I absolutely adore Smashing Magazine and Vitaly Friedman’s work on accessibility.
Smashing is the whole package – articles, a knowledge base, training, and conferences.
The website has one of those really cool multi-stage skip links that, as a keyboard user, I wish more people implemented. You can skip to main, the beginning of the article, a list of all articles on a topic, or all articles on every topic. That type of attention to detail is the ultimate sign of someone who views accessibility as way more than a checkbox exercise fixing bugs from an audit. It’s a sign of talking to keyboard only users and implementing what they asked for.
So, on AccessibilityTriumphThursday, I celebrate @Smashing, @Vitaly, and all the other great authors who have published accessibility articles there. Dr. Eric Bailey, Eleanor Hecks, MICHELE C WILLIAMS, Yichan Wang Kate Kalcevich, Kent Eisenhuth , @Oreana Garcia, Maxwell Barvian … I’m sure I missed a few, if I left you off it was completely accidental please tag yourself and your article below. Accessibility professionals, if there is a Smashing article you keep bookmarked, tag that too!