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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…
Games for Blind Gamers 3
A game jam from 2024-02-01 to 2024-03-10 hosted by NightBlade. Welcome to the third annual Games for Blind Gamers jam! The goal of this jam is to build awareness of blind gaming (and accessibility in general), as...itch.io
Our December webinar’s recording is live! 1 hour jam-packed with #accessibility information, with plenty relevant well beyond Wagtail (😉 @django )
youtube.com/watch?v=GS7xHki_W7…
Thank you @scott_ish, @thibaudcolas, Albina, @vossisboss 🙌
Prioritize Accessibility with Wagtail CMS | Actionable Insights, Practical Tips and Best Practices
Members of the Wagtail CMS accessibility team, including Scott Cranfill, NASA JPL, Albina Starykova, Torchbox and Thibaud Colas, Wagtail CMS, share how Wagta...YouTube
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…
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)
there's a new client-side router that just released 1.0
when it was in alpha, i asked about #accessibility and was told "it's on the list for 1.0". can you guess whether they kept their word?
The Ultimate Mobile Accessibility Resource Guide
I tend to get asked a lot in my current role "Where the hell do I go for mobile accessibility...Mark Steadman (DEV Community)
Shifting Left to Get Accessibility Right at Microsoft
Learn how we’re finding and fixing accessibility issues earlier in the development process internally here at Microsoft.Lukas Velush (Inside Track Blog)
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.
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
Guidance for authors has been published to facilitate creation of accessible HTML versions of submissions.
info.arxiv.org/help/submit_lat…
#accessibility #TeXLaTeX #arXiv
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.
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
Podcast - Accessible Android
You can Tune in to the Blind Android Users podcast and find all episodes hereSalih Kunduz (Accessible Android)
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…
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)
blog.arxiv.org/2023/12/21/acce…
#accessibility #LaTeX
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
Many of the improvements are performance-related, taking advantage of the cache of accessibility tree nodes maintained by the AT-SPI service. Table processing has received particular attention, and fundamental changes are underway in the code that handles users' keystrokes, some of which need to be interpreted as screen reader commands, with the remainder being passed through to the application.
I have been testing some of the changes along the way, as have other users active on the Orca mailing list. Rapid and precise bug reports continue to contribute to the development process. At this point, it is reasonable to expect these valuable improvements to appear in a release during the first half of 2024, presumably as part of GNOME 46.
#linux #orca #ScreenReader #AssistiveTechnology #accessibility #Gnome
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?)
WTH @RocketChat why the hell are accessibility features like high contrast themes only available with "Enterprise"?! Do this with things that do not exclude people based on their disabilities.
What is being done there is straight up discrimination!
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
Podcast - Accessible Android
You can Tune in to the Blind Android Users podcast and find all episodes hereSalih Kunduz (Accessible Android)
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
Podcast - Accessible Android
You can Tune in to the Blind Android Users podcast and find all episodes hereSalih Kunduz (Accessible Android)
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
#braille #BrailleDisplays #AssistiveTEchnology #accessibility
Braille Display Usage
This questionnaire contains questions about the usage of Braille displays in any life situation (education, work, personal use).Google Docs
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
chrome.google.com/webstore/det…
#a11y #wcag #tools #text #css #accessibility #webdesign
Text Spacing Editor
A tool for editing text spacing properties on web pages. WCAG conformance information included.chrome.google.com
Accessible Android
Welcome to the official accessibleandroid.com channel! Stay updated with the freshest news, tips, app insights, and device reviews directly from our website. Join us for all things Android accessibility!Telegram
This festive season give the gift of accessibility with an NV Access donation. Your support ensures we continue delivering life-changing technology to blind and visually impaired people globally.
Donations can be made here, nvaccess.org/support-us/#donat…
#Donate #Donation #NVDA #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Christmas
A disability advocate preserves his voice with iPhone
apple.com/ca/newsroom/2023/11/…
But wow, what a great video and a story!
#accessibility
A disability advocate preserves his voice with iPhone
For professor and disability advocate Tristram Ingham, Personal Voice provides a new type of reassurance.Apple
For the past couple of months I've been working on Pied (pied.mikeasoft.com), an application that makes it easy to use modern, natural sounding, text-to-speech voices on Linux. It does this by integrating the Piper neural text-to-speech engine with speech-dispatcher, so most existing software will work with it out of the box.
The first beta version is now available in the snap store: snapcraft.io/pied
And available as a Flatpak from pied.mikeasoft.com
(Other package formats will follow)
I'd appreciate any feedback if you're able to test it, thanks!
#TTS #accessibility #ScreenReader #linux #TextToSpeech