Gareth Ford Williams

Accessibility awards season recap - Can I Play That? It has been a busy awards season already, we take a look at the growing number of accessibility awards in the games industry.

It's been a busy awards season already. We take a look at the growing number of accessibility awards in the games industry, and what we have to look forward to next year.

Congratulations and thanks to all the winners and nominees for making a difference!

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Happy New Year!!! ❤️🥂🍾🎆

No-one self-identified in this study. The segmentation focused on reading needs and preferences experienced by participants, and unsurprisingly 10% had strong dyslexic traits.
Agreed, self-identification is problematic.

It was a study. No opinion sought.
What's the old saying, "data is not the plural on anecdote"?
The methodology screened the subjects for reading barriers, it did not prime them and it tested fatigued reading using comparisons of non-emotive text.
It was thorough.

"Supposedly" is the right word.

It doesn't do what it claims to do. It performs terribly with dyslexic readers.
This is from a study with 2500 readers, 10% were dyslexic ans the graph starts with the worst performing font.
The font might be fine, the claims are not. That's snake oil.

Nope. That's a meme.

A guide to understanding what makes a typeface accessible And how to make more informed design decisions.

In testing it doesn't perform well at all. medium.com/the-readabil...

Calibri is an OK font, but Verdana would have been woker.

There is no basis for it's claim. All serious testing has shown it to be a snake oil font.

A picture of Nigel Farage with the words Comic Sans in the same font across his stupid grinning face, by the designer David Bailey

How about 2 Stupid Faces on One Poster?

A scale from the least to most accessible font. Each of the 20 fonts viewed 16,800 by 2,500 people, 250 with dyslexia and 400 with severe vision impairments. For the dyslexic group Open Dyslexic, Dyslexic and Comic sans had the lowest score. Times was 6th from the bottom with double their approval score.

Somebody please tell him when tested with 250 dyslexic people it turns out Times New Roman is more DEI that Open Dyslexic, Dyslexie and Comic Sans.
If you re-balance the size using the x-height, it's a more accessible font.
#font #accessibility #a11y #DEI
medium.com/the-readabil...

Ew!

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Is this just Global News or World Service too? WS used to be on AMP because of React not playing nicely when it comes to regional data costs and end user tech.
If they binned that then they forgot their audience.

Pundits are framing the welfare bill chaos as Downing Street’s failure to communicate the moral case for cuts - but there is no moral case. That’s the problem. These plans are staggering assaults on support that won’t help disabled people into work. No one can sell that.

DWP says 150,000 more people pushed into poverty by benefit cuts - not 250,000 as forecast said before U-turn The Department for Work and Pensions has just published an analysis saying that, allowing for the concesssions announced last week, the welfare cuts will still push an extra 150,000 people into relative poverty.

I’m sorry, the DWP announcing “don’t worry, the benefits u-turn means only 150,000 people will be pushed into poverty now!” is just insane. Cruel, incompetent ghouls who shouldn’t be allowed to run a bath let alone a system sick people rely on to live.

‼️ MPs vote tomorrow on the #WelfareReformBill.

They must vote to #Scrap
TheCuts.

Email your MP today and tell them to vote against this cruel bill.

takingthepip.co.uk/write-to-you...

#TakingThePip #DisabilityBenefits

Thank you Zak Ford-Williams @zfw.bsky.social Listen to the whole of this brilliant podcast episode here : rampsonthemoon.co.uk/podcast-epis...

Disability benefit cuts impossible to support, 42 Labour MPs tell Starmer Exclusive: Backbenchers sign letter calling for change in direction on plans expected to be put to vote next month

More than 40 Labour MPs have warned Keir Starmer that planned disability cuts are “impossible to support”, @jessicaelgot.bsky.social @peterwalker99.bsky.social exclusively reports.
It sets up Starmer for the biggest rebellion of his premiership next month. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“We all need this book” - Jameela Jamil Three images of the book in all three formats are below the quote.

Four years on an iPhone in bed later, Who Wants Normal? is finally out in the world today.

Part memoir, part guide, it features 50+ of Britain’s best known disabled women. I hope it makes you laugh, possibly cry, and feel seen.

Order all formats here: linktr.ee/WhoWantsNormal

Are 'CSS Carousels' accessible? – The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive design engineer

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Are CSS Carousels accessible sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-car...

In this post, I share some important insights from examining the accessibility of CSS-only carousels that use new features introduced in the #CSS Overflow Module Level 5 spec.

#a11y

So far the best one I’ve seen, which was on a client’s site, was 11 carouses on one page that also has a duplicate main navigation between the 11th and the footer.
And if it was the first page you landed on you got a modal that linked to a modal that linked to a modal.

There’s a few…

- Voiceover isn’t announcing the state changes.
- Nothing moves focus into the content when expanded auto closes when focus leaves the region.
- Everything seems to flatten header semantics inside the <summary> element.

I can kinda understand 3, but the rest are baffling.

Link https://www.techspot.com/news/107684-you-wouldnt-steal-car-anti-piracy-ads-may.html Screenshot from Techspot article: "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy ads may have used a stolen font The anti-piracy campaign that failed its own background check By Rob Thubron

Oh my god

@slimemildred.bsky.social

Accessibility culture needs to be nurtured and maintained or it can wither and die.

What are the ordinary haircuts?

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