recommended techniques for accessibility champions - A11y Toolkit
An open-source library of techniques to avoid the most common accessibility failures.
Digital accessibility is real and tangible
A workshop using real-life examples and first-hand experience of how assistive technology works can result in a deeper understanding of accessibility needs
DWeb Virtual Meetup — Jan 2025 — Latest in the DWeb Ecosystem
DWeb Virtual Meetup (January 2026) featuring speakers sharing their latest DWeb product releases and community organizing efforts. SPEAKERSmauve signweaver, Awana Digital: Awana Digital supports those working to defend their human and environmental rights, but who lack the tools to do so. Their local partners represent marginalized communities worldwide, including Indigenous Peoples and ethnic minorities. They train local partners to use basic digital tools to gather, share, and manage information about environmental and human rights infractions. mauve presented CoMapeo Abare, an open-source local-first Android app designed with Indigenous communities, to enable non-technical users to easily map and document biodiversity, environmental threats, and human rights abuses.Blaine Cook, New_ Public: New_ Public is a nonprofit focused on building digital public spaces that foster connection, facilitate pluralism, and encourage civic engagement. Blaine presented Roundabout, their new social app and website to improve information sharing in rural and suburban towns, and city neighborhoods — areas with about 10,000-50,000 people.Afri Schoedon, Department of Decentralization (DoD): The Department of Decentralization is a collective of people from Berlin, who first assembled in 2018 to organize ETHBerlin hackathon. They aim to be an agnostic vehicle to drive adoption, educate newcomers, and raise awareness of the challenges and benefits of decentralization and open-source software. Afri shared their experience of previous DoD events and share the technologies and approaches that their collective sees as being on the horizon of network decentralization.Facilitated by DWeb Senior Organizer, mai ishikawa sutton
A11Y Arcade
Learn web accessibility through interactive games. Master WCAG standards while playing visual, cognitive, and motor skill challenges.
Rethinking the human-readability infrastructure
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ClearBoard: a seamless medium for shared drawing and conversation with eye contact
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lukeslp/awesome-accessibility
Curated list of accessibility resources, tools, and best practices for creating inclusive digital experiences
Usability/UX/Accessability Research? · Issue #819 · w3c-fedid/FedCM
I'm curious if this work has any usability, UX, or accessibility research that supports the designs here? Are there non-goals, or handling of failure case scenarios that have been envisioned an...
The world is not a desktop | Interactions
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👋 Introducing Roundabout: built for neighbors, with neighbors
New_ Public’s app for local communities enters closed beta in five pilot communities
👋 Introducing Roundabout: built for neighbors, with neighbors
New_ Public’s app for local communities enters closed beta in five pilot communities
The Consensus Trap: Dissecting Subjectivity and the “Ground Truth” Illusion in Data Annotation
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Accessibility Research Symposium 2023
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
Notes from my Beginner Computer Literacy Class Part 1 - Alex’s Writing Journal
Helping the uninitiated navigate this brave new digital world
The A11Y Project is a community-driven effort to make digital accessibility easier.
Thrilled to share that our project @roundabout.town (give them a follow!) will be powering new, healthy digital public spaces in Chicago! This is part of chicago.com, a partnership with Chicago Public Media, which is the @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org. niemanlab.org/2026/08/can-public-media-buil…
Can public media build its own social network? Chicago Public Media teams up with New_ Public to try
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