Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong
The warning is correct. And the recommended fixes you've probably seen are wrong. Here's what you can do instead to properly fix the issue.
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The Siren Song of ariaNotify()
There's a brand new
ariaNotify() method — defined by the WAI-ARIA 1.3 Specification — that provides a means of programmatically triggering narration in a screen reader. 
Mat Marquis
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There’s no need to include ‘navigation’ in your navigation labels
One of those nuances to keep in your back pocket when writing for screen readers.
Geoff Graham
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Quick Hit #129
Firefox 150 shipped ariaNotify(), an alternative to ARIA live regions, but it lacks Safari support and is unreliable on macOS.…
Quick Hit #120
Chrome 147 ships contrast-color() (the Color Level 5 version that only resolves to black or white), making it baseline.…
Popover API or Dialog API: Which to Choose?
Choosing between Popover API and Dialog API is difficult because they seem to do the same job, but they don’t! After a bit lots of research, I discovered that the Popover API and Dialog API are wildly different in terms of accessibility and we'll go over that in this article.
Zell Liew
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Approximating contrast-color() With Other CSS Features
The new
contrast-color() function is not fully supported yet. But can we still implement it in a cross-browser friendly way using other new CSS features? 
Kevin Hamer
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Quick Hit #92
Chrome Canary trials <meta name=text-scale, making OS-level text scaling work on the web.…
There is No Need to Trap Focus on a Dialog Element
Accessibility advice around modals have commonly taught us to trap focus within the modal. Upon further research, it seems like we no longer need to trap focus within the
<dialog> (even in modal mode).
Zell Liew
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I Learned The First Rule of ARIA the Hard Way
Semantic HTML does a lot more accessibility work than we usually give it credit for already — and ARIA is simple to abuse when we use it both as a shortcut and as a supplement.
