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"Most importantly, tooltips should only provide descriptive and non-essential text, giving slightly more detailed text for active elements such as links and form controls. Ultimately, they provide expendable text which is already on the web page."

htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/202…

Great in-depth article about #tooltips by Jan Hellbusch. He knows what he's talking about, had the pleasure to be in one of his workshops and he's an absolute pro. 🤯

#HTML #CSS #JavaScript #accessibility #a11y #HTMHell


Adobe has just added AltText & Extended Description to the IPTC fields supported by Lightroom Classic (I requested this feature in March 2022 & just got word that they've added it). This is potentially huge for anyone who uses LR to prep images for social media, e.g. Mastodon, or the Web.

@paul Could Ivory automatically read these fields & use them to populate the alt-text on image posts? (Read Ext. Desc. first, fallback to AltText?)

iptc.org/std/photometadata/spe…

#a11y #accessibility #photography



NVDA 2024.1 Beta 1 is now available for testing. Highlights include a new on-demand speech mode, the ability to drop speech modes from the NVDA+s command, a new "native selection" mode for Firefox, bulk actions in the add-on store & ability to review add-ons & more!

Note this release breaks add-on compatibility and only works on Windows 8.1 and newer.

Full info and Download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Update #Beta #NewVersion #A11y #Accessibility #News


European Commission makes statement on accessibility overlays.

"Claims that a website can be made fully compliant without manual intervention are not realistic"

"overlay tools may make a website less accessible for some users"

commission.europa.eu/resources…

#eu #a11y #accessibility #overlays #fail



I don't think #WebAIM has an account on the fediverse yet, but the 10th iteration of their Screen Ready survey is now live.

The vital #a11y insights created from these surveys help inform our understanding of the technological and usability landscape. This helps to shape how accessible, and importantly usable experiences are created on the web.

If you use a screen reader, I hope you'll please consider filling it out: webaim.org/projects/screenread…


iOS accessibility techniques and sample app from CVS

#opensource #a11y #iOS

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Call to the global accessibility community. An overlay company won a 26,000 Euro judgment against accessibility consultancy Koena, a woman-owned 7 person shop run by @armonyaltinier. Koena was sued for sharing its opinion, as part of the global public conversation about the overlay company's one-line-of-code product.

I'm supporting Koena's fundraising campaign to raise money to appeal the judgment. Learn how you can help: lflegal.com/2021/11/overlay-le… #accessibility #a11y



Say hello to our official Telegram channel. We're slowly but surely taking steps to get closer to you and make our content accessible to everyone. Our Telegram channel will keep you up to date with the latest news, tips, app insights and device reviews straight from our website. Subscribe to us for all things Android accessibility! t.me/AccessibleAndroid #Android #A11y #Accessibility #Telegram




Just ONE WEEK until our Accessibility Webinar! Want to be a better #a11y with your Wagtail projects? Join us to learn how.

Sign up here: bit.ly/3uioUme

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In-Process is out! Featuring some more NVDA 2023.3 goodies, a few other things we've been up to, a sneak peek at something in NVDA 2024.1 AND a HUGE walkthrough of Object Navigation. If you're not familiar with how object navigation works after that, I'll give you a refund on the cost of your In-Process subscription! 🤑: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-4…

#NVAccess #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #Tutorial #A11y #Accessibility



I have a question regarding a semantic HTML construct, and I'd like to know what the current consensus is (if there is one). So here goes:

Should navigation links be placed in an unordered list in a <nav>?

The spec doesn't recommend anything, but examples from MDN (developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…) and WHATWG (html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage…) consistently use lists unless the contents are written in prose. Is this still the preference more broadly?

I have some other questions in this area. Safari removes list semantics if you remove the bullets (with exceptions, such as if the list is a child of "nav"), due to alleged "list-itis". At what point do lists become inappropriate? If I have a list of blog posts, and I format them as cards, with a heading, publish date, summary, and an image, is that too much content for each <li>?

Also, MDN and WHATWG point out not all links should be contained in navs (such as footer links), and "nav" should instead signal major blocks of navigation links. Would my prior example of a list of blog posts count as a major block? Should I enclose my list of blog posts in a nav? Does that extend to all section, category, and tag pages listing pages in that section/category/tag?

Feel free to respond if you have opinions, but keep it civil, and boosts are appreciated.

#HTML #semanticHTML #WebDev #website #accessibility #a11y



Are you involved in digital accessibility outside the United States? I welcome updates to my global law and policy page - and I'd especially like to hear how laws and policies are implemented outside the United States.

I'm getting ready for Part 2 of my digital #accessibility legal update coming up on December 7. Free and online. Global page is here: lflegal.com/global-law-and-pol… You can register for the webinar here: go.3playmedia.com/wbnr-11-30-2… #a11y


Nice. "Sesame Workshop Enhances Accessibility for Sesame Street Content" (with ASL and AD) linkedin.com/posts/internation… by IAAP via LinkedIn #a11y #asl #audioDesc


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So I wrote a blog post for the first time in 5 years, warning about hcaptcha's accessibility account. Long story short, they banned me from the accessibility account because I'm not blind. I am blind, but well, they seem to think not. Please boost, share, etc since this seriously affects me, and it's not ok at all. You can read the full blog post here: 4mt.me/hcaptchastory

#blind #hcaptcha #a11y #accessibility #boost






Congratulations to Gene, recipient of this year's RNZFB Chair's Award. It is wonderful to see your hard work & advocacy over many years acknowledged with this prestigious award. Gene has long advocated for NVDA & been a great friend to us in New Zealand. We're excited to see him honoured.

Read more at: blindlowvision.org.nz/news/cha…

#Blindness #Blind #Advocacy #RNZFB #BlindLowVision #A11y #Accessibility #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader



Related: 4 examples of web-accessible date pickers...

WAI: w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/d…

Deque: dequeuniversity.com/library/ar…

U.S. Web Design System
designsystem.digital.gov/compo…

Tommy Feldt: fymmot.github.io/inclusive-dat…

#date #calendar #UIDesign #webdesign #webdev #a11y


A super cool course: Accessible Technology Design, by AccessibleEU (free, online, self-paced, in English).

This introductory course consists of 6 modules:

1. Accessibility and Inclusive Design.
2. ICT Accessibility Laws and Standards.
3. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
4. Digital Accessibility Myths.
5. Avoiding Non-Inclusive Design Patterns.
6. Creating Inclusive Designs.

accessible-eu-centre.ec.europa…

#a11y

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