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equal-access

IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker contains tools to automate accessibility checking from a browser or in a continuous development/build environment

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What it is

IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker contains tools to automate accessibility checking from a browser or in a continuous development/build environment

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

There is hope! I was going to point to my favorite example of the [menu] element being deprecated, but it looks like it's been un-deprecated! I've tried to find better…

ramses0 used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-05-20 08:45:37 UTC to 2025-04-11 13:09:03 UTC.

012020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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ramses0·Apr 11, 2025Recommendation phrase
There is hope! I was going to point to my favorite example of the [menu] element being deprecated, but it looks like it's been un-deprecated! I've tried to find better references, but mostly coming up with tutorial-trash and random `.edu` sites. Menu Deprecation Notice: https://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/appendix/changes.html Menu Deprecated in HTML 4: https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/lists.html#h-10.4 Menu Part of HTML 5 Spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110405/interactive-ele... Other Commentary: https://dpogue.ca/articles/html5-menu.html Random bug report: https://github.com/IBMa/equal-access/issues/752#issuecomment...
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