Announcements
A11Y Project news.
News
Detailed information about project news and updates.
The A11Y Project does not recommend using accessibility overlay products
These kinds of products are actively harmful, and a step backwards for digital accessibility efforts.
Let’s support inert!
Igalia working on HTML’s inert attribute represents a great opportunity to move web accessibility forward.
2020 Redesign
The A11Y Project has redesigned!
Changelog
Notable updates to our website.
1.5.0
March update- Add How-to: Enabling keyboard culture with No Mouse Days.
- Add Background: Dyslexia fonts.
- Add Assistive Technology: Getting started with VoiceOver on iOS.
- Add How-to: Designing accessible animation.
- Add How-to: Use the
tabindex
attribute. - Add Assistive Technology: Text resizing in iOS and Android.
- Add Background: Should I use an accessibility overlay?.
- Add Anna E. Cook to the Spotlight.
- Add Assistiv Labs and Fable Tech Labs as sponsors.
- Add Boring Cyborg.
- Add GitHub community files.
- Add plagarism policy.
- Add new resources.
- Fix color contrast link states.
- Update table of contents behavior.
- Update layouts.
- Update fonts.
- Update social share images.
1.4.0
October update- Add How-to: Create accessible forms.
- Update our featured resource to be Introduction to Web Accessibility.
- Add Alicia Jarvis as a maintainer.
- Add persistent expand/collapse state to Table of Contents components.
- Add new resources.
- Add redirects.
- Fixed color contrast issues.
- Update our code font.
- Update our secondary font.
1.3.0
September update- Add An in-depth guide to ARIA roles.
- Add Segun Ola to the Spotlight.
- Announce donation matching for the
inert
attribute. - Add contact form validation.
- Add new resources
- Add redirects.
- Fix checklist language and checkbox layout bugs.
- Fix link to
details
/summary
polyfill.
1.2.0
Post-launch improvements- Add Wayne, Soren, Jen, and Saptak.
- Add checklist items and permalinks to our Checklist.
- Adds font size variables and utility classes.
- Adds color utility classes.
- Add a custom 404 page.
- Add a contact form.
- Add new resources.
- Add redirects.
- Remove unused CSS when the site compiles.
- Remove anchor links for post headings.
- Use the site's version to bust cached assets.
- Replaces Google Analytics in favor of Netlify Analytics.
- Restore missing posts.
- Fixes Stylelint errors.
- Fixes broken links.
- Fixes broken Open Graph share images.
- Fixes duplicated authors.
- Fixes CSS layout bugs.
1.1.0
Post-launch updates- Add a CodeTour.
- Resolve JavaScript and Sass linting issues.
- Update Open Graph preview images.
- Re-introduce missing post.
- Fix broken links.
- Fix text overflow issues.
- Fix avatar sizes.
- Remove Google Analytics
- Post-launch content tweaks and fixes.
1.0.0
Redesign- Add a Code of Conduct.
- Add an Accessibility Statement.
- Add an industry Spotlight.
- Expanded and updated Resources.
- Add Sponsorship and Open Collective.
- Replaced Jekyll with Eleventy.
- Migrate content.
- Convert data to JSON.
- Migrate GitHub pages (Content Style Guide, Code of Conduct, etc.) to the website.
- Deprecate Follow, Patterns, and Events.