For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we want to recognize the work being done on accessibility by @matt as part of the @gnome Foundation. He is the lead for @accesskit and is currently working on Newton, a Wayland-oriented solution for assistive technologies that can modernize accessibility on the Linux desktop!

➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=w9psDfEFf9…

#Fedora #GAAD #Accessibility #A11y #Linux #OpenSource

Modernizing Accessibility for Desktop Linux - Matt Campbell, GNOME Foundation

Modernizing Accessibility for Desktop Linux - Matt Campbell, GNOME FoundationThe desktop Linux ecosystem has changed dramatically since accessibility was fir...

^YouTube

Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/… Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online… #Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign

Featuring @aardrian, @mgifford, @eric, @schalkneethling, @intopia, @andy, @css, @davatron5000, @brad_frost, @mia, @boagworld, @vitalyf, @hhillen, @onsman, @TPGi, @Cjforms, @marcus, @cferdinandi, @michelle, @baldur, @gerrymcgovern, @johnallsopp, et al.

I got name-checked in Jessica Weber’s 2024 #AccessU Legal Update! It was for #AudioEye’s SLAPP #overlay suit.

Got to lunch very late because people wanted to ask me questions, but not in front of the AudioEye executive who was in the room.

knowbility.org/programs/access…

#accessibility #a11y

NVDA 2024.2 beta 1 is now available for testing from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-2b…

For anyone who is interested in trying out what NVDA has to offer before release, we welcome your feedback.

Highlights
- Sound Split
- New Synth Settings ring & quick navigation commands
- New braille features & fixes, including "Display speech output".
- Updated eSpeak, adding new language Tigrinya.

There are many minor bug fixes for applications

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Beta #News #Accessibility #A11y #FOSS

Got very excited by @matt demo of AccessKit integration in #GTK

AccessKit is a cross-platform abstraction for accessibility infrastructure written in Rust.

His work will bring a11y support for GTK on macOS and Windows as well as for the new accessibility architecture on Linux code-named "Newton".

github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/2…

#GNOME #rustlang #accessibility #a11y #Linux #Windows #macOS

Le saviez-vous ? On peut désormais signaler à l'@Arcom_fr des problèmes d'#accessibilité #numérique.

L'association @ValentinHauy nous explique comment 👉 buff.ly/4cR1Qgq
C'est discret, c'est sur la page Contact en pied de page, mais ça existe.
#a11y"

Best intention barriers (ARIA edition)

🔗 marcus.io/blog/best-intention-…

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"Instead of not being aware about the problematic approach the developer chose, they try to improve accessibility but – unbeknownst to them - create new barriers in the first place doing it." @marcus

#a11y

Best intention barriers (ARIA edition)

In my experiences as an auditor (for …

^{marcus.io · Blog of web developer and accessibility consultant Marcus Herrmann}

Friends! It’s Monday. And this week is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD)! You know what that means.

📢 I'm having a GAAD SALE

Starting today, you can get the Practical Accessibility course at 25% OFF 🎁 ⤵️

practical-accessibility.today

The sale ends on May 20th. ⏳

#a11y

The Practical Accessibility Course

A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today

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“Level-Setting Heading Levels”
adrianroselli.com/2024/05/leve…

TL;DR: Avoid setting heading levels greater than six (6). This applies whether using `aria-level` or the proposed `headingstart` HTML attribute. Use HTML `<h#>` elements whenever possible.

#accessibility #a11y

Level-Setting Heading Levels

TL;DR: Avoid setting heading levels greater than six (6). This applies whether using aria-level or the proposed headingstart HTML attribute. Use HTML elements whenever possible.

^{Adrian Roselli}

I just joined the #Robius matrix chat, and gave a link to my toot above.

I created an issue some time ago in the #Makepad tracker about #a11y:

github.com/makepad/makepad/iss…

Who knows.. maybe the wheel need not be reinvented again, right? And they are open to #AccessKit.

Btw, thank you for your talk yesterday. I really liked it, it was a great presentation.

On Accessibility · Issue #196 · makepad/makepad

Hi there 👋 I watched Rik Arends presentation at RustNL. Fabulous project (I immediately posted on Fediverse in excitement). Imho together with "local-first" this shows a paradigm beyond Web 2.0 whe...

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Hi @matt 👋

Yesterday in #LibrePlanet chat I named the #Makepad project, a real adorable 😍 effort that's still lacking on the #a11y side, i.e. could do with some #AccessKit on board.

Today I found out that Makepad is apparently part of a #Rust appdev effort, called #Robius. Another project here is #Dioxus.. also in for @accesskit #accessiblity support.. maybe. 🤔

Robius looks like a very loose conglomeration of independent projects. Maybe AccessKit is even a fit to it?

github.com/project-robius

Project Robius

Community for Multi-platform Application Development in Rust - Project Robius

^GitHub

A brief reminder that our Call for Presentations for the next #id24 (scheduled for 12 September 2024) is still open until 7 June inclusivedesign24.org/2024/

(and a small note: have an idea for a talk, but perhaps you're not comfortable doing a whole presentation in English? let us know anyway ... in the past we've had a few presentations in other languages, so it's not necessarily a hindrance)

#a11y #accessibility #barrierefreiheit #accessibilité #inclusiveDesign #accessibilità

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

^{Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)}

Happy 25 years of WCAG!

On this day in 1999, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 were published. WCAG 2.2 is still one of the most important standards on the web, ensuring a base level of access for everyone.

1.0 – May 5, 1999 w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
2.0 – Dec 11, 2008 w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
2.1 – Jun 5, 2018 w3.org/TR/WCAG21/
2.2 – Oct 5, 2023 w3.org/TR/WCAG22/

#wcag #a11y #accessibility

“The reasons why use of the placeholder attribute as the only means of providing a user readable prompt for a form control is deficient UX, are voluminous. It is frustrating having to rehash this discussion endlessly.”

#HTML #a11y #webDev

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…

Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, May 2, 2024 - Volume 961
toptechtidbits.com/tidbits2024…

The Week's News in Access Technology
A Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. Publication
#news #technology #accessibility #a11y #disability #blind #deaf #deafblind #toptechtidbits

Top Tech Tidbits. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in access technology.

Subscribers: 17,060 Opt-In Subscribers were sent this issue via email. 170 Premium Subscribers were sent this issue via email.

Why are my live regions not working? by @patrick_h_lauke

"Live regions have a reputation for being "flaky" and inconsistent. While this can be attributed in part to shortcomings in current implementations, the problem can also be caused by developers misunderstanding how live regions are intended to work."

#a11y #webDev #HTML #ARIA

tetralogical.com/blog/2024/05/…

Why are my live regions not working? - TetraLogical

^TetraLogical

A few extra seconds of your time it takes to add a good image description can really improve someone's day.

"To a totally blind person like me it means a lot to have a picture in my mind of your images, especially the animal pics."

"I don't know what it is, but as a blind user it's making me emotional to be able to actually interact with content."

alttexthalloffame.org

#accessibility #a11y #AltText #ImageDescriptions

I keep forgetting to mention that I am doing a workshop at #AccessU in a couple weeks:
knowbility.org/programs/access…

107 slides (so far), 4 group exercises, 3 hours, pencil and/or paper.

#accessibility #a11y

#SocialCoop has been discussing whether to disable images on May 16 and October 10 for #WorldSightDay, as suggested here stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1….

One concern raised about this proposal is that it is symbolic and might not do anything to improve the lives of people with visual impairments.

I would like to hear perspectives from people with visual impairments on whether this kind of action is helpful.

(boosts welcome; please only reply if you rely on alt text)

#accessibility
#a11y
#AltText

Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online)

Attached: 1 image In solidarity with the blind and vision-impaired community, I propose that twice a year, on the World Sight Day and the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, fediverse admins disable images on their servers to highlight the importanc…

^{Stefan's Personal Mastodon Server}

If you're #blind, #VisuallyImpaired, or otherwise rely on #AssistiveTecnhologies and #AltText, your thoughts on this proposal to temporarily disable images across the fediverse to highlight the importance of well-written image descriptions would be very much appreciated.

social.coop/@dynamic/112349215…

Please boost the original post for reach!

#accessibility #a11y

Even if you don't code, this is essay presents a solid case on why #AI can't be relied on to replace work requiring any degree of empathy and nuanced understanding

Specifically, if you're building accessible web-based experiences, @hdv explains why "outsourcing" this work create more harm than good and offers some better alternatives to focus on instead (hint: invest in a #DesignSystem)

#accessibility #a11y #InclusiveDesign

hidde.blog/ai-for-accessible-c…

“AI” and accessible front-end components: is the nuance generatable?

Are LLMs helpful tools to assist with making accessible front-end components? Let's find out.

^{Hidde's blog}

The FFG Austria shared insights into their #a11y monitoring of 2023. The top detected issues, including 2 new ones, were:

1. Info and relationships
2. Non-text content
3. Name, role, value
4. Logical order when using a keyboard
5. Visible focus (new)
6. Text contrast
7. Keyboard (new)

Here is their website with the whole report (in German): ffg.at/digitale-barrierefreihe…

Or their flyer (PDF in German):
ffg.at/sites/default/files/all…

#ATAG

@pvagner@fedi.ml
I've read your reply to @WestphalDenn@social.cologne questions about working with #Gnome on #Linux. Thanx for your insights!

What interests me:
Is the #Electron#Desktop#App#Element for #Matrix#Chat accessible for #blind#users? You use it?

#a11y#Acessiblity

Slides from my Notes on synthetic speech talk at #GAconf today:
decks.tink.uk/2024.html

And the original blog post from 2021:
tink.uk/notes-on-synthetic-spe…

#accessibility #a11y #gaming

Starting with version 3.1.12, #pandoc-generated #EPUBs conform to the EU Accessibility Act. w3.org/TR/epub-a11y-eaa-mappin…

Relevant metadata fields are listed in the "EPUB metadata" section of the manual: pandoc.org/MANUAL#epub-metadat….

#accessibility #A11y

Orca the Linux screen reader now has a website!

orca.gnome.org/

Thanks to @snwh

And thank you Joannie, @igalia and the community for all the ongoing work and support.

#Linux #GNOME #freedesktop #a11y #accessibility

Here's a neat exploration of the curb cut effect for accessibility in @gnome - using accessibility tools to aid in testing automation! Has pros and cons identified in the article, but interesting nonetheless.

➡️ fedoramagazine.org/automation-…

#Fedora #Gnome #accessibility #a11y #Linux #OpenSource

Automation through Accessibility - Fedora Magazine

Using Accessibility as an automation testing tool. Learn about DesktopQE's automation stack to test Desktop Applications.

^{Michal Odehnal (Fedora Project)}

‘When security and accessibility clash: why are banking applications so inaccessible?’
nicchan.me/blog/when-security-…

I once did a presentation for a bank client explaining all the ways preventing paste disables users.

The response: “But we have to, for security.” No ability to justify beyond that, no consideration of user impact, no offer of supporting data.

Security theater is often used to abrogate #accessibility requirements. #a11y

Microsoft announced their latest round of FOSS fund recipients. We're thrilled to share that @NVAccess are among this quarter's recipients. From: github.com/microsoft/foss-fund

"A project of the Microsoft Open Source Programs Office, the FOSS Fund provides up to $10,000 USD in sponsorships to open source projects as selected by Microsoft employees."

Congratulations also to The GNU Compiler Collection, Urllib3, CLAP & MSW.

#OpenSource, #FOSS #Free #Software #NVDA #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11y

“Socks, lies, and accessibility”
janmaarten.com/gaad-2023/

Where @janmaarten shows that just a couple days after #accessiBe’s CEO promised to stop being such a lying liarface it went and used sock puppet Twitter accounts to promote its #overlay.

As I keep saying, past behavior is a predictor of future behavior (side-eyes #AudioEye, #UserWay, #FACILiti).

#a11y #accessibility

Socks, lies, and accessibility

Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is around the corner. Looking back at last year, I found some troubling things people in this field should be aware of. Because they're likely to be repeated.

^{Jan Maarten (Jan Maarten – Inclusive designer, privacy advocate, writer)}

...and here we go: #id24 will return this year on 12 September 2024.

The call for presentations is now open inclusivedesign24.org/2024/

#a11y #accessibility #inclusiveDesign

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

^{Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)}