Accessibility Weekly #198: Accessibility Testing is Like Making Coffee

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August 24, 2015 • Issue #198

Featured: Accessibility testing is like making coffee

Madalyn Parker breaks down how different types of accessibility testing relate to different ways of making coffee.

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

Be wary of doc-subtitle (blog post – adrianroselli.com)
How to build accessible cards–block links (blog post – nomensa.com)
radEventListener: A tale of client-side framework performance (blog post – css-tricks.com)
How one college is closing the computer science gender gap (news story – npr.org)
"People like you don't belong in big tech” (blog post – aidenbenjamincv.com)
Five most annoying website features I face as a blind person every single day (blog post – bighack.org)
What If accessibility was also inclusive? (blog post – catapult.co)
Early Mac Firefox VoiceOver support (blog post – blog.mozilla.org)
Accessibility Engineer (resource – a11yengineer.com)
Knowbility looking for mentors in its Accessible Internet Rally (blog post – knowbility.org
How iframe elements and their content can be hidden from screen readers (blog post – html5accessibility.com)

New to A11y

Geri Reid has put together a WCAG checklist for designers to help them parse what's normally a complex read. I like how it's broken down into categories that relate to what a designer might be responsible for in everyday work.

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Accessibility Weekly #198: Accessibility Testing is Like Making Coffee

Featured: Accessibility testing is like making coffee

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News, resources, tools and tutorials

New to A11y

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