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yatil, 1 month ago to random

NASA programmers: ”We distributed the program from the broken chip into different parts of Voyager and changed all the references to ensure that it all keeps working. We had one attempt at this.”

Web developers: “How am I supposed to remember to label my buttons and style focus states?? It’s just too hard!”

(Sorry, could not resist. 😂 I recognize the systematic problems around the education of web developers that are often trained to be one-trick ponies where the trick is a framework.)

yatil, 10 months ago to random

Like blogs, the Fediverse does not need to win. This is not about having the most users. Or making the most money. This is about interested people finding and connecting. It doesn’t really matter how large it is. It never mattered how many blogs there have been. But each blog is valid, even if it is only read by a handful people. And so is the Fediverse. People publishing, connecting.

yatil, 7 months ago to accessibility

Congratulations @SaraSoueidan for launching the https://practical-accessibility.today‬

25% OFF until October 23!

#a11y #accessibility

yatil, 6 months ago to random

Remember when people thought Medium had great design? Please, people publish on your own blogs!

yatil, 4 months ago to random

Looks like making accessibility more serious and professional has hurt it. So much is business, so little is community. Mechanic accessibility has replaced getting genuinely interested and excited about making the web and other technology easy to use for disabled people.

https://yatil.net/blog/no-accessibility-without-disabilities

yatil, 1 month ago to random

SelfID law is done and dusted in Germany! So happy for all my trans and nonbinary friends who will have it much easier now.

(It’s not perfect, but we’ll get there.)

🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

yatil, 26 days ago to accessibility

Happy 25 years of WCAG!

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.

1.0 – May 5, 1999 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
2.0 – Dec 11, 2008 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
2.1 – Jun 5, 2018 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/
2.2 – Oct 5, 2023 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/

#wcag #a11y #accessibility

yatil, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to accessibility

“Wow, AI can now describe images!” == “Wow, image interpretation algorithms have now stolen enough data from people who have always cared about alternative text, so that I can add mediocre descriptions to pretend to care.”

(Edit: It’s totally good that this technology exists for users when no alternative text exists. It’s problematic when it’s used in lieu of writing proper alternative text in the first place.)

#a11y #accessibility

yatil, 10 months ago to accessibility

> Must know accessibility tips for developers
> 1. Learn to use a screen reader

No. This is never the first step. The first step is understanding the spectrum of needs that your code works with. Screen readers are only an itsy bitsy tiny part of the overall experience. And you don’t need to use them at all to write good code for 90+% of all situations.

#accessibility #a11y

yatil, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

18 years on and Div Mania should still be required reading for everyone working on the web and work with HTML and CSS.

http://juicystudio.com/article/div-mania.php

(I just updated my German translation from around the same time to include the code examples again which got lost at some point. And that’s when I noticed that the code examples on my blog are basically unreadable. Hope to fix soon. https://yatil.net/blog/der-div-wahnsinn)

yatil, 6 months ago to random

Who do I have to talk to to stop this from shipping? If users have no way to overwrite the user-hostile behavior, this feature should not ship. Users should always be able to show all content on the page.

DO NOT USE THIS. https://front-end.social/@stefan/111334648111748288

yatil, 7 months ago to random

WCAG 2.2 to be published as a Recommendation on Thursday!

https://www.w3.org/2023/10/03-ag-minutes.html

yatil, 5 months ago to random

So, another W3C Community Group defining a “baseline” for available features on the web where accessibility is not mentioned.

Can screen reader and other assistive technologies interact with these features? Who cares! It’s the baseline now.

input type="date" is “baseline” for years and completely inaccessible.

https://web.dev/blog/baseline-definition-update?hl=en

yatil, 3 months ago to random

Looking through the comments on the Mike Paciello LinkedIn announcement that he’s joining AudioEye, a company that has used deceptive marketing and SLAPP suits in the past, a lot of people have flipped to say “what a great opportunity”, “awesome”, “this will make accessibility better”.

I think we can say that AudioEye has achieved their goal. This is how you manipulate a whole industry into aligning with your mission, even if it harms them.

yatil, 3 months ago to random

It’s the hope that kills you: https://yatil.net/blog/hope-kills-you

yatil, 7 months ago to random

Accessibility in the real world: https://micro.yatil.net/2023/10/25/accessibility-in-the.html

yatil, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Do we need WCAG 3 (now)? https://yatil.net/blog/do-we-need-wcag-3-now

yatil, 1 day ago to random

Two days ago, a stone was thrown onto the window of a housing unit for people with disabilities in Mönchengladbach, Germany. The stone had “euthanasia is the solution” written on it.

It’s clearly a right-wing neo-Nazi attack, considering that the Nazis used to systematically kill disabled people which they deemed unworthy to live.

There has not been an appropriate outrage. Ableism is still very common in Germany, and the Nazi history is a reason for it.

Nazis raus!

https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/rheinland/angriff-wohnheim-moenchengladbach-100.html

yatil, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

The new @w3c logo snuck up on me. Interesting subtle changes. Compare here (with alternative texts):

https://codepen.io/yatil/live/oNQeBqQ

yatil, 6 months ago to random

There is this trend to give web developers more power, especially in things that touch on usability/accessibility and all it does is breaking more stuff in more ways. No, developer, you cannot be responsibly manage focus. No, you don’t need to dictate every little bit of interaction. No, it’s the user who needs to decide on this.

Developers should write great HTML and then enhance it with a mist of JavaScript. As little as possible. And everyone would have an accessible time.

yatil, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

European Commission with a big 🖕 to Accessibility Overlays.

(This is a good thing, because those “we promise you WCAG compliance with one line of JavaScript” “solutions” sound too good to be true, because they are not.)

https://commission.europa.eu/resources-partners/europa-web-guide/design-content-and-development/accessibility/testing-early-and-regularly/accessibility-overlays_en

Via @n3rd0710 on LinkedIn

yatil, 4 months ago to accessibility

What is expensive in accessibility is fixing inaccessible legacy systems to make them accessible. This is the expensive part.

It’s much cheaper to build accessible directly.

And yet, people insist in building systems that are legacy and inaccessible the moment they are built and released.

The accessibility debt you build into new systems comes back with a hefty interest rate.

#accessibility #a11y

yatil, 2 months ago to random

10 years ago, on the 25th birthday of the Web, we came together to celebrate. Now, on the 35th birthday, it feels like nobody cares.

The Web is still the most transformative information technology in the last 40 years. It has flaws and it needs more active steering. But it is still free, open, and amazing.

Let’s never live in a world without the open Web again.

yatil, 6 months ago to random

There you go:

Exclusive accordions exclude

https://yatil.net/blog/exclusive-accordions

yatil, 11 days ago to random

Love that we here in Germany are basically prohibited from getting vaccinations, even voluntarily, unless we meet certain condition – mostly age and existing illness.

“You first have to get LongCOVID before we allow you vaccinations to avoid the thing you got” is bad policy. https://zirk.us/@AlexKourvo/112469763159775160