Promised I'll be dropping in with examples of good #A11y in different countries and then I broke the promise. Coincidentally, I was asked to fill in a survey where one of the questions was about this very subject so I'll share one of the examples I gave there. In Austria, the qualified electronic signature is one of the state e-government services. A tool was built to allow screen reader users to insert their e-signature into any PDF document. The signature can be both visible and / or just a digital finger print, possible to verify through a qualifying verification tool. The visible signature can be inserted in one of three ways: 1. You place it right at the end of the document. If there's place enough, it should land in the line below the last one where there is content, otherwise, a new page is created. 2. The provider of the document can first place a QR code at a place in the document they choose, then the signee can replace this QR code with their own signature. 3. The provider of the document can determine coordinates in pixels where the signature should be placed and the signee enters them on their side to place the signature. pdf.egiz.gv.at/ #Accessibility #Austria #Blind
This session will share stories and strategies from 3 decades of accessibility convincing with public and private organizations. Have you ever tried to convince someone of the value and importance of …
Great talk by @mrchrisadams at @fosdem this year. Loved how he explored #WCAG's #POUR in the context of older devices. Not everyone can update their devices every 2 years, but absolutely nobody should!
The US Web Design System has deleted it's info on inclusive design, in response to the 2025-01-20 Executive order "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing". github.com/uswds/uswds-site/pu…
If you know anyone who used those resources, let them know about the Inclusive Design principles: inclusivedesignprinciples.info…
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Removed report link and introduction. Removed content related to the January 20, 2025 Executive Order, "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing".
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@Tutanota How do you plan to act on the a11y issues on the web/app? The roadmap doesn't talk about that and The BFSG comes into force in Germany on June 8, 2025.
> If your company operates in Germany or targets German users, you should make all content on your website or app accessible – from the homepage to the cookie banner. Otherwise, you risk not only high fines, but also reputational losses and missed business opportunities .
Compliance with German accessibility laws - BFSG, BITV 2.0 and BGG. Make sure your website or app meets all requirements. For private and public companies.
“Federal Digital Accessibility Disappearance on Trump Day One; Guest article by civil rights and accessibility lawyer Eve Hill” lflegal.com/2025/01/week-one-d…
The first week of the new republican administration was frightening and disorienting for all of us who believe in civil and human rights, justice, equality, fairness and more.
“The Effect of Donald Trump’s DEI Executive Order on Accessibility; Guest article by civil rights and accessibility lawyer Eve Hill” lflegal.com/2025/01/week-one-e…
Below I share a blog post written by Eve Hill, one of the best disability rights lawyers and digital accessibility legal specialists in the United States. (More about Eve at the end of this article.
Welcome back to another episode of What's New in Google Accessibility, a series where we share the latest product and feature updates that help make Google m...
"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.
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)!
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.
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.
The #BBC is looking for a Head of Digital #Accessibility, with the role only open to #deaf, #disabled, and/or #neurodivergent applicants. Hybrid working, based at any UK BBC hub. Salary up to £110,000.
📣 Sei #A11y und unterstütze den Zugang zum !@metalab für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit! Komm zum Do-It-Blind (DIB) Treffen 🛠️ am Montag, 27. Jänner, Treffpunkt Ring-Passage, U3-Station Volkstheater um 16:00; Ende 20:00 metalab.at/calendar/event/7800… #make #blind #inklusion
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I recently bought an LG TV and was happy to discover that it had a screen reader that even automatically began at startup! This video goes over the different accessibility features and my experience setting it up.
My brother and I bought an LG TV during the 2024 Black Friday sales. I've had an overall pretty good experience with it, though it could still definitely imp...
Discover one of the best blind life hacks yet! In this video, I show you how to set up Seeing AI to read subtitles from movies and TV shows. Whether you're l...
@Lukáš Tyrychtr @modulux GTK 4.18 that is. Still it's a shame #a11y work by @Matt Campbell is not continuing the way it has been envisioned from the start.
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.)
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.
In my post Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support I demonstrate how, when encountering a figure with a screen reader, you won’t hear everything announced at once: No screen reader combo treats the caption as the accessible name nor accessible de…
Web developers don't know HTML; or at least they don't implement proper HTML (which is ridiculous; it's like a lawyer not knowing or applying the law). Just look at 4 of the top 5 web accessibility issues from the WebAIM Million. So frustrating, and for decades now...
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.
Agencies are dedicating more time and staff to digital accessibility efforts, but acquisition is still a key hurdle when it comes to Section 508 compliance.
From the FTC on Friday: 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 website compliant with the W…
The third edition of The Accessibility Show with Nathan Wrigley of WP Builds dropped early this morning, and I have to say that I'm really enjoying this
Kicking off "Season 3" of UX Podcast @axbom and @Beantin bring you a topic show. In this episode we dive into the concept of "Dark mode", its benefits, and its implications for UX design, user experience and accessibility.
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
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
I love to see coding tutorials like this make the coder code for accessibility by giving them examples and stating up front they do not treat accessibility as an afterthought write-on.org/html/ #CSS #WebDev #HTML #Accessibility #A11y
