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?
@stvfrnzl Screen reader user. I'd prefer only the first instance to be unambiguously linked. If there are salient links sprinkled throughout the piece, maybe a collapsed "Featured in this Post" section or something at the end could collect them together in a single links list.
On this day in 1999, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 were published. WCAG 2.2 is still one of the most important standards on the web, ensuring a base level of access for everyone.
The new interface language options allow you to select which language to display the PAC (PDF Accessibility Checker) interface from this list:
English
Deutsch (German)
Français (French)
Español (Spanish)
Nederlands (Dutch)
Understanding and implementing the Web Accessibility Content Guidelines (WCAG) can be difficult for even trained experts. Catherine helps us with WCAG 2.2′s newest guideline by explaining the requirements and providing examples of how to improve our user interfaces.
Re: AI and the future of Web accessibility Guidelines
'Absolute statements such as “it will never work”, and “AI will be better than people at X” are not helpful to the conversation because it is very unlikely to be an absolute result in the end. Different contexts, different machine-learning approaches, and different data-sets will produce different results.'
approximately 73.2553% of #accesibility issues i've seen recently come from "we decided to keep our UI nice and clean by hiding shit in a tooltip!", followed by the crushing realisation of what it means to have an accessible tooltip #wcag#a11y
what then follows is usually a long series of "bargaining" efforts to justify why the tooltip doesn't need to be keyboard-triggerable, or that it doesn't need to be hoverable with the mouse, or that it's ok that it also contains interactive controls inside it but doesn't receive logical focus, or... when in the end, the simplest answer is "just don't use a bloody tooltip and have the stuff there for all to see/use. at a stretch, use a disclosure widget" #a11y#accessibility
"Once you bring in the "AI will do it" line of thinking, we may as well
just remove any author requirement, and WCAG becomes just a list of
requirements for AI user agents to massage any old web content into
something accessible."
@SteveFaulkner@patrick_h_lauke And that doesn’t even address the fact that every user would have a different experience depending on how much they are willing to pay for “AI”. It’s a good fallback or a way to get more/specific/other information than what is in the alternative text from the image.
Maybe we should have term limits in W3C Working Groups ;-)