We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Gerald Hartig as the new Chief Technology Officer at NV Access.

Please read the full announcement by Michael Curran, NV Access founder at nvaccess.org/post/welcoming-dr…

Please join all of the NV Access team in welcoming Gerald into our community!

#NVAccess #NVDA #NVDAsr #News #Accessibility #A11y #Software

NVDA 2024.1 Beta 3 is now available for download and testing!

Changes introduced in Beta 3:

- Bug fixes for excluding speech modes from the cycle speech mode command from settings

- Improved battery time reporting message to pluralise hours/minutes/seconds correctly

- Updates to translations

Read the full details and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11y #News

Building and coordinating a team to support the GNOME project is one of the most fulfilling job I've had.

I find these are some of the biggest challenges

• Lots of people and organizations to coordinate with 🗺️
• Some projects are cans of worms 🥫🐛
• So many things to do 🏃

But it's very rewarding and everyone is brilliant and passionate.

I think I'll start sharing more personal updates on our efforts

Context foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/0…

#Linux #GNOME #accessibility #freedesktop #a11y

Koena lost a judgment to overlay vendor FACIL’iti (I have opinions on crap anti-SLAPP protections in France).

From @armonyaltinier:
framapiaf.org/@armonyaltinier/…

From Koena:
koena.net/faciliti-contre-koen…

My take:
adrianroselli.com/2022/03/faci…

Donate (or share) for an appeal:
leetchi.com/fr/c/aider-koena-a…

#a11y #accessibility #overlay

FACIL'iti contre Koena : jugement + cagnotte - Koena

Koena condamnée à payer plus de 26000 € à FACIL'iti. Koena fait appel. Une cagnotte est lancée pour soutenir Koena dans ses frais de justice.

^{Armony ALTINIER (Koena)}

Section508.gov - Fiscal Year 23 Government-wide Section 508 Assessment

section508.gov/manage/section-…

#government #Section508 #gov #DigitalGov #USA #WCAG #A11y

If you purchase a company that has:
• lied about “ADA compliance”,
• stolen content from others,
• relied on false advertising,
• pushed its broken LLM,
• manipulated WAVE checks,
• claimed lawsuit protection,

…and then reward that behavior by making its CEO / founder the president of your own company, then I am wary of claims the behavior will stop.

adrianroselli.com/2021/09/user…

#accessibility #a11y #UserWay #LevelAccess

#UserWay Will Get You Sued

Disclaimer: This post and the headline is my opinion. I provide verifiable facts throughout to inform that opinion.

^{Adrian Roselli}

Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/… Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online… #Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign

Featuring @aardrian, @siblingpastry, @theaccessibilityguy, @intopia, @mgifford, @Kilian, @hexagoncircle, @michelle, @Myndex, @huijing, @stephaniewalter, @a11ytalks, @ItsCrisDiaz, @lara_amalia, @hwsanden, @melaniersumner, @j9t, @cferdinandi, @maggie, @Meyerweb, @nilsbinder et al.

Llega tarde, pero resultados del seguimiento de 2022 del observatorio de accesibilidad sobre sitios web y aplicaciones de las AAPP: administracionelectronica.gob.…

#AdministraciónDigital #AdministraciónElectrónica #a11y #a11d #accesibilidad #AdministraciónPública

At number 10, Alt text decide-o-matic.

This decision tree will help you understand how best to include text alternatives for image-based content.

It is based on the @w3c alt text decision tree.

#a11y #accessibility

design.scotentblog.co.uk/toolb…

Alt text decide-o-matic | Scottish Enterprise Design blog

This decision tree will help you understand how best to include text alternatives for image-based content. It is based on the W3C's alt text decision tree.

^{Scottish Enterprise}

The European Commission explains that accessibility overlays aren't able to make sites accessible, and can make sites **less** accessible. Promises of an easy solution that skips the work of making a site accessible don't stand up.

commission.europa.eu/resources…

#a11y #Accessibility

Accessibility overlays

Web accessibility overlays are tools or technologies that aim to improve the accessibility of a website. However, claims that a website can be made fully compliant in an automated fashion are not realistic.

^{European Commission}

Happy to provide a quote or two for this article on the OMB's new memo on accessibility. Accessibility statements are an important piece of CX. federalnewsnetwork.com/technol…

#accessibility #DigitalGov #Section508 #a11y

OMB issues digital accessibility guidelines, tells agencies to set up public feedback mechanism

The new White House directive looks to hold agencies more accountable for meeting digital accessibility requirements.

^{Justin Doubleday (Federal News Network)}

I'm really happy to see this OMB memo on digital #accessibility. So many game-changing initiatives that will have a government-wide positive impact on digital #a11y #DigitalGov #GovA11y

whitehouse.gov/omb/management/…

M-24-08 Strengthening Digital Accessibility and the Management of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act | OMB | The White House

View or download as a PDF. December 21, 2023 M-24-08 MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM: Shalanda D.

^{The White House}

Nice, the European Union has officially stated that accessible overlays do not work. This isn't news to most of us, but it's always nice to have something official to point at!

commission.europa.eu/resources…

#a11y #accessibility #accessibledesign

Accessibility overlays

Web accessibility overlays are tools or technologies that aim to improve the accessibility of a website. However, claims that a website can be made fully compliant in an automated fashion are not realistic.

^{European Commission}

"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

Design pattern for custom tooltips - HTMHell

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

^{Design pattern for custom tooltips - 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

European Commission on accessibility overlays: commission.europa.eu/resources…

#EU #a11y #overlays

Accessibility overlays

Web accessibility overlays are tools or technologies that aim to improve the accessibility of a website. However, claims that a website can be made fully compliant in an automated fashion are not realistic.

^{European Commission}

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

NVDA 2024.1beta1 available for testing

Beta1 of NVDA 2024.1 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…

^{NV Access}

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

Accessibility overlays

Web accessibility overlays are tools or technologies that aim to improve the accessibility of a website. However, claims that a website can be made fully compliant in an automated fashion are not realistic.

^{European Commission}

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

linkedin.com/pulse/announcing-…

CVS Health is releasing a new open-source project, iOS SwiftUI Accessibility Techniques, which demonstrates iOS SwiftUI Accessibility programming techniques using live good and bad examples that can be tested with VoiceOver and other assistive technologie

CVS Health is releasing a new open-source project, iOS SwiftUI Accessibility Techniques, which demonstrates iOS SwiftUI Accessibility programming techniques using live good and bad examples that can be tested with VoiceOver and other assistive techno…

^{Paul J. Adam (www.linkedin.com)}