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Reflections on the 2022 Web Almanac’s accessibility findings	2022-10-10T21:37:52-07:00	https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/accessibility	Accessibility: The 2022 Web Almnac	TechArticle	HTTP Archive	https://httparchive.org/	Organization

I have a few thoughts on these findings:

1. The Almanac says skip links commonly skip to the <main> element; I consider [large focusable containers an anti-pattern]({{<relref "/posts/website-best-practices.md#against-focusable-containers">}}) since they ruin keyboard navigability, and recommend skipping to a heading instead.

2. The Almanac identifies accessible live regions by role="live". I'd suggest also looking into role="feed", which represents a common type of live region.

Some common accessibility issues I'd be interested in for future editions:

• Contrast that's too high
• Setting custom foregrounds but not custom backgrounds, and vice versa
• Removing link underlines
• Focusable containers
• Using icon fonts without accessible names

Overall, it's a good look at the small subset of accessibility issues that are automatically detectable (most of which are far less critical than manually-detectable issues).