👁️ @w3c AGWG (Accessibility Guidelines Working Group) Teleconference
15 Oct 2024 - draft minutes

"RESOLUTION: We will explore having a set of required provisions that is somewhat comparable to WCAG 2.2 A & AA and a set of provisions and assertions that can be used to build upon that through points, percentages, or predefined sets of provisions (modules)."

#WCAG3 #WCAG #accessibility #WebStandards

w3.org/2024/10/15-ag-minutes.h…

🦈 JAWS (only) NO MORE

"In 2017 I embarked on a journey to improve and open the reporting of issues with JAWS support for Web Standards.

I continued to work on this after leaving TPGi, until now…"

#WebStandards, #Screenreader #accessibility #HTML

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) invites you to review the draft French translation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2:

🇫🇷 Règles pour l’accessibilité des contenus Web (WCAG) 2.2

wcag.access42.net/22/

#WCAG #WebStandards #accessibility #internationalisation

⌨️ prayer for the un-entitled user

"Like the rest of the web platform, interoperability is key to accessibility support. It is safe to say at this time (September 2024) that the display of title attribute content on keyboard focus is not implemented interoperably."

#a11y #WebStandards #WebDev

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…

With the help of ChatGPT I have added alt text to images in my slide deck "No Industry for Old Men" from #a11yTO 2023

#a11y #webStandards #HTML #ARIA #Depression #aging #ai

docs.google.com/presentation/d…

No industry for old men

^{Google Docs}

I have started contributing PR's to improve the @w3c #HTML Validator/Checker, you should too!

#WebDev #WebStandards

github.com/validator/validator…

Issues · validator/validator

Nu Html Checker – Helps you catch problems in your HTML/CSS/SVG - Issues · validator/validator

^GitHub

Glad <dialog> focus is finally being implemented/defined in a reasonable way after a torturous years long, largely pointless, discussion.

“1. Make the dialog focusing steps look at sequentially focusable elements instead of any focusable element.

2. Make the dialog element itself get focus if it has the autofocus="" attribute set.

3. Make the dialog element itself get focus as a fallback instead of focus being reset to the body element.”

#HTML #WebStandards #a11y

github.com/whatwg/html/commit/…

Implement dialog initial focus proposal · whatwg/html@a9f103c

This implements the changes proposed here: https://github.com/whatwg/html/wiki/dialog--initial-focus,-a-proposal#dialog-draft-text Specifically: 1. Make the dialog focusing steps look at seq...

^GitHub