I would be pissed with Google’s new fake search if I was WebAIM. It directly sources WebAIM (from an old survey), but it doesn’t link to the WebAIM survey results it cites. Instead it links to BoIA (an #AudioEye#overlay company) and Assistiv Labs.
The option to see web results is buried in the “More” kebab, and even then the link is third from last.
Reminder not to use Google to search (in case you still do).
@aardrian What search engine would you recommend instead of Google?
I tried using Duckduckgo for a while but found the results hilariously bad. Then tried Startpage which sources from Google instead of Bing which did provide great search results but is instead really slow (at least in Sweden TTFB on the static startpage can be over 2 seconds). So now I'm back to Google :/
Maybe a browser extension pops up that always picks the more>web filter so one can continue to use Google?
I find the recent trend for burned-in subtitles on things like Youtube shorts really irritating, mainly because most of the time they're WRONG. Is this a Tiktok thing or something? People are adding AI-generated subtitles and not checking them? I can't imagine how annoying it is if you're someone who actually needs them for #accessibility. Even content creators I actually like and who should know better are doing this. WHYYYYY.
@Floppy Indeed, I suspect maybe also Instagram Reels. They tend to have quite a bit of animation built into the subtitles (like current word spoken changing colour) which is really not great.
@Floppy Yes, I think a lot are autogenerated and not checked. But some is deliberately wrong to get around censorship by some platforms e.g. the various ways people of colour subtitle things like "white", "genocide", "racism" etc to avoid being banned or limited for discussing oppression.
Historically, I haven't like baked in... but, practically, it means subtitles are more likely to travel with a video when it get reposted/shared across different platforms (not by the original poster).
Devices such as #MobiMats allow people to move across the sand to the water on a sturdy platform, which would make it easier for people like Lumsdon to cross the beach.
...in #Toronto, the city says only three of its 10 supervised #swimming#beaches — Woodbine, Ward's Island & Centre Island — have #accessibility features like mats, decks or beach #wheelchairs that people can reserve ahead of their visit.
Another reason to add #AltText to your photos, basically, anywhere, is that, yes, there are sighted people that disable all images in their browsers because it's faster to browse. #Internet#Tech#Technology#Accessibility
@potungthul@weirdwriter Hmm, actually, I think this is a place for a photo caption, as text on the web page, reading "wildfires are turning the afternoon sun red" while the alt text reads "red sun behind mountains". Alt text is meant to convey what a sighted person would see. Meaning belongs as text on the page.
Agreed that that is the role of captions. Still, often #AltText will reveal the intention behind the picture, something the writer had assumed was obvious, but not to me.
Also, often it is hard to get alt text to describe every single aspect of the picture. Knowing what the writer did describe lets me know where to focus my attention.
E.g. "class photo. Everybody is frowning" is very different from "class photo. Everybody is wearing red", even if it's the same photo.
Are you blind? Have you heard of the commandline, but don't know what it means or how to use it? I recorded a tutorial that shows how to use a popular commandline utility called YT-DLP to download the audio version of a video with a screenreader, and how you can apply this to other commandline applications. This will accomplish jobs more quickly and bypass inaccessible graphical user interfaces. I hope you find it helpful!
👉🏼 A SIMPLE CUSTOM
Had reason to re-read this recently.
“For whatever reason some people don’t like the standard HTML checkbox and radio button, they seek to jazz ’em up and in the process the often jizz up the usability/accessibility of these controls.”
🧵 Even before I formed @ucaccessnow, I persisted through campus channels trying to get them to acknowledge that cycle racks ALSO have to be accessible, not car parking spaces. After months of brick walls with UC and my union, I got a meeting with the head of UC Davis TAPS, who
Worse, non-activist disability groups within UC are pulled in to give it the veneer of being UC just happens to be doing for the disabled community at UC and some folks within the disability community have been happy to take credit for UC Access Now's work and put UC's approval on their CV.
This is UC strategy. Ableist power does not want student-led activism to get credit or it will beget more.
UC fights you, drags its feet, buries credit for the enormously hard work you put into fighting them and working for justice...
BUT KEEP FIGHTING
This is not the equitable solution they should have adopted, but I guarantee you they would never have installed this had I not spent years fighting them in every venue I could think of.
They bury credit because they don't want you to know fighting gets results!
I have been reading through the State of HTML 2023 results site (https://2023.stateofhtml.com/) and I am so disappointed in the overall #accessibility efforts — both in the questions and in the code.