Screen readers are great, and they deserve a lot of love. But let me give you a better option to start testing with.Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultant
The Seeing Assistant Go app supports the spatial orientation of blind and visually impaired people. It provides information about the surroundings using synthetic speech, sounds, vibrations and pointing in the direction of the top of the phone.App Store
I’m a firm believer in text labels. Interfaces are over-stuffed with icons. The more icons we have to scan over, the more brain power we putwww.chrbutler.com
Let A11yInspect reduce time taken to implement accessibility. Detects failures, identifies issues to validate and highlights code.BarrierBreak Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
“Hacking Accessible Pedestrian Signals is Not a Joke: It’s a Civil Rights Violation” from @LFLegal lflegal.com/2025/04/aps-hack/
Yeah, not only is this bad form it’s also potentially deadly. Lainey does a good job of laying out the history and what went into originally getting these in place. These jerks undermined it all.
On April 12, 2025 the top story on the Palo Alto (California) online news site was "Silicon Valley Crosswalk Buttons Apparently Hacked to Imitate Musk, Zuckerberg Voices" It told the story, covered by other media too, of how someone hacked into audi…Law Office of Lainey Feingold
Was asked to provide a “DEI harder” v-neck womens t-shirt, so here it is
etsy.com/uk/listing/1886391200…
I made that thread from yesterday into a brief post.
“Automated WCAG Testing Is Grrreat!”
adrianroselli.com/2025/04/auto…
I’m a big fan of using automation in WCAG testing. I use bookmarklets, dev tools, browser features & reporting, and a pile of third-party products from assorted vendors. These save me time and effort, letting me focus on more tricky cases.Adrian Roselli
I'm super excited to have Ben Ritner from KadenceWP joining me live on YouTube tomorrow to talk about building accessible websites with Kadence. Tune in at 3 PM central. #WordPress #a11y #accessibility
Join Amber Hinds and special guest Ben Ritner, Sr. Director of Product at StellarWP and the founder of Kadence WP, for a conversation about how to build acce...YouTube
Chat GPT with video! Here is my experience using it in different situations and how it can possibly help with accessibility for someone who's blind or visually impaired!
It's finally here- Chat GPT with video! Here is my experience using it in different situations and how it can possibly help with accessibility for someone wh...YouTube
The deadline for state and local governments in the United States to meet the 2024 rule about web and mobile accessibility are coming up in 2026 and 2027, depending on the size of the government agency.Law Office of Lainey Feingold
🫥 @aardrian explains the reasoning behind the only one <main> per page rule.
#HTML #WebStandards #a11y #ARIA
adrianroselli.com/2025/04/main…
Sometimes you run into a main landmark where you don’t expect one. Like Main Street USA in Hong Kong Disney. So you grab a snack in a diner that serves no hot dogs.Adrian Roselli
Should the 'row' role really be necessary for parents of 'gridcell' and other cell role elements?
#ARIA #WebStandards #a11y #Nerdvana
github.com/w3c/aria/issues/240…
Discussed in #2128 Originally posted by turjmner8 February 22, 2024 In general, would it be possible to remove the requirement for role 'gridcell' elements to be contained within role 'row' element...GitHub
Massachusetts is looking for 4 (four!) IT Accessibility Officers. Boston/hybrid.
a11yjobs.com/jobs/MLyP9-it-acc…
#GetFediHired
#jobs
#A11yJobs
#a11y
#AccessibilityJobs
#accessibility
Discover top jobs in digital accessibility, including web accessibility, ARIA, WCAG, Section 508, ADA compliance, and more. Join the A11y community with roles on a11yjobs.com.a11yjobs.com
Friday bookmarklet time! This is one I created AGES ago, and use frequently in my testing, but clean forgot to add to the site.
Grouped Fields - visually highlights fields that are programmatically grouped using either fieldset/legend elements or their ARIA counterparts.
a11y-tools.com/bookmarklets/so…
#testing #a11y #accessibility #devtools
If you want to know how a spoon, ai, Matrix and accessibility are connected, then check out the #btconf talk description by @tink with the title “There Is No Spoon” beyondtellerrand.com/events/du…
#a11y #ai #accessibility #presentation #tellerrand
Léonie is a Director of TetraLogical; Chair of the W3C Board of Directors, and co-Chair of the W3C Web Applications Working Group. Shebeyond tellerrand Events
Kevin Powell has an #accessibility intro video:
“Quick accessibility wins that are easy to implement”
youtu.be/pJ0GPI7BMIs
This isn’t for practitioners; this isn’t new stuff.
This is for folks who are new to it, who learn better with videos, who know his name and will believe him more than us, who want recent examples, etc.
#a11y
Accessibility can be a deep topic, but there is a lot of low-hanging fruit that so many people get wrong when there really is no excuse.🔗 Links✅ axe dev too...YouTube
Windows Narrator is adding a speech viewer / log:
blogs.windows.com/windows-insi…
Do not treat it as a proxy for what is actually announced:
adrianroselli.com/2020/08/spee…
The headline is intentional hyperbole, chosen mostly for the sloppy alliteration. When sighted users test with a screen reader it is common to rely on the visual output — checking to see where focus goes, confirming that controls behave, watching the…Adrian Roselli
I’m a fan of @iFixit already because they help people reduce waste and gain some agency over repairing the panopticon devices for which we pay stupid money.
Even more of a fan because they are working to make their content accessible and asking for feedback.
More of this from orgs, please.
mastodon.social/@iFixit/114229…
Is having the entire script of the video included in the #AltText helpful or frustrating? Let us know for future videos!Mastodon
mind the WCAG automation gap
"Disclaimer: this content was partially produced via automation FTW! Don’t fear the AI future or the reaper."
#a11y #WCAG #testing #automation #ai
Something I started doing lately is using the padding of a element to create the space between it and an instead of a margin or…Darin Senneff
I filed two issues today on W3C Group Draft Note “Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI.”
• Note fails to discuss sustainability aspects of using AI
github.com/w3c/ai-accessibilit…
• Replace ‘overlays’ as a section
github.com/w3c/ai-accessibilit…
Note: raw.githack.com/w3c/ai-accessi…
Issue #13 touches on this, but I think it warrants its own section in addition to ethical aspects. While the Web Sustainability Guidelines are structured as a recommendation and testing framework, ...GitHub
“Here is a list of WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA success criteria that I think cannot be completely tested with automated tools. These criteria require manual testing because they involve meaning, usability, intent, or user experience that automated tools cannot fully evaluate.”
html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…
@SteveFaulkner with the automation-to-WCAG-pipeline fatberg.
“Can generative AI write contextual text descriptions?”
tetralogical.com/blog/2025/03/…
Huge improvements from a few years ago, but even with context these need help. A good example of genAI only as a tool, not as a solution.
In 2025, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek are being used for everything. Writing emails. Generating code. Even applying for jobs.TetraLogical
Und ihr denkt daran, die #OpenStop #App zu zücken 😉, wenn ihr auf #Bus oder #Bahn wartet, z.B. auf dem Weg zum @clt_news@mastodon.social ?
tube.pilgerweg-21.de/w/83BtAQ6…
#Barrierefrei #ÖPNV #Daten #a11y
Resources for screen reader usage and keyboard commands:
webaim.org/articles/voiceover/
webaim.org/articles/nvda/
webaim.org/articles/jaws/
tpgi.com/basic-screen-reader-c…
dequeuniversity.com/screenread…
#a11y #screenreader #tips
Updated 1st Feb 2016. When you test your website with a screen reader there are a few basic commands you should know. Just remember not to make design decisions based...Léonie Watson (TPGi)
#Blind users, users that rely heavily on #keyboardNavigation or anyone else with a preference on that matter (please indicate what applies in the comments):
Do you have a preference for or comments on the format of URLs? During user research, we have learned that URLs that are easy to handle are a good thing.
We are currently considering to introduce URLs that do not need more reserved usernames in #Forgejo, such as codeberg.org/-/something/ or codeberg.org/_something/.
New POUR tees just dropped!
The four principles of WCAG, plus more. You can pay money for them (3 day sale)!
Available in black or white, set in Neue Helvetica Heavy or Atkinson Hyperlegible. You can choose shirt colors.
Black Helvetica:
teepublic.com/t-shirt/73535251…
The four principles of WCAG plus two more related to real-life accessibility. Set in Neue Helvetica Heavy as black text for lighter colored shirts. There is a version in white text and also matching shirts using Atkinson Hyperlegible.TeePublic
Ever seen fancy italics, bold text, or even gothic letters in a slick marketing post on social media?
These platforms do not offer text formatting, so people use weird mathematical characters from the fringes of the Unicode spectrum. And because they aren't really letters screen reader software will announce them as silence or incomprehensible garbage.
@aardrian has the lodown in "Don’t Use Fake Bold or Italic in Social Media"
adrianroselli.com/2025/03/dont…
I posted something on Mastodon that uses Unicode math symbols to produce fake bold and fake italic text. I used YayText.com to generate it, but I am not linking it because you I don’t want you to use it.Adrian Roselli
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