An interesting experiment in turning 💯 data and 📈📊📉 graphs into 🔊 audio.
“… one aim is to make our data journalism more #Accessible for vision-impaired people.”
theguardian.com/news/datablog/…
#DataViz
#Accessibility / #A11Y
#Inclusion
Rising carbon dioxide and the slump in the pound have been frequently graphed. Now we’ve turned the data and graphs into audioNick Evershed (The Guardian)
TL;DR: Regardless of what accessibility conformance level you target, do not arbitrarily open links in a new window or tab. If you are required to do so anyway, inform users in visible text.Adrian Roselli
It's too bad that more and more games are not written for #ios and #a11y!
5 Games for Blind and Visually Impaired Players
caniplaythat.com/2021/10/21/5-…
Wondering what our top 5 games for blind and visually impaired players are? Here are the games we think make the cut for different reasons.Can I Play That?
A question I get asked a lot in my role as an accessibility developer consultant is 'What framework c...Mark Steadman (DEV Community 👩💻👨💻)
Just found out that the open source Python library for converting webpages to PDF, Weasyprint, has recently added experimental support for creating tagged PDFs that conform with PDF/UA:
weasyprint.org/
This is really exciting as there aren’t many open source options for doing this. I’m going to have a play and try creating an @eleventy plugin for this!
#pdf #a11y #opensource
Sign up on Mastodon today! With an account, you will be able to follow people, post updates and exchange messages with users from any Mastodon server and more!Mastodon hosted on adforward.org
Henny Swan presents for the 2022 Web Accessibility in Mind Conference hosted by WebAIM and Pope Tech.YouTube
Would love thoughts on how to improve the #SVG social media icons here (aside from deleting the Twitter link) codepen.io/mgifford-the-typesc…
We really need to make it easier for people to control social media icons and style them to meet their site. This really should be easy, accessible and susainable.
There are various ways to hide content in web interfaces, but are you aware of the different effects they have on the accessibility of that content? While so...www.scottohara.me
Liking the latest #ATBanter #Podcast Episode 310 - #Ableism Part 4 - atbanter.podbean.com/e/at-bant…
Lots of great thoughts on the hierarchy of ability in our society.
#a11y
This week we cap off our multi-part series on Ableism as Rob, Ryan, and Lis welcome back Shawn Marsolais, founder of Blind Beginnings and host of the Limitless Podcast and disability advocate Amy Amantea to sit down at a round table discussion.atbanter.podbean.com
RT @HassellInc@twitter.com
Want to better understand what colour contrast means when it comes to WCAG. This article explains all.
@uxdesigncc@twitter.com @Medium@twitter.com #ColourContrast #WCAG #A11y #InclusiveDesign
Morgan's Wonderland is the world's first Ultra-Accessible™, family fun park located in San Antonio, Texas. Visit our park to experience accessible rides.Morgan's Wonderland
Folks are flocking to this de-centralized social media platform, but it brings a lot of new concepts into play.Zoom
Join us for 3Play Media’s annual end-of-the-year Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold.go.3playmedia.com
Automated web testing, especially at an integration level, saves time, money and effort. It ensures...Mark Steadman (DEV Community 👩💻👨💻)
As "#accessible" drag and drop (with accessible in quotes as I haven't personally verified the claims) is added to #React Aria and React Spectrum, I'm happy to see drag-and-drop get some #accessibility love at the framework level. However, I'm not convinced that aiming for parity always creates the most efficient, usable experiences in this area.
For many use cases, there are alternative approaches legitimately better suited to how people actually operate their devices, across various assistive technologies and input methods. For instance, dropdowns with type-ahead, offering more of an opportunity to browse before committing, rather than constantly navigating back and forth across drop zones which could be far apart.
The article highlights challenges in finding a preexisting holistic system, without delving into the possible reasons for that being the case until now. User feedback is also not a panacea; are you asking someone to evaluate whether they can use a thing? Or whether that thing is a good idea, and/or if a better thing could theoretically exist?
react-spectrum.adobe.com/blog/…
#a11y
We are excited to announce the release of drag and drop support in React Aria and React Spectrum! This includes a suite of hooks for implementing drag and drop interactions, with support for both mouse and touch, as well as full parity for keyboard a…Adobe Inc (Adobe)
Complying with WCAG AA is hard, and AAA seems a lot harder, but there are actually plenty of AAA rules that are relatively easy to meet.tempertemper
Appt is a new platform for sharing knowledge about app accessibility.Appt
It looks like a lot of organizations are going to need to update their #SocialMedia icons, so I decided to put up a few which include #mastodon.
My goal is to produce #SVG images that respect dark mode, can be easily styled with CSS, and also allow either circle, square or no background.
I want to embed best practices of accessibility, and web sustainability in this.
So what can I do to improve these?
Never use role='application' on a widely containing element body if your page consists mostly of traditional page elements.www.a11yproject.com
This is a fun video by Heydon trying to make a video which inspires developers to learn more about web accessibility briefs.video/videos/what-is-ar…
Search Engine Land (guest/paying author) is pretty clear that you should not use accessibility overlays (such as #accessiBe, #UserWay, #AudioEye, etc):
“Are you using an accessibility overlay to help disabled users? Don’t!”
searchengineland.com/accessibi…
via @JonAvilaA11y #a11y
Accessibility overlays are not the answer for sites looking to provide a more inclusive experience for online users with disabilities.Casey Markee (Search Engine Land)
Some common patterns that stood out to me during usability interviews with frequent screen reader users.jessbudd.com
If you are interested in improving the #accessibility of Mastodon, take a look at the issue queue github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…+
If there are issues you've found that aren't there, are they part of the instance of Mastodon that you are using, or part of the core open source project? Custom themes can get in the way.
Posting #a11y bugs is important in moving ahead any open source project.
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - Issues · mastodon/mastodonGitHub
Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion. We can help you with knowledge, experience, strategy, assessments, and development.TetraLogical
Register for the 'VPATs 101 - what are they, when to use them, and how they can guide your accessibility practice webinar.accessibility.deque.com
If you are working on a project which I might be a good fit for, feel free to reach out to me at LauraKBuzzOfficial@Gmail.com
I am happy to discuss consultancy projects, and see if I am a good fit for your project.
