ashleemboyer

ashleemboyer, 27 days ago to random

Happy #GAAD! 🎉

Did you know low contrast text is the most common automatically detectable accessibility error? 81% of the top 1,000,000 websites have this error.

Lesson 1 of 16 Days of Accessibility Awareness will teach you how to check for this error!

https://www.semanticfish.com/gaad-2024/lesson-01

ashleemboyer, 1 month ago to random

We're getting close to #GAAD on May 16th! 🥳

If you're looking for a way to celebrate, consider the free email course I just launched: 16 Days of Accessibility Awareness.

Daily actions aimed at helping anyone start making an impact in 5 minutes. 💖

https://semanticfish.com/gaad-2024

ashleemboyer, 5 months ago to random

Indiana's legislation is hard to keep up with, so I built a web app with the goal of making bills and their actions easier to search. 🔎

See thread for screenshots & links 👇🏻

#IndianaGeneralAssembly #IndianaLegislativeSession #IndianaLegislation #MyIGAHypermediaAPI

aardrian, 6 months ago to accessibility

Me in 2002:
Probably do not use fixed heights on content containers.
https://adrianroselli.com/2002/03/the-wrong-way-to-use-css-in-page-layouts.html

@ashleemboyer in 2023:
Probably do not use fixed heights on content containers.
https://ashleemboyer.com/blog/don-t-use-fixed-css-height-or-width-on-text-containers

21 years and still the same mistakes. Appropriate this message is old enough to legally drink in the US — since drinking is warranted.

#accessibility #a11y

yatil, 7 months ago to random

Flipping over the “… days since I had to correct a typo when typing the word accessibility” sign again. Like every day.

ashleemboyer, 7 months ago to accessibility

I've mentioned text-only zoom (separate from browser zoom) in my last two articles, so I wanted to share a bookmarklet I created that helps me test text size! 🧪

https://ashleemboyer.com/blog/an-accessibility-bookmarklet-for-testing-200-percent-text-size

This little tool can help you when checking for WCAG SC 1.4.4 Resize Text and 1.4.10 Reflow conformance.

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #ResponsiveDesign #CSS #WCAG #WCAG21 #WCAG22

ashleemboyer, 7 months ago to accessibility

Starting a thread of bug reports and pull requests I make against "accessible" React UI libraries that have accessibility issues on their websites 🧵

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #React

https://mstdn.social/@ashleemboyer/111339344720384415

ashleemboyer, 7 months ago to accessibility

ASCII art sounds terrible for screen reader users. 🚫

A better way to share it: Take a screenshot and share that with alt text.

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #AccessibilityInclusion #Disability #DisabilityInclusion #ASCII #ASCIIArt

ashleemboyer, 7 months ago to random

This disabled freelance web developer is looking for work! 👋🏻

https://linkedin.com/in/ashleemboyer

Specialties: accessibility, design systems, React, TypeScript, Next, Node

Also skilled at: design & code review, testing, technical writing, requirements gathering, estimation

ashleemboyer, 8 months ago to accessibility

If you're new to making web content accessible and not sure where to start, here's what I recommend! You can make so much impact on these fairly low effort things.

• Color contrast
• Alt text
• Semantic HTML

I go into the details on my blog: https://ashleemboyer.com/blog/three-starting-points-for-making-accessible-digital-content

#Accessibility #AccessibilityInclusion #WebAccessibility

ashleemboyer, 8 months ago to ADHD

The people who think “time blindness” is just an ADHDer excuse for laziness or attention have no idea that this shit is actually so depressing sometimes.

You know that feeling where you go on autopilot on your drive home? Multiply that by months or years. It feels awful.

#ADHD #TimeBlindness

ashleemboyer, 8 months ago to disability

Accommodations aren’t a foreign concept. Non-disabled people are accommodated all the time.

#Disability #DisabilityInclusion #Accessibility #AccessibilityInclusion

ashleemboyer, 8 months ago to disability

Disabled people don’t owe you their stories or private medical information.

#Disability #DisabilityInclusion #Accessibility #AccessibilityInclusion

ashleemboyer, 8 months ago to accessibility

Consumers value companies that value them. Disabled people won’t just wait for you to fix inaccessibility.

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #Disability #DisabilityInclusion

ashleemboyer, 8 months ago to accessibility

Requiring disabled people to ask ”nicely” for access is conditional allyship.

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #Disability #DisabilityInclusion

ashleemboyer, 8 months ago to random

Yay! I found my account password. It was stored under a weird name in my password manager. 😅

joelanman, 8 months ago to accessibility

The thing about the Vercel V0 accessibility situation is how predictable it was:

• Tech excluding disabled people
• When that is raised, tech fanboys attacking those people
• Centrist 'theres problems on both sides' takes

and in this case:

• We know AI amplifies existing biases

This is not a one off, it happens over and over. That's why accessibility people are frustrated.

#accessibility #vercel

ashleemboyer, 8 months ago to random

I want to talk to people here but do not know how to use this app halp 🥲