March 2019 Newsletter
Features
Alexa 100 Accessibility Update #2
This analysis of the top 100 sites in 2011, 2017, and today suggest that accessibility may be improving.
Reaction to The WebAIM Million report:
- The web we broke
- Fighting uphill
- About the HTML Epidemic, WebAIM "Million" Report, and Teach Access
- What we can learn from the "WebAIM Million"
News
WebAIM Training
Registration is open for WebAIM's web accessibility training to be held May 7-8 in Logan, Utah.
Document Accessibility Training
A new cohort of WebAIM's online Document (Word, PowerPoint, and PDF) Accessibility course will begin April 1st.
Accessibility Insights
Microsoft has released a new tool to support accessibility testing of web content and Windows applications.
Resources
Semantics to Screen Readers
A detailed, step-by-step view of how screen readers work.
Collecting dates in an accessible way
How to collect date information in a way that is accessible to everyone.
Having an open dialog
Scott O'hara dissects the current state of modal dialog accessibility.
The "perilous pitfalls" of Accessibility Maturity
18 common pitfalls to accessibility adoption.
Quick Tip: Are "Skip" Links Still Necessary?
"Skip to main content" or "skip navigation" links provide a mechanism for keyboard users to jump over repetitive navigation directly to the main content of a page. Headings, ARIA landmarks, HTML5 structural elements (particularly <main>), etc., also provide elements which users can navigate to get to main content, but navigation by these elements is not yet supported in standard browsers for sighted keyboard-only users who are not using screen readers. Because of this, "skip" links still provide very useful functionality for sighted keyboard users. "Skip" links can, however, be hidden visually until they receive keyboard focus.
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