DiazCarrete, to accessibility
@DiazCarrete@hachyderm.io avatar

"ARIA is polyfill for HTML semantics"
https://x.com/SaraSoueidan/status/1791379249045053443

MoritzGiessmann, to accessibility
@MoritzGiessmann@mastodon.social avatar

Global Accessibility Awareness Day was yesterday.
My quick tipps and shameless self plugs:

Use the cheat sheet: https://moritzgiessmann.de/accessibility-cheatsheet/

Check your contrasts: https://contrast-ratio.org/

#GAAD #a11y

tallship, to fediverse

This Should be *a huge conversation in the - really.

@jupiter_rowland certainly paraphrases much of the sentiment here in the Fediverse where many conversations are taking place, albeit briefly, and then dismissed, but why? Are people too busy to care? Are people too apathetic to take seriously anything that begins with the letters, masto...? Do those 5 letters really invoke such categorical dismissiveness that cuts into topics that would otherwise likely gain immediate traction were it not for mention of that corporate monolithic silo brand?

Probably; likely; perhaps - take your pick. There is indeed a general apathy amongst especially long term Fedizens and also Lemmy users who are refugees from Reddit, but it's okay to dismiss masto as the neo-corporate EEE platform conceivably threatening the UX for millions of Fedizens. And like it or not, there does need to be a viable shitposting platform, which is exactly what masto is, inhabited in very large ways by people who, as Jupiter raises the question, "are incapable of actually engaging in textual conversation. There's something to that.

Well, is a very real concern, perhaps for the FEPs, considering there are projects that are very close in architecture to completely ignoring anything that isn't part of the W3's official specification, and that's okay.

It is, however, a misnomer that one must insert alt-text into media on the masto platform, at least at this juncture. Forcing the hand of refugees from the deprecated, , monolithic silos is yet another complication that those poor souls need to be gently nudged into accepting - but even more importantly, ... "Why".

Some popular Android clients will complain if you try to post media without also including alt-text, some have no facilities at all for doing so. This is an adoption phenomenon, slowly being rolled out, as awareness increases (awareness of the WHY - not the HowTO) with respect to the reasons it is an important design consideration.

Do people actually get unceremoniously banned for not including alt-text for attached media on masto? Yes, On some instances they do, as if it will have any affect at all on the wider Fediverse - I have heard on several occasions that this does indeed happen - there aren't many things that piss people off more than having something that is important to them getting yanked out from underneath them in rug-pull fashion than that of an , and yet childish, juvenile moderators and admins on several masto instances are truly guilty of such dystopian tyranny and abuse of privilege.

Those types of adversarial, clickish masto instances are much of the reason Fediverse gets a bad rap in some silo social networking circles, and it isn't a fair characterization, but the offensive behavior persists. More than an impetus for the deployment of , single-user instances, it is indeed primarily a masto phenomenon.

Not a pretty thing, but masto always has been a caustic cauldron of cacophony of enmity and active vitriol, and that's just one more reason to expedite the outreach programs popping up all over the place to entice the good folks to ditch it in favor of many other good social networking platforms mentioned by Jupiter in his cw-LONG article (I wish he wouldn't bother catering to those mastoblasters with that sentiment, they should at least be smart enough to see that it's more substantive than their shitposting personas are capable of parsing).

RE: https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/9e481d2a-72a6-4f4a-bad8-b72cf6272327

@jupiter_rowland

vmbrasseur, to accessibility
@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com avatar

Brilliant and overdue. So many people will be able to benefit from this work.

As a result, the IATP (Illinois Assistive Technology Program) created the Adaptive Chef’s Knife. Unlike existing offerings, it has a high-quality blade and is ergonomically designed so that the user can leverage their forearm while maintaining control.

https://hackaday.com/2024/05/16/adaptive-chefs-knife-provides-better-leverage/

klemensstrasser, to accessibility
@klemensstrasser@mastodon.social avatar

There is a new “We Love These Accessible Games” on the
AppStore, and it features not one, but two of my games! 🥳
Subwords and Letter Rooms! 🥰

https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1619544766

Screenshot of the App Store, showing several apps under a “Play with VoiceOver” section. Apps include Station 117 and Subwords

stevenwoodson, to accessibility
@stevenwoodson@mastodon.online avatar

Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day!

A day meant to foster communication, education, and awareness about digital access and inclusion.

There's a huge community posting about accessibility daily. These people keep me informed and motivated to do my best every day.

GAAD is great, but it's just one day. Do what you can to keep accessibility awareness front of mind all year round. Check out the feeds below, start following some.



VE3RWJ, to AdobePhotoshop
@VE3RWJ@mastodon.radio avatar

does not disappoint.

They've just released an that will read whatever document you throw at it.

You can find out more Here:

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/elevenlabs-reader-ai-audio/id6479373050

karlgroves, to accessibility
@karlgroves@mastodon.social avatar

Happy GAAD Day, everyone! We have officially launched the crowdfunding campaign for Eventably. The world's first fully accessible events management and ticketing platform:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/eventably/

#gaad #accessibility #a11y #conferences #conventions #tradeshows #expos #concerts #performingarts #meetups

jcsteh, to accessibility

GitHub produced a great mini documentary about my work with @michaeldcurran, Scott Chesworth and others to create both #NVDASR and #OSARA.
With audio description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-y3yomLLSk
Without audio description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L076ngGbBRc&t=0s
#accessibility #a11y

WebAxe, to accessibility
@WebAxe@a11y.info avatar

Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! How are you celebrating? https://accessibility.day/

accessiblemobileapps, to iOS
@accessiblemobileapps@mastodon.green avatar

Happy everyone! ✨ To celebrate, we're offering 50% off your first accessibility audit with the code GAAD2024. Get your app audited today! https://buff.ly/4bDft1n

fedora, to fedora

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,

The Fedora Accessibility Working Group is looking to work closer with upstream as we aim to improve accessibility on Fedora. If you are interested in joining, participating, collaborating, or sharing your experience, please reach out with the Fedora DEI tag on our forum.

➡️ https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/dei-team

#Fedora #GAAD #Accessibility #A11y #Linux #OpenSource

news, to news
@news@mastodon.toptechtidbits.com avatar

Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, May 16, 2024 - Volume 963
https://toptechtidbits.com/tidbits2024/05162024/

The Week's News in Access Technology
A Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. Publication

Top Tech Tidbits. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in access technology.

Subscribers: 17,534 Opt-In Subscribers were sent this issue via email. 170 Premium Subscribers were sent this issue via email.

patrick_h_lauke, to accessibility
@patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social avatar

for just going to re-point to my recent "Why are my live regions not working?" https://tetralogical.com/blog/2024/05/01/why-are-my-live-regions-not-working/

MuseumShuffle, to accessibility
@MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social avatar

The pull request I made for a minor accessibility issue with RevenueCat paywalls got officially merged into their code. 😎

#RevenueCat #accessibility #a11y

patrick_h_lauke, to accessibility
@patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social avatar

trying to think what use one can actually make of https://2023.stateofhtml.com/en-US/features/accessibility/ (also noting that focusgroup doesn't actually exist, so not really a "standard")

Seth, to accessibility
@Seth@bdx.town avatar

Je découvre, un peu surpris, que le point médian est mal transcrit par les lecteurs de texte (notamment grâce à des posts linkedin qui remontent les travaux de @juliemoynat )

En poussant mes recherches je tombe sur “le point d’hyphénation” qui serait plus lisible par les logiciels de synthèse vocale que le point médian (puisqu’ignoré par lesdits lecteurs)

le caractère ressemble TRÈS fortement au point que j’appelais médian généré par le shortcut Cmd + Maj + F sur mon mac : · et pourtant ça n’est bel et bien pas un point médian (U+00B7) mais donc un point d’hyphénation (U+2027).

Du coup j’aimerais bien trouver le raccourci clavier pour ce point, s’il est mieux !

#a11y #accessibilité #ÉcritureInclusive

studysnacksapp, to iOS
@studysnacksapp@mastodon.social avatar

Update Alert 🚨

Study Snacks 2.2.8 is out now, celebrating with some sweet accessibility features:

  • Much better VoiceControl support
  • Enhanced support for the VoiceOver item chooser

Available for and Apple !

https://apps.apple.com/at/app/study-snacks-languages-more/id6444380323?l=en-GB

ianRobinson, to accessibility
@ianRobinson@mastodon.social avatar

This is good technological progress 😊

“Apple today announced new accessibility features coming later this year, including Eye Tracking, a way for users with physical disabilities to control iPad or iPhone with their eyes. Additionally, Music Haptics will offer a new way for users who are deaf or hard of hearing to experience music using the Taptic Engine in iPhone”
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-announces-new-accessibility-features-including-eye-tracking/

Shelly, to accessibility
@Shelly@zeppelin.flights avatar
patrick_h_lauke, to accessibility
@patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social avatar
WebAxe, to accessibility
@WebAxe@a11y.info avatar

52 Accessibility Bookmarklets You Can Use For A11Y Testing
https://www.digitala11y.com/accessibility-bookmarklets-testing/

stvfrnzl, (edited ) to accessibility
@stvfrnzl@mastodon.online avatar

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

laura_carlson, to accessibility
@laura_carlson@mastodon.social avatar
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