Alice Bartlett shares her experience of getting aria-live regions to work in a meaningful way.
This is a really lovely little HTML web component from Jason. It does just one thing—wires up a trigger button to toggle-able content, taking care of all the ARIA for you behind the scenes.
This online course from Sara looks superb!
I know how overwhelming and even frustrating accessibility may feel at first. But I promise you, accessibility isn’t always as hard as it seems (especially if you know where and when to start!). And my goal with this course is to make it friendlier and more approachable.
Best of all, there’s $100 off if you sign up now—that’s a 25% saving.
The slides from Hidde’s presentation at Paris Web—a great overview of using and misusing ARIA.
A demonstration of how even reinventing a relatively simple wheel takes way more effort than it’s worth when you could just use what the brower gives you for free.
I’ve done this quite a bit: using ARIA attributes as “hooks” for styling and behaviour. It’s a way of thinking of accessibility as the baseline to build upon rather than something that can sprinkled on top later.
Can you have too much semantics?
It’s not just about finding the issues—it’s about finding the issues at the right time.
Do websites need to sound the same in every screen reader?
An exception to my general rule that ARIA attributes should be added with JavaScript.
Apply your ARIA attributes with JavaScript and then use them as hooks in your CSS.