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Time to revisit accesskey? - Tink - Léonie Watson
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Assistive Technology: Learning common keyboard shortcuts for screen readers - The A11Y Project
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| | Keyboard shortcuts are hard to learn. Here are some other ways that can help that learning.
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Time traveller's guide to accessibility mechanics
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| | [AI summary] This article discusses the evolution of web accessibility technologies, focusing on screen readers, platform APIs, ARIA attributes, and future developments like the Accessibility Object Model (AOM).
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4 Key Takeaways from the WebAIM 2019 Screen Reader User Survey · Dylan Hatfield Thomas
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| | WebAIM has been conducting surveys on web accessibility for years (see WebAIM projects), including a survey of Screen Reader users since 2009. The latest survey was published in September 2019. I encourage everyone to read through their results and analysis as it won't take long, but here are the four key insights I found. Note: Numbers rounded to the nearest full number. #1 - The technology landscape for screen readers is fragmented, but usage is not. A predominant number of users rely only on a handful of platforms and technologies. More is always better when it comes to testing, but given the scarcity of time, talent, and treasure, I would expect the best ROI by prioritizing the following list:
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Self-hosting Matomo with Docker | Davide Quaranta
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| Matomo is a viable alternative to Google Analytics as an ethical and privacy-oriented web analytics tool. In this post we see how to install it with Docker, alongside MariaDB and a couple of nginx-related containers.