Our weekly roundup of the media’s key articles on the topic of digital accessibility.

ALL | Why and How to Create Accessible Social Media and Website Content

Content accessibility isn’t just the responsibility of the design and production team. It’s everyone’s job.

https://meryl.net/digital-content-accessibility/

ALL | Should I Use An Accessibility Overlay?

The consensus of many people with disabilities, the web design and development community, and legal voices in this space, are that accessibility overlays are not useful on a website…

https://shouldiuseanaccessibilityoverlay.com

ALL | Using SEO, User Experience & Accessibility to Improve Search Results

The effectiveness of combining SEO, user experience, and accessibility best practices into your web-based business may be the holy grail for creating success with search engines.

Before we connect these powerful skillsets, everyone has to agree to the union.

We are not there yet.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-ux-accessibility-in-search-results/395357/

US | How Will Biden Transform Government Website Accessibility?

The new WhiteHouse.gov accessibility statement proves that the Biden administration is committed to making its website usable for people of all abilities, and is instructive for state and local government as well.

https://www.govtech.com/opinion/How-Will-Biden-Transform-Government-Website-Accessibility.html

ALL | A developer's perspective: the problem with screen reader testing

As a developer regularly faced with time constraints, I have often wondered: what should be the baseline in terms of testing for screen readers, and what browser and screen reader combinations are the most important to cover in order to achieve the greatest level of WCAG compliance?

https://jaketracey.com/a-developers-perspective-the-problem-with-screen-reader-testing/