Hi guys, I'm a totally #Blind woman interested in learning French to start with. In coming back to #Duolingo, I found that the first thing you have to do right off the bat is "choose the correct image". You can choose based on the audio you are hearing, absolutely, but you have no way of actually knowing what the so-called correct image actually is, making it pretty much impossible from an accessibility standpoint to know what words are being introduced and/or what they mean in English. Does anyone know of a good language learning app that is actually accessible? #A11y #technology #Language #French #Learning #Screenreader
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I am always configuring mikrotik devices using command line interface connecting using SSH. A few days ago I was explaining something to a friend and I have discovered its web UI in Mikrotik OS v7 has working keyboard navigation and some aria stuff in there. I find it positive and surprising. #a11y
Does anyone know where to report #a11y issues with the #Ubuntu Mate installer? I just tried to install ubuntu-mate-25.04 and sadly, it's pretty much a no go with Orca. Alt+Windows+S works to bring up the screen reader. The first screen of the installer appears to be the language selection screen; but after that, Orca is pretty much dead in the water, utterly unable to read anything else except "next" buttons. Pretty sad. Looks like they're not a11y testing this at all.
In Defense of Text Labels—Why Icons Alone Aren’t Enough chrbutler.com/in-defense-of-te… #a11y #webdesign #UIDesign #icons
In Defense of Text Labels - Christopher Butler
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
Today in #ChatGPT attempting to be helpful with a thing I'm building: "Consider bumping the font size in your CSS so NVDA/VoiceOver don’t make you squint your ears." I, uh, I'm not sure #AI is ready to do #accessibility yet. I mean, I should bump the font size for #a11y reasons...those just aren't the right reasons. I can't wait until we have completely #blind designers building CSS with nothing but AI. Anyway, back to squinting my ears!
New: BarrierBreak A11yInspect accessibility testing tool. A browser extension for Chrome and Edge. barrierbreak.com/a11yinspect #a11y #testing #tools
A11yInspect - The Only Accessibility Browser Extension You Need!
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.
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
We should have a relay for all the blind owned and operated instances to join. @adam it feels like you could maybe make this happen? Could we get @admin and @admin@caneandable.social interested in joining? It'd be a way to make sure everyone's accessibility related timelines are as complete as possible. Happy to kick in a few bucks if there's interest. #a11y
Was asked to provide a “DEI harder” v-neck womens t-shirt, so here it is
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I made that thread from yesterday into a brief post.
“Automated WCAG Testing Is Grrreat!”
adrianroselli.com/2025/04/auto…
Automated WCAG Testing Is Grrreat!
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
Live Accessibility Tips for Kadence with Special Guest Ben Ritner
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
If I decide to start blogging again (it's been years), what's more #screenreader#accessible: ghost or micro.blog or something else? Don't even mention #wordpress; my desire to run a PHP app for any reason is zero. Plus the gutenberg stuff. #a11y
Naive accessibility question: How does your screen reader render emojis? Are they accessible?
Are mastodon extended emojis like 
rendered differently from unicode emojis like 😀?
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!
Chat GPT Live Video AI (Advanced Voice Mode with VIDEO!) Demonstration & Accessibility
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
nb. there are no circumstances -- none at all -- ever -- in which it's necessary or helpful to include accessible text for an ARIA button that says "Press Enter or Space to activate".
Screen reader users know how to press buttons. ffs.
Web Accessibility Lawsuit Moves Forward Against the State of Louisiana lflegal.com/2025/02/louisiana-… #a11y #law #ada
Web Accessibility Lawsuit Moves Forward Against the State of Louisiana
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…
Mainlining Mains
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…
Should the 'row' role really be necessary for parents of 'gridcell' and other cell role elements? · Issue #2402 · w3c/aria
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
What are your favorite "accessibility red flags"?
In other words, when you first access a website, device, service, physical space, etc., what is something that immediately warns you, this won't go well for some disabled people?
I'd love to hear various perspectives, so please boost if you're willing.
Massachusetts is looking for 4 (four!) IT Accessibility Officers. Boston/hybrid.
a11yjobs.com/jobs/MLyP9-it-acc…
#GetFediHired
#jobs
#A11yJobs
#a11y
#AccessibilityJobs
#accessibility
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.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
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
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 Watson is speaking at beyond tellerrand 2025 in Düsseldorf
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
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...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…
Speech Viewer Logs of Lies
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
So an update on Guide: I've exchanged some long emails with Andrew, the lead developer. He's open to dialogue, and moving the project in the right direction: well-scoped single tasks, more granular controls and permissions, etc. He doesn't strike me as an #AI maximalist can and should do everything all the time kind of guy. He's also investigating deeper screen reader interaction, to let AI just do the things we can't do that it's best at. I stand by my thoughts that the project isn't yet ready for prime time. But as someone else in the thread said, I don't think it should be written off entirely as yet another "AI will save us from inaccessibility" hype train. There is, in fact, something here if it gets polished and scoped a bit more. #blind#screenreader#a11y
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…
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
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
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
Related: Using padding to space an input and label darins.page/articles/using-pad… #webdesign #forms #usability #a11y
Using padding to space an input and label - Darin Senneff
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…
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, ...GitHub
I know that, sadly, the Zoom f series is inaccessible. What would you guys recommend as the highest quality, most accessible digital recording solution? Thanks for any help. #A11y #FieldRecording
Am #a11y feature Slack desperately needs is the ability to display alt text for screenshots, GIFs and other images, plus a reminder to create that alt text when such an item is embedded. My Slack threads have become a sea of inaccessible boxes.
Just in case: Does anyone know what's up with the #Balatro accessibility mod? I get the following on running the game after first install:
Oops! Something went wrong:
engine/controller.lua:395: attempt to index global 'BlackHole' to a nil value
#a11y#audiogames#accessibility#accessible
Oops! Something went wrong:
engine/controller.lua:395: attempt to index global 'BlackHole' to a nil value
#a11y#audiogames#accessibility#accessible
“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.
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