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"because nobody in Linuxland gives a shit about #a11y or your needs." -- has Debian rejected your patch to fix the issue and told you to screw yourself? What a bunch of dumbass!!

Joking aside, It's frustrating for sure, but no one is trying to get one over you or maximize shareholders' return. No one owe you anything for the free work they are doing.

#a11y

Hi @Tutanota

I want you to know that your CAPTCHA is inaccessible for disabled people:
- blind people can't see the clock;
- visually impaired people may not be able to see it correctly too;
- dyscalculic people (like me!!) have difficulties reading a clock (moreover when all numbers are not written on it)!

I think this @w3c documentation should interest you to fix it: w3.org/TR/turingtest/

I hope you will do something so that everyone can use your services. Thanks.

#accessibility #a11y

A captcha where you need to copy the hour displayed on the image of a clock where you can see 3, 6, 9, 12 and other numbers are dots.

Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA

Various approaches have been employed over many years to distinguish human users of web sites from robots. The traditional CAPTCHA approach asking users to identify obscured text in an image remains common, but other approaches have emerged.
www.w3.org
#a11y #Accessibility @Tuta @World Wide Web Consortium

Even completely headless, command line #linux doesn't prioritize #accessibility in any way. Today I had to reinstall an entire #debian system from scratch because a drive listed in my /etc/fstab died. That makes #systemd boot into emergency mode, where you get no SSH, no network, no sound, and no screen reader. There is no quick way to force it to try and boot even though drive 7 of 11 has died, and it could absolutely bring up SSH and the network to let me fix it if it wanted to, just like sysvinit used to do. You can't even force systemd to add SSH and the network to emergency mode because of circular dependencies. nofail will only continue the boot if the drive doesn't exist, but if the filesystem has issues...emergency mode for you. In short: if your drive dies on Linux, fuck you. Be able to see, or reinstall your entire system, because nobody in Linuxland gives a shit about #a11y or your needs.
#a11y #Accessibility #linux #debian #systemd

Not sure if it's me, a Firefox add-on, or the Europarl website, but the audio catpcha option to register doesn't work for me.

#EU #a11y

#a11y #EU

#a11y #Accessibility #neurodivergent #Disabled #jobs #deaf #bbc

#a11y #blind #inklusion #make @metalab

#a11y

I don't know exactly the ways and means yet, but I'm planning to cover the impact the new administration's disolving federal DEI in its many forms will have on services and programs for people with disabilities, including accessibility of government information. Send me tips, contacts, stories. #a11y
#a11y

"dyslexia simulators'' spread misinformation.

these "simulators" typically show letters being swapped around within words.

but #dyslexia is not a visual processing disorder. a person reading in Braille will still be dyslexic. a person reading in a language with no alphabet, like Chinese, will still be dyslexic.

people with dyslexia are #neurodivergent.

we don't have "simulators" for other neurodivergencies, like autism or adhd.

#a11y folks, we don't need them for dyslexia either.

#a11y #neurodivergent #dyslexia

#a11y #Accessibility #webdesign @Adrian Roselli @Mike Gifford, CPWA @Jeremy Keith @Chris Heilmann @Chris Ferdinandi ⚓️ @Steve Faulkner @A11yTalks @rem @Adam Silver @Cloud Four

#a11y #Accessibility #blind #lowvision

#a11y #wgac

#a11y #tts #seeingai #subtitles

#a11y @Matt Campbell @modulux @Lukáš Tyrychtr

#a11y #Accessibility

Spent the last 6 hours trying to get a hello world equivalent gui window with a button on rust under windows.

This task which one might think is simple ended up taking literal hours and still hasn't been achieved because: the tutorials for gtk on windows and rust suggest putting msys2 bin directory on the path. This causes rust to fail to build correctly because it uses the wrong gcc and linkers.
Afterwards I managed it by using the appropriate environment variables.
But then I found out the dynamically linked libarries weren't found. I tried getting a way to copy them but it turned out to be too much work so I just moved the executable to the same dir.
Only to find out that gtk4 has no accessibility on Windows. Not bad accessibility, not accessibility that needs to be turned on. No. Accessibility. At all.
So then I decided to try Qt, which wants me to create an account to get an installer. Absolute no.
Got the 1.5gb sources and trying now to get an off-line installer out of it.

To get a fucking window with a button in it.

I don't think it's unreasonable for me to say this state of affairs is complete bullshit, and that most people with a normal level of motivation would have found plenty of opportunities to have given up. I still might.

(Not using NWG because tying the data to the GUI elements is non-trivial, it seems to require copying a lot and using twice the memory.)

#a11y #rust #gui #windows

#a11y #Windows #rust #gui

VO/desktop bug via @elly:
adrianroselli.com/2017/12/twea…

Using this pen:
cdpn.io/aardrian/debug/rNRxZmP

We both experience VO ignoring the start of most sentences when using read-all.

Is this a known issue?

#accessibility #a11y #Safari


Tweaking Text Level Styles

It’s a bit of a pain to pepper updates within the sections of the post, so just scroll down to the latest update and work your way back up. Considering how much I charge for this site, I am hoping my readers will accept the extra effort.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility #safari @Elly Loel

#a11y #Accessibility #html

We had an amazing, emPOWERing time at #SPEVI2025 ! And it's not over yet. If you're in Brisbane, join us in Post Office Square this morning, for a morning of Braille and music. It's a free event, open to everyone!
#Braille #NVDA #Accessibility #a11y #SPEVI
#a11y #Accessibility #braille #nvda #spevi2025 #spevi

For anyone following this, it looks like my answer is #readeck. The interface is #accessible, it does full text search, it archives pages, it has a browser extension, it works with #miniflux, it does the same kind of read/unread tracking that I wanted from #goodlinks, and it plays well with the rest of my things. Thanks so much to @readeck for making sure to build an interface that is fully #screenreader accessible. The only thing I'm lacking is an #IOS app. And the ability to share some labels publicly would also be neat. But otherwise, Readeck is perfect for my use-case. If you're a #blind person who wants a demo account to test it out and see if it works for you without going through all the bother of installation and set-up, send me a direct message. #a11y
#a11y #accessible #blind #ios #screenreader #miniflux #goodlinks #readeck @Readeck

I'm still on the hunt for a good self-hosted link manager. #Goodlinks is okay, but only on IOS and mac, not windows. #linkwarden uses hover for, like, everything, making it almost completely inaccessible. #Hoarder has basically no labeled buttons or links. I want something that's #accessible, cross-platform, #selfhosted, will archive pages, and offers full-text search. Three quarters of the time when I use Google, I'm just searching for something I already know about. In an ideal world, a selfhosted link/bookmark manager would reduce my dependence on big-tech search engines. Maybe #archivebox? But that looks like it's more about storing the data than actually doing anything useful with it like search or tagging or whatever. #a11y
#a11y #accessible #selfhosted #goodlinks #linkwarden #hoarder #archivebox

Help: Hey #a11y Guys, I'm looking for work, there use to be a AT JOBs thingy on Twitter, a feed with a lot of interesting A.T. Jobs, its still there but, was curious if there's a Mastodon Equivalent.
#a11y

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#a11y #webdev #html #webdesign #uidesign #webdevelopment #crisiscontinues #sotiredofthisshit

We are back for day 2 of #SPEVI2025. This morning we started with an inspiring keynote presentation by Mr Michael Sheppard, a solicitor who shared his experience growing up blind. The conference is on today and tomorrow at 293 Queen Street Brisbane, Australia

Pictured is NV Access founder Michael Curran chatting with Michael Sheppard after the presentation about how he uses NVDA.

#spevi #SpeciConference2025 #keynote #Conference #Brisbane #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y

Michael Curran in a brown jacket talks with Michael Sheppard in a blue suit & tie as James Boreham in NV Access shirt talks with another attendee in the background.
#a11y #Accessibility #nvdasr #conference #nvda #keynote #spevi2025 #spevi #speciconference2025 #brisbane

#a11y #Accessibility #wcag #accessiBe #ftc #accessibenot

#a11y #Accessibility #section508 #gsa

So is it just not possible to play #Forza horizon anymore? I restarted, and now can't set a route to get past the opening, no matter what I do. #a11y#audiogames#screenreader
#a11y #screenreader #audiogames #forza

#a11y #Accessibility #wcag #accessiBe #ftc #accessibenot @Adrian Roselli

Beware of AI Accessibility Promises: US Federal Agency Fines an Overlay Company One Million Dollars

Public can submit comments until February 5th in case against AccessiBe for misleading advertising

lflegal.com/2025/01/ftc-access…

by @LFLegal
#accessibility #a11y #wcag #accessiBe #accessiBeNot #ftc


Beware of AI Accessibility Promises: US Federal Agency Fines an Overlay Company One Million Dollars

The new year brought weclomed digital accessibility news from the United States Federal Trade Commission, known as the FTC.
Law Office of Lainey Feingold
#a11y #Accessibility #wcag #accessiBe #ftc #accessibenot @Lainey Feingold

#a11y #wordpress

#a11y #Accessibility #opensource #fosdem @FOSDEM

#a11y #Accessibility #podcast #UX #userexperience #uxdesign #UXPodcast @James Royal-Lawson @Per Axbom

#a11y #Accessibility #webdesign #uidesign @Large Heydon Collider

#a11y #law #wcag #accessiBe #ftc #accessibenot

FTC Order Requires accessiBe to Pay $1 Million for Deceptive Claims that its AI Product Could Make Websites Compliant with Accessibility Guidelines

ftc.gov/news-events/news/press…

#law #a11y #wcag #accessiBe #accessiBeNot #ftc


FTC Order Requires Online Marketer to Pay $1 Million for Deceptive Claims that its AI Product Could Make Websites Compliant with Accessibility Guidelines

The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibility tool to make any
Federal Trade Commission
#a11y #law #wcag #accessiBe #ftc #accessibenot

#a11y #webdev #aria

I'm really happy we can finally announce some #lemmy#accessibility work myself, @MostlyBlindGamer, @dhamlinmusic, and the other Rblind admins have been working on for a while. We've just released two open-source themes, light and dark, for Lemmy that should be more accessible and usable for #blind and low vision folks. You can read the details, and please provide feedback, here: www.rblind.com/post/3476242#a11y#fediverse#opensource

Announcing RBlind custom dark and light themes for Lemmy - RBlind

www.rblind.com
#a11y #Accessibility #opensource #fediverse #blind #lemmy @MostlyBlindGamer @D.Hamlin.Music

#a11y #Shelly #braille #inklusion #worldbrailleday #barrierefreiheit #button #schrift #hausautomation

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