A reminder that if you're interested in #SVG and the #WebStandards process, and specifically about trying to get SVG standardization back into gear, there is an open meeting on the topic today. It's hosted by Eric Meyer ( @Meyerweb ) of Igalia, as part of W3C Breakouts Day.

Starts in 5.5 hours. You'll need a w3.org account to sign up; meeting is via zoom with irc chat.

w3.org/events/meetings/09b7b3f…

26 March 2025 | Vectors of Neglect | Calendar

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

^W3C

👀 "This document describes how user agents should expose semantics of PDF content to accessibility APIs. This helps users with disabilities to obtain and interact with information using assistive technologies."

#PDF #a11y #WebStandards

w3c.github.io/pdf-aam/

HTML Developers: Please Consider – in the year of 2025

@aardrian returns to the Mastophone

#HTML #ARIA #WebDev #WebStandards #a11y

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…

👁️ @w3c AGWG (Accessibility Guidelines Working Group) Teleconference
15 Oct 2024 - draft minutes

"RESOLUTION: We will explore having a set of required provisions that is somewhat comparable to WCAG 2.2 A & AA and a set of provisions and assertions that can be used to build upon that through points, percentages, or predefined sets of provisions (modules)."

#WCAG3 #WCAG #accessibility #WebStandards

w3.org/2024/10/15-ag-minutes.h…

🦈 JAWS (only) NO MORE

"In 2017 I embarked on a journey to improve and open the reporting of issues with JAWS support for Web Standards.

I continued to work on this after leaving TPGi, until now…"

#WebStandards, #Screenreader #accessibility #HTML

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) invites you to review the draft French translation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2:

🇫🇷 Règles pour l’accessibilité des contenus Web (WCAG) 2.2

wcag.access42.net/22/

#WCAG #WebStandards #accessibility #internationalisation

⌨️ prayer for the un-entitled user

"Like the rest of the web platform, interoperability is key to accessibility support. It is safe to say at this time (September 2024) that the display of title attribute content on keyboard focus is not implemented interoperably."

#a11y #WebStandards #WebDev

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…

With the help of ChatGPT I have added alt text to images in my slide deck "No Industry for Old Men" from #a11yTO 2023

#a11y #webStandards #HTML #ARIA #Depression #aging #ai

docs.google.com/presentation/d…

No industry for old men

^{Google Docs}

I have started contributing PR's to improve the @w3c #HTML Validator/Checker, you should too!

#WebDev #WebStandards

github.com/validator/validator…

Issues · validator/validator

Nu Html Checker – Helps you catch problems in your HTML/CSS/SVG - Issues · validator/validator

^GitHub

Glad <dialog> focus is finally being implemented/defined in a reasonable way after a torturous years long, largely pointless, discussion.

“1. Make the dialog focusing steps look at sequentially focusable elements instead of any focusable element.

2. Make the dialog element itself get focus if it has the autofocus="" attribute set.

3. Make the dialog element itself get focus as a fallback instead of focus being reset to the body element.”

#HTML #WebStandards #a11y

github.com/whatwg/html/commit/…

Implement dialog initial focus proposal · whatwg/html@a9f103c

This implements the changes proposed here: https://github.com/whatwg/html/wiki/dialog--initial-focus,-a-proposal#dialog-draft-text Specifically: 1. Make the dialog focusing steps look at seq...

^GitHub