The Power User Fallacy
When compliance feels like a boss battle, accessibility has failed.
The Power‑User Fallacy: When “possible” UX feels like a Dark Souls boss fight: open.substack.com/pub/a11ynews...
#A11yNews #UX #InclusiveDesign #accessibility
26.10.2025 09:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From Museums to High-Tech
How Laura Wissiak is Redefining Accessibility Design at Hope Tech
From Museums to High-Tech.
Our conversation with @laura-a11y.bsky.social.
#axschat #accessibility #a11y
medium.com/design-bootc...
20.10.2025 11:20 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Mit jedem Alttext wächst Teilhabe. 🌱 Schreib auch Du. 💙
#A11y
#SelbstVerfassteAltTexte
#gemeinsamSindWirStark
20.10.2025 07:20 — 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
The title “Common misconceptions about screen readers” is overlaid on a pink background with the TetraLogical logo. Ela Gorla’s headshot sits above her name in a small circle on the bottom right hand side
Many people still misunderstand screen readers — who uses them, how they work, and what inclusive design really means.
Ela Gorla has unpacked the most common myths on the TetraLogical blog:
tetralogical.com/blog/2025/10...
#Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #ScreenReaders
15.10.2025 07:59 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Schreib Alttexte so, als würdest du jemandem das Bild zeigen, der dir wichtig ist. 🫶
#Teilhabe
#SelbstVerfassteAltTexte
#gemeinsamSindWirStark
12.10.2025 09:12 — 👍 61 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 0
HTML/SR Support lookup
We've created a tool called the "Screen reader support look up tables" designed to help people quickly check how screen readers interpret HTML elements and attributes across multiple combinations of browser and screen reader.
08.10.2025 10:41 — 👍 70 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 3
Barrierefreiheit ist kein Trend, sondern Verantwortung. Schreibe deshalb deine Alttexte selbst.
#SelbstVerfassteAltTexte
#gemeinsamSindWirStark
07.10.2025 04:18 — 👍 32 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
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MERKE:Hashtags immer am Ende eines Beitrages. Die Aussage des Beitrages immer zuerst
so ist die Teilhabe Mit #ScreenReader Einfacher zu handhaben.
Barrieren vermeiden
Reader
05.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 87 🔁 43 💬 8 📌 1
How Blind People Navigate the World, On and Offline
Listen now to A11y Yap #5 | Ever wondered how blind people browse the web and move through the world? Dive into our A11y Yap episode on online & offline navigation: screen readers, zoom, white canes,...
From zoom magnifiers and screen reader output to white canes and guide dog training.
This episode breaks down the essential tools blind users depend on, and shows how to test them effectively; open.substack.com/pub/a11ynews...
#A11yNews #Accessibility #UX #Dev #InclusiveDesign #Podcast
04.10.2025 20:29 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
World Usability Day Vienna
World Usability Day Vienna evening event.
Speakers will bring expertise in augmented reality, wearables, hardware, and software. All developed with an accessibility first mindset.
Info about WUD: wud.accessibilityfirst.at
Because #NoA11yNoUX
03.10.2025 12:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A blue circle with hands holding up a heart shaped earth with a human icon and a checkmark in it, between the headings "World Usability Day November 13" and "Emerging Technologies and Human Experience"
Save the Date: Emerging Technologies and Human Experience Livestream on #WUD Nov 13 at 6 PM GMT+1
Topics: AR, wearables, hardware & software
Register to get reminded on GDG community: gdg.community.dev/events/detai...
Or LinkedIn: linkedin.com/events/world...
#UX #Dev #WorldUsabilityDay #a11y
03.10.2025 12:21 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Nothing About Us Without Us
Echo Chambers versus Real Representation
"The problem isn't that we're in bubbles - it's that non-disabled people aren't making the effort to step outside their own."
From Nothing about us without Us by Christiane Link
open.substack.com/pub/accessib...
30.09.2025 12:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preparing the screen reader recordings for our talk at
@wagtail.org Space, and I urgently need to know: Which flying type pokémons should we include?
30.09.2025 09:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Julia Undeutsch / Designing for Deaf Space: Example of Japan’s Starbucks Signing Store #id24 2025
YouTube video by Inclusive Design 24 #id24
Next up on #ID24 Julia Undeutsch with Designing for Deaf Space: Example of Japan’s Starbucks Signing Store www.youtube.com/live/GyEG4mV...
#InclusiveDesign24 #WebAccessibility #a11y
25.09.2025 16:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
Today all day: Inclusive Design 24
24 hours of live talks about anything and everything accessibility!
inclusivedesign24.org/2025/
#ID24 #WebAccessibility #DigitalInclusion #a11y #WebDev #UX
25.09.2025 11:52 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
A pink rocketship with the words Wagtail Space 2025 behind. Below the rocketship the text says 8-10 October: A free virtual event for people who are improving the world through code and content. Just two weeks to go! Get your free ticket now.
Wagtail Space is going live in TWO weeks! We have a fantastic line up of 22 speakers showing us the awesome things they have done with Wagtail. Join us and get your free ticket today!
events.zoom.us/ev/AtWesoZI_...
24.09.2025 16:23 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Excellent example of how something that's compliant isn't necessarily also usable.
23.09.2025 18:38 — 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
Social desireablility bias is a well-know fiend in the UX Reserach field. But when doing research with persons with disabilities, there’s a new threat coming into play: Stigma.
Stigma can affect…
Laura Wissiak / Invisible Stigma and its influence on UX Research for Accessiblity #id24 2024
Laura Wissiak brings us our next countdown recording with Invisible Stigma and its influence on UX Research for Accessibility. #id24 #accessibility #InclusiveDesign www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZ-...
05.09.2025 17:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
Inclusive Design 24 is this week! We go live on 25 September, with twenty four hours of live talks about accessibility and inclusive design. All streamed for free, no registration required. Here's our schedule for this year: inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/ #id24 #accessibility #InclusiveDesign
22.09.2025 17:45 — 👍 8 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
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News and tools for web developers: https://frontenddogma.com/. Undogmatically compiled by @meiert.com. Updated 2–3 times daily.
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Inclusive Design 24 is a free 24-hour online community event on inclusive design and accessibility.
https://inclusivedesign24.org/
https://www.youtube.com/@InclusiveDesign24
A non-profit organization whose mission is to bridge the gap between researchers and the global Usher Syndrome community.
www.usher-syndrome.org
Sight Loss Councils are groups of blind & partially sighted people working to drive transformative change & raise awareness across the UK. #VisionForChange
Adaptive 🦽Bright✨ Colourful🌈 Inclusive 🌟Clothing and Accessories 💛
Wagtail is a beautiful open source CMS built on the Django framework by Torchbox and friends. Try Wagtail at https://wagtail.org/get-started/
Virtual meet-up featuring speakers and conversations around digital accessibility.
Fully blind coder, gamer, hacker, streamer. Accessibility consultant looking for his people.
Youtube: @viewpointunseen
Twitch (gaming): zersiax.
Twitch (hacking/coding blind): IC_Null.
Mastodon: @zersiax@cupoftea.social
Journalist, guide dog owner, potter
inABLE is a nonprofit organization based in Kenya and the USA with a mission to empower African youth with disabilities through technology.
The go-to newsletter for product people, UXers, PMs and design engineers. 👉 https://heydesigner.com
Founded and curated by https://tamassari.me | https://bsky.app/profile/tamassari.me
DevFest Vienna is a yearly developer community event in Vienna. Next event: Saturday, 12 October 2024, TU Wien.
https://devfest.at/
WordPress core committer, accessibility specialist, WP Accessibility Day lead, LinkedIn Learning author, violinist
😻 Accessibility @ GitHub
🎮 HCI PhD candidate a11y + AI
💻 Recovering frontend dev
✨ Star Wars fan (obviously)
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Principal Accessibility Specialist at TetraLogical. Former Head of Accessibility at DWP. Writer. Speaker. Coder. Wildlife Photographer. Cat botherer. ADHD. Autistic. He/They. https://www.craigabbott.co.uk
