Helloooo fellow #accessibility wonks - is there a particularly good article which speaks of the problem of too much ARIA and not enough semantic HTML for someone a little less clued up...?
The background for this, is that I need to dig deeper into https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/ and how it works - I'm a bit hesitant to suggest we use it, but maybe it's good, actually? Does anyone in #accessibility here have experience of it?
I worry it'll abstract away the need to know your semantic HTML and when ARIA is and isn't needed.
But connected to this, I'm now in a conversation with a colleague who wants to know why superfluous ARIA is a problem - hence the article request.
If you're gonna update or build a new #Fediverse Android, desktop, or iOS app for these other platforms, like #Calckey or Friendica or Peertube or otherwise, you should build with #Accessibility in mind because this is why #Mastodon is popular with us Blind and VI users and this is also why we are not trying other parts of the Fediverse. If you're working on Accessibility, shout it loud and proud! @fediversenews#Mastodon
So for the Games for Blind gamers jam 2 I used my custom made engine that is used to make Blind Accessible RPG games. If you're interested in learning more about the engine, let me know what you think here! You can't use the engine yet, but I break down who it's for, and what its current feature set is. https://ericbomb.itch.io/the-unseen-rpg-engine
I had a nice day at home with the dogs, and also I was able to listen to a lot of talks throughout the day for my boot-edition #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/11)
Finally gotten #MissRirica to work on the #MacOS side of things! (Which will also translate to #Android if I use that version).
Bad News:
A. Ya need to generate an access token from the #Misskey instance you’re on via the web interface among the ‘Settings’ section.
B. Not surprisingly, the app’s interface is… Um…
Super helpful post by @jordanmorgan on making Voice Control work with multiple names to match what is seen in a UI. For buttons, oftentimes the the accessibilityLabel used by VoiceOver are different than the visible titles: accessibilityUserInputLabels to the rescue! #accessibility#iosdev
Castro, my formerly favourite #accessible#Podcast app for #iOS which broke with iOS 16 and took a while to get fixed, then introduced some fixes that broke #accessibility, is slowly coming right again. There’s one outstanding issue for me, which is that when in the Inbox, #VoiceOver no longer speaks the name of the podcast from which the episode has come. This is schedule to be fixed in the next version.
Hopefully I’ll then be able to move away again from #Overcast which is a poor substitute if Castro is behaving itself. Apart from the better feature set, I’m really encumbered by the fact that when I’m playing something in Overcast, my #iPhone, a 14 Pro Max, slows to a crawl and VoiceOver gets incredibly sluggish.
@DrRGST Image description: A photograph of several musicians, focused on one who is playing an enormous octobass. This is a version of the contrabass that's roughly twice as large. The bassist in the photo is a balding white man who is holding a large bow in his right hand and manipulating some levers that side at the junction of the body and the neck of the instrument. The neck of the instrument rises about 3 feet above the man's head, and he's standing on a stool. The background is wooden paneling.
Edit: I was so intrigued I had to look it up, and it seems like this photo is of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, as of 2016 the only working orchestra in the world to have an octobass. Pretty neat!
When disabled students have been active demanding online options be available by default..that UC develop, support, and invest in creative, accessible online options, pointing out that it helps us be more prepared for emergencies anyway, many abled students denigrated that activism.
Today, as Davis experienced a 3rd stabbing incident in a week, the UC Davis sub-Reddit is full of several threads demanding online classes.
We need people to listen to us and join us in activism when we point out that creative, accessible online options must be available by default and that development of them should be fast-tracked for accessibility and other reasons. #UCAccessNow#accessibility#a11y
I don't know if it'll stick yet, but the crowd there is VERY different so far from what I've found here — much smaller, of course, but also much more diverse. It's refreshing.
@marcoarment I genuinely find this an interesting comment. I’m #blind, but other blind people have unfollowed you here because you often don’t use Alt text on your images, which is basically putting up a “blind people not welcome” sign, not to mention not good Mastodon etiquette.
Of course, at least at this stage, there’s no rich ecosystem of third-party apps on BlueSky, so not many blind people will bother with it for now.
Content discovery is still an issue here and I’m pleased to see that’s been actively addressed, but it would take a lot for me to give some of the same people that created this mess in the first place a license to use my content.
In the meantime, if diversity interests you, and presumably diversity includes #accessibility, I’d encourage you to be welcoming of it in the way you post.
And even reply to the occasional blind person once in a while. Social networking work best when it’s two-way.
@Freedom_Press Image description: Photograph of a person dressed in green camouflage style fatigues, including a green scarf over mouth & nose, wearing a helmet, & grasping a rifle whose barrel is pointing at the sky. Behind the person is forest.
*I can't see the image so we'll see how I did when I hit publish
**I missed the black & red flag patch on the sleeve