Hey, I've been under distress lately due to personal circumstances that are outside my control. I can't find a permanent job that allows me to function, I'm not eligible for government benefits, my grant proposals got rejected, paid internships are quite difficult to find. Essentially, I have no stable monthly income that allows me to sustain myself.

Nowadays, I work mostly on accessibility throughout GNOME as a volunteer, improving the experience of people with disabilities. I helped make the majority of GNOME Calendar accessible with a keyboard and screen reader — still an ongoing effort with !564 and !598 —which is an effort no company ever contributed financially. These merge requests take thousands (literally) of hours to research, develop, and test, which would have been enough to sustain myself for a couple of years if I had been working under a salary.

I would really appreciate any kinds of donations, especially ones that happen periodically to bump my monthly income.

These donations will allow me to sustain myself while allowing me to continue working on accessibility throughout GNOME, potentially even 'crowdfunding' development without doing it on the behalf of the Foundation.

I accept donations through the following platforms:

- “TheEvilSkeleton” on Liberapay: liberapay.com/TheEvilSkeleton/… (free and open-source platform)
- “TheEvilSkeleton” on Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/theevilskeleton
- “TheEvilSkeleton” on GitHub Sponsors: github.com/sponsors/TheEvilSke…

Boosts welcome and appreciated.

#Accessibility #a11y #GNOME #GNOMECalendar #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid

GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days

There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth …

^{TheEvilSkeleton}

Früher zeigte das #NextCloud Symbol in der #ubuntu Desktop-Statusleiste vollflächig durch grün, gelb und rot an, wie der aktuelle Stand der Syncronisation ist.

Seit einiger Zeit wurde es durch das Logo ersetzt, welches eine Art mini winzigen Badge, wahrscheinlich ein grünes Häkchen trägt, wenn die Sync i.O ist.

Ich kann es kaum erkennen und halte das nicht für eine Verbeserung und auch in Sachen der #Barrierefreiheit für fragwürdig, @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz
#a11y

Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/…

Featuring @michaelharshbarger, @aardrian, @SteveFaulkner, @deconspray, @mgifford , @sarajw, @matuzo, @j9t, @mehm8128, @Jayhoffmann, @Meyerweb, @bkardell, @adactio, @slightlyoff, and more.

Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online…

#Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign

APCA + WCAG 2 contrast checker. @mgifford’s tool that helps to test and refine color combinations meeting both WCAG 2.x and APCA accessibility requirements. The tool supports modern CSS color formats, provides harmony palette generation, and suggests adjustments to satisfy contrast thresholds. #a11y #color

mgifford.github.io/contrast-pl…

Bon je viens de retester mais on ne peut toujours pas activer l'accessibilité via les lecteurs d'écrans pour les app GTK4 sous Windows (donc Gajim), l'issue est toujours là mais je ne sais pas si quelqu'un arrivera à la corriger dans les mois/années à venir.

Si jamais vous êtes dev et que vous aimez GTK, l'issue est ici :
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/i…

Je peux tester des patch si besoin

#a11y #accessibility #dev #gtk

Crash with accesskit-c on Windows (#7653) · Issues · GNOME / gtk · GitLab

Example program: Using gtk 4.18.6, accesskit-c 0.15.1 Downstream report: https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/24812 Clicking on the button crashes. To...

^GitLab

N’utilisez pas Omnitools de @Framasoft si vous voulez faire des PDF accessibles aux personnes aveugles et malvoyantes 🙁

Malheureusement, l’outil supprime le balisage d’accessibilité dans ses différents outils (à l’exception de l’outil « Faire pivoter le PDF »).

On pourrait aller plus vite et dire ne faites pas de PDF si vous voulez faire accessible, mais bon.

En dehors d'Adobe Acrobat Pro (ça m'attriste), la plupart des outils sont pas bons.

#accessibilité #AccessibilitéNumérique #PDF #a11y

This year brought great improvements to #accessibility in GNOME, including:

• Accessibility from the start on the login screen
• Full accessibility of GNOME Web
• Tons of improvements to Calendar
• Screen reader integration for Notifications
• Configure #Orca screen reader from Settings
• GTK apps integrated w/Windows & macOS accessibility

Help us reach 1,500 #FriendsOfGNOME so we can focus on accessibility even more in 2026!

donate.gnome.org

#a11y #GNOME #FOSS #OpenSource #Linux

If you have a #Dell laptop whose function keys act normally but whose Home and End keys do not, apparently the fix is the following.

* Restart your machine and at the Dell logo, repeatedly tap the F2 to get into BIOS.

* Look for POST Behaviour.

* FN Lock: Ensure this setting is Enabled.

* Make sure Lock Mode Secondary is selected.

Now I just have to find a sighted person to do this for me, because in 2025, BIOS is still inaccessible.

#blind #accessibility #A11Y

Thank you for writing this @aardrian 🫶🏻

adrianroselli.com/2025/12/you-…

There's a short story of frustration and comfort behind this post. A friendly discussion led to a writeup by Adrian, and I will follow up later with a little more about the backstory as I know it can bring some much-needed comfort to many people getting into or already working in #a11y

You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone

This post’s title is unpleasant, but it’s important to acknowledge the reality of the human condition and limitations in technologies. Even purpose-built assistive tech.

^{Adrian Roselli}

El marcado HTML incorrecto es una de las fuentes más habituales de barreras de accesibilidad. Georgiana Frincu comparte ejemplos reales de qué ocurre cuando la semántica falla y cómo solucionarlo de forma eficiente.

#a11yConf2025 #a11y #a11yConf #accesibilidad

Todos creemos saber cómo funciona nuestra web… hasta que la probamos como lo haría una persona que usa tecnologías de asistencia. En este taller en la sala Next Digital, Núria Azanza y Karina Ramírez guian pruebas reales para que escuches lo que “dice” tu pantalla.

#a11yConf2025 #a11y #a11yConf #accesibilidad

La visualización de datos puede generar barreras si no se piensa en todas las personas. Carmen Torrecillas explica cómo estructurar, describir y representar datos para que también sean comprensibles para quienes usan tecnologías de asistencia.

#a11yConf2025 #a11y #a11yConf #accesibilidad

ARIA es potente, pero solo si se usa bien. Mia Salazar revisa casos en los que los atributos ayudan, en los que generan problemas y cómo encontrar el equilibrio entre semántica, estructura y accesibilidad.

#a11yConf2025 #a11y #a11yConf #accesibilidad

Finally hit publish on a blog post I've been writing for a while.

It's common to hear the term "fully accessible" used to describe products which have passed WCAG 2.2 level AA. But, are they really?

In this post, I explore 5 examples which highlight why WCAG, as awesome as it is, is not a measure of great usability or performance.

craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2025/5-…

#accessibility #a11y #wcag

5 reasons why WCAG AA compliance does not mean your website is accessible

5 reasons why WCAG compliance does not mean accessible accessible

^{Craig Abbott (craigabbott.co.uk)}

@renchap

Indeed, this annoys me regularly also and it is very anti-#accessibility #a11y

WE DID IT, WE FUCKING DID IT

WE GOT KEYBOARD NAVIGATION WORKING IN GNOME CALENDAR'S MONTH VIEW

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c… (not merged yet)

Do note that the screen recording attached won't have any alt text, to avoid redundancy. Everything written below is a detailed explanation of the experience, and the recording is essentially a visual demonstration:

- When entering the month view with Tab, focus is set to the first event widget, and pressing Tab will focus the next event widget horizontally.
- Ctrl+Tab will move focus to the month cell located at the focused event widget. Ctrl+Arrow will move focus to the edges of the view.
- When out of boundaries horizontally, the focus moves onto the other side of the view.
- When out of boundaries vertically, the view will automatically scroll to that direction.
- Shift+Arrow will move focus and initiate selection; pressing arrow keys will select ranges of cells, and letting go of Shift will display the new event popover.
- When a month cell has overflowing events (as in, there are not enough event widgets that can fit inside the month cell), pressing tab will focus the overflow button, and activating it will show a list of events.

#GNOME #Calendar #GNOMECalendar #GTK4 #Libadwaita #a11y #Accessibility

🎉 IT'S FINALLY HERE!

Altbot now has a public API!

Everyone kept asking, So i finally made it. Generate alt-text for your images programmatically, perfect for photographers, bloggers, and developers who upload lots of images.

Pay what you can ($5 minimum)

What you get: Unlimited API access for a month (up to 5,000 images)

API key sent to your email automatically within minutes!

You can get a Subscription, set it and forget it, which auto-renews monthly.
Or do a One-time purchase, no commitment, buy when you need it.

(You can check your remaining time via the API if you go the one-time route!)

Get access:
🔄 Subscription: ko-fi.com/micr0byte/tiers
🎟️ One-time: ko-fi.com/s/a2d4aabd54

Docs: github.com/micr0-dev/Altbot/bl…

All processing happens locally & privately, no images are stored. Same privacy-first approach as always. And you help support the Altbot project :)

Questions? Reply here or check the docs!

#accessibility #a11y #fediverse #api #alttext #altbot

Altbot/API.md at main · micr0-dev/Altbot

Accessibility bot designed to enhance the Fediverse by generating alt-text descriptions for images, video, and audio. - micr0-dev/Altbot

^GitHub

After two long and painful years, several design iterations, and more than 50 rebases later, we finally merged the infamous, trauma-inducing merge request !362 on GNOME Calendar.

The calendars list in the quick-add popover has undergone accessibility improvements, providing a better experience for assistive technologies and keyboard users (to a limited extent). Specifically: tabbing from outside the list will focus the selected calendar in the list; tabbing from inside the list will skip the entire list; arrow keys automatically select the focused calendar; and finally, assistive technologies now inform the user of the checked/selected state.

Admittedly, the quick-add popover is currently unreachable via keyboard because we lack the resources to implement keyboard focus for month and week cells. We are currently trying to address this issue in merge request !564, and hope to get it merged for GNOME 50, but it's a significant undertaking for a single unpaid developer. If it is not too much trouble, I would really appreciate some donations, to keep me motivated to improve accessibility throughout GNOME and sustain myself: tesk.page/#donate

For non-accessibility-related details about this merge request, feel free to check out mastodon.social/@nekohayo/1155…

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #GTK4 #libadwaita #accessibility #a11y #calendar #FOSS #OpenSource

Draft: Make month cells accessible (!564) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

Related:

^GitLab

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)

2025-11-18 15:20:43

First MR merged in the currently happening GNOME Calendar livestream: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

It's already available in the current nightly flatpak version. It is so nice to be able to use the new event quick-add popover, with no extra swirly pages etc. to pick the target calendar. Very efficient! 😌

Thanks to @TheEvilSkeleton for their patience and sisyphean rebasing of that much awaited merge request over the past 2 years 🫡

4 tickets have been closed as a result!

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #UX

quick-add-popover: Port to libadwaita widgets and merge stack pages (!362) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

Both stack pages are merged into one, to avoid additional clicks. Mnemonics were added to accommodate keyboard users as well. Closes

^GitLab

Did you know you can add audio description to your YouTube videos? Here's a quick tutorial on how to do it!
youtu.be/yHpyYVd3iNA

#Accessibility #a11y

How to add Descriptive Audio to YouTube Videos | Audio Description

Here's a quick tutorial on how to add a descriptive audio track (audio description track) to YouTube videos! Link to support article:https://support.google.c...

^YouTube

You probably don’t need `aria-label` for that thing.

It doesn’t auto-translate:
adrianroselli.com/2019/11/aria…

It’s code smell:
ericwbailey.website/published/…

You can probably use better methods:
adrianroselli.com/2020/01/my-p…

#accessibility #a11y #ARIA

aria-label Does Not Translate

As of my 25 July 2025 update at the end of this post, aria-label auto-translation support is less spotty than when I first wrote this post, but still unreliable. It does, actually. Sometimes.

^{Adrian Roselli}