2014-10-26 (Sunday)
Links
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WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices - Design Patterns
Lots of different types of web interface control and the accessibility interactions, roles, states, etc they should have, with links to examples.
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Web Components punch list | The Paciello Group – Your Accessibility Partner (WCAG 2.0/508 audits, VPAT, usability and accessible user experience)
A handy checklist for when making new interface components on the web, to improve their accessibility.
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Alice Bartlett: Burn your select tags - EpicFEL 2014 - YouTube
Good talk from Alice about user research resulting in GDS avoiding HTML select tags and creating alternatives.
Tweets
@hondanhon @Zoonie @holgate @tomcoates At least I don’t have to turn my screen brightness way up to see anything on iTunes.
@tomcoates @hondanhon @Zoonie @holgate Yeah. I use Spotify a lot but consider iTunes my permanent, “real” source.
@tomcoates @hondanhon @Zoonie @holgate It’ll be me and you there till the end Tom, crying “But what about my playlists!”
@metabrew That was a lion! The ones in the red suits had a bird on their hats.
@holgate That was a bit bonkers.