RE: front-end.social/@piccalilli/1…

Hello #WebDev and #frontend folks,

I wrote a couple of words about a certain #html attribute you might not need.

piccalil.li/blog/you-might-not…

Thank you once again @piccalilli for having me and special thanks to @heydon for your much appreciated feedback! ❤️

#a11y #accessibility #css #blog

You might not need role="presentation"

Steve Frenzel shares some sage advice on correctly using this role and value combination by showing questionable examples, followed by some better approaches. Spoiler: the better ones are the simple ones.

^Piccalilli

Kontynuując dawny projekt udało się założyć mini stronkę na tę inicjatywę.

Szukam ludzi chętnych do działania i wspierania :)

Pierwszy post o tym: pol.social/@Jueltrae/114965425…

Strona w budowie: dostosowania.fediblog.pl

#niepełnosprawność #głusi #dostosowanie #disability #accessibility

I'm fed up of standard answers such as "received, we'll pass it on" when I report accessibility issues to @Tutanota - I switched to paid subscription after they quickly enough resolved a captcha issue, but now it is at least since summer that I do not even manage to read e-mails from my web browser.
And on TUTA web page they publicly declare they respect anti-discrimination values.

I am blind, I am an accessibility advocate, no one has the right to silence me any how.

I am not saying this is something intentional or malicious, I am looking at the result. The real life result of what maybe is an unwanted effect of even a single component update.
As inaccessibility is fought through money, if within 3 months I'm not getting an effective concrete response, I'd ask for all my 36€ back till the last cent.
No time to do this yet, I want to trust them once more.

Created an issue on their github repo.

github.com/tutao/tutanota/issu…

#accessibility #a11y #blind

Managing e-mail is impossible using a keyboard and screen reader

Pre-checks This is not a feature request. Existing functionality does not work as intended, not missing functionality. I will request features via discussions, reddit or support I've searched and d...

^{talksina (GitHub)}

I don't even post much on here and doubt this will reach many, but whatever: I lost my job recently and am looking for new work, would appreciate any leads. I'm a certified digital accessibility specialist with lived experience as a disabled trans person, and I also have extensive web developer experience.

Please get in touch if you know of any appropriate openings ❤️

Edit: thanks to replies for pointing out that I should add location details! I'm located in Stockholm, Sweden but will happily work remotely if possible and can travel on occasion if needed - not looking to fully relocate though!

I can also be found on LinkedIn, a site I don't particularly like but accept the necessity of existing on, here: linkedin.com/in/thea-walther

#accessibility #a11y #getfedihired

Thea Walther - Axess Lab | LinkedIn

Digital accessibility specialist and catch-all developer. Previous professional… · Experience: Axess Lab · Education: Stockholm University · Location: Stockholm · 492 connections on LinkedIn.

^{Thea Walther (www.linkedin.com)}

Tim Berners-Lee – not too late to turn it around

'pursuit of profit soon became a driving force in how the internet was designed. But it wasn’t until 2016 – the same year he won the Turing award – that the US elections showed Berners-Lee just how toxic the web could be. Two years later, he told Vanity Fair he was “devastated” by the abuses of the web'

#technology #accessibility #www

theguardian.com/technology/202…

‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet

Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail

^{Daisy Dumas (The Guardian)}

So a little while back, @laura wrote an excellent introductory book on accessibility and inclusive design called Accessibility for Everyone for A Book Apart.

Then, A Book Apart folded and the authors managed to get their rights back.

And yesterday, after Laura put a huge amount of work adapting the book into a beautiful website she built using Kitten*, we republished the book under Small Technology Foundation Press.

You can read it for free at:
accessibilityforeveryone.site/

If you want to support our work that makes such things possible, please consider becoming a patron of Small Technology Foundation. We’re tiny, independent, and not for profit. We reject all types of equity investment (VC, etc.) and won’t be sponsored by or otherwise allow our legitimacy to be used to whitewash Big Tech.

small-tech.org/fund-us

* kitten.small-web.org

#accessibilityForEveryone #LauraKalbag #accessibility #a11y #inclusivity #usability #ethics #web #design #SmallTech

Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag

Read the book online for free.

^{accessibilityforeveryone.site}

This is frustrating because the unnamed people advising that were wrong. It confuses trapping page focus in a modal to blocking users from using the rest of their browser. Also, ugh APG.

css-tricks.com/there-is-no-nee…

If you find someone advising it, be wary of their UI / accessibility chops.

#HTML #accessibility #a11y

Hello Universe!

Moved to new server.

Re-introduction - Been on here since 2022 and should write an intro again. I'm deaf, I'm a fan of open-source projects, so this will be short and sweet.

Post random ramblings, news, techie stuff, boost mostly cat pics. I just like computers and hang around here.

Hashtags of interests:

#Cats | #Coffee | #Books | #Gamer | #GIF
#NoMoreCraptions | #Disability | #Accessibility
#Inclusion | #Equity | #Ally
#Tech | #Privacy | #Encryption
#OpenSource | #FLOSS
#DoctorWho | #SciFi | #Geek | #Nerd
#Science | #Physics | #Space | #STEM
#SecularHumanist | #Atheist
#Deaf | #ASL
#Stargazing | #Astronomy
#Astrophotography | #Photography
#Boricua

Howdy! 👋 Boost for visibility 🙌

The barrier to entry for powerful AI keeps falling. This demo combines accessible tools (spreadsheet, open models, cloud hosting) to solve a real business problem of products taxonomy classification on scale. The future is modular and affordable. #Accessibility #Tech #AITools #AIFormula #SpreadsheetAI #AI #LLM #WebSearch #SearXNG #PerplexityAI #Ollama #OllamaCloud

matasoft.hr/QTrendControl/inde…

Goodness those pop-up menu animations are the worst. And no way to disable them (reduce motion doesn’t affect them). Meaningless, gratuitous skeuomorphism that fails at even the basics of modeling the physical integrity of its source material.
What a shit show.

Liquid Ass should be a cautionary case study in Interface Design 101.

*smdh*

#ios26 #accessibility #design #decoration

#Introduction and Pinned Post

I generally post about #Disability, #MCAS, #EhlersDanlosSyndrome, #EDS, and #Celiac.

Due to EDS, I use a #PowerChair.

I also enjoy #Writing and #Reading.

All of my books, recipes, and some crafts are on my website.

I am #DeafBlind, and write about #Accessibility.

Things I miss: Gardening, Sewing, Crafting, Crocheting, Cooking, Baking, Knitting, Walking, Hiking, Exploring.

Photos are rare, as words are easier to use to explain concepts. If I add a photo, I describe it in the main text for everyone to read.

Yes, I know this sadly leaves out those who rely on photos.

Primary Website - uncoveredmyths.wixsite.com/unc…

Greeting Card Website - uncoveredmyths.wixsite.com/mus…

Home | Mused Lines

Home - Mused Lines is a collection of greeting card poetry designed over a decade.

 It never quite fit greeting card company choices, though they would choose similar verses as more people submitted them.

^{Mused Lines}

Seeing people talk about #webrings again and it's bringing tears of joy to my eyes. We need more connections that circumvent big tech and webrings can potentially provide powerful gateways to niche subject areas.

Check out this #accessibility webring started by @eric for an example:

a11y-webring.club/

My personal challenge right now is finding a way to join many webrings in a coherent way. Will sit down and have a think about this.

a11y-webring.club

A webring for digital accessibility practitioners.

^{a11y-webring.club}

RT @vitalyf@twitter.com

A11yphant (a11yphant.com), a great little tool to learn accessibility, one step at a time, with a few easy, medium and hard challenges. #accessibility #html #css

🐦🔗: twitter.com/vitalyf/status/159…

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