Reminder: #AltText is not a place for copyright information, or additional details about the image.
Put that into a separate post, for the love of god.
It's as if you were blocking a bike path with a street sign.
The purpose of alt text is increased accessibility, so when in doubt, ask yourself if the text you're adding helps blind or visually impaired folks better understand what's in the actual image.
Regarding last boost, you may recall I have warned people to be wary of any accessibility content in posts at Google’s web•dev.
My simplest example is this 1½-year-old report on an egregiously wrong tool-tips post that its author, and site editors, have chosen to simply ignore: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/298296173
How can we improve #accessibility for scientific conferences? This short guide by Ulla McClurg covers many of the issues that organisers (and attendees) can consider.
You may think that QR codes are great for securing your login, or letting users read more online about a product marketed in a news paper ad. But there is a high risk you are creating barriers for people with disabilities, unless you use QR codes correctly.
An #accessibility take: people are too quick to use an empty alt on images to declare them 'decorative'. This means you can't easily know an image even exists on the page, for example to copy or download it, or discuss its existence with others.
There are some valid cases but for the most part blind users deserve equitable access to information that the images exist at all (and what they are)
Accommodations are hardly ever the solution. For a disabled person to be granted accommodations, we have to jump through numerous hoops, and there is no guarantee they will be granted (it's hardly ever a doctor deciding-it's an institution). Allies build inclusion in so we don't need accommodations.
My birthday gift from Husband & the kids is a new HP laptop. I haven't had a real computer other than my phone for 5+yrs. I need a laptop for school. I've been using it all weekend. My major complaint - you can't adjust the font color and the font color currently in use is too light. I need black. It's a light blue. It makes it really hard to see anything in screen. I can't do dark mode, that gives me headaches.
If you are #blind and you have been locked out of being able to use your InstantPot after the inaccessible app update, please email support@instantpot.com and refer to Case 02284154 asking that they restore #VoiceOver#accessibility to their #iOS app.
Hi #accessibility specialists! Do you have in mind an article about HTML email accessibility best practices? I was almost sure @aardrian wrote something about it but couldn't find it straight away. It's for a friend :) Thanks!
missive from the swimming pool: while i take a little break before all the stress starts, reminder that the #id24@inclusivedesign24 call for presentations is still open until 7 June https://inclusivedesign24.org/2024/ (and a side note: we pay our speakers for their time and effort, that's what most of our supporter money goes to) #accessibility#inclusiveDesign#a11y
"AI can help by providing mostly accurate descriptions of images on web pages. This can be especially helpful when the image has not been provided with an text alternative, but is visible on the page."
A new report on the Maui Project progress is now out. MauiKit4 fully based on Qt6 and KF6 is almost ready for the stable release and all the Maui Apps have been ported over. Find out more at
I wondered how they ensure that the output is accessible, because in the description I only found "#Accessibility features" under "Ready for production", nothing else.
So I wrote them an email asking to elaborate how they tackled #a11y for their product. Eagerly anticipating their answer!
Next was an excellent talk by Jonathan Lazar on born-accessible design and the inclusion efforts underway at UMD at the @hcil_umd. The breadth of activities in this area frankly puts most other labs to shame, and should be applauded and emulated/built upon widely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmkscqh34L4 (7/9) #HCI#accessibility
I feel like #linux should try to become the most accessible operating system. The open source nature of it seems like it would be better at catering to the needs of communities with disabilities, and yet it doesn't appear to be competitive in #accessibility
Before designing a website, or even making a small change to an existing one, ask if your design choices consider the needs of people with color blindness. Changing the button color on your website may seem insignificant, but it could make that website inaccessible to nearly 8% of men and 0.4% of women who have color blindness.
OC Fun fact: Autoplaying animation on websites that you can't stop is disability discrimination in the US
It's time to know your rights!...