November 2017 Newsletter
Features
New Site-wide WAVE Tools
WebAIM is excited to announce several new options for using WAVE to conduct site-wide accessibility testing.
Steps You Can Take Now to Address Accessibility at Your Institution
WebAIM and it's partner, the National Center on Disability and Access to Education, posted a joint blog with WCET and Online Learning Consortium on steps that postsecondary institutions can take now to address accessibility. This is based on common requests that come out of OCR resolution letters.
News
24 A11Y
Daily gifts of accessibility during the season of giving and sharing.
Resources
HTML Email and Accessibility
Simple practices you can build into your campaigns that will make your emails more accessible and your subscribers even happier.
Consistently Inconsistent: When the most accessible experience is different for each user
Eric Bailey describes how to best handle browser and screen reader inconsistencies.
Creating a Company Culture that Promotes Accessibility
Mark Lapole presents actionable steps that can be taken within your company to promote accessible designs and help establish digital accessibility as a priority.
Planning for Accessibility
An excerpt from Laura Kalbag's excellent new book - Accessibility for Everyone.
ARIA is Spackle, Not Rebar
Much like their physical counterparts, the materials we use to build websites have purpose. To use them without understanding their strengths and limitations is irresponsible.
Inclusive Design 24
24 hours of presentations on inclusive design organized by our friends at The Paciello Group.
Quick Tip: CSS focus-within
The new :focus-within CSS pseudo-class allows you to define styles for an element that has focus anywhere within it. This can be especially helpful for drawing attention to focused elements and enhancing keyboard and visual accessibility. For example, one could define visual highlighting for a form when a user focuses a field within that form, or highlight a table row if a user navigates to a link or control within that row. This functionality was previously only possible using scripting, but is now increasingly supported using basic CSS.
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