Tip for those who don't have much hand strength or just get tired holding pickets for hours - sandwich boards work!

Also printing t-shirts with your mesage.

Also creating hats with lightweight signs on them.

Your bike/trike/wheelchair/service animal can have signs, too!

Just an ergonomic tip from someone with low hand strength who has protested before. #HandsOff #Accessibility

Photo CC-BY-NC 2.0 by Steve McKenzie https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevemckenzie/47285256762

I figured I should make this into a poster. A4 size, but can easily be scaled to fit onto Letter size, for you non-standard Americans out there.

Reuse encouraged, public domain!

"For Some Disabled Protestors, 'Hands Off' Went Virtual"

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/hands-off-virtual-zooms-disability-covid/

“We know we have to teach everyone how to include us"

Question for you #webdev peeps:

I've made a site and it's totally in dark mode. How I like it

But some people mentioned that I should offer a light mode toggle because "some people are not used to dark mode and won't like it".

Do you think that's valid?

(Someone else said that there's also potentially an accessibility issue with dark mode - is that true?)

Is there an #accessibility map anywhere? Maybe built from #OpenStreetMap? I'm thinking wheelchairs, path surface, incline, steps, etc..

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

Experimenting with open educational resources in comic form.
https://samepagestudio.ca/blog/2025/04/02/open-resources-find-them-use-them-learn/
Everything in this work was human-created, EXCEPT the alt-text for which I used AI. Damn compelling how well the bot was able to describe my images.
#OER #Accessibility #Comics #DigitalLearning

The Hands Off! protests are tomorrow, Saturday, April 5

Find one near you -

https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

Can't attend in person? There's a virtual event:

"Hands Off! Disabled Community Fights Back"

2 - 4 PM Pacific Time
Virtual Event
Join from anywhere!

https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/770700/

Irish Rail & wheelchair users - from Drogheda to Wexford - the most beautiful railway in Ireland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeY2ibVHdCA #Accessibility #Transportation #Ireland #Trains

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/

If you use BearBlog, a new theme has been added! Low Vision Reader. Initially by yours truly but Herman had to basically rewrite it so, well, the idea came from me anyway! But it's designed with large font by default, high contrast by default, and looks great on mobile devices! https://bearblog.dev/ #CSS #Accessibility #A11y

Bar graphs and other charts are, by definition, difficult to translate for readers who are blind or low-vision. Researchers from MIT have created a way to turn Excel spreadsheets into "tactile charts".

https://news.mit.edu/2025/making-graphs-more-accessible-blind-low-vision-readers-0325

#a11y
#accessibility

Yesterday @peterrowlett asked me if I'd made a tool for simulating colour vision deficiency and I thought "yeah, that's totally the kind of thing I would have done".

Well, if I had done it, I can't find it now. So I spent an hour this morning making one:

https://cvd-simulator.think.somethingorotherwhatever.com/

I used the same method that Firefox's dev tools uses to simulate colour vision deficiency: multiply each pixel's (R,G,B) vector by a matrix representing the eye's response in each kind of colour receptor.

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/trump-dei-executive-order-undermines-disability-accommodations-for-disabled-people/

"For years, White House press conferences included sign language interpreters for the deaf.

No longer. Interpreters have been noticeably absent from Trump administration press briefings, advocacy groups say.

Gone, too, are the American Sign Language interpretations that used to appear on the White House’s YouTube channel. A White House webpage on accessibility, whitehouse.gov/accessibility, has also ceased working."

Braille dice! Large print dice! Accessible dice rolling apps!

Check out our latest blog post for these resources.

https://knightsofthebraille.com/2025/04/03/accessible-dice/

Im Deutschlandfunk konnten Sven Radtke (FJMK, Gaming ohne Grenzen) und ich das Projekt InclusiveGameLab vorstellen und auf die große Bedeutung von Accessibility im Gaming-Kontext hinweisen:

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/barrierefreies-zocken-das-inclusivegamelab-an-der-th-koeln-100.html

Wichtig, weil durch die Überschrift möglicherweise ein anderer Eindruck entsteht: Das Lab ist ein Kooperationsprojekt der TH Köln und der FJMK, wir sind mit gleichen Anteilen daran beteiligt.