The Web Almanac provided a chapter in their 2022 edition on web accessibility. They are going to update it for 2024 soon. This can be a helpful resource to teach people about web accessibility and common different accessibility features. Hopefully, features like audio description and alt text will be found to be more common in their next update. What major changes do you think might occur in the next update?

  • Kelly Aster 🏳️‍⚧️
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    26 months ago

    This is an excellent resource. I think it’s written really well. I imagine they’d include the new WCAG 2.2 requirements (that dropped last fall) in their 2024 update, but what I’d like to see is instructional content that demonstrates how to test for keyboard and screen reader accessibility. All these accessibility techniques for WCAG compliance are suggested so that keyboard-only and screen reader users can understand the same content and perform the same tasks as sighted users (easily and with minimal confusion), but you can’t know for sure if your implementation works as intended if you don’t test it.