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New axe DevTools Integration: Playwright
Deque's latest axe DevTools integration with Playwright is now available. Find and fix accessibility issues before they make it into your code base.
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A Guide to Writing About Digital Accessibility
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is coming up. If you’re writing about accessibility, these tips will help you cover this topic in a careful, empathetic and ethical way.
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What does the public think about Digital Accessibility?
In support of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), we surveyed 560 U.S. consumers to capture public perceptions on disability & digital accessibility.
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JavaScript Frameworks & The Lost Art of HTML
We are in the midst of a very large problem in the web development field, where HTML is being left in the rearview mirror in place of JavaScript. The push to know the latest JavaScript framework and understand all its workings vs. knowing how to develop properly with HTML is killing the accessibility of the web.
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Deque’s Axe-Core Achieves Half a Billion Downloads
On Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), Deque marked an important landmark in its history with axe-core, surpassing 500 million downloads.
Test the leading edge of accessibility with axe Coconut and axe-core 3.0-alpha
The axe-core team at Deque has been working hard on a set of updates to the aXe ecosystem of accessibility testing tools.
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Axe-core gets WCAG 2.1 rules
As of axe-core version 3.1, Deque will be adding rules for WCAG 2.1. For this first version, we have added the following rules..
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Axe DevTools Extension Updates: New Accessibility Issue Screenshot Functionality
When Pro users share issues found with automated analysis or with an Intelligent Guided Tests™, we now include a screenshot of the element in question to provide context and insight into the issue!
Accessibility Prioritization: Your Tactical Roadmap [Part 2]
Learn how to create a Pilot Plan for your dev team to prioritize and fix a11y issues with our tactical approach to a11y prioritization.
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Why WCAG 2.2 is still in the oven
When is WCAG 2.2 coming out? June of 2021 has come and gone, and now we're expecting September 2022. Let's discuss why.
axe-con: building accessible experiences. Virtual conference: March 10-11. 2021
Deque Systems announces axe-con, a new, digital accessibility conference: March 10-11, 2021
Axe-con is a free, multi-track online event focused on helping all professionals build, test and maintain accessible digital experiences.
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Introduction to feed role attribute
Most users use infinite scrolling widgets every day. Let’s review and compare how a sighted user navigates this feature versus a person with a disability.