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yatil

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Accessibility Advocado

http://yatil.net

Outline Consulting · Axess Lab
formerly: Knowbility, W3C/WAI

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#accessibility #a11y #humanrights #germany #ebiking #webdev #design #typography #fedi22

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ismh, to random
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@ivory What are your plans for better supporting small servers? For example, if I go to see who someone follows, the only results are users from my tiny instance.

yatil,
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@joesteel @drdrang @paul @ismh As an admin of your instance, you can use https://relay.fedi.buzz to tap into hashtags and other instances. That said, I have no idea if it’s a good idea to relay in a huge instance like mastodon.social.

aardrian, to accessibility
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Somebody tricked the 2026 Special Olympics into using (no cost in exchange for reputation):
https://twitter.com/2026USAGames/status/1653784052585955329

It does not load because Ghostery blocks its JS as an unidentified tracker.
https://2026specialolympicsusagames.org/

🤦

yatil,
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@aardrian Gotta love how their tweet has no alternative text. Really the icing on the cake.

vasilis, to random
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I visited a website about a Greek island and this helpful message popped up.

yatil,
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@hdv @vasilis It’s funny because all of these logos better than what is used contemporarily. That Chrome logo is ace!

jeremyburge, to random
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Running the TikTok acct for @upgrade has my desktop looking like I'm setting up a Snell-Swift shrine (but I promise I'm not...yet)

yatil,
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@jeremyburge Had it?

seachanger, to random

Rad things about mastodon we take for granted

CW - these are amazing

Editing posts - hard to go back once you taste this

Alt text as the norm - total community enforcement

Replies - option to delist them so we don’t clog the feed

Timeline curating - we have near infinite timeline options with filters, lists, local, federated, hashtags etc

Muting - we can choose a time period!

Character count - 500 let’s you get an effing thought out

Ownership - we can own the damn thing ourselves

yatil,
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@notjustbikes @EposVox @seachanger I mean, if you repost this, I have to write that nobody needs you to add alternative text in “excruciating detail”.

I think you have had a bad experience with some overly hostile people, and I get that.

A good alternative text is a sentence or two long, often getting the concept across is enough.

Don’t get distracted from doing the right thing because there are obnoxious people around.

yatil, to random
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Am I the only person who seriously struggles with Miro boards? Stuff is always outside your view, you can’t have an overview, text is always too small.

Just give me a structured bulleted list in a document or a proper Mindmap.

sigh

yatil,
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@menelion I can’t even imagine trying to make sense of it using a screen reader, unless it is specifically crafted for that use (and I guess no miro boards are).

yatil,
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Yay, it’s not just me!

yatil, to random
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Why do snooker players always have to kiss the trophies? It’s weird. 😂

yatil, to random
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Congratulations, Luca Brecel!!!!

First title for Belgium and continental Europe.

Great fight from Mark Selby.

yatil, to random
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It’s time for Luca to win a frame again!

arush, to random

In a move that surprises absolutely noone, the entirety of the U.S. Supreme Court rejects any kind of oversight or enforcible code of ethics. And they wonder why Americans are questioning their legitimacy. https://abc7ny.com/supreme-court-justices-scotus-ethics-code-clarence-thomas/13192491/

yatil,
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@arush <this is fine meme but instead of the dog, with the members of the us supreme court>

yatil, to random
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List of all non-UK Snooker World Champions so far:

  • 1952: Horace Lindrum (AUS) (only he and Clark McConachy (NZL) competed)
  • 1980: Cliff Thorburn (CAN)
  • 1997: Ken Doherty (IRL)
  • 2010: Neil Robertson (AUS)

It’s incredibly rare for people outside the UK to be in the final (only one since 2010 – Ding Junhui in 2016), let alone being in a winning position. That’s why Brecel’s attempt is so historic.

yatil,
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I included Lindrum because… well, it kinda makes the point. 😂

yatil, to random
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Something for the statistic heads in the community:

Mark Selby has been behind after session 2 in two of his three world titles. But he has always been in the lead after session 3. The largest frame difference against him in a world final he won has been four (6:2 after the first session in 2016).

I think Luca has good chances.

yatil, to random
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What is fascinating about Mark Selby is that he can adapt to the playing style that is most punishing for his opponent. Against Mark Allen in the semis that meant bringing everything to a halt and grinding through it. Because he expected Allen to make few errors.

Against Luca Brecel, he can play more open because Brecel risks a lot, giving Selby a lot of openings. Selby’s way to win is that Brecel know that those opportunities will be used. And that forces Brecel to play differently.

matuzo, to random
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I should start a gallery with my favourite splash images in tech articles.

yatil,
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@matuzo To be fair, that is exactly the face I make when I think about URL Encoding… 😂

heydon, to accessibility
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If you have an active RSS feed about , , , , or really anything to do with the web, please drop it here and I'll repost it.

yatil,
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@heydon Here’s mine: https://yatil.net/feed

heydon, to random
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What's your favorite RSS reader in 2023?

yatil, (edited )
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@heydon Feedbin (backend) with Reeder or Fiery Feeds as clients on iOS and MacOS.

(I really should decide on one client, shouldn’t I?)

fossheim, to random
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Accessibility needs to be more than just going over a compliance checklist.

WCAG audits can be useful, but if all you’re going to do is sporadically order someone to make a list of pass/fail next to numbers, chances are you’re not gonna see much meaningful change.

For that you need to understand:

  • What effect the (in)accessible solution has on the experience of disabled users
  • How disabled people use the web
  • How AT / a11y options work
  • Techniques and tools you can use in your work
    etc
yatil,
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@moiety @fossheim 🔥🔥🔥

yatil,
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@fossheim Most audits are done way too early, as a starting point. And then it is just punishing the people involved. “Oh, here are new rules we did not tell you about. But you violated them all.”

You start with an accessibility gap analysis, which identifies the issues with the most impact. Then you train people to fix those issues and avoid to repeat them.

Repeat this process until you’re confident that there are no big issues anymore. Then you can audit.

yatil,
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@philsherry @fossheim I’m personally mixed on non-regular users using AT, especially complicated stuff like screen readers. I do think it’s essential to understand how they work and have actual users test. For complicated components, validating that they work in AT is essential, but I’d argue not developing such complicated components is better in many cases.

yatil,
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@fossheim I just had that situation last week. A person I talked to had an audit done by a (cheaper) competitor last year and when I asked how much they fixed, they admitted that they didn’t get to anything yet.

Now, I don’t know how the audit was structured or what the delivery was, but it seemed to not be actionable, which I often see in audits.

My goal is always to teach, so findings will include solutions, but there is a wide variety of vendors who just give pass/fail reports.

yatil,
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@labellaragassa @fossheim @hdv Yes. But they are not the right tool for making strategic decisions for fixing things.

They answer “what have you done”, not “what should you do”. And often clients would be better served with answers to the latter question instead of the former, especially if they have done nothing explicitly for accessibility before.

yatil,
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@philsherry @fossheim For sure!

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