Marcus Herrmann shares how you can apply the 80/20 rule to accessibility, and make progress.

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#DigitalAccessibility #Accessibility #A11y

80 / 20 accessibility

Many people are confronted with the …

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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

Sortable Table Columns

An accessible sortable table is not necessarily the same as a usable sortable table. Outline: Basics Let The User Know This Thing Has Sorted Screen Reader Announcement Sort Arrows Column Background Column Background via Let The User Know This T…

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It's been a while since I posted on my other blog "Jen Rohrig Design" which is about disability and accessibility but today I posted about a topic I've been thinking about for a while...

"How we talk about disability"

EDIT because this got boosted again - I combined my two blogs the post is now here:

stardustrohrig.com/2024/08/24/…

#Disability
#Accessibility

Warum ist Barrierefreiheit in der Frontend-Entwicklung entscheidend? Oleksii (Aljoscha) Sukhodolskyi gibt Einblicke und teilt seine Expertise im neuen Blogbeitrag.

Jetzt lesen 👉 opentalk.eu/de/news/5-fragen-z…

#Barrierefreiheit #FrontendEntwicklung #DigitaleInklusion #Accessibility #OpenSource

Great new job training/placement opportunity out there for blind/DeafBlind job seekers wishing to get into Accessibility Testing! Please pass along! #a11y #A11yJobs #accessibility

facebook.com/100064545495318/p…

Helen Keller Services

Introducing the Certified AccessAbility Testing Program from Helen Keller Services for the Blind. We're excited to announce the nationwide expansion of our Certified AccessAbility Testing Program, a...

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Here's a video I want to age like curdled milk. Age so quickly it's out-of-date a week after it's made. The issues I've outlined here should be fairly simple fixes if they follow Apple's accessibility guidelines, so here's hoping someone at Floatplane Media can get some eyes on this.
I've tried to be as fair as possible, not just to make a 'bitch and ditch' style video, and to showcase the issues I have.
Please boost if you have an interest, or know that it can potentially reach someone who can make a difference.
Not my cup of tea to ask for those under normal circumstances, so I will not be making a habit of it.
Thanks.

#Accessibility Issues With #Floatplane (from a #VoiceOver Perspective) youtu.be/2sZTsrek08M

Accessibility Issues With Floatplane (from a VoiceOver Perspective)

I've never made a video I wanted to age as badly as this one, but needs must.There are some glaringly obvious issues with LTT's Floatplane app for iOS if you...

^YouTube

Reminder that you can use AccessibilityAttributes on your AttributedStrings to have more fine-grained control over how assistive technologies interact with your Text, such as modulating the pitch or pronunciation #VoiceOver uses! #accessibility #iOS

developer.apple.com/documentat…

AttributeScopes.AccessibilityAttributes | Apple Developer Documentation

There's never been a better time to develop for Apple platforms.

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For those who are interested in alternative ways to use a Linux interface, there are things even lighter than desktop environments, called window managers. There's one called I3, and @storm has made an accessibility plugin forit, which also adds other cool stuff like the ability to control audio playback and such. It's called I38.

git.stormux.org/storm/I38

#linux #foss #accessibility #blind #i3 #I3WM

For Linux developers, here's a page describing some of how to make your package accessible to the Orca screen reader.

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/…

#accessibility #Linux #foss #Orca #blind

README-APPLICATION-DEVELOPERS.md · main · GNOME / orca · GitLab

Screen reader for graphical applications that use the atspi protocol, via speech or Braille.

^GitLab

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

Oh hey, forgot about this open issue lol. ChromeVox on ChromeOS is so dead. I made an issue for a feature to jump to the next/previous spelling error detected in a text edit area, and well, it's as dead as the ChromeVox What's new document. Oh wait they've not been sending out what's new emails to the ChromeVox email list since like version 94 or so.

More seriously though, a ton of schools, and jobs, are switching to ChromeBooks. I'm not saying one cannot be productive on a ChromeBook, because I was able to. But *only* with the help of Chrostini (Linux support) and Android apps. So like, you seriously have to use every single feature to get work done that's more than just Email and Google Docs.

issuetracker.google.com/issues…
#ChromeBook #ChromeOS #ChromeVox #accessibility #blind

Top `<table>` tips:

• Don’t span cells:
adrianroselli.com/2023/02/avoi…

• Don’t redefine column headers: adrianroselli.com/2022/02/colu…

• With one exception, you don’t need a `scope` attribute (the exception is sometimes the top corner):
tpgi.com/short-note-on-scoping…

• `column` is not a valid `scope` value:
html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage…

• Be wary of articles that don’t cite sources or testing when they make assertions about `<table>`.

#HTML #table #accessibility #a11y

Short note on scoping mechanisms - TPGi

In 2 recent articles I have illustrated why the scope attribute is not needed on data tables with one row or column of th elements, or data tables with 1...

^{Steve Faulkner (TPGi)}

Question for you high-contrast theme users.

I recently started an initiative in @gnome Design to standardize drag & drop overlays in entire windows and predominant views. I would really appreciate it if you could criticize / give feedback on the high-contrast variants of the overlay:

gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/…

Edit: moved to gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/…

(Boost appreciated)

#Accessibility #a11y #HighContrast #Contrast #GNOME

Standardize drag & drop overlays (#158) · Issues · Teams / Design / Initiatives · GitLab

Note: Moved to os-mockups#186 (comment 2189414) ...

^GitLab

A reminder that assistive technology (AT) covers more than screen readers. Using “AT” to mean solely SRs is a regular source of confusion between and among clients, vendors, and practitioners, so yeah I have things to say about it:
adrianroselli.com/2024/08/at-i…

#a11y #accessibility

AT Is More Than Screen Readers

A screen reader is a single element of the overall set of assistive technologies. In practice, however, each is often used as a metonym for the other. Well, hello there. It’s nice to see you.

^{Adrian Roselli}

NVDA 2024.3 Beta 6 is now available! Since Beta 5 the main change is that we fixed a bug with Unicode character normalization - and we updated some more translations. Do please download and test it and keep letting us know of any issues! Read the full details on NVDA 2024.3 and the new beta here: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-3b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #A11y #Accessibility #FOSS #Beta #Update #Prerelease #NewVersion

If you read this from the Google Chrome Developer Blog, when do you expect this feature to be available?

Ref: developer.chrome.com/blog/new-…

#accessibility #a11y

Happy Friday everyone! To celebrate, we have a new blog post, an interview with our newest board member (yes, a YouTube video and everything!), info on our latest beta, our survey, an update to Basic Training for NVDA, thanks to Elston's Better Future Fund AND how (and when) to reset NVDA to factory defaults! Check it out here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Blog #News #Interview #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11y #PreRelease #Foss #Training #Busy

I have filed a Chromium bug:
issues.chromium.org/issues/356…

If anyone here knows someone on the Chrome team, probably let them know their latest attempt to make scrolling areas focusable is not working for everyone.

#a11y #accessibility

Are you an engineer who is passionate about #accessibility and developer tooling? You should apply to join the Accessibility Insights team! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/glo…

Make the web better at scale!

Cool class on applied accessibility for designers: maven.com/soren/applied-access…

Application for scholarship for it here (apply by 11:59pm PT August 1 2024): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

#a11y #design #learning #lessons #accessibility #scholarship

Applied Accessibility Scholarship Application

Thank you for your interest in being considered for a scholarship for Applied Accessibility. For this scholarship, we are prioritizing people with the greatest financial needs and/or systemic marginalization Please only submit information that is tr…

^{Google Docs}

The first public working draft of the EBraille spec is available! It is primarily meant for organizations that develop software that will read or write eBraille files. eBraille uses an EPUB 3-compatible file set based on the Open Web Platform — using technologies such as XHTML and CSS — to encode braille in semantically enhanced markup and allow it to adapt to the different capabilities of braille reading devices. The file set is designed for both packaged distribution to end users and deployment to the web for online and downloadable reading.

daisy.github.io/ebraille/publi…

#accessibility #Braille #Blind #reading #books #EBraille

I come from a business / digital background, so digital accessibility has always been big on my radar. When I started in science a few years back, I was very surprised to see that arXiv - a service that allows scientists to put their pre-prints (papers before peer review) was not accessible.

This meant that all science papers that were open access (away from journal subscriptions) were only available as PDFs - which means people with digital accessibility needs could not access them.

Access to science should be open to everyone (the pandemic showed us how important this is), and whilst there is a need for papers to undergo the formal peer-review process, that does not mean we can't adhere to global digital accessibility standards.

So, I am extremely glad to see that arXiv is now moving toward digital accessibility, with its second accessibility forum in Sept. 2024. They've also been moving to make papers in HTML format (instead of PDFs only) which adheres to these standards.

If you are interested in accessibility and science, you might consider attending this forum. It's free to all and only requires remote participation.

accessibility2024.arxiv.org/in…

#science #accessibility #digital #astrodon #arxiv

* Do you want to improve your skills with NVDA?
* Are you looking to become an NVDA Certified Expert?
* Would you like to become familiar with the NVDA add-on store?

If you answered "Yes" to any of these, then the latest update to "Basic Training for NVDA" is for you!

nvaccess.org/product/basic-tra…

*Initially available in eBook format only! Free update to those who have previously purchased

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Training #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11y #AmLearning #Learning #AmStudying #Study

Chrome appears to be first to have hit all the 2024 Interop #accessibility test goals:
web.dev/blog/interop-2024-a11y

Interop tests (which you can read to balance against the Chrome claim):
wpt.fyi/results/?label=experim…

While I want more (more done, more aggressive goals, etc), this is good. Kudos to the team for getting there.

#a11y

Interop 2024: Chrome at 100% for the accessibility focus area  |  Blog  |  web.dev

Chrome now passes 100% of tests for the accessibility focus area. This post explains the improvements made.

^web.dev

If you are a screen reader user, keyboard-only user, screen magnifier user, or user of other AT (I consider WHCM in there), then GitHub is looking for your feedback on its ‘hovercards’:
github.com/orgs/community/disc…

I linked the other discussion / bug report that had to be rolled back so y’all can have more context.

#accessibility #a11y

Keyboard Navigation Improvements for Hovercards · community · Discussion #133986

⛰️ The challenge The only way to interact with hovercards in dotcom right now is limited to mouse users (hover over the triggering link). This violates WCAG 1.4.13 (Content on Hover or Focus), inhi...

^GitHub

I am again reminding y’all not to auto-fail regions / landmarks that have no accName:
adrianroselli.com/2024/06/mayb…

I am also begging y’all to stop using `aria-label`:
• adrianroselli.com/2019/11/aria…
• ericwbailey.website/published/…

If you aren’t testing in screen readers (not just VoiceOver or ChromeVox) then please just stop already.

#accessibility #a11y

aria-label Does Not Translate

As of my 28 January 2024 update at the end of this post, aria-label auto-translation support is seemingly as spotty as when I first wrote this post. It does, actually. Sometimes.

^{Adrian Roselli}