But Why?? A look at common patterns found on the web, how they are harmful for accessibility, and what to do instead. noti.st/melsumner/7dgask/slide… Slides by @melaniersumner from EmberFest in September 2024. #webdev #webdesign #a11y #uiDesign #uxDesign
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I really feel sorry for the public sector employees working on meeting this #a11y deadline for PDFs.
"PDFs are where services go to die."
No doubt the people working on this will be super under-resourced, and actually meeting this deadline won't be seen as much of a win by anyone, but not meeting it has legal and dire consequences.
To be clear more #a11y is good! Under-resourcing teams is not!
deptcivicthings.substack.com/p…
#Government #PublicInterestTech #CivicTech
The elephant in the new accessibility law: PDFs
If your government agency is typical, you have a lot of PDFs. Probably thousands. They are probably not accessible.Rebecca Woodbury (Department of Civic Things newsletter)
A couple years ago I opened a thread to add #AltText on #Mastodon banners and profile pictures. Now detailed todos are being posted. Is there anyone who could help in this case?
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
#a11y #Acessibility
Add ALT-Tag to banner and profile pictures and make the value editable for acessiblility reasons · Issue #10313 · mastodon/mastodon
Pitch The banner and profile picts on the profile site has no ALT or ARIA tags. Blind people can't get information about the content of this images. Motivation Additional text information for image...GitHub
It took a while but the developer has finally added the required accessibility enhancements so I can finally share a fun little game called Language Guessr. You're given a short audio recording and it is your task to guess what language it is in. Should you give the wrong answer, you have the option to hear a sample recording in the language you indicated so that you can learn the difference. A great little toy for language geeks. There's an edit combobox at the top to search for the country so that you don't have to navigate the map view which doesn't work with screen readers. Happy playing! languageguessr.io/ #Accessibility #A11y #Blind #Languages
Steve Faulkner's presentation slides for the State of the Browser 2024 conference, "No Industry for Old Men":
docs.google.com/presentation/d… #webdev #html #a11y
docs.google.com/presentation/d… #webdev #html #a11y
“Shopify, accessibility lawsuits & ‘Compliance’”
nicchan.me/blog/shopify-access…
Long read that looks at responsibility, content accessibility, the ACR of one theme, and drive-by lawsuits.
This quote tho: “In a way, the Shopify app store and theme store create a parasitic ecosystem.”
Shopify, accessibility lawsuits & 'Compliance' - Nic Chan
Accessibility is your responsibility too.www.nicchan.me
As neither of the current Accessibility team representatives are able to log-in to WordPress.org, team meetings are suspended until further notice. Bug scrubs will continue to run as normal.
Totally fine! make.wordpress.org/accessibili… #A11y
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS - WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.WordPress.org
And now this too ...
"neither of the current Accessibility team representatives are able to log-in to WordPress.org "
make.wordpress.org/accessibili…
#A11y
Today I heard about Altirra, a free Windows emulator of 8-bit Atari computers. In the latest version it includes an accessibility mode, turned on from the configuration dialog under the system menu. After you do the emulated screen can be reviewed just like a modern command prompt (IE with NVBDA's review commands.) It aalso supports emulating a lot of peripherals and you can have authentic floppy drive sounds and I'm a total sucker for those. It's really cool to see another vintage #retro computer platform become accessible like this. #a11y #accessibility virtualdub.org/altirra.html
The amazing thing about open source services is, you can create interfaces for it the way you imagine them best. Currently testing #Pipilo, an iOS Fediverse client by @luckkerr which presents each timeline as a horizontal bar you swipe through to get to the next post. From a VoiceOver perspective, a slider control is presented and you explore the posts by swiping up and down, then explore the screen to discover things like links, replies in the corresponding thread, attached multimedia. Łukasz also makes sure that everything works correctly with VO and more goodies are already there in the current Testflight build. Glad to see this level of attentiveness to accessibility and a fellow Polish person coding fedithings. Give it a try. apps.apple.com/pl/app/pipilo/i… #Accessibility #A11y #Blind #iOSDev
Web accessibility basics — Headings. By WebAIM (updated): webaim.org/techniques/headings… #headings #webdesign #webdev #a11y
Accessing Higher Ground — Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference. A Hybrid Event. November 11 - 15, Denver CO. accessinghigherground.org/virt… #a11y #events #ahg
One of the themes which came through from the NVDA Satisfaction Survey earlier this year, was to improve Braille support. To help us target the most needed improvements, we have created a short survey. If you use NVDA with braille at least some of the time, please consider completing this survey.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Please also share with anyone else who may be interested.
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Braille #Accessibility #A11y #Survey #CommunityInput
It seems time again to remind everyone not to use ARIA `menu` roles for web site navigation:
adrianroselli.com/2017/10/dont…
From a technical perspective, there is no such thing as “dropdowns”:
adrianroselli.com/2020/03/stop…
That imprecise terminology leads to more miscommunication between sales folks, designers, and devs than is necessary. Then weird stuff gets built from scratch instead of leaning on existing patterns.
You should dismiss articles that conflate the two.
Come work with me on a small yet growing accessibility team at Spotify! (London / Stockholm) Are you passionate about engineering and tackling cross-platform reaching issues? Working with groups to drive changes that you know will be felt, seen, and heard by all our users once done? This is the place for you. Our Senior Engineer role is open.
Bonus: You'll get to work with an amazing nerd such as myself and we'll talk AT and AI all day. lifeatspotify.com/jobs/senior-… #jobs #A11Y
Bonus: You'll get to work with an amazing nerd such as myself and we'll talk AT and AI all day. lifeatspotify.com/jobs/senior-… #jobs #A11Y
There are two solutions to ARIA Live Region issues:
1. Don’t use ARIA Live Regions (but use focus, dialogs, or other managing of what’s going on)
2. Put the live region in the DOM at page load (They cost nothing. If you need an alert and a status, put two divs in with both roles.)
See more in these slides:
I am glad `<datalist>` saw some fixes in Safari, as spotted by @adactio adactio.com/journal/21445
However, other bugs (such as the ones I link from JAWS and Firefox) are still open as well as voice control challenges and text size issues:
adrianroselli.com/2023/06/unde… (anchor link)
So nothing likely changes in your support landscape. Yes, this still makes me sad.
People on StackOverflow telling people to screw up #accessibility with the HTML dialog element defeats the purpose of using that element in the first place IMO. Please upvote my answer that corrects the numerous wrong answers, including the accepted answer, to this question if you have an SO account.
stackoverflow.com/a/79028606/2…
#webDev #a11y #html #css #javaScript
Respecting Users’ Motion Preferences smashingmagazine.com/2021/10/r… #css #a11y #uxDesign #webdesign
Reminder: To celebrate our 100th follower on Mastodon we are slashing our prices in half! 50% off all of our courses, just enter code 100-masto-pals on checkout! This code is Mastodon only. Valid until end of September. a11y-collective.com/courses-ov…
(But I can't keep you from sharing this code with anyone who needs a solid foundation in all things Web Accessibility.)
#a11y
#accessibility
Green accessibility for web developers (video preso): mediaspace.umn.edu/media/t/1_h… #webdev #webdevelopment #a11y #css
Only two weeks left to buy tickets to a11yTO Conf! (3-4 Oct, Toronto) conf.a11yto.com/ I'm speaking 🙂 #a11yTO #a11y #events #toronto
The TTRPGs for Accessible Gaming Bundle on Itch is live. This supports a partnership between the DOTS RPG Project and Die Hard Dice to produce commercially avaliable high quality Braille dice for BVI players. DOTS RPG dice are super amazing quality. I was able to beta test their newest design and cannot say enough good things. Find the Bbundle here to support an amazing cause: itch.io/b/2623/ttrpgs-for-acce… #TTRPG #Braille #Blind #Accessibility #A11y #RPG
In just a few minutes, Inclusive Design 24 will be getting underway... 24 hours of #free talks about everything related to inclusive design:
inclusivedesign24.org/2024/
#accessibility #design #code #UX #XR #gaming #disability #a11y #id24
I'm happy to announce the release of the new, modernized a11y-syntax-highlighting themes! Nothing has visually changed, but there's a lot of cool stuff going on under the hood. #a11y ericwbailey.website/published/…
The twelfth edition of @inclusivedesign24 #id24 is just over 2 days away.
Free, online, no registration, no product pitches. Just show up (on time or not).
Countdown timer is on the schedule:
inclusivedesign24.org/2024/sch…
YouTube playlist waiting for you:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn7…
How to Use Rem Units in CSS for Accessible Design a11y-collective.com/blog/what-… #css #webdesign #a11y
Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for nine years but the real problem is me lobste.rs/s/sdkbtk #a11y #linux #rant
ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be…
ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be…
Because I can’t be arsed to re-up my Dragon license, kudos to @siblingpastry for the most recent test of voice control support for wrapped labels:
tpgi.com/should-form-labels-be…
Oh, thank goodness not having a fully functional screen reader isn’t a blocker for Fedora 41. We wouldn’t want them to miss their 10th anniversary of shipping an operating system without a fully functional screen reader, after all.
ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be…
#Fedora #RedHat #IBM #a11y #accessibility #screenReader #orca #linux #openSource #FOSS #ableism masto.ai/@phoronix/11307885166…
I wrote a @TPGi blog post last year on 20 #DigitalAccessibility books. Since then, quite a few more have been published, so I've blogged about 19 more.
⌨️ 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."
Anyone running macOS 15 and want to test to see if this `aria-activedescendant` bug is really fixed?
bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i…
It’s not that I don’t trust Apple folks, it’s just that I have learned never to take the “Fixed!” assertion at face value.
#a11y #accessibility #Safari #ARIA