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“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.

#accessibility #a11y


Hacking Accessible Pedestrian Signals is Not a Joke: It's a Civil Rights Violation

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
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#a11y #Accessibility #wordpress

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#a11y #law #ada

#a11y #html #aria #webstandards @Adrian Roselli

#a11y #aria #webstandards #nerdvana

Massachusetts is looking for 4 (four!) IT Accessibility Officers. Boston/hybrid.

a11yjobs.com/jobs/MLyP9-it-acc…

#GetFediHired
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#A11yJobs
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Apply for the IT Accessibility Officer (Contract-Based) job at The Massachusetts Executive Office of Technology Services and Security. Join the top accessibility job board today!

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.
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#a11y #Accessibility #jobs #getfedihired #a11yjobs #accessibilityjobs

#a11y #Accessibility #testing #devtools

While we believe #Accessibility should be a key component of any project from the outset, one of the advantages of open source is that those with the knowledge are able to contribute to projects to help address shortcomings. @wireshark is "The world's most popular #network protocol analyzer", and a fellow #OpenSource project. Do we know any #A11y coders with an interest in #Networking willing to give them a hand with accessibility? See their post here: fosstodon.org/@wireshark@ioc.e… #FOSS

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#a11y #Accessibility #foss #opensource #network #networking @Wireshark

#a11y #Accessibility #AI #presentation #btconf #tellerrand @Léonie Watson

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.

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Quick accessibility wins that are easy to implement

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...
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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…

#a11y #accessibility

iFixit (@iFixit@mastodon.social)

Is having the entire script of the video included in the #AltText helpful or frustrating? Let us know for future videos!
Mastodon
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#a11y #AI #testing #wcag #automation

So I wanted to try guide on a real accessibility issue. However, it seems that #codeberg has finally fixed their #inaccessible#captcha. Now, if you tab into the #captcha field, you're told what you need to type to get past it. Good job codeberg! #a11y
#a11y #codeberg #captcha #inaccessible

#a11y #webdesign #usability #forms

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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…

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AI and Machine Learning - note fails to discuss sustainability aspects of using AI · Issue #15 · w3c/ai-accessibility

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, ...
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#a11y #Accessibility @Steve Faulkner

“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.

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Can generative AI write contextual text descriptions? - TetraLogical

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
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@Jason J.G. White Yes it's amazing @GNOME #a11y is moving into the right direction but I'm afraid it's at very slow pace.
Within Gnome 48 we do have reworked keyboard input handling.
Now we need mouse emulation
and in the future we'd like to have touch screen gestures and related screen reader features.
The interaction between gnome developers and screen reader users is one direction only.
New features are being added, some bugs which we can tolerate are introduced along the way and we do need to wait at least some 6 months until these are addressed at a platform level in an upcoming release.
#a11y @GNOME @Jason J.G. White

#a11y #app #daten #ÖPNV #bahn #openstop #bus #barrierefrei @Chemnitzer Linux-Tage

#a11y #screenreader #tips

#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/.

#a11y #accessibility

#a11y #Accessibility #blind #forgejo #keyboardnavigation

#a11y #Accessibility #politics #News #unitedstates #ada

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…

#a11y #accessibility

Stacked vertically in black Helvetica on a yellow tee: “Perceivable & Operable & Understandable & Robust & Punch Nazis.”
Stacked vertically in white Helvetica on a purple tee: “Perceivable & Operable & Understandable & Robust & Punch Nazis.”
Stacked vertically in white Atkinson Hyperlegible on a royal blue tee: “Perceivable & Operable & Understandable & Robust & Punch Nazis.”
Stacked vertically in black Atkinson Hyperlegible on a light blue tee: “Perceivable & Operable & Understandable & Robust & Punch Nazis.”

POURPN, Helvetica, black text by aardrian

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
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I blogged about my first time back to #CSUNATC25 since 2018 in San Diego. #CSUNATC is my favorite #a11y conference and community! I hope to get back every year. I had an amazing time hanging out with everyone and meeting you all in person!
linkedin.com/pulse/csun-assist…

This is the first year I've been back to CSUN ATC since 2018. I always had an amazing time attending in San Diego from 2012 to 2018 and was so happy to finally return in 2025 and see what CSUN is like in Anaheim.

Paul J. Adam (www.linkedin.com)
#a11y #CSUNATC #csunatc25

📣 Sei #A11y und unterstütze den Zugang zum !@metalab für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit! Komm zum Do-It-Blind (DIB) Treffen 🛠️ am Montag, 24. März, Treffpunkt Ring-Passage, U3-Station Volkstheater um 16:00; Ende 20:00 metalab.at/calendar/event/7914… #make #blind #inklusion
Verbesserung: März statt Februar
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist türkis und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.
#a11y #blind #inklusion #make @metalab

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…

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Don’t Use Fake Bold or Italic in Social Media

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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Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/…

Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online…

Featuring @theadamsilver, @stephaniewalter, @smashingmag, @mgifford, @LFLegal, @mactoph, @aardrian, @Ted_drake, @intopia, @scottohara, @inclusivedesign24, @cferdinandi, @jarango, and more.

#Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign

Web Design References: Webdev Newsletter

Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.
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#a11y #Accessibility #webdesign @Adrian Roselli @Scott O'Hara @Mike Gifford, CPWA @Chris Ferdinandi ⚓️ @Smashing Magazine @Lainey Feingold @Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) @Stef Walter @Jorge Arango @Adam Silver @Christopher Phillips @Intopia @Ted Drake

#a11y #law #EU #Disability @Léonie Watson

#a11y #Accessibility #inclusion #inclusivedesign #id24

While I'm talking about games: #stardew Access is so, so close to being actually fun, with a good time freeze and autofishing addon. Unfortunately, I just can't get past the way pathfinding fails sometimes, and the way crops that are watered randomly don't update to show they're watered, and the way NPCs run around like pixies when you want to talk to them, so by the time pathfinding finishes they're already gone, and the way getting into bed is still a matter of trial and error. It makes things that would otherwise be fun into a chore. But, like, the mod itself is done well enough that it makes Stardew feel like a native #audiogame, if it wasn't for the weird bugs and issues. And the game is fully playable, from what I can tell. I just can't get into the relaxing cozy vibe when I'm trying to figure out the exact direction to approach my bed at night, or wondering why the plants aren't getting watered when I'm using my watering can right on the tile, or chasing an NPC across the map who keeps walking away from me when I wanna talk to them. github.com/stardew-access/stardew-access#a11y

GitHub - stardew-access/stardew-access: An accessibility mod for Stardew Valley with screen reader and keyboard only support!

An accessibility mod for Stardew Valley with screen reader and keyboard only support! - stardew-access/stardew-access
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