"For people who are blind or low vision, identifying dynamic changes (non-user-initiated) in the content of a web app is very challenging. ARIA live regions are the only mechanism available today that communicate content changes down to the accessibility layer..."
Many web developers today do not know what is was like before Firebug. All we could do is tweak and reload over and over. It really changed everything. Joe Hewitt did amazing work. Now all browsers have a developer console.
Your hard work helped make the web a better place. Your passion for web standards and accessibility improved countless lives. Thank you. You can rest now.
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"We expect to publish Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 as a “W3C Recommendation” web standard in 2023.
We are addressing new comments that we received in August 2023. Depending how that goes, the final publication could be in September or later in 2023."
🖖🏽 I will be at @w3c TPAC in Seville Spain from the 11th to the 16th of September along with my TPGi colleagues Matthew Atkinson, Brian Elton and Mitchell Evan. If you are there come say hi.
Why doesn't CSS provide any options for adding character based fallback options? Seemingly only the browser itself can do this. It would be nice to be able to provide some options here. #l10n#css#webstandards#webbrowsers#w3c
"WCAG3 is designed to be the replacement for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2. Note the difference in name, although it uses the same acronym. We’ll call that WCAG2.
The reasoning behind the name change is to reflect a focus beyond just web content..."