What are your thoughts?

For me, it's businesses who focus on compliance, rather than seeing accessibility as a core part of the user experience. Also, devs who download a screen reader and think that they're getting the same experience as a long-term user.

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Kinda shocked not finding a single developer community discord server for A11y... is this something others here might be interested in starting?

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I’ve heard it said that even if a website is completely WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) compliant, it can still present accessibility barriers and be unpleasant to use for people using assistive technology. 

While this makes intuitive sense, I’m trying to think of some concrete examples of how this is possible. 

Some ways I can think of at the top of my head are:

• Alternative text for images that (while technically being accurate) is too long making it impractical to use. 

• Excessively long paragraphs that don’t have navigable structures. This would be difficult to use for someone using page headers to find the relevant content they’re looking for.

What are some other ways?

My team is trying to be as ADA compliant as we can and use automated testing with some coding best practices (our developer knows some Accessibility). We would like a way to pull reports of the bugs. Is there any tool that allows us to download reports for free? There are open source tools that we found, but our developer is limited to front-end knowledge and doesn’t know how to set up and install these Github libraries. Any recommendations would be welcome.

Sup ya'll. I work at CarGurus, and I recently wrote about a small script that uses `axe-core` to add huge ugly red outlines around elements that do not meet wcag 2.1 aa compliance during development. So far its caused people to realize how bad some of their pages are, and its made managers take notice. Huge win for us. I figured I'd share some of the technical issues I ran into.

https://blog.terrible.dev/Accessibility-Driven-Development/

Sharing a cool open source project I’ve been working on here!

My team and I created a React component library to support developers in writing more accessible single page applications. We just launched on npm today!

Throwing that out there in case it’s useful to someone, as SPAs are notoriously bad when accessed via screen readers or other assistive technologies.

If anyone wants to get in some open source contributions we also have a to-do list of improvements we’d like to make on our GitHub page.

You can check out the project here:

https://github.com/oslabs-beta/aditum

A Medium article about the project is here in case that’s more relevant:

https://medium.com/@kelvinscuesta/aditum-focus-management-da5ed478300a

Thank you! Hope it’s helpful, open to feedback if you notice anything that could be improved! :-)

I just read an article about wineries in upstate New York being targeted with ADA law suits. I’m wondering why wineries? Do these law suits happen in waves that target specific industries? Were there any past industry trends? How would I get a heads up on any new trends?

I have a client that wants their site to be WCAG 2.0 compliant.

We’ve built the site now and gone though a lot of the WCAG 2.0 documentation and downloaded chrome extensions to make sure we’re accommodating for whatever we can think of:

• alt text

• skip link

• roles/landmarks

• contrast

• aria labels

• etc...

How do I know that the site actually IS WCAG 2.0 compliant though?

Do I just tell my client, we’ve put in the time to make those considerations? Or is there some official process?

How can this login screen style be considered accessible?

Using VoiceOver, I can hear when my cursor enters the "Apple ID" textbox. But there is no way I can tab over to the arrow circle "->" to reveal the password textbox. And from the password textbox, there is no way I can tab over to the arrow circle "->" to log in. General web usage has taught me that I can use "enter" when I don't see a button. But. Is it just me, or would this be considered bad accessibility?

(Apologies if I am being naïve. I just genuinely want to know. Thanks in advance!)