#564: Accessibility Guidelines and Techniques
Free accessibility book, accessible tooltips, virtual scrolling, accessibility context systems and inaccessible AI-generated UIs. Issue #564 • June 23, 2026 • View in the browser Dear Smashing Friends, Have we fixed front-end accessibility yet? Well, not really. Pages are getting significantly denser and more complex. The number of accessibility issues has increased by 10.1% from 51 errors in 2025 to 56.1 errors in 2026. After all these years, these errors haven’t changed at all. They are still related to poor color contrast , missing alt-text, missing form input labels, empty links and empty buttons. And: there is more ARIA code being deployed, but often implemented poorly, and so ...