Yesterday, I discovered that quite a few of my articles have made their way onto Hacker News.
And the conversations around them are actually, generally speaking, pretty good for what I generally expect from the site.
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…
Can you believe it’s December already?! As we speed towards Christmas, let’s check out some more presents from NVDA 2023.3. Plus, everything else going on in the world of NVDA, and a big tutorial o…
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.
Animation and accessibility are often seen as two separate powers at odds with one another. How is it possible to strike a balance between elements that move and the possible negative effects they expose to users who are sensitive to motion? Oriana G…
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.
Sesame Workshop Enhances Accessibility for Sesame Street Content ✨
Sesame Workshop has introduced significant enhancements to its content accessibility…
A new brief from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers underlines the importance of and reason for having a position dedicated to statewide digital accessibility coordination.
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
Also known as: why you shouldn't trust a company who makes their product intensionally inaccessible with allowing you an accessibility workaround It's been a while, hasn't it? Well I'm back again with a long overdue blog post.
Did you know @kde had an #accessibility inspector? Currently it's hidden in the build folder of libqaccessibilityclient but not for long. We started the process of making it a standalone application and a first release is planned in 2-3 weeks!
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.
If you're in Melbourne today, come and see Sean and Quentin at Statewide Vision Resource Centre's expo - 370 Springvale Road, Donvale, until 4pm. #NVDA #NVDAsr, #Expo #Technology #Accessibility #A11y
"Access to a free, fast & efficient screen reader has changed my life. Because of its qualities, my computer never crashes; updates are frequent & the software works well. It follows best the evolution of Windows and all software. Updating is fast & easy, it is available in all languages. The provision of add-ons makes it really efficient” – Silvie, France
Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.
WCAG 2.2 officially became a “W3C Recommended” web standard on October 5, 2023, and with it, new success criteria and changes to existing guidelines for accessible user experiences.
📝 New post! “Lost in Translation: Tips for Multilingual Web Accessibility”
Does your site's accessibility hold up across languages?
I wrote about the practical tips I wish I'd had for making sure that accessibility efforts and internationalization/localization efforts alike don't leave out disabled speakers of other languages than our own.
It’s been 5 months since Australian Story aired an episode on NV Access founders, Mick Curran & Jamie Teh. The first Australian Story episode to be audio described. It was an incredible opportunity to share with a wider audience the importance of NVDA & our overarching message, that everyone deserves equal access to technology.
Mick Curran and Jamie Teh are lifelong friends who share a love of music and technology. They're also blind.Both computer programmers, the pair saw an injust...
Accessible Chips demo — "modified to use the HTML datalist element instead of a custom autosuggest". Nice! kindhearted-meal.glitch.me/ By @mfairchild365 (and inspired by me 😁 ). This demo is actually 4 years old! Browser support (for datalist) is better. #webdev #html #a11y
some sunday #CSS noodling (i'm sure somebody else came up with the same idea somewhere, but heck, wanted to see if it worked anyway): floating `<label>` using `:has()` codepen.io/patrickhlauke/pen/E… (for improved screen reader experience) #a11y #accessibility
A Supreme Court case about the accessibility of hotel websites has understandably caught the attention of the disability and accessibility community. Here’s the short version. Deborah Laufer …
Showing buttons as disabled until a form is complete might seem like a good idea. It is not. They usually create a lousy user experience and exclude many people with disabilities. Here's why disabled buttons suck and what to do instead.
