An excellent rebuttal to a post from Simple Accessible that denounced ARIA’s tabbed interface guidelines.
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Danger! Testing Accessibility With Real People
Service Workers and PWAs: It’s About Reliable Performance, Not “Offline”
This is a great post of Alex on why Service Workers trump AppCache when it comes to creating a good user experience.
Progressive Enhancement, Revisited, With Aaron Gustafson
My rather lengthy chat with Emily Lewis & Lea Alcantara on progressive enhancement and all things web design.
The Accessibility Stack: Making a Better Layer Cake
This post hits on a lot of the same topics I talk about in Adaptive Web Design and my progressive enhancement talks and workshops: experience can and should be built in layers because it is experienced in them.
Accessibility in the Store
Apps in the Windows Store can now be flagged as accessible on submission. Not sure if anyone is validating these claims, but my guess is that they will if it becomes abused. Regardless, I’m excited to see Microsoft take this step to make it easier for folks who need it to find accessible apps.
Color Contrast for Better Readability
This is an excellent walkthrough on how to evaluate color combinations for contrast. It also includes recommendations for inclusion in your style guide.
WCAG 2.0 Checklist - a Free and Simple Guide to WCAG 2.0
Luke McGrath has a great, humane summary of WCAG 2.0 as a checklist. You should check it out.
Removing Headaches From Focus Management
Focus management is one of those “fun” things we deal with when building websites. This straightforward article gives a bit of an introduction to how you might want to handle it.
Making Your Business Accessible
Lots of great business cases and approaches for accessibility in here.
If you need a stat to bowl someone over with, I’d reach for this little factoid: £212bn is the estimated combined income of UK households with a disabled person.
The End of Empathy
This is such an amazing post I wanted to highlight the whole thing. But this pretty much sums it up for me…
[I]t’s time to resurrect the Golden Rule. Let’s all take a breath, shake it off, and declare a do-over. Let’s start listening to each other, especially when we disagree. Let’s value our differences instead of vilifying each other for them. Let’s be inclusive and kind. Let’s be compassionate and empathetic to the plights of others. Let’s be human beings. Because we’re never going to get anywhere if we continue to treat each other like garbage.
Amen!