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Building an accessible autocomplete control

• Adam Silver explains in detail how to build an accessible autocomplete component, taking into account the noJS experience, announcing results to screen readers, hiding suggestions ‘on blur’, keyboard support and endonym/typo support. It’s always surprising just how complicated autocompletes can be, and this is a really good example of one done right.

Screen readers and cookie consents

• In this video from the London Web Performance Group this month, Léonie Watson demonstrates that by using headings to navigate with a screen reader, she never encounters the GDPR cookie notice on a lot of websites. And if she does, it’s often difficult to figure out what she’s consenting to. A good example of an accessible cookie notice is on the Atlassian website.

Rail stations across Great Britain receive £20 million funding boost for accessibility improvements

• 124 stations in Great Britain will gain new lifts, accessible toilets and/or improved customer information screens. A list of affected stations appears at the bottom of the page.

Employers Don’t Understand the Work People with Disabilities Can Do, SHRM Research Finds

• The USA is struggling to fill millions of jobs, but people with disabilities are often overlooked. 51-61% of HR professionals and managers have had no disability inclusion training, and 13-32% of managers say they’d feel uncomfortable working with colleagues with disabilities. However, 92% of managers (and 97% of HR professionals) who have employees who have a disability said those individuals perform the same or better than their peers.

Less than 1% of Brazilian sites are fully accessible, research points out

• A survey of 14.65 million active Brazilian websites found just 0.74% passed all accessibility tests. On this scale, it’s unclear how the sites were tested, though the article makes reference to checking images, links and validation fields. By the same criteria, this is still a 20% improvement on the previous survey from September 2019, in which 5.60% of sites failed all tests, compared to just 0.01% this year.

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