CSUN 2025 returns to the Anaheim Marriott, March 10 to 14, 2025.

#CSUNATC24 #CSUNATC25 #a11y #events

Reference: https://twitter.com/CSUNCOD/status/1772352761621045280

With Chrome announcing support for UIA, it might be worth retesting some of your patterns with Narrator, Voice Access, Magnifier: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/windows-uia-support?hl=en

I didn't think UIA was quite mature, but I am also old enough to forget Windows’ prior but somehow also current #accessibility APIs. So I may simply be wrong.

#a11y

Introducing UIA support on Windows  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

From Chrome 126 the Windows UI Automation framework is supported.

^{Chrome for Developers}

This is great but can we please also have Fedora (& Ubuntu, etc.) acknowledge they started shipping operating systems without a functional screen reader when they switched to Wayland and that that’s still the case?

This is not to name and shame. Unless we acknowledge this as an error on par with shipping without monitor support and unless the culture is altered to make accessibility a showstopper, it’ll happen again.

#Fedora #GAAD #Accessibility #A11y #Linux #OpenSource https://fosstodon.org/@fedora/112450335722898487

Fedora Project

2024-05-16 10:39:12

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!

➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9psDfEFf9c

#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

Übrigens...

heute ist der Internationale Tag zur digitalen Barrierefreiheit, Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Gerade rechtzeitig erreichte mich ein Foto aus der Presseabteilung des Landratsamtes um diesen Beitrag fertigstellen zu können:

https://www.kom-in.de/182/landrat-informiert-sich-zu-digitaler-teilhabe-und-blindenhoerzeitschriften
#GAAD#a11y#Inklusion#digitaleTeilhabe@komin@bildung.social

Landrat informiert sich zu digitaler Teilhabe und Blindenhörzeitschriften

Das KOM-IN-Netzwerk präsentiert zu 950 Jahre Unterloquitz Blindenhörzeitschriften und thematisiert digitale Teilhabe

^{www.kom-in.de}

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!

➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9psDfEFf9c

#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

Also getting to the next spelling mistake would make #proofreading so much faster.

When reading #PDF files in Linux one has to Enable caret navigation. Why is that not the #default?

Those small things make a huge difference in everyday work! Please everyone, make #Linux a more #a11y place. Cause I refuse do believe blind people must stay behind on Windows and their #enshitification

I want to thank everyone who is helping with that!

Question to #ScreenReader, #LowVision, #blind & #accessibility folks:

How do you feel about duplicate links in articles, blogs, whatever? Meaning: A certain word is a link (let's say "HEALTH") leading to an external website.

Would it annoy you if this word was always a link and it's mentioned for example 20 times in an article? Or would you rather have it only once to make it easier to scan for links?

Is there a related #wcag success criteria?

#WebDev #a11y #disability #frontend

Today's Web Design Update: https://groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/g/webdev/c/MQ882ESAdNw Subscribe info: https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/webdev_listserv.html#subscribe #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.

https://knowbility.org/programs/accessu-2024/the-2024-accessu-legal-update

#accessibility #a11y

NVDA 2024.2 beta 1 is now available for testing from: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-2beta1/

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".

https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/27/a-new-accessibility-architecture-for-modern-free-desktops/

#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 👉 https://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)

🔗 https://marcus.io/blog/best-intention-barriers-aria

—
"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 🎁 ⤵️

https://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

^{practical-accessibility.today}

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“Level-Setting Heading Levels”
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/05/level-setting-heading-levels.html

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}

“We use hurzpurz 72 and snomdrum 98 to build this website really fast. It was easy to work with and what a great site did we relaunch!!”

“But it’s not accessible, is it?”

“…”

Every inaccessible relaunch is a missed opportunity. Inaccessible relaunches must stop. Now.

#a11y

I honestly enjoy writing good, descriptive alt text. Once you get used to it, it's no longer a chore, rather a fun exercise.

It gives you an opportunity to focus on the image you're sharing, sometimes revealing details you might miss.

It's a great writing challenge as well.

And it's just the right thing to do to help folks who rely on it.

#accessibility #a11y #AltText #ImageDescriptions

…“Sorry, we couldn’t spend any of our ridiculous market over-valuation on a decent web designer, or on a developer who had any care or clue about keyboard accessibility, we were too busy stealing your content and screwing your future.

And by using Tailwind to implement crappy design patterns, we have even more time to do that. Another win for us”

#a11y

There seems to be a bug in newer versions of either Chromium or Electron, which makes it announce an app running under it to be in English. The consequence, VoiceOver on the Mac speaks everything in English, even if the UI is clearly in German, and the app itself recognizes that my system locale is set to German. Two apps that are affected by it are Signal and Skype. And guess what, many of the contacts on there chat with me in German, which makes reading their messages rather difficult. I really wish Signal would port their iPad app to the Mac instead of throwing that stupid web app at us Mac Silicon users. The dependency on at least two different beasts under the hood of the UI which is the reality of Electron apps, is just an accessibility nightmare through and through.

#a11y #WebDev #Electron #Signal #Skype

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:

https://github.com/makepad/makepad/issues/196

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...

^GitHub

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?

https://github.com/project-robius

Project Robius

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

^GitHub

Blind community:

Does anyone have experience with any of the following e-ticketing/customer service platforms?
Futura,
Zendesk or similar,
Shopify Plus.

If so, can you speak to the accessibility of these platforms? What should I be aware of, what is and isn't possible?

Thanks in advance.

#customerService #shopping #blind #accessability #a11y

A brief reminder that our Call for Presentations for the next #id24 (scheduled for 12 September 2024) is still open until 7 June https://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 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
2.0 – Dec 11, 2008 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
2.1 – Jun 5, 2018 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/
2.2 – Oct 5, 2023 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/

#wcag #a11y #accessibility

Trying to understand human psychology a bit here, boosts for reach are very much appreciated.

When you post an image without alt text, and someone replies with the image description for you to use, what is your typical reaction?

#accessibility #a11y #AltText #ImageDescriptions

• Thank the person and add the alt text (44%, 95 votes)
• Use the alt text, don't respond (2%, 6 votes)
• Ignore the person (7%, 16 votes)
• Block the person (0%, 2 votes)
• Explain why you don't add alt text (0%, 1 vote)
• Start a big fight (0%, 0 votes)
• I never forget alt text (41%, 88 votes)
• Something else? (2%, 6 votes)

@thunderbird there is no option to show avatars in the message list, right? #thunderbird

Especially with a lot of messages per day, the messages list is just noise to me. Avatars would be great to reduce cognitive overhead. #ux #a11y

“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

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2021/02/14/re-upped-placeholder-the-piss-take-label/

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#news #technology #accessibility #a11y #disability #blind #deaf #deafblind #toptechtidbits

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Was just reminded that you can use *no* headings in a web page and automated tests will pass you for WCAG compliance.

You can't use the wrong heading structure if you use no headings at all! Automated tests can't tell where the structure needs to be broken up into sections because they would have to understand the nature of the content. #a11y