Happy New Year! 🎉 Welcome to your first daily dose of a11y in 2020; this one seems quite apt: 7 Predictions for Accessibility in 2020 and Beyond A UsableNet article that is full of optimism for the future: Jason Taylor predicts that a rise in a11y-related lawsuits will drive a more proactive approach to building… [Read More]
Sony’s new Back Button Attachment brings customizable paddles to the DualShock 4 Sony are releasing a $30 attachment for the DualShock 4 controller which slots into the back and provides two extra large buttons. These can be mapped to any of the other buttons on the controller, and could be a (literal) game changer for… [Read More]
Sony’s new Back Button Attachment brings customizable paddles to the DualShock 4 Sony are releasing a $30 attachment for the DualShock 4 controller which slots into the back and provides two extra large buttons. These can be mapped to any of the other buttons on the controller, and could be a (literal) game changer for… [Read More]
Sony’s new Back Button Attachment brings customizable paddles to the DualShock 4 Sony are releasing a $30 attachment for the DualShock 4 controller which slots into the back and provides two extra large buttons. These can be mapped to any of the other buttons on the controller, and could be a (literal) game changer for… [Read More]
Sony’s new Back Button Attachment brings customizable paddles to the DualShock 4 Sony are releasing a $30 attachment for the DualShock 4 controller which slots into the back and provides two extra large buttons. These can be mapped to any of the other buttons on the controller, and could be a (literal) game changer for… [Read More]
Epilepsy Foundation Bombarded with Seizure-Triggering Twitter Posts The Epilepsy Foundation has filed a criminal complaint with the U.S. Attorney and the Office of the State’s Attorney in Maryland, against a number of Twitter uses who maliciously posted seizure-inducing content on its feed. This happened during November: National Epilepsy Awareness month. A similar attack happened in… [Read More]
Accessibility Testing by People with Disabilities An article of two halves, by a11y expert Becky Gibson. The first half gives guidance for performing your own a11y audit. It recommends WAVE as a starting point, followed by the Web Developer extension for validating document structure and numerous bookmarklets for additional automated tests. This is followed by… [Read More]
Apologies for the slightly short and slightly late issue of week11y – I was off sick much of last week! week11y is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things accessibility, curated by developer @ChrisBAshton. Each resource is summarised as a TLDR, in case you don’t have time to read the actual article. Readers are encouraged… [Read More]
Your (almost) daily dose of a11y. Apologies for the silence these last few days – I’ve been off sick! Anyway, let’s continue: Screen reader bug fixed in Firefox In September 2018, GDS Accessibility Expert Anika Henke filed a bug report with Mozilla, suggesting that words are incorrectly merged together in screen readers when using word-wrap:… [Read More]
Mattel releases first deck of UNO in Braille The first official braille UNO deck is going to the Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind. Some students have played it before but have needed to have teachers adapt existing sets by hand braille-ing them. The braille deck looks identical to the non-braille deck, but… [Read More]
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