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Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score - Manuel Matuzovic

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An experiment that proves that automatic accessibility testing is only a first step and that manual testing is vital.

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If you’re going to do a job, do it properly

I often hear the phrase “forward fix” used when referring to accessibility. It sounds fancy, but what it really means is “We’ll come back to the accessibility bit later”.

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Website Accessibility (15 Best Practices)

When creating a website, there’s a lot of factors to consider. For example, it’s especially important to ensure your site is user-friendly for all people equally. This is where website accessibility practices come into action. So what exactly is website accessibility? It’s a practice of guaranteeing sites to be equally available to people with disabilities. […]

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The impact that high quality mark-up can have on accessibility, performance, and discoverability.

The impact that high quality mark-up can have on accessibility, performance, and discoverability.

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Towards amazing accessibility - Matthew Deeprose

IT departments in the Higher Education sector and elsewhere know they must commit to accessibility, but how can we take this ambition and embed it within our operations? I attempt to show how we could start that journey through shifting left.

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Making IT accessible for all!

Recent experiences have demonstrated that University staff and students expect to use online resources with a variety of devices, making full use of accessibility features such as reflow, captions, and text-to-speech. Such features benefit everyone, but especially the increasing proportion of university students who self-report a disability. University Information Technology departments know they must commit to accessibility; indeed, they have a legal obligation to do so, but how can they take this ambition and embed accessibility within their policies and processes?

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Applying accessibility fixes with stealth for the greater good

This is not an article that Steve, the author, thinks should exist in a healthy industry, but the shape of our industry — especially right now — makes this sort of article very necessary and hopefully helpful to you in your job.

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How To Hack Your Google Lighthouse Scores In 2024 — Smashing Magazine

Do perfect Lighthouse scores mean the performance of your website is perfect? As it turns out, Lighthouse is influenced by a number of things that can be manipulated and bent to make sites seem more performant than they really are, as Salma Alam-Naylor demonstrates in several experiments.

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Overcoming Goodhart's Law

When a metric becomes a target, we've walked into a trap known as Goodhart's Law. Luckily this trap can be avoided. I'll show you how!

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