Assistive technology companies like EyeGaze charge a lot for their products. This is because there is a lot of tech to ensure that it works accurately and is compatible with third party applications. Hopefully, Apple can lower the costs in the future for people with disabilities who use eye tracking technology.
They had better give an option to turn this crap off. I’m not having my ads pause themselves because I looked away. The whole “drink a verification can” meme is starting to reveal itself, and I really don’t fucking like it.
To my knowledge, Apple doesn’t run an ad service of their own, and it’s unlikely they would work with Google to force you to watch ads in their apps. I find it more likely they would refuse to force attention to ads just to spite Google, as they are their biggest competitor.
Arizona State University is the first higher education institution to have a partnership with OpenAI. I think this is related to that deal. I don’t know how long it will stay free.
Does being feminist require being anti-male? Does my view that black people are still suffering prejudice mean I need to be anti-white? Does my view that I’m equal to foreigners mean I need to be anti-british?
Honestly sounds like pointless shit stirring. If equality is all that matters, then that should be done by giving people with a disadvantage help, not by holding back people that don’t have a disadvantage.
Ableist is defined as discrimination or prejudice against people with disabilities, especially physical disabilities. Supporting people of all different races and trying to end systemic racism would be about being anti-racist. Feminism is a little too broad for me to define but it would probably align with providing men and women equal rights. The goal is to unite people not divide. The issue is that most of the web is inaccessible and cannot be accessed by people with disabilities. Excluding a group of people from a building because of their gender, race, or disability is against the law. Yet, people with disabilities are excluded or lack access to information on publicly available websites each day. This type of change requires people to be anti-ableist and to do the work necessary to make their website accessible.
This is an excellent resource. I think it’s written really well. I imagine they’d include the new WCAG 2.2 requirements (that dropped last fall) in their 2024 update, but what I’d like to see is instructional content that demonstrates how to test for keyboard and screen reader accessibility. All these accessibility techniques for WCAG compliance are suggested so that keyboard-only and screen reader users can understand the same content and perform the same tasks as sighted users (easily and with minimal confusion), but you can’t know for sure if your implementation works as intended if you don’t test it.
AccessiBe’s accessibility overlay^ is hot garbage. The National Federation of the Blind banned accessiBe from their convention a few years ago because their product sucks. It doesn’t actually fix issues in the code and doesn’t make sites that use them WCAG compliant. It also increases page load time and is a major memory hog. No surprise, it’s blocked by default by Ublock Origin.
^not just accessiBe, but all of the accessibility overlay “solutions.” Hot garbage.
Thank you for sharing. I’ve shared this with my instructional designers. I’m still not a fan of how articulate handles accessibility but if it where up to me we’d all be using clean html for everything.
The guidelines themselves aren’t a problem—websites want more users, and some of these accessibility techniques could help. Yet, such legislation will make upstart entrepreneurs vulnerable to debilitating lawsuits.
This is the same fear-mongering pro-capitalist garbage that Jakob Nielsen has been peddling. This bill is like 508, it’s about equal access for the disabled and should not be demonized in propaganda pieces like this.
I also hope scenario 1 is adopted more widely. Native html is always ideal due to its inherent semantics without the need for hacks or additional workarounds, though users will have to demand their screen readers support it and devs will have to insist on using it if it’s ever to become widespread.
They never should have deprecated <s> as a strikethrough in the first place, but I digress. The <s> tag makes the most sense because it is an HTML5 standard, and we should all push for semantic html usage and support.
Oh I am aware, I was just venting and pointing out the irony. The academic sector has always lagged behind tech-wise, but its insistence on publishing in a format designed for print rather than one for display is particularly embarrassing. As you can imagine, the PDF is not accessible at all; it looks like SIGCSE didn’t even bother auto-tagging it. They’re a global org that claims to be passionate about the science behind education, but it’s incredibly difficult to teach others if they’re unable to access your content. The situation just really sucks all around.
I’m inclined to agree. Nielsen comes across as out of touch, uninformed, and so elitist that it makes me feel gross to read. Generative UI certainly looks like it’s going to be a thing, but that doesn’t mean accessibility won’t matter when it becomes widely used; on the contrary, it still matters because your rendered html still needs to be formatted correctly if you want it to be interpreted accurately by assistive technology. And even if it’s powered by AI, assistive tech still has to compare what it parses against standards if it’s going to return accurate, functionally accessible results. And guess what? The standards already exist! They’re called WCAG, they’ve been followed by the so-called “accessibility movement” for years. Like, I’m sorry, Jakob, I know it’s 2024, but you still have to use headings properly and put navigation items in a list. WCAG isn’t just an accessibility thing; it’s the frickin rules of the web.
I love this data, it really helps direct my testing. I am curious about this VoiceOver app for mobile usage. Is there a good emulator for this? I wonder if BrowserStack has anything.
I know it’s not there but if we all build sites that support mobile screen readers maybe it will make the mobile experiance a little better?
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