Axe-core vs PA11Y: Which one should you choose? GitLab now offers Pa11y as part of its CI pipeline, with no configuration needed. Craig Abbott compares it to axe-core, which is used by Deque for its acceptance tests. Out of 142 issues tested: axe-core found 39 issues in total, or 27%. 36 were violations and 3… [Read More]
Don’t Believe the Type! (video, 50m) I discovered this axe-con 2021 video via Richard Morton’s tweet. I thought it would be good to follow-up on the piece I wrote about the Hyperlegible font. The presentation, by Gareth Ford Williams, David Bailey and Bruno Maag, talks through the data they’ve gathered from around 7,000 hours of… [Read More]
In Quest of Search Sara Souedian gives her thoughts on why we need a native <search> HTML element. This would be syntactic sugar for <div role=”search”>, like we already have for <main> / <div role=”main”>. The first rule of ARIA is to not use it if there is a native HTML element with the semantics… [Read More]
Some questions on accessibility in email — answered Some interesting nuggets of information here, resulting from a survey of 162 respondents (yes, the sample size is too small to have a lot of confidence in these results). 98% of people find a font size of 16px easy to read, compared to 70% for 14px (a… [Read More]
Audio killed the video call An interesting article talking about the progression from, pre-pandemic, video-calls happening once or twice a week, to mid-pandemic, where video calls happen for several hours per day. The video fatigue has led to an explosion in popularity for audio-based apps, such as Clubhouse, where users can drop into chatrooms and… [Read More]
Don’t Believe the Type! (video, 50m) I discovered this axe-con 2021 video via Richard Morton’s tweet. I thought it would be good to follow-up on the piece I wrote about the Hyperlegible font. The presentation, by Gareth Ford Williams, David Bailey and Bruno Maag, talks through the data they’ve gathered from around 7,000 hours of… [Read More]
We start off with a Twitter special! I’ve already recently written about how Twitter’s new design has been giving users headaches. But there have been a flurry of other articles about Twitter, so I thought I’d round them up for you. What’s Really Wrong With the New Twitter Font An interview with Frederick Brennan, who… [Read More]
This frequent11y issue is a Twitter special! I’ve already recently written about how Twitter’s new design has been giving users headaches. But there have been a flurry of other articles about Twitter, so I thought I’d round them up for you. What’s Really Wrong With the New Twitter Font An interview with Frederick Brennan, who… [Read More]
Doctor’s orders: ‘Nature prescriptions’ see rise amid pandemic A really interesting article about how a growing number of doctors – particularly pediatricians – in the USA are prescribing walks in the park. The prescriptions are “specific, just like an antibiotic”, with patients told how often they should go, and where. One doctor gave their patient… [Read More]
a11y-automation.dev A useful reference of a11y fails, describing at a glance whether or not each failure can be linted, tested, or manually tested. For example “Autoplaying media” has a “Linting status” of “Could Exist”, a “Testing status” of “Exists”, and a “Manual testing status” of “Should Exist”.
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