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alttextselfies.net

Alt Text Selfies

This project takes a well-known practice—the selfie—and approaches it through a disability lens.

accessibilityforeveryone.site

Accessibility for Everyone

Read the book online for free.

ericwbailey.website

How an accessibility designer adds keyboard shortcuts to a web app

Keyboard shortcuts occupy a strange area for web design.

css-tricks.com

There is no need to trap focus on a dialog element

Accessibility advice around modals have commonly taught us to trap focus within the modal.

last-child.com

Building the brain of your accessibility AI

How accessibility leaders can build trusted, scalable AI assistants by curating the right standards, documentation, and institutional knowledge.

hsu.cy

Times New American: a tale of two fonts

A less romantic truth is that aesthetic standards rarely travel alone; power tends to follow in their wake.

smashingmagazine.com

How to design for (and with) Deaf people

Practical UX guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who experience hearing loss.

blog.khanacademy.org

Rebuilding graphs for accessibility

How Khan Academy rebuilt its graphing tools to be accessible for all learners—including those using screen readers, keyboards, and assistive tech.

vale.rocks

You can’t opt-out of accessibility

Shiny exclusion all the way down.

htmhell.dev

The role of the ‘lang’ attribute

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

smashingmagazine.com

Designing for stress and emergency

Practical guidelines on designing time-critical products that prevent errors and improve accuracy.

adamsilver.io

Can you make toast messages accessible?

Toast notifications are fundamentally inaccessible and should be abandoned rather than improved. Here’s why.

chrisyoong.com

Debunking the Alt text character limit

100, 150, or 200? The arbitrary limit can be built into input fields and automated tooling.

mashable.com

9 startups changing disability tech

From making brain-computer interfaces affordable to enabling people with low vision to follow live sports.

adobe.design

Animation that fails safely

A practical framework for designing and engineering safe, resilient, and inclusive motion.

inclusivecolors.com

Accessible color palette creator

A tool for making custom branded color palettes built to meet accessible contrast requirements for WCAG, ADA and Section 508.

belfercenter.org

Design from the margins

Free book. Centering the most marginalized and impacted in design processes - from ideation to production.

jaredcunha.com

Writing alt text with AI

LLMs can lower the burden of writing useful alt text for images, with the right prompting.

inclusivedesignprinciples.info

Inclusive design principles

Designing for the needs of people with permanent, temporary, situational, or changing disabilities — all of us really.

a11y-collective.com

When to use Modal vs Dialog components

Implementation patterns, accessibility guidelines, and best practices for creating user-friendly interfaces.