DanHolbrookQA.bsky.social

Would love to hear the justification as to why the billboard images in this @nytimes.com "Tech Billboards Are All Over San Francisco. Can You Decode Them?" quiz article are marked as decorative images. There's no article without them!

There is a disability rights advocate on here with thousands of followers who is posting images without alt text and I just needed to subtweet that here so I didn't explode

But how does it work "at scale" (this is business slang for "when a dragon is hoarding the gold")

The lord put me on this Earth for one purpose: To downgrade WCAG 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context) bugs into WCAG 2.4.9 Link Purpose (Link Only) bugs until I crumble to dust. #a11y

QA are all-too-familiar with this phenomenon. It's very easy to sell a technical-sounding solution that is less effective (and often even, more costly) than a trained human who knows what to look for. When the alternative doesn't expose what it's missing, how are non-experts to know?

The alt text is appreciated (I have a blind coworker who has to ask for it on every image in Teams and it seems exhausting) but as a general rule definitely include any non-decorative text in the alt so they can get the full impact, so they can really feel the 1999

Lotta people in my non-work feed eagerly grasping at that McSweeney's article as an excuse not to add alt text. Yes, keep it concise and relevant. No, one writer's preference doesn't mean you shouldn't use alt text at all, e.g. I have a blind coworker who asks for alt for every image they encounter.

The wild thing is that the native html date picker is pretty good! And yet instead, people build their own bad versions that have a bunch of issues!

Periodic reminder that WCAG success criterion 2.4.5 is called Multiple Ways and not One Really Good Way #a11y

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Locke from Lost asking Jack "Why do you find it so hard to use ARIA? Jack angrily responds "Why do you find it so easy?" Locke looks back at him wide-eyed and says "It's never been easy!"

had to make it, #a11y

had to make it

If I ever need to go into witness protection don't send me to the desert or anything, just put my name in Azure DevOp's assignee suggestions dropdown. No one will find me there.

Craigslist rules. Has looked the same for like 30 years. Does what you need it to do. No new dumbass features to ruin it. The pinnacle of Business

Beware of companies promising to make sites completely accessible, compliant, and immune from lawsuits with just a few lines of code. This just isn't possible. Disabled users have long said these tools don't actually help them, and can often make things worse.

It's a hard thing to measure. We know that in the USA about 4-5% of people in the community report serious difficulty seeing, and there are also people with no vision problems who also rely on alt text for context. But trying to identify specific disabilities in metrics gets politically iffy quick.

This Zoom extension allows your video to “flashback” with audio and video effects to when you predicted the problem under discussion

Apologies for another post about alt text (it is such a tiny portion of my actual accessibility job), but I can't stop thinking about some recent posts from webcomic artists talking about how they do so many jobs (true). And thinking quietly: except alt text, often you - deliberately - don't do that

I used "what if they could do this on the couch" instead of "this needs to be responsive for accessibility" and the same UX team that ignored the legal requirement last week loves this cool couch idea 😑 #a11y

Saw a popular poster do some very bad alt text on purpose, so I immediately subscribed to the Bad Accessibility / Alt Text Labeler on here. Not sure how long I'll want to have everything set to hidden, but as a side effect it's definitely removed some of the more annoying posts from my feed, #a11y

I was on a project recently with some UX folks who were very excited to use AI art for the graphics in their designs and it was pretty bleak, like, hey if you like THAT just wait

Waking up and sighing as I see a well-meaning Blueskyer reposting a meme with "here's the photo with photographer's credit, since SOME of you aren't appreciating the artist" and giving that photo some of the worst alt text I've ever seen.

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“You can add this string of random shit to your Google searches to make them work” it’s been several years since I first noted that having to do little hacks and workarounds in order to make a product work as it should is utterly fucking stupid

Gotta admit it's kind of wild to me how people used to go after VCs for pushing for minimally viable products and now huge established tech companies with critical infrastructure are like what if not even minimally viable let's just send it and see what happens

I hope whoever invented the MacOS feature where shaking the mouse cursor makes it get real big so you can find it on the screen knows that they are a genius and I thank them every day

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 30,1963

Far Side cartoon captioned Cartoon readings. Addressing her audience, a woman on a stage reads aloud: And in the next panel the other cat says, "Oh, boy! Here we go again!”

Me, not always doing a great job with the alt text but trying anyway

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It's petty, but whenever I get a sales pitch for some new automated accessibility tool I immediately go and see how many #a11y bugs I can find in 30 seconds on their marketing site and it is never zero.