I do find it mildly ironic that I just got a marketing email about a accessibility book with an unsubscribe link with a contrast of 2.35 and so not accessible at all. #a11y #darkpattern
Typefaces are the foundation of accessible visual reading experiences, so choosing a performant typeface that enhances legibility and readability for people with poor vision, learning disabilities…
This tutorial describes how to build an accessible main navigation of a website. You learn about semantic HTML, accessibility, and how using ARIA attributes can sometimes do more harm than good.
Learn how Google's Project Relate is breaking down #a11y barriers related to atypical speech patterns. This is SO important! Communication is a critical human right! Thank you Google for all you are doing! blog.google/outreach-initiativ…
Although Apple stock is down roughly 23% year to date at the time of writing this article, the $2 trillion company is now valued at more than Amazon, Alphabet and Meta — combined. Could the reason be…
Accessibility folks know about keyboard access and screen reader accessibility, but what about mouse accessibility? Users of a mouse and other pointing devic...
Please consider completing the 2022 Accessibility Skills Gap Survey (by Dec 16) teachaccess.org/accessibility-… To "accurately reflect the #accessibility skills that currently exist within the workforce." from TeachAccess & PEATWorks #a11y
So I recommended this resource again on the complexity of custom selects, etc. "<select> your poison" by Sarah Higley. Includes CodePen examples. sarahmhigley.com/writing/selec… #a11y #webdev #aria
Like it or not, even though content can be made to adapt to different viewport sizes and zoom levels by use of CSS media queries, sometimes the end result ca...
"Stop creating products and platforms that exclude people with disabilities." "This message from Noam Bardin, one of the founders of the new social media platform Post, is awful and just plain baffling." accessiblesocial.substack.com/… Yup! #a11y #socialMedia #prodmgmt
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Inaccessible websites lose $6.9 billion a year to their accessible counterparts, yet digital inclusion remains under-addressed. We look at how brands can benefit from placing accessibility at the heart of their strategy.
Wow. Someone raises millions for a Twitter alternative (Post.news) and says he’s “Not focused on accessibility.” You mean you ARE focused on exclusion? On ignoring the security and privacy of disabled people (yes- accessibility is privacy and security) Accessibility is a civil right. You can’t “let everyone in” and THEN do accessibility because accessibility IS the door. C’mon Noam Bardin do better H/t @blakereid #a11ypost.news/article/2I8KY7PphGpE…
Going through the posts this morning, seeing lots of feature requests and questions about our priorities, I thought I would share what we are focused on and why we are making certain decisions.
While many are praising him for his transparency, it reveals a major problem and hurdle with building accessible products. Not to mention the ableism in stating several times, the need to "let everyone in" while choosing not to make sure the application is accessible. Statements like "Our number one focus is letting in the 300K+ users on our waitlist" assume that none of those people have a disability and/or all use technology in the same way.
Going through the posts this morning, seeing lots of feature requests and questions about our priorities, I thought I would share what we are focused on and why we are making certain decisions.
Here's post.news's founder Noam Bardin, declaring in the same breath "we are not focused on . . . accessibility" and "We want to do it all but first, let's get everyone in." In other words, "everyone" does not include people with disabilities. This kind of discrimination is not uncommon from tech companies, but it's a pretty unusual for a founder to state it this explicitly. #a11y must be an MVP expectation for digital startups.
Going through the posts this morning, seeing lots of feature requests and questions about our priorities, I thought I would share what we are focused on and why we are making certain decisions.
I hand't thought of the RT as part of a call/response culture.
My main concern with the piece is that we cannot control whether or not Twitter implodes. Monopolies are inherently fragile & we know it is being run by a benevolent dictator.
Twitter had a good run. We have to adapt. That means building in better means to protect marginalized users. #a11y
"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." adrianroselli.com/2020/02/link… via @aardrian #UIDesign #IXD #a11y #links #wcag #tips
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.
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!
I've launched a #Mastodon instance focused on #AudioDescription. This is a space where professionals and fans can come together to learn, advocate, and work together towards the goal of quality AD in all environs. The server is bare-bones right now, so your patience is requested as we build things out. You can also make an impact by boosting this news across your networks. To join, head over to adforward.org/auth/sign_up #blind #a11y #LowVision
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Three-tweet thread covering some fundamentals of accessibility testing: twitter.com/ScopicEngineer/sta… Still throwing the #a11y hashtag on here until folks no longer rely on it.
Designing for People Who Use a Mouse youtube.com/watch?v=1OBoXqM3B4… by Henny Swan from Web Accessibility In Mind Conference. (This topic sounds familiar, heh heh.) #a11y
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.
@Marco Old toot, but... there's now also MathCAT, which is open source and being written by Neil Soiffer (who implemented MathPlayer #a11y) to replace MathPlayer. There's an #NVDASR add-on already, and honestly, it's compact enough that I could see NVDA maybe just bundling it one day. The advantage over SRE is that it's written in Rust, so it's much smaller, probably faster and doesn't require a JS engine. addons.nvda-project.org/addons…
Analyzing the Top 100 Retailers for Digital [web] Accessibility deque.com/blog/analyzing-the-t… #a11y "Across the 433 total pages tested, axe-core found 10,586 accessibility issues."
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...
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.
Great resource! Screen Readers get allot of coverage, but contrast errors are sadly incredibly common and effect hundreds of millions of people with poor eyesight every single day on at least part of almost every app and webpage out there. #A11Y #accessibility #WebAccess #disability #VisionImpaired #VisuallyImpaired #Blind #WebDev #UXDesign
