Adrian Roselli

A 10 story atrium with a stage backed up to a green wall of elevators, surrounded with trusses and framing holding around 60 televisions of assorted sizes and orientations, loosely collected around a main presentation screen.

On the main screen is a puppet of a white man in a shirt and tie being very excited.

Kicking off #a11yTOConf / #a11yTO day one with an impressive television display in the CBC atrium.

This year’s host is the puppet!

JD Vance dismisses bipartisan outrage over racist and offensive Young Republican group chat The public release of a Young Republican group chat that included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers has prompted bipartisan calls for those involved to be remov...

These kids, oh, & Senator, don’t have a talk show to cancel or a university to defund, so it’s not like the Republican party would know how to penalize them even if it disagreed.

“JD Vance dismisses bipartisan outrage over racist and offensive Young Republican group chat”
apnews.com/article/vanc...

Disabled Idaho Students Lack Access to Playgrounds and Lunchrooms. Historic $2 Billion Funding Will Do Little To Help. Despite federal law, disabled students can’t access playgrounds, lunchrooms, classes and bathrooms. With added funding, school districts are still unable to make necessary fixes.

NEW: Despite federal law, disabled students in Idaho sometimes can’t access playgrounds, lunchrooms, classes and bathrooms.

With added funding, school districts are still unable to make necessary fixes.

How many times do members of your political youth organization have to say they love Hitler, without anyone stopping them and telling them it’s wrong, before we can plausibly refer to it as Hitler Youth?
Because I think we’re there.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

“‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat”
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

This is the organized, sanctioned youth wing of today’s Republican party. Taking cues from current leadership and setting the agenda for future leadership. These are The Baddies.

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

Gloomstalker successfully entangles the dragon when it landed to blast the cleric. Party swarms it and kills it.

Cleric: “So my plan to draw the dragon to the ground worked! Well done, team!”

Party collectively sighs at cleric.

Cleric, failing to negotiate with a junior red dragon, casts Invisibility on himself and runs into the tall grass.

Dragon watches invisible cleric’s trail in the grass.

Dragon, muttering: “Why are humans so stupid.”

Dragon flies to end of trail in grass, breathes fire over it.

Cleric: “AAAAAGH!”

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...

Fika is mostly about an afternoon break with coffee and pastry, often social. I typically do it with cappuccino and pastries or cookies in cooler weather, fizzy espresso soda with pretzels in the summer. Alone, since I do not work in an office.

The same scene, except the mug is empty other than some foamy film, the bowl has only crumbs, and the tray has a few visible coffee rings.

Fuck yeah.

A foamy cappuccino in a glass mug next to a tiny bowl with equally tiny biscotti, on my fika tray, on a small wooden table, on a stone patio in a grassy yard, with a low sun making stark long shadows.

It took two days, but finally had my first fika at the new place. All my gear was spread across boxes and bins over five rooms and three floors, but I did it! Tiny victories.
#espresso #coffee

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UC Access Now (@ucaccessnow@sfba.social) Attached: 1 image American Assoc of People with Disabilities (AAPD) has an urgent action call: https://aapd.quorum.us/campaign/144194/ #USpol #Fascism #Disability #Accessibility

This seems concerning…
sfba.social/@ucaccessnow...
#accessibility

Custom Carets and Users: When The Caret Is No Longer a Stick (Yes, That’s a Poor Attempt at a Pun) Animated example First, let’s define caret. For the scope of this post, I am not talking about the ^ symbol, which evolved from the circumflex. I’m also not talking about the proofreader mark, sometimes rendered as ‸, ⁁, or ⎀. I am talking about the navigation symbol (or insertion caret),…

Custom Carets and Users: When the Caret Is No Longer a Stick (Yes, That’s a Poor Attempt at a Pun), by @aardrian@toot.cafe:

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/09/custom-carets-and-users-when-the-caret-is-no-longer-a-stick-yes-thats-a-poor-attempt-at-a-pun.html

#forms #accessibility #wcag

TIL: The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) runs AT surveys (kind of like WebAIM’s).
dragonscave.space/@Piciok/1153...

#accessibility #a11y

mastodon.social/@laura_carls...

Barbarian: “I look through the notes on the table.”

DM: “Make an Investigation check.”

Cleric: “I give you Guidance.”

Barbarian: “I roll 23.”

Cleric: “Wow. What's your Investigation bonus?”

Barbarian: “Oh. Right, I forgot to add my bonus. 22.”

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

I feel this post deep in my bones, Alice gets right to the heart of why working on a11y in standards can feel like killing your soul by degrees.

And also why it’s hard to stop.
alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

It’s nice to have hobbies.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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I want a nap.

Holy shit, that was a link.

Weird how the lack of link underlines made me miss that. Weirder still that someone came up with that as an issue name (someone who is working on this).

Glad you filed that.

What’s funny is how that was broadly a niche concern. Right up until the CSSWG decided to pull this carousels trick.

Agreed. Here I suspect Webflow might be trying to justify div-soup (though I have no idea if it is of late, just from prior experience).

Yeah, whomever is running it now is clearly more concerned about perception than reality.

So I spend a few days on the road, and all the people who claim to know web accessibility come out of the woodwork with bullshit and lies.

Cool.

79.4% of the one million home pages used ARIA (excluding ARIA landmark roles), up notably from 74.6% in 2024. Home pages with ARIA present had over twice as many errors (57 on average) than pages without ARIA (27 on average). While ARIA is intended to improve accessibility, one would expect to encounter an additional 30 potential barriers on home pages with ARIA present.

A clue this was not reviewed by anyone with skill, the WebAIM article it references in paragraph 3 *also* explains that ARIA is a strong signal for *worse* accessibility.

Author is “Webflow Team,” another clue.

webaim.org/projects/mil...

#ARIA #accessibility #a11y

Many assistive tools, such as screen readers and voice control, better engage with websites when the HTML includes ARIA rules — telling a screen reader, for example, where a button is or what it does so visitors with visual disabilities can still use it.

Why use ARIA? Using ARIA in your code gives a wider audience access to your content. It can also ensure your projects comply with web accessibility rules like the WCAG, another WAI best practice.

Holy shit, #Webflow.

I understand you may not have anyone on staff to review this LLM-generated ARIA explainer, but you’ve mostly just convinced me your product is a lawsuit-in-waiting.

I’m sorry most of your customers won’t recognize that.

webflow.com/blog/how-to-...

#accessibility #a11y #ARIA

I stopped reading. It could be, but if they cannot form a plain language sentence that isn’t self-contradictory, then I have other shit to do than give them another chance.