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WCAG3 Contrast as of April 2026

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Published: April 10, 2026 21:47

This post is part of RSS Club, rewarding those who still use RSS to read and/or share content. These posts are embargoed from my regular post feed and the socials for an arbitrary period of time. You can see all the RSS-only posts at…

Accessibility Law of Headlines

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Published: March 26, 2026 13:36

Betteridge’s law of headlines states that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. For at least the digital accessibility landscape, I would like to amend it, fork it, whatever it: Any headline that asserts a thing is…

Your Browser Can Already Speak a Page

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Published: March 5, 2026 14:13

Users can customize the features built into the browser, something not often available from third-party approaches. Is an “AI” company offering to provide spoken versions of your pages for users? Is an overlay company promising to make your content more…

Honoring Mobile OS Text Size

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Published: February 6, 2026 20:35

If your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page. It’s a function of browser and authored code, as opposed to a standardized approach. That may be changing. Support The current state of…

You Know What? Just Don’t Split Words into Letters

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Published: February 5, 2026 17:45

This is an unplanned part two for Barriers from Links with ARIA. The title reflects my exasperation because this isn’t new, I’ve simply failed to be explicit about it over the last decade or so. In 2012 I vented about TypeButter using <kern…

Barriers from Links with ARIA

https://adrianroselli.com/2026/01/barriers-from-links-with-aria.html

Published: January 23, 2026 01:53

Today Temani Afif asked a question: Are the below codes equivalent if we consider all the aspects? (a11y, semantic, something else maybe?) If not, what is missing (or should be changed) in the second code CSS by T. Afif (@css@front-end.social) 22 January…

Live Region Support

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Published: January 14, 2026 19:57

This post does not discuss whether live regions are good, nor is it a post about the best way to use them. This post only covers how they are exposed to the audience who experiences them — screen reader users. Written by a non-screen-reader user. If you’re…

Brief Note on Application Keyboard Shortcuts

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Published: January 9, 2026 18:45

Identifying keyboard shortcuts for an application is mostly an internationalization problem. It’s also not a new problem. A recent (to me) example is the WordPress Gutenberg team starting to discuss keyboard shortcuts in 2017, addressing what will and…

How I Evaluate an ACR (VPAT®)

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Published: January 6, 2026 00:02

ACRs are Accessibility Conformance Reports, which are the output of a VPAT, or Voluntary Product Accessibility Template maintained by ITIC, or the Information Technology Industry Council (which is why VPAT often has a ® symbol hanging off it). An…

My Use of ‘AI’ on this Site

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Published: December 29, 2025 21:35

I’m using this post to acknowledge my past practices and establish future ones on this site related to ‘AI’. I have not, and will not, use LLMs to write, draft, review, or otherwise participate in content creation — outside of clearly-identified contexts…