Does the feature meet the standards for #accessibility? Is the documentation complete? No? THEN DON’T RELEASE THE FEATURE. Make these things release blockers, it’s literally that simple.
WebAIM published results (opens in new window) of their seventh automated accessibility evaluation of the home pages for the top one million web sites across the globe.
Gestern mal Signal auf dem Desktop aufgemacht. Konnte mit NVDA nichts lesen und habs dann irgendwie geschafft, dass nicht mal mehr das Menü mit alt aufgeht. Es gab Zeiten, da konnte ich wenigstens meine Chats darüber lesen und beantworten. Dann eben kein Signal mehr für mich. #Signal #A11Y #DisabledAlltag #ScreenReader
#Linux #a11y question with a long self-indulgent preamble: I have been using #emacspeak in the #terminal on #MacOS as my “daily driver” for all writing/notetaking/ #orgmode scheduling/todo organizing for about a month now. I am super in love with it, transformational for this low-vision writer/teacher/editor/producer. (1/8)
interesting story: Today, while discussing VoiceOver commands with a colleague, I kept referring to it as "VoiceOver" (or "VO") + command. This royally confused them, coming from a non-accessibility background: They were not sure if the entire time I just meant for them to press that key while VoiceOver is running. This is an interesting nuance and something that's a holdover for me from the professional #A11Y industry, but clearly, we should nudge more articles to not reference the name of the screen reader but either use the word "modifier" or "SR-modifier" (with clear explanations to the meaning if documentation) or something that won't repeat the name with ambiguity.
Braille Keyboard lets you type in braille across any app on your iPhone. With a fully integrated custom keyboard, you can input braille characters directly into messages, documents, or anywhere the standard iOS keyboard appears.
Question for Android users who use or used Samsung. What is the navigation gesture to go back? While talkback is on? I don't mean the three buttons that are the alternative, but the gestures that are by default, I think. I was asked. I'd be grateful if someone could answer this one. Thank you. #Android #A11Y #Talkback #Samsung
Three strips of intersecting yellow and black “warning” tape. Accessibility isn’t an extra feature or a nice-to-have add-on. It’s a foundational requirement...
I didn’t plan to write about Wayland yet. But Xorg is dying — not eventually, but now. GNOME’s dropping X11 support. RHEL already removed it. Ubuntu and Fedora are next. And if you rely on accessibility, you don’t get to wait this one out. So here’s Post 4 of I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back. I’m using Wayland now. Primarily. Not because I love it. Because the fallback is disappearing, and I want to be there helping fix what comes next. GNOME with Orca actually works. KDE and COSMIC are making progress. I’ve talked to the people involved. They care. But a lot is broken. MATE — the desktop most blind users preferred — isn’t on Wayland. ocrdesktop doesn’t work. xdotool is gone. wlroots compositors still don’t reliably support Orca’s keybindings, especially on laptops. This isn’t GNOME’s fault. They’re the only reason accessibility on Wayland works at all. But the old excuses are gone. “Just use Xorg” isn’t going to be an option much longer. So yeah. I’m a Wayland shill now. Because I’m using it. Because I have to. And I want to make sure we’re not excluded from what comes next. fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w… #Linux #Wayland #Accessibility #Orca #GNOME #KDE #COSMIC #FOSS #a11y #BlindTech #xorg
ARIA! It exists and on a long enough timeline you'll need to use it. Here's how to get into the right headspace to do so! #a11ysmashingmagazine.com/2025/06/w…
[Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)](https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/) is an inevitability when working on web accessibility. That said, it’s everyone’s first time learning about ARIA at some point.
Forbes Accessibility 100: These are the most impactful pioneers ensuring and expanding the civil rights of people with disabilities all across the globe. forbes.com/sites/alanschwarz/2… #a11y
All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazillion other concerns when you’re trying to c…
You may think that digital accessibility is unrelated, but I assure you that every successful effort to chip away at rights and protections will be followed by another.
Don’t wait until it affects you personally. Speak up. This is low-risk, so do it while you can.
i’m in nyc for #unopensourceweek this week. let me know if you want to meet up and talk about #gnome as infrastructure, the free desktop, linux phones, flathub, supply chains, #a11y, the new developer hardware market, or digital sovereignty via ubiquitous computing!
@podfeet interviews Celeste D’Costa from Imaginable Solutions about their Guided Hands assistive device that enables anyone with limited fine motor skills to write, paint, draw, and access technology. #a11y #CSUN2025podfeet.com/blog/2025/06/csun-…
Allison interviews Celeste D’Costa from Imaginable Solutions about their Guided Hands assistive device for people with limited hand mobility. The device enables anyone with limited fine motor skills to write, paint, draw, and access technology.
About the Open Source Accessibility Summit The Open Source Accessibility Summit will be a one-day in-person event that brings together members of the disability, accessibility, and open source communities to define a roadmap for improving the accessi…
Ok, the #Thunderbird chat interface for IRC and Matrix seems to have #a11y issues with #NVDA now. Sometimes NVDA completely freezes, especially when the interface is maximised, though not reliably in all channels. I filed a bug, appreciate anyone who can dig into what on earth is going on: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
The Trump administration is quietly working to fast-track changes to a key disability rights law by circumventing typical procedures, advocates are warning.
Incidentally, the company unleashing a new wave of contrast problems on the web (see today’s Codepen Spark for liquid glass copycats) is also the company that seems uninterested in supporting `prefers-reduced-transparency`: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…
The prefers-reduced-transparency CSS media feature is used to detect if a user has enabled a setting on their device to reduce the transparent or translucent layer effects used on the device.
My first experience of users with disability testing today and what an experience! I received feedback on components that had been coded in a semantic and accessible way, but which unfortunately led to issues in use. Even though I was already convinced of the need to go beyond compliance, I got some very concrete examples! If you're in the process of improving accessibility, do this kind of test. Asking people who are concerned to give their feedback is really important and precious #a11y
Apparently the Department of Energy is trying to eliminate accessibility/nondiscrimination regulations. If you live in the U.S., please take a few minutes to comment on DOE-HQ-2025-0015 and DOE-HQ-2025-0024: regulations.gov/document/DOE-H… regulations.gov/document/DOE-H…
Please do not use this post as an excuse to beat up the devs at Apple or Google. If you are doing that, you have missed the point of this post and you are being unnecessarily mean to individuals who may have no control over broader organizational dec…
@Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺 @Jayson Smith @Nick Giannak III If you are still testing deltachat, I managed to run my #chatmail relay and it's working for a few weeks for me. I have created a groupchat where I'd like to invite other screen reader users. As I have posted a few times recently, #deltachat people do really care about screen reader #a11y so while testing and something is not working the way you would expect lets describe it in details, and report it properly.
Everyone should be doing what Home Connect is doing and we all would have a much easier time picking our household devices. Home Connect is a common smart household appliances platform for everything by Siemens, Bosch and Guggenau. They let you, without creating accounts and anything, add a virtual device of any type, to play with its control interface via the app. A great way to evaluate the accessibility, which by the way is a great and is 100 percent a planned endeavour, while playing with a fantasy coffee or washing machine. #Accessibility #A11y #Blind
Mit diesem Film macht der *Deutsche Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband (DBSV)* auf die Probleme aufmerksam, die viele Touchscreens für sehbehinderte Menschen...
