"Better accessible names" hidde.blog/better-accessible-n… hint: function over form, unique, concise #a11y #webdev #webdesign
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If you haven't yet, please consider signing the Overlay Factsheet
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#a11y #overlays
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"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
Link Targets and 3.2.5
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
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5 Games for Blind and Visually Impaired Players
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?
Accessible UI Frameworks: A Word of Caution dev.to/steady5063/accessible-u… #webdev #a11y
Accessible UI Frameworks: A Word of Caution
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
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
#blind #a11y #LowVision
Audio Description
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
Three-tweet thread covering some fundamentals of accessibility testing:
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Still throwing the #a11y hashtag on here until folks no longer rely on it.
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Still throwing the #a11y hashtag on here until folks no longer rely on it.
Great set of accessibility audit bookmarklets, by @lloydi a11y-tools.com/bookmarklets/ #a11y #testing #tools
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
Henny Swan presents Designing for people who use a mouse - Web Accessibility In Mind Conference
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.
@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."
First ask yourself, "Why are we hiding content?" Check out this great article, Inclusively Hidden, by @scottohara scottohara.me/blog/2017/04/14/… #webdev #webdesign #uiDesign #a11y #accessibility
Inclusively Hidden | scottohara.me
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
AT Banter Podcast Episode 310 - Ableism Part 4 | AT Banter Podcast
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
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
#A11Y #accessibility #WebAccess #disability #VisionImpaired #VisuallyImpaired #Blind #WebDev #UXDesign
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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
Just learned about this really cool theme park in Texas specifically designed for kids with disabilities. Apparently this guy was having tons of trouble finding a theme park able to accommodate his daughter Morgan who has multiple disabilities. Eventually, he soled his successful business and spent $50,000,000 to build his own.
It's got 25 different attractions, tons of events, thousands of positive reviews ETC.
morganswonderland.com
#accessibility #A11Y #disability #blind #VisionImpaired #VisuallyImpaired #Deaf #DeafBlind #Autistic #Autism #CerebralPalsy #Wheelchair #WheelchairUser #ThemePark #ThemeParks
It's got 25 different attractions, tons of events, thousands of positive reviews ETC.
morganswonderland.com
#accessibility #A11Y #disability #blind #VisionImpaired #VisuallyImpaired #Deaf #DeafBlind #Autistic #Autism #CerebralPalsy #Wheelchair #WheelchairUser #ThemePark #ThemeParks
Morgan’s Wonderland: Closed
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
Webinar tomorrow: Intro to Mastodon with Accessibility in Mind nypl.zoom.us/meeting/register/… 🦣 #mastodon #a11y
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Intro to Mastodon with Accessibility in Mind. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Folks are flocking to this de-centralized social media platform, but it brings a lot of new concepts into play.Zoom
Free and online: I’ll be offering my last Digital Accessibility Legal Update of the year on December 8. Register here: go.3playmedia.com/wbnr-12-08-2…. Accessibility is a civil and human right. No matter your #a11y role that makes you a civil rights enforcer. Thx @3playmedia
2022 Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold
Join us for 3Play Media’s annual end-of-the-year Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold.go.3playmedia.com
Automated Accessibility Part 2: Mobile Web Testing dev.to/steady5063/automated-ac… by Mark Steadman #a11y #mobile #testing #webdev
Automated Accessibility Part 2: Mobile Web Testing
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
Taming the dragon: Accessible drag and drop
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)
Yes! Bag some [WCAG] AAA wins where you can: tempertemper.net/blog/bag-some… #wcag #a11y
Bag some AAA wins where you can
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
Dear @Meetup: Read this one too! overlayfalseclaims.com/ People everywhere count on #Meetups for connection and community. Don't exclude #disabled people by using an overlay instead of committing to true accessibility. #a11y
I hope they continue to build this out — A guide for making iOS & Android apps accessible beta.appt.org/en #mobile #a11y #ios #android
Appt | Platform for app accessibility
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?
Fact: I never implemented role='application' in my entire career as a front-end web development. Related: a11yproject.com/posts/how-to-u… #a11y #aria #webdev
How-to: Use role='application' - The A11Y Project
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
Are you using an accessibility overlay to help disabled users? Don’t!
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)
Does your UI have a sticky header/footer that obscures focused elements? You should fix it, and also for the upcoming WCAG 2.2 SC 2.4.12! w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understandin… #a11y #uiDesign #wcag #wcag22
5 takeaways from screen reader usability interviews: jessbudd.com/blog/screen-reade… #a11y
5 takeaways from screen reader usability interviews
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.
Issues · mastodon/mastodon
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - Issues · mastodon/mastodonGitHub
Research insight: accessibility of images tetralogical.com/blog/2022/07/… #a11y #images
Research insight: accessibility of images - TetraLogical
Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion. We can help you with knowledge, experience, strategy, assessments, and development.TetraLogical
Webinar tomorrow: VPATs 101 accessibility.deque.com/vpat-1… #vpat #a11y
VPATs 101 - what are they, when to use them, and how they can guide your accessibility practice
Register for the 'VPATs 101 - what are they, when to use them, and how they can guide your accessibility practice webinar.accessibility.deque.com
Surprised to learn that support for the ARIA log role is reportedly pretty good. Anyone have direct experience with that?
a11ysupport.io/tech/aria/log_r… #aria #a11y
a11ysupport.io/tech/aria/log_r… #aria #a11y
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.
I've given talks at accessibility conferences, such as this talk about gaming with aphantasia