Accessabilly

Interesting. Just moved to Proton. De-Googleing made easy. Thanx for this reat article.

🇩🇪 Ohrfutter! 🎧 Ein neuer Podcast zur Barrierefreiheit. Noch nicht reingehört, könnte spannend sein.

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Using the Ancient Evils for Debugging - HTMHell A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

O most gracious Lord of HTML, how cometh it that mine ears have not yet heard of <plaintext>? 🧐

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By my troth, I do hereby commend unto thee the most infernal Advent Calendar of Sir @matuzo.at, named HTML Hell! ☠️

Creating a more accessible web with Aria Notify We're excited to announce the availability, as a developer and origin trial, of ARIA Notify, a new API that's designed to make web content

Interesting stuff coming up:

blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/20...

Testing Methods: Three Flashes Testing WCAG 2.3.2 Three Flashes is most effective using a hybrid approach. Automated scans provide broad coverage, AI detects subtle flashes, and manual testing ensures real-user accuracy, creating safer, inclusive digital experiences.

Flashing content faster than 3x per second can exclude users. My latest piece outlines practical steps to meet “Three Flashes” and build safer, inclusive experiences. What’s your approach?

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#DigitalAccessibility #InclusiveDesign #WCAG #WebStandards #A11y

How do you describe the accessibility profession?

"A spoilsport for developers that wants to be a mentor." 😍

Diese Schweizer Gemeinde-Websites sind nicht barrierefrei Viele Schweizer Gemeinden erfüllen die Standards für digitale Barrierefreiheit nicht. Unsere Analyse zeigt, welche Websites Nachholbedarf haben.

@correctiv.org and the Stiftung "Zugang für alle" have tested 70 municipal websites for accessibility with sobering results. 😱The Correctiv-page itself has some #a11y issues though... 🫠

correctiv.org/barrierefrei...

A guide to creating accessible PDFs using free tools If you really do (seriously, really do) need to create a PDF, Steve has your back to help you make sure you make that PDF accessible without having to fork out for Adobe Acrobat Pro.

A Guide to Creating Accessible PDFs Using Free Tools, by @stvfrnzl@mastodon.online (@piccalil.li):

https://piccalil.li/blog/a-guide-to-creating-accessible-pdfs-using-free-tools/

#guides #accessibility #pdf #tooling #testing

The `header` element gets the role "banner" on the root level but `sectionheader` or `generic` when being nested in a `main` element.

Today I learned `header` and `footer` elements lose their ARIA roles when being included in sectioning content.

www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-lear...

You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.

mind the WCAG automation gap – HTML Accessibility

“Mind the WCAG automation gap” by Steve Faulkner digs into what’s possible (and what isn’t) with automated #accessibility tools. Machines help, but they can’t replace human judgment.

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/0...

#WCAG #A11y #WebDev #Testing #Automation #DigitalAccessibility

Most important #a11y read you will get today!

dialog { /* The dialog itself is not semi-transparent at all */ background: light-dark(white, black); } ::backdrop { /* These values particular seem like very low values for a backdrop */ background: light-dark(hsl(white / 20%), hsl(black / 40%)); @media (prefers-reduced-transparency: reduce) { /* Should we increase them in reduce transparency mode? */ background: light-dark(hsl(white / 60%), hsl(black / 80%)); /* Would blurring the background actually help in this case */ backdrop-filter: blur(10px); } }

Accessibility question

For ::backdrop's (dialog overlays) that have a semi-transparent bg to obscure the page behind them:

Should we make the backdrop more obscured for `prefers-reduced-transparency`?

Like if the backdrop is black/40% should we make it black/80%? 100%? Should we blur the bg?

Common misconceptions about screen readers - TetraLogical Screen readers are familiar to many in digital, but how they work in practice can be less clear. In this post, we shed some light on the topic.

Thank you @tetralogical.com for the great article on misconceptions about screen readers! 👍
tetralogical.com/blog/2025/10...

Just at the right time for me to argue on a current #a11y issue in TinyMCE that most likely was caused by one of those: 👇
github.com/tinymce/tiny...

This article confirms my observations. Most developers hired by us (university, technical college, years of experience) have never heard of #a11y. Lack of knowledge and awareness is primarily an academic problem! 🧐

Serene impressively demonstrates how you can still start a career in this field. 👇

Interop Feature Ranking Rank the web platform features you care most about

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most.

So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion.

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

Super useful! 👇

Woohoo, thanx!

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#Wayback1T

WCAG’s Longevity · Eric Eggert It’s no secret: I like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Not only do they give us the four base principles of accessibility …

👁️‍🗨️ WCAG’s Longevity by Eric Eggert

"There are several reasons why WCAG 2 is such a long-living standard. The main reasons, in my opinion, are the very solid foundation it is built on, the accumulation of experience with the standard in practice"

#WCAG #a11y #standards

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I am immensely grateful that we almost hit the 40% raised mark I was hoping for after the first week. There is more work to get this goal reached. I won't stop now so I once again ask for any and all shares and donations, no matter how small. Every little bit helps. gofund.me/24c249d90

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"for the discerning accessibility advocate and anti-fascist"

#a11y #antifascist

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A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community

"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

Shitty prompt of today:

Find a video element with Cypress and Testing Library.

Shitty answers of today (GPT4, GPT5):

cy.findByRole('video');

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A guide to creating accessible PDFs using free tools If you really do (seriously, really do) need to create a PDF, Steve has your back to help you make sure you make that PDF accessible without having to fork out for Adobe Acrobat Pro.

If you really do (seriously, really do) need to create a PDF, Steve has your back to help you make sure you make that PDF accessible without having to fork out for Adobe Acrobat Pro.

piccalil.li/blog/a-guide...

Donate to Fundraiser for Paula Johnson's Medical & Recovery Fund, organized by Todd Libby My name is Todd Libby, and I am starting this on the behalf of my pa… Todd Libby needs your support for Fundraiser for Paula Johnson's Medical & Recovery Fund

Day 2 of posting this with hopes we can cross that line in 30 days.

My partner is in need of some medical assistance and future surgery and treatments.

We are 6% of the way there. More details and you can donate if you can here. gofund.me/231d524bb

Your help is greatly appreciated.

👉🏽 Screen reader HTML lookup app & support tables
Updated 28 September 2025
- new test and notes added

#HTML #screenReaders #Webstandards

tetralogical.github.io/screen-reade...

Is it accessible? Check if that npm package you’re about to install has accessibility issues

Searching for an accessible third party npm library?

Maybe have a first look via this 🧐:
isitaccessible.dev

It checks the lib for open #a11y issues and returns a score considering closed issues. 😎

If you have questions for any of the id24 speakers, post them with the #id24 hashtag and the moderators will throw them at the speaker(s) toward the end of their session.

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

@inclusivedesign24.bsky.social is live!

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