Manuel Matuzovic · Feb 27, 2026
The title says it all: put aria-hidden="true" on decorative SVGs, or they'll be announced by some screen readers. Similar to when you set alt="" on an img element, screen readers will ignore this SVG Without aria-hidden="true" , you get the following results: Bad practice: Missing aria-hidden="true" state Most current.
IBM Design · Sandeep Baskaran · Feb 26, 2026
How one-shot prompting with Figma Make and Carbon Design System compressed months of enterprise prototyping into minutes — and what any design team can learn from it. Designers experimenting with Figma Make The enterprise prototype paradox Enterprise design teams face a cruel irony. The products with the longest relea.
Manuel Matuzovic · Feb 23, 2026
To kick off my new article series, #WebAccessibilityFails, I decided to focus on a bad practice I often see in main navigations during accessibility audits. Developers like to put aria-haspopup on buttons inside main navigations to indicate that the buttons control subnavigations. - Products - Wood - Steel - Plastic T.
iA · iA Inc · Feb 23, 2026
Seeking IT independence, Europe wants to escape Microsoft Office. The question is: where to?
Adam Silver · Feb 22, 2026
Last week I read a post by designer and frontend dev, Theodore Soti: Stop clearing forms with JavaScript. The browser already knows how. I still see a lot of apps using custom code to track inputs and reset state. But for many forms, you can just use the native reset button. That reset button restores every field to i.
Learn UI Design · <name>Erik D. Kennedy</name> · Feb 21, 2026
On designs that stand out: a reflection & 10 strategies
web.dev · Feb 17, 2026
The Navigation API is now Baseline Newly available, providing a better way to handle navigation in single-page applications.
Dovetail · Feb 16, 2026
We’re excited to announce our Dovetail connector with Figma Make. Now you can easily leverage customer intelligence when prototyping without needing to switch context.
Adrian Roselli · Adrian Roselli · Feb 6, 2026
If your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page. It’s a function of browser and authored code, as opposed to a standardized approach. That may be changing. Support The current state of affairs in the three…
Manuel Matuzovic · Feb 6, 2026
When you open the accessibility settings on your smartphone and increase the font size, you will immediately notice that the system font size increases. On Android, as a Firefox user, you will also notice that websites scale. As a Chrome user, you won't see any difference because Chrome doesn't respect the font size s.
tempertemper · Martin Underhill · Jan 30, 2026
Producing accessible software means continually questioning your own habits and assumptions about how people interact with it.
tempertemper · Martin Underhill · Jan 23, 2026
In recent years I’ve tried to switch off more on holiday, so I leave my laptop at home. But I still get enjoy a bit of writing, so what to do?
IBM Design · Milin Ann John · Jan 20, 2026
Written by Milin Ann John. Edited by Ashwini Kamath, Meghna Gautam Thakur and Thomas Hollifield. AI Buffet Dilemma In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, as workflows accelerate, the real challenge is distinguishing game changers from time wasters. AI promises speed and efficiency, but proving its impact requires ha.
Manuel Matuzovic · Jan 13, 2026
Once again, I’ve teamed up with my friends at Smashing Magazine 😻 to share with you everything I know about web accessibility testing! In this smashing workshop we’ll talk about automatic and manual testing, screen reader basics, Single Page Applications, Dev Tools, and more. What you will learn in this workshop - Wh.
tempertemper · Martin Underhill · Dec 29, 2025
All the main web browsers have finally dropped visual support for the HTML5 document outline algorithm. Here’s why that’s good news.
WebAIM · John Northup · Dec 22, 2025
I’ve lived long enough, and worked in accessibility long enough, to have honed a healthy skepticism when I hear about the Next Big Thing. I’ve seen lush website launches that look great, until I activate a screen reader. Yet, in spite of it all, accessibility does evolve, but quietly rather than dramatically. As I gaz.
Manuel Matuzovic · Dec 5, 2025
One of my clients decided to write a custom popover component that uses native popovers under the hood. We built the component and were happy with it. They were about to ship it until we realised there was an accessibility bug so severe that it was a dealbreaker for us. Popovers are floating UI elements you can show o.
tempertemper · Martin Underhill · Dec 3, 2025
‘Pagination’ has comes from the word ‘page’, so yes, pagination should consist of pages. But the question is totally valid; worth digging into!