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There are two solutions to ARIA Live Region issues:

1. Don’t use ARIA Live Regions (but use focus, dialogs, or other managing of what’s going on)
2. Put the live region in the DOM at page load (They cost nothing. If you need an alert and a status, put two divs in with both roles.)

See more in these slides:

talks.yatil.net/Ux0REi/were-ar…

#a11y #accessibility





People on StackOverflow telling people to screw up #accessibility with the HTML dialog element defeats the purpose of using that element in the first place IMO. Please upvote my answer that corrects the numerous wrong answers, including the accepted answer, to this question if you have an SO account.

stackoverflow.com/a/79028606/2…

#webDev #a11y #html #css #javaScript


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(But I can't keep you from sharing this code with anyone who needs a solid foundation in all things Web Accessibility.)
#a11y
#accessibility


The Access Text Network (a US platform where some publishers share accessible PDFs of their books on demand to authorized users) has gradually been coming back online after it collapsed this spring as a result of some kind of disagreement between Georgia Tech and the Association of American Publishers.🤔

My work was only granted access to the new AccessText today, and the collection has to be built back up over time book by book.
accesstext.org/about-us

#accessibility #a11y #BookAccessibility


this looks like it might be restricted to the US. Could you/someone confirm? #Accessibility #A11y



Client: "Well, sometimes we have to break accessibility on our site when it gets in the way of other users."

Me: 🤔

#webdev #memes #a11y


The TTRPGs for Accessible Gaming Bundle on Itch is live. This supports a partnership between the DOTS RPG Project and Die Hard Dice to produce commercially avaliable high quality Braille dice for BVI players. DOTS RPG dice are super amazing quality. I was able to beta test their newest design and cannot say enough good things. Find the Bbundle here to support an amazing cause: itch.io/b/2623/ttrpgs-for-acce… #TTRPG #Braille #Blind #Accessibility #A11y #RPG



I'm happy to announce the release of the new, modernized a11y-syntax-highlighting themes! Nothing has visually changed, but there's a lot of cool stuff going on under the hood. #a11y ericwbailey.website/published/…
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⌨️ prayer for the un-entitled user

"Like the rest of the web platform, interoperability is key to accessibility support. It is safe to say at this time (September 2024) that the display of title attribute content on keyboard focus is not implemented interoperably."

#a11y #WebStandards #WebDev

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…


Anyone running macOS 15 and want to test to see if this `aria-activedescendant` bug is really fixed?
bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i…

It’s not that I don’t trust Apple folks, it’s just that I have learned never to take the “Fixed!” assertion at face value.

#a11y #accessibility #Safari #ARIA


It took over a year since I wrote this warning, but I finally found a case in the wild!

Well, *I* didn’t, but someone on the A11y Slack had an issue and I was able to identify it by description alone.

“Brief Note on Popovers with Dialogs”
adrianroselli.com/2023/05/brie…

Well done, me!

[ wrenches arm reaching for his own back]

#a11y #accessibility


I finally got around to linking @lloydi’s post “Context is king: long live the king!” from my own (which he references). Anyway, his post:
tpgi.com/context-is-king-long-…

He also covers a couple variations where you can stack techniques for… an effect.

And he has a mini-tool (buried in a disclosure widget at the end) in there to generate the HTML/CSS for each scenario if you provide it the words.

Very detail. Much comprehensive.

#a11y #accessibility


Updated my sortable tables post.

It now notes that NVDA, JAWS, Narrator, and VoiceOver / iPadOS will announce when you sort a table column.

That means VoiceOver on macOS and TalkBack do _not_ announce a sort.

Dramatically better than when I wrote it in 2021 yet still utterly inadequate.

adrianroselli.com/2021/04/sort…

#a11y #accessibility


Potentially way too late (as usual), but I've just released #TouchBarSpeak: an app that speaks the name of escape and F1–F12 keys when they're pressed once, and actually activates them when they're pressed twice quickly.
Originally called NSFKeys, and originally made as an experiment during the Intel Macbook/Touch Bar/Boot Camp era, rewritten this month, the app is meant to make using a touch bar on Windows more accessible.
Maybe it could still be useful?
I have also updated Capbeeper, fixing the double tray menu open bug, featuring slight sound volume adjustments, and (thanks to TouchBarSpeak), the “Run as admin” feature/option, accessible from the systray menu.
I hope any of this is useful, if it sounds like so, feel free to check things out.
nsstudiosweb.com/programs.php
#touchBar #touchBarLove #a11y #freeApps #development
#EnneNews


NVDA 2024.3, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Full information & download links available from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-3/

Highlights:
- Notification of add-on updates
- Unicode normalisation options
- Help Tech Activator Pro braille display support
- Mouse wheel scrolling commands
- Many bug fixes & updates for Windows 11, browsers, LibLouis, eSpeak-NG, Unicode CLDR
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #A11y


This is the longest of longshots but... people here seems to know everything about the most obscure stuff. Does anyone know of an #NVDA remote client for Linux? There is one for Android, sort of one for iOS, but I have yet to see one for Linux. I'm thinking it may not be difficult, and would definitely be nice to have. Servers/relays are already available, does anyone know of a client? Boosts are, of course, very welcome, indeed, they'd be appreciated. #blind #A11Y #screenreader




"Removing focus indicators for keyboard users is like hiding the cursor for mouse users." - @matuzo in Web Accessibility Cookbook

Brilliant comparison!

In fact, it made me wonder... can you hide a cursor for mouse users? Yep, you can set it to a custom png file that's completely transparent.

If you want to see for yourself how annoying that is, visit nonvisualwebsite.com/ #a11y



More ISO standards on PDF accessibility are now available for free!

Today the @PDFassociation announced they are making three additional ISO standards - ISO 14289-1 (PDF/UA-1), ISO 14289-2 (PDF/UA-2) and ISO TS 32005 - available for download at no cost.

Big kudos to the PDF Association and to the following companies for making this possible: Allyant, Axes4, CDP Communications, and TargetStream Technologies.

pdfa.org/announcing-no-cost-ac…

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#PDF #TaggedPDF #Standards #Accessibility #A11y


The Release Candidate (RC) of NVDA 2024.3 is now available for download & testing.

We encourage all users to download this RC & provide feedback.

Unless any critical bugs are found, this will be identical to the final 2024.3 release.

Read more & Download: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-3r…

Highlights include:
- Notification of add-on updates
- Updates to Unicode, LibLouis & eSpeak
- Mouse wheel scroll gestures
- Bug fixes in browsers & Windows

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Beta #PreRelease #FOSS #A11y