If I decide to start blogging again (it's been years), what's more #screenreader #accessible: ghost or micro.blog or something else? Don't even mention #wordpress; my desire to run a PHP app for any reason is zero. Plus the gutenberg stuff. #a11y

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I’m a big fan of using automation in WCAG testing.

The problem is that the marketing machines of some vendors have been more effective than their tools.

No false positives? Cool. What about false negatives?
https://adrianroselli.com/2021/09/beware-false-negatives.html

80% issue coverage? Cool. What do you think “issues” are again?
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/07/what-does-x-of-issues-mean.html

A total solution to testing in a year? Cool. Wait, where’d you go?
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/be-wary-of-accessibility-guarantees-from-anyone.html

[L'article de la semaine dernière] Framamèmes

Un éditeur de mèmes libres, qu'on a déjà amélioré depuis la semaine dernière : carrousel d'images, possibilité d'utiliser ses propres modèles… on n'arrête pas le progrès

Lire cet article : https://grisebouille.net/framamemes
Le livre best of : https://editions.ptilouk.net/gb10ans
Soutien : https://ptilouk.net/#soutien

nb. there are no circumstances -- none at all -- ever -- in which it's necessary or helpful to include accessible text for an ARIA button that says "Press Enter or Space to activate".

Screen reader users know how to press buttons. ffs.

How can orgs build scalable, consistent accessibility?

Rob Carr from WebAIM joins us on A11yTalks to share tools + real-world tips for product, UX, dev, and content teams—think inclusive personas, design systems, and more.
April 29, 12PM ET
https://a11ytalks.com/posts/2025-apr
#A11y #Accessibility

Access Information News for Monday, April 7, 2025 - Volume 1009 ️
https://accessinformationnews.com/ain2025/04072025/

The Week's News in Access Information
A Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. Publication
#news #accessibility #a11y #disability #blind #deaf #deafblind #ain

Access Information News. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in access information.

Subscribers: 37,004 ️ subscribers were sent this issue via email.

I've developed a bridge between RenPy and NVDA, so that the self-voicing mode outputs text through NVDA instead of using SAPI voices on Windows. The script is open source and can be found at https://github.com/gogabs/renpy-nvda-bridge.

The script uses a Python library I've developed called Pyscrout, which can be found at https://github.com/gogabs/pyscrout

What are your favorite "accessibility red flags"?

In other words, when you first access a website, device, service, physical space, etc., what is something that immediately warns you, this won't go well for some disabled people?

I'd love to hear various perspectives, so please boost if you're willing.

Yesterday, I got my eyes checked, and pupils dilated as a result. It was a cloudy day so I thought walking home would be fine, but damn, what an uncomfortable feeling of being permanently…sun dazed (is there a term?). I also couldn't see things up close (which felt weird as I am near-sighted) for some hours.

Anyways, I guess the moral of the story is: sighted people browse the web with 150% zoom enabled for a variety of reasons, even if very briefly. Remember to test it! #a11y

Hey, #a11y programmers out there! Does anyone know of any resources that explain how to send speech commands to JAWS like the controller library does with NVDA? I could look through tons of lines of code from existing libraries to try to understand the concept, but I would be glad if there was any tutorials on the subject.

Boost appreciated!

To all those companies and institutions closing or scaling down their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs to appease Trump:
Now is not the time to be weak, Now is the time to #DEI HARDER

#politics #a11y #USA

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1884540704/dei-harder

Free Lottie Accessibility Analyzer
https://lottiefiles.com/tools/lottie-accessibility-analyzer #Accessibility
#A11y #Animations #Lottie

Naive accessibility question: How does your screen reader render emojis? Are they accessible?

Are mastodon extended emojis like rendered differently from unicode emojis like ?

Alternate text is not as simple or straightforward as you may think.

#A11y #accessibility

https://design.scotentblog.co.uk/providing-text-alternatives-for-non-text-content/

Massachusetts is looking for 4 (four!) IT Accessibility Officers. Boston/hybrid.

https://www.a11yjobs.com/jobs/MLyP9-it-accessibility-officer-contract-based-the-massachusetts-executive-office-of-technology-services-and-security

#GetFediHired
#jobs
#A11yJobs
#a11y
#AccessibilityJobs
#accessibility

Weil viele das in ihren Anzeigenamen und Beiträgen gern einsetzen, lass ich mal diesen Beitrag hier. Don’t Use Fake Bold or Italic in Social Media https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/dont-use-fake-bold-or-italic-in-social-media.html #A11Y #ScreenReader

Ich habe einen Mini-Post geschrieben zu Barrierefreiheit-Verbesserungen in WordPress und wie das so vonstatten geht. Am Beispiel des Skip-To-Content-Buttons in WordPress.

cc// Hans-Gerd Gerhards @hgg

#Barrierefreiheit #A11Y #Accessibility #WordPress

https://www.philliproth.de/eine-kleine-reise-in-die-barrierefreiheit/