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I recently bought an LG TV and was happy to discover that it had a screen reader that even automatically began at startup! This video goes over the different accessibility features and my experience setting it up.
#Accessibility #A11y #Blind #LowVision
My brother and I bought an LG TV during the 2024 Black Friday sales. I've had an overall pretty good experience with it, though it could still definitely imp...YouTube
Text-overflow: ellipsis considered harmful
yatil.net/blog/text-overflow-e…
On the downsides of constraining content through CSS.Eric Eggert
Free Scout appears to be an open source version of Zendesk. They openly mention accessibility and screen reader support in their documentation and right there on the homepage, which is good! Their demo is here and their main website is the second link. Stuff is deleted after a short while, but this is decently accessible! Could use some improvements but far more accessible and screen reader friendly than Zendesk! demo.freescout.net/login
Main page. freescout.net/
Chrome, as of 132, finally has keyboard support for scrolling containers:
adrianroselli.com/2022/06/keyb…
This assumes it doesn’t get rolled back again, as it has every other time it was deployed since 2018.
Silence from Safari.
I have spent a few years banging on about ensuring scrolling areas on a page are accessible to keyboard-only users.Adrian Roselli
Spent the last 6 hours trying to get a hello world equivalent gui window with a button on rust under windows.
This task which one might think is simple ended up taking literal hours and still hasn't been achieved because: the tutorials for gtk on windows and rust suggest putting msys2 bin directory on the path. This causes rust to fail to build correctly because it uses the wrong gcc and linkers.
Afterwards I managed it by using the appropriate environment variables.
But then I found out the dynamically linked libarries weren't found. I tried getting a way to copy them but it turned out to be too much work so I just moved the executable to the same dir.
Only to find out that gtk4 has no accessibility on Windows. Not bad accessibility, not accessibility that needs to be turned on. No. Accessibility. At all.
So then I decided to try Qt, which wants me to create an account to get an installer. Absolute no.
Got the 1.5gb sources and trying now to get an off-line installer out of it.
To get a fucking window with a button in it.
I don't think it's unreasonable for me to say this state of affairs is complete bullshit, and that most people with a normal level of motivation would have found plenty of opportunities to have given up. I still might.
(Not using NWG because tying the data to the GUI elements is non-trivial, it seems to require copying a lot and using twice the memory.)
VO/desktop bug via @elly:
adrianroselli.com/2017/12/twea…
Using this pen:
cdpn.io/aardrian/debug/rNRxZmP
We both experience VO ignoring the start of most sentences when using read-all.
Is this a known issue?
It’s a bit of a pain to pepper updates within the sections of the post, so just scroll down to the latest update and work your way back up. Considering how much I charge for this site, I am hoping my readers will accept the extra effort.Adrian Roselli
Hey.
Don’t wrap a `<figure>` in a link.
Definitely don’t use a `title` on that link.
adrianroselli.com/2025/01/dont…
In my post Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support I demonstrate how, when encountering a figure with a screen reader, you won’t hear everything announced at once: No screen reader combo treats the caption as the accessible name nor accessible de…Adrian Roselli
We are back for day 2 of #SPEVI2025. This morning we started with an inspiring keynote presentation by Mr Michael Sheppard, a solicitor who shared his experience growing up blind. The conference is on today and tomorrow at 293 Queen Street Brisbane, Australia
Pictured is NV Access founder Michael Curran chatting with Michael Sheppard after the presentation about how he uses NVDA.
#spevi #SpeciConference2025 #keynote #Conference #Brisbane #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y
HTML Developers: Please Consider – in the year of 2025
@aardrian returns to the Mastophone
#HTML #ARIA #WebDev #WebStandards #a11y
html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…
Please consider commenting to FTC about the case against AccessiBe for misleading advertising. Deadline Feb. 5.
Happy to be featured in an article this week in the FNN :
Five takeaways from GSA’s latest Section 508 assessment
federalnewsnetwork.com/it-mode…
#GSA #Section508 #Accessibility #A11y
Agencies are dedicating more time and staff to digital accessibility efforts, but acquisition is still a key hurdle when it comes to Section 508 compliance.Justin Doubleday (Federal News Network)
From the FTC on Friday: The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibility tool to make any website compliant with the W…Adrian Roselli
Beware of AI Accessibility Promises: US Federal Agency Fines an Overlay Company One Million Dollars
Public can submit comments until February 5th in case against AccessiBe for misleading advertising
lflegal.com/2025/01/ftc-access…
by @LFLegal
#accessibility #a11y #wcag #accessiBe #accessiBeNot #ftc
The new year brought weclomed digital accessibility news from the United States Federal Trade Commission, known as the FTC.Law Office of Lainey Feingold
The third edition of The Accessibility Show with Nathan Wrigley of WP Builds dropped early this morning, and I have to say that I'm really enjoying thisJoe Dolson (Joe Dolson Web Accessibility)
I'll be presenting at @fosdem this year on accessibility with:
Alternative Text for Images: How Bad Are Our Alt-Text Anyway?
Hopefully #accessibility minded folks at #FOSDEM will be able to attend. I think I've another unique angle to cover #OpenSource and #a11y
We're back for a new season!
Kicking off "Season 3" of UX Podcast @axbom and @Beantin bring you a topic show. In this episode we dive into the concept of "Dark mode", its benefits, and its implications for UX design, user experience and accessibility.
#ux #a11y #uxpodcast #podcast #uxdesign #userexperience #accessibility
We take a dive into dark mode. What it is and why it's no longer a nice-to-have feature.UX Podcast
How to approach accessible web interface design. Contribute to Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
The FTC has ordered accessibility startup accessiBe to pay $1 million over allegations of false advertising and misleading product claims.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
FTC Order Requires accessiBe to Pay $1 Million for Deceptive Claims that its AI Product Could Make Websites Compliant with Accessibility Guidelines
ftc.gov/news-events/news/press…
#law #a11y #wcag #accessiBe #accessiBeNot #ftc
The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibility tool to make anyFederal Trade Commission
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.aria-labelledby = self - HTMHell
You know, it's been more than five years since FB introduced the so-called #accessibility feature that kinda sorta tells blind people what's in thephotos--you know, the kind of thing that says "maybe an image of text , image of person and hat." That system is still in place. There's no reason for that kind of lackluster automated description for #photos on Meta properties like FB or threads.
#a11y
👉🏼 I have been doing some testing and have noticed when navigating links on iOS using VoiceOver (VO), if the link contains an element that is not exposed as a generic element it causes VO to treat and announce text in the link as separate links.
Really annoying how the "news and interests" Microsoft thing keeps doing stuff I don't want. It doesn't just bother me because it's downloading random stuff I don't care about, but it also stops the screen reader from working when it's reading text. I've turned it off with a registry tweak but I wish it weren't necessary to resort to such extreme measures.
In other words, screw pedestrians, especially blind and other disabled people!
Waymo robotaxis, which are now ubiquitous in parts of CA, will often not stop for pedestrians using crosswalks there, unless a pedestrian is far into the road.
