With the help of ChatGPT I have added alt text to images in my slide deck "No Industry for Old Men" from #a11yTO 2023

#a11y #webStandards #HTML #ARIA #Depression #aging #ai

docs.google.com/presentation/d…

No industry for old men

^{Google Docs}

"A new accessibility architecture for modern free desktops" by @matt

blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/2…

#accessibility #a11y #GNOME

New blog post: Enhancing Accessibility with AI and ML

We discuss how to specialize #AI for understanding UI for #a11y testing, the importance of algorithm and data integrity, and how #ML can be used to simplify #a11y testing. deque.com/blog/enhancing-acces…

Not picking on anyone, but I just saw someone asking devs not to use "2FA" in user messages, and instead use "two factor authentication."

2FA is 3 syllables. Two factor authentication is 8.

From my #a11y use case, 2FA is an accommodation.

I would argue that there's already an HTML way to solve this problem, and that's the html abbr element with the title attribute.

#a11y #html

: The Abbreviation element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN

The HTML element represents an abbreviation or acronym.

^{developer.mozilla.org}

I recently discovered a feature for moderators where you can help with accessibility. When moderating a hashtag, you can change its display name to replace lower-case with upper-case letters. This will help both dyslexics and vision impaired people.

If you can afford an extra minute or two to fix these while moderating trends, it will make them easier to read for everybody, especially the really long tags in hashtag games.

#MastoAdmin #MastoMod #Inklusion #BarriereFreiheit #Accessibility #a11y

Just talking about audio chat, I recently tried out #Audon, which is a web-based audio chat for mastodon and fedi accounts. You can try it on audon.space/

The #a11y is not perfect, but it can be used. First time you use it you need to authorise it with your fedi account. After that, if you're the host of a room, you need to authorise people coming in. If you just want to join a room the host should give you the link, which you can get from the address bar, and that's it.

Audon

Audio spaces for Mastodon

^{Audon hosted on audon.space}

Ensuring negative numbers are available for everyone. "The minus character (−) yields great support in most screen readers, and suffers less situational gotchas than the hyphen-minus character"

deque.com/blog/ensuring-negati…

Great article written by 2 of my favorite comrades.

#webdev #webdesign #a11y #html #tips #screenreaders

I published a blog post for TPGi about the Digital Accessibility Blogs and Newsletters I follow to keep up with things. And it lets me give some credit to people like @laura_carlson and @a11ynews

tpgi.com/digital-accessibility…

#DigitalAccessibility #a11y #accessibility

Digital Accessibility Blogs and Newsletters - TPGi

Digital accessibility blogs and newsletters

^{Ricky Onsman (TPGi)}

Op Mastodon praat ik wel vaak over #toegankelijkheid, maar bijna nooit over mijn werk (expres). Maar vandaag mag eindelijk het nieuws naar buiten dat het bedrijf waar ik werk, Firm Ground, gekocht is door Swink.

swink.nl/nieuws/swink-en-firm-…

Voor mijzelf was de aanloop hier naartoe nogal stressvol. Ik hoop dat de rust in mijn werkende leven nu een beetje terug kan komen.

Ik heb opeens veel nieuwe collega's en een kantoor in Amsterdam, niet bepaald om de hoek.

Effe wennen!

#a11y
#accessibility

Swink en Firm Ground gaan samen verder

Swink en Firm Ground gaan samen verder als één bureau. Wat dit voor jou als klant/relatie betekent, vertellen we hier.

^Swink

Oort seems like a pretty fun Rust programming game. The idea is that you get to program ships to engage in space combat. Similar to other games such as Space Traders.

The idea is pretty cool, but it uses a web editor to input the code and it is not accessible, so I can't use it. Pity.

#a11y #games #rust

SpaceTraders API

A unique multiplayer game built on a free Web API. The best sandbox platform to learn a new skill or apply your knowledge in a fun and meaningful way. Use any programming language with our RESTful API to control the most powerful fleet in universe.

^{spacetraders.io}

I've written a #tutorial on how to program #accessible #native #gui #windows applications in #rust using the native-windows-gui library: modulus.isonomia.net/tech/nwg/

Also available in Spanish: modulus.isonomia.net/tech/nwg-…

#a11y #programming

Bueno, ya he sacado tutorial. Aquí os explico como programar una aplicación de #gui nativa para #windows con #rust, y #accesible. modulus.isonomia.net/tech/nwg-…

#a11y #programming