Accessibility Weekly #195: Why is Designing for Inclusion Still Treated as Optional?

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August 3, 2020 • Issue #195

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Karishma Patel shares a journey of trying to integrate accessibility in UX work and the barriers encountered.

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

Disabled do-it-yourselfers lead way to technology gains (news article – nytimes.com)
Digital accessibility and the UX testing process (blog post – paciellogroup.com)
GIF de-animation using details/summary (code – codepen.io/stevef)
Why all your inclusion efforts fail (blog post – hustlecrew.co)
A.D.A. now! (podcast – npr.org)
System of systems (talk – youtube.com)
YouTube axes community captions feature, citing low usage (blog post – liamodell.com)
Three starting points for making accessible digital content (blog post – ashleemboyer.com)
Gatsby.design (blog post – a11ywins.tumblr.com)
Making Facebook.com accessible to as many people as possible (blog post – engineering.fb.com)
One Man's COVID-19 death raises the worst fears of many people with disabilities (news article – npr.org)
Rethinking accessible drop caps (blog post – justingagne.design)
Using Chrome to generate more accessible PDFs (blog post – blog.chromium.org)

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Bruce Lawson talks to you about how to make HTML loveliness, all writing good HTML. Hint: It's will help your projects be more performant, accessible and robust.

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Accessibility Weekly #195: Why is Designing for Inclusion Still Treated as Optional?

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