (blog post – smashingmagazine.com)
Are accessible cosmetics the final frontier in makeup inclusivity? (news story – nytimes.com)
Webwaste (blog post – alistapart.com)
ARIA Grid as an anti-pattern (blog post – adrianroselli.com)
Grids part 1: To grid or not to grid (blog post – sarahmhigley.com)

New to A11y

Tatiana Mac shares some thoughts on whether the hashtagged numeronym #a11y is accessible or not. I often struggle with making sure I use this term in the most accessible way. As Tatiana points out, it can be accessible, if used thoughtfully.

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Accessibility Weekly #192: Disability Language is a Nuanced Thing

Featured: Disability language is a nuanced thing

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

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