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Hey, #Accessibility #Experts, #blind or #disabled people. Have you noticed, that @thunderbird@mastodon.online is calling for questions about Accessibility? See quotation, please. #Thunderbird #Inclusion #a11y
Do you have questions about the Message Context Menu, accessibility, or the design process in general in Thunderbird? Send them to officehours@thunderbird.net to get them answered during our chat with UX Developer @emitche this Thursday, January 25, at 18:00 UTC. Find out more - and how to join us live! - in the blog post: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/01/january-2024-thunderbird-community-office-hours-how-to-join-us/January 2024 Thunderbird Community Office Hours: How To Join Us!
Join us and UX Engineer Elizabeth Mitchell for our January 2024 Thunderbird Office Hours. We'll share upcoming changes to the Context Menu, why we're making them, and answer your questions.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/
#design #accessibility #frontend #inclusion
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making websites and products more sustainable.w3c.github.io
#google #accessibility #inclusion
Why inclusive sets of images help us make better products
We worked with TONL, a stock image company, to create more representative datasets to help teams build more inclusive products.Auriel Wright (Google)
Hello, it is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Here's the piece I promised: Accessibility is More Than Ramps
#GAAD #accessibility #disability #inclusion
https://www.juliaferraioli.com/blog/2023/accessibility-is-more-than-ramps/
Accessibility is More Than Ramps
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. While the day focuses on digital accessibility, I’d like to take the opportunity to talk about an important aspect of prioritizing accessibility in the technology that we build: creating environments that …julia ferraioli
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/04/1161169017/disability-activist-judy-heumann-dead-75
h/t @ewaccess
#disability #accessibility #CivilRights #inclusion
Quite a revealing read: https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/Y1AMkxEAAImMCDR4
#disability #inclusion #accessibility #history
Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness.Wellcome Collection
L’Oréal unveils two new CES 2023 innovation award-winning beauty technologies
L’Oréal today at CES® 2023 unveiled two new technology prototypes that expand access to beauty expression: HAPTA, the first handheld, ultra-precise computerized makeup applicator designed to advance the beauty needs of people with limited hand and ar…L'Oréal
https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing-environment-setup/
Sara, do you or anyone else know of a way test VoiceOver on Mac if we don't have access to a Mac? One of the perennial frustrations in the web industry is the assumption we're all on Macs. For many, Macs are well out of our budget ranges, but we still want to do the best we can with the tools at hand. Any advice?
#accessibility #a11y #inclusion #mac #macos #windows #testing
🔗🇬🇧 https://ableism.rip/about - space to fight ableism
🔗🇬🇧 https://disabled.social/about - for disabled people
🔗🇬🇧 https://neurodifferent.me/about - neurodiversity and neurominorities
🔗🇬🇧 https://iaccessibility.social/about - interest in assistive technology
🔗🇬🇧 https://blacktwitter.io/about - history and voices for black people
🔗🇬🇧 https://lgbt.io/about - for LGBT+ and allies
🔗🇬🇧 http://queer.party/about - queer-oriented instance
🔗🇬🇧 https://tech.lgbt/about - for tech workers, academics, students, and others interested in tech who are LGBTQIA+ or Allies
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“… one aim is to make our data journalism more #Accessible for vision-impaired people.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2022/nov/16/noisycharts-sound-graphs-data-sonification-introducing-guardian-australia-software-tool-app-examples
#DataViz
#Accessibility / #A11Y
#Inclusion
What is the sound of Facebook’s value crashing? Noisycharts turns news into noise
Rising carbon dioxide and the slump in the pound have been frequently graphed. Now we’ve turned the data and graphs into audioNick Evershed (The Guardian)
It sounds like people who can't participate physically in-person are only allowed to "watch" the video feed and are not fully included. Also sounds like they're doing an alcohol hour afterwards.
Anyway there will probably be some interesting talks at least.
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https://2022.allthingsopen.org/events/inclusion-diversity-in-open-source/