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Be a Dolphin not a Shark: Using cooperation over conflict to advance digital accessibility (Paris Web)
Lainey shares "share stories and strategies from 3 decades of accessibility convincing with public and private organizations"
paris-web.fr/2024/conference/b…
#a11y #accessibility #ParisWeb
Be a Dolphin not a Shark: Using cooperation over conflict to advance digital accessibility - Paris Web
This session will share stories and strategies from 3 decades of accessibility convincing with public and private organizations. Have you ever tried to convince someone of the value and importance of …Paris Web
The US Web Design System has deleted it's info on inclusive design, in response to the 2025-01-20 Executive order "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing".
github.com/uswds/uswds-site/pu…
If you know anyone who used those resources, let them know about the Inclusive Design principles:
inclusivedesignprinciples.info…
#accessibility #a11y #inclusion
Remove content related to 1/20/25 EO by thisisdano · Pull Request #3078 · uswds/uswds-site
Summary Removed report link and introduction. Removed content related to the January 20, 2025 Executive Order, "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing". This...GitHub
@Tutanota How do you plan to act on the a11y issues on the web/app? The roadmap doesn't talk about that and The BFSG comes into force in Germany on June 8, 2025.
> If your company operates in Germany or targets German users, you should make all content on your website or app accessible – from the homepage to the cookie banner. Otherwise, you risk not only high fines, but also reputational losses and missed business opportunities .
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cc @juliemoynat
Digital Accessibility in Germany: Requirements for Websites and Apps - consentmanager - English
Compliance with German accessibility laws - BFSG, BITV 2.0 and BGG. Make sure your website or app meets all requirements. For private and public companies.Sophia Hertzke (consentmanager - English)
It’s a two-fer!
“Federal Digital Accessibility Disappearance on Trump Day One; Guest article by civil rights and accessibility lawyer Eve Hill”
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Federal Digital Accessibility Disappearance on Trump Day One
The first week of the new republican administration was frightening and disorienting for all of us who believe in civil and human rights, justice, equality, fairness and more.Law Office of Lainey Feingold
Over at @LFLegal’s site:
“The Effect of Donald Trump’s DEI Executive Order on Accessibility; Guest article by civil rights and accessibility lawyer Eve Hill”
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The Effect of Donald Trump’s DEI Executive Order on Accessibility
Below I share a blog post written by Eve Hill, one of the best disability rights lawyers and digital accessibility legal specialists in the United States. (More about Eve at the end of this article.Law Office of Lainey Feingold
"A picture says a thousand words."
I'd like to amend that phrase:
"A picture says a thousand words but says nothing if you don't include alt text."
Alt text is a means of providing a visual description of what is in the image. If not included anything you are trying to portray is lost for people with blindness or a vision impairment.
I love to boost and like posts on the Fediverse but don't if there is no alt text present. It's not a hard task to do and most social web apps have the option to remind you to add alt text before you post them.
Please make your posts accessible to all and make the social web a truly inclusive environment.
What's new with Google Accessibility? Find out straight from Google From Talkback to live transcribe, workspace, and wallet!
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What’s New in Google Accessibility | Episode 7
Welcome back to another episode of What's New in Google Accessibility, a series where we share the latest product and feature updates that help make Google m...YouTube
"because nobody in Linuxland gives a shit about #a11y or your needs." -- has Debian rejected your patch to fix the issue and told you to screw yourself? What a bunch of dumbass!!
Joking aside, It's frustrating for sure, but no one is trying to get one over you or maximize shareholders' return. No one owe you anything for the free work they are doing.
Hi @Tutanota
I want you to know that your CAPTCHA is inaccessible for disabled people:
- blind people can't see the clock;
- visually impaired people may not be able to see it correctly too;
- dyscalculic people (like me!!) have difficulties reading a clock (moreover when all numbers are not written on it)!
I think this @w3c documentation should interest you to fix it: w3.org/TR/turingtest/
I hope you will do something so that everyone can use your services. Thanks.
Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA
Various approaches have been employed over many years to distinguish human users of web sites from robots. The traditional CAPTCHA approach asking users to identify obscured text in an image remains common, but other approaches have emerged.www.w3.org
The #BBC is looking for a Head of Digital #Accessibility, with the role only open to #deaf, #disabled, and/or #neurodivergent applicants. Hybrid working, based at any UK BBC hub. Salary up to £110,000.
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#a11y
"dyslexia simulators'' spread misinformation.
these "simulators" typically show letters being swapped around within words.
but #dyslexia is not a visual processing disorder. a person reading in Braille will still be dyslexic. a person reading in a language with no alphabet, like Chinese, will still be dyslexic.
people with dyslexia are #neurodivergent.
we don't have "simulators" for other neurodivergencies, like autism or adhd.
#a11y folks, we don't need them for dyslexia either.
Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/…
Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online…
Featuring @a11ytalks, @mgifford, @aardrian, @SteveFaulkner, @codepo8, @cferdinandi, @adactio, @rem, @cloudfour, @theadamsilver, and more.
#Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign
Web Design References: Webdev Newsletter
Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.www.d.umn.edu
I recently bought an LG TV and was happy to discover that it had a screen reader that even automatically began at startup! This video goes over the different accessibility features and my experience setting it up.
#Accessibility #A11y #Blind #LowVision
LG TV (Web OS) Accessibility | my accessibility experience
My brother and I bought an LG TV during the 2024 Black Friday sales. I've had an overall pretty good experience with it, though it could still definitely imp...YouTube
Text-overflow: ellipsis considered harmful
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Text-overflow: ellipsis considered harmful · Eric Eggert
On the downsides of constraining content through CSS.Eric Eggert
Free Scout appears to be an open source version of Zendesk. They openly mention accessibility and screen reader support in their documentation and right there on the homepage, which is good! Their demo is here and their main website is the second link. Stuff is deleted after a short while, but this is decently accessible! Could use some improvements but far more accessible and screen reader friendly than Zendesk! demo.freescout.net/login
Main page. freescout.net/
Still it's a shame #a11y work by @Matt Campbell is not continuing the way it has been envisioned from the start.
Chrome, as of 132, finally has keyboard support for scrolling containers:
adrianroselli.com/2022/06/keyb…
This assumes it doesn’t get rolled back again, as it has every other time it was deployed since 2018.
Silence from Safari.
Keyboard-Only Scrolling Areas
I have spent a few years banging on about ensuring scrolling areas on a page are accessible to keyboard-only users.Adrian Roselli
Spent the last 6 hours trying to get a hello world equivalent gui window with a button on rust under windows.
This task which one might think is simple ended up taking literal hours and still hasn't been achieved because: the tutorials for gtk on windows and rust suggest putting msys2 bin directory on the path. This causes rust to fail to build correctly because it uses the wrong gcc and linkers.
Afterwards I managed it by using the appropriate environment variables.
But then I found out the dynamically linked libarries weren't found. I tried getting a way to copy them but it turned out to be too much work so I just moved the executable to the same dir.
Only to find out that gtk4 has no accessibility on Windows. Not bad accessibility, not accessibility that needs to be turned on. No. Accessibility. At all.
So then I decided to try Qt, which wants me to create an account to get an installer. Absolute no.
Got the 1.5gb sources and trying now to get an off-line installer out of it.
To get a fucking window with a button in it.
I don't think it's unreasonable for me to say this state of affairs is complete bullshit, and that most people with a normal level of motivation would have found plenty of opportunities to have given up. I still might.
(Not using NWG because tying the data to the GUI elements is non-trivial, it seems to require copying a lot and using twice the memory.)
VO/desktop bug via @elly:
adrianroselli.com/2017/12/twea…
Using this pen:
cdpn.io/aardrian/debug/rNRxZmP
We both experience VO ignoring the start of most sentences when using read-all.
Is this a known issue?
Tweaking Text Level Styles
It’s a bit of a pain to pepper updates within the sections of the post, so just scroll down to the latest update and work your way back up. Considering how much I charge for this site, I am hoping my readers will accept the extra effort.Adrian Roselli
Hey.
Don’t wrap a `<figure>` in a link.
Definitely don’t use a `title` on that link.
adrianroselli.com/2025/01/dont…
Don’t Wrap Figure in a Link
In my post Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support I demonstrate how, when encountering a figure with a screen reader, you won’t hear everything announced at once: No screen reader combo treats the caption as the accessible name nor accessible de…Adrian Roselli
We are back for day 2 of #SPEVI2025. This morning we started with an inspiring keynote presentation by Mr Michael Sheppard, a solicitor who shared his experience growing up blind. The conference is on today and tomorrow at 293 Queen Street Brisbane, Australia
Pictured is NV Access founder Michael Curran chatting with Michael Sheppard after the presentation about how he uses NVDA.
#spevi #SpeciConference2025 #keynote #Conference #Brisbane #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y
HTML Developers: Please Consider – in the year of 2025
@aardrian returns to the Mastophone
#HTML #ARIA #WebDev #WebStandards #a11y
html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…
Please consider commenting to FTC about the case against AccessiBe for misleading advertising. Deadline Feb. 5.
Happy to be featured in an article this week in the FNN :
Five takeaways from GSA’s latest Section 508 assessment
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#GSA #Section508 #Accessibility #A11y
Five takeaways from GSA’s latest Section 508 assessment
Agencies are dedicating more time and staff to digital accessibility efforts, but acquisition is still a key hurdle when it comes to Section 508 compliance.Justin Doubleday (Federal News Network)