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Principal Technical Writer at @tpgi.bsky.social. Web articles at https://onsman.com/category/developing-the-web/. Enthusiastic cook. Recipes at https://onsman.com/category/kitchen-counter/. #a11y #Fryslân #Australia

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Weekly Reading List October 6 2025 - TPGi — a Vispero company Digital accessibility newsA weekly roundup of links to digital accessibility industry news, posted every Monday. Compiled by Ricky Onsman.

TPGi Weekly Reading List

www.tpgi.com/weekly-readi...

#accessibility #web #design #development #news

06.10.2025 12:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Weekly Reading List September 29 2025 - TPGi — a Vispero company A weekly roundup of links to digital accessibility industry news, posted every Monday. Compiled by Ricky Onsman.

TPGi Weekly Reading List

www.tpgi.com/weekly-readi...

#accessibility #web #design #development #news

29.09.2025 13:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Weekly Reading List September 22 2025 - TPGi A weekly roundup of links to digital accessibility industry news, posted every Monday. Compiled by Ricky Onsman.

TPGi Weekly Reading List

A weekly roundup of links to digital accessibility industry news, posted every Monday. Compiled by Ricky Onsman.

www.tpgi.com/weekly-readi...

#accessibility #a11y #web #designers #developers #news #articles

22.09.2025 13:59 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Weekly Reading List September 15 2025 - TPGi A weekly roundup of links to digital accessibility industry news, posted every Monday. Compiled by Ricky Onsman.

TPGi Weekly Reading List

www.tpgi.com/weekly-readi...

#accessibility #web #design #development #news

15.09.2025 13:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Weekly Reading List September 8 2025 - TPGi A weekly roundup of links to digital accessibility industry news, posted every Monday. Compiled by Ricky Onsman.

TPGi Weekly Reading List

www.tpgi.com/weekly-readi...

#accessibility #a11y #web #designer #developer #news

09.09.2025 03:35 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A screenshot in Chrome showing the waving flag America by Design website with Axe devtools open, 288 automated bugs are shown relating to color contrast.

A screenshot in Chrome showing the waving flag America by Design website with Axe devtools open, 288 automated bugs are shown relating to color contrast.

Normally when I share accessibility bugs I do it for two reasons:
1. Good faith that the company will fix the issue
2. The company won't fix the issue and the public should pay attention.

This time, I will look at America by Design for a new reason: rage.

Automated test: 288 accessibility bugs

26.08.2025 03:25 — 👍 232    🔁 69    💬 16    📌 16
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Weekly Reading List September 1 2025 - TPGi A weekly roundup of links to digital accessibility industry news, posted every Monday. Compiled by Ricky Onsman.

TPGi Weekly Reading List

www.tpgi.com/weekly-readi...

#accessibility #a11y #news #web #design #development

01.09.2025 12:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Weekly Reading List August 25 2025 - TPGi A weekly roundup of links to digital accessibility industry news, posted every Monday. Compiled by Ricky Onsman.

Weekly Reading List: www.tpgi.com/weekly-readi...

#accessibility #a11y #web #design #development #news

25.08.2025 12:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CBA staffer's ChatGPT error sends customer complaints to wrong small business A CBA employee has used public ChatGPT to give a wrong phone number, prompting misdirected calls and raising AI governance concerns.

Gawd - CBA staffer’s ChatGPT error sends customer complaints to wrong small business www.smartcompany.com.au/exclusive/cb...

22.08.2025 04:36 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
August 2025 TPGi Knowledge Center News (public)

The August edition of the TPGi Knowledge Center News is out: what the KC is up to, TPGi webinars & podcasts, industry events and must-read articles.

Read online: email.tpgi.com/august-2025-...

Subscribe: www.tpgi.com/knowledge-ce...

#accessibility #a11y #TPGi #KnowledgeCenter #newsletter

21.08.2025 22:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ditto

20.08.2025 07:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Only started watching the other day and, gosh, the smell 😀

19.08.2025 23:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Universal Design vs Inclusive Design - TPGi Universal Design or Inclusive Design - which is better for Digital Accessibility? That's the wrong question, according to Ricky Onsman.

Another "clarification" blog post from me, on the difference between Universal Design and Inclusive Design.

www.tpgi.com/universal-de....

It's my opinion, so happy to take any comments.

#accessibility #a11y #UniversalDesign #InclusiveDesign #DigitalAccessibility

19.08.2025 23:01 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Weekly Reading List August 18 2025 - TPGi A weekly roundup of links to digital accessibility industry news, posted every Monday. Compiled by Ricky Onsman.

Weekly Reading List: www.tpgi.com/weekly-readi...

#accessibility #a11y #web #design #development #news

18.08.2025 13:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Worried em-dashes make you sound like AI? Ricky says keep them—there’s no need for a punctuation panic.

14.08.2025 07:43 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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On Dashes, A.I., and Screen Readers - TPGi Em dash, en dash, hyphen, minus symbol - what do they have to do with A.I. and how do screen readers treat them?

Published a new blog post for TPGi: www.tpgi.com/on-dashes-a-...

#accessibility #a11y #punctuation #AI #screenreaders

14.08.2025 07:12 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Weekly Reading List August 11 2025 - TPGi A weekly roundup of links to digital accessibility industry news, posted every Monday. Compiled by Ricky Onsman.

Weekly Reading List: www.tpgi.com/weekly-readi...

#accessibility #a11y #web #design #development #news

11.08.2025 12:29 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001

A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

08.08.2025 19:08 — 👍 3194    🔁 822    💬 449    📌 764
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Weekly Reading List August 4 2025 - TPGi A weekly roundup of links to digital accessibility industry news, posted every Monday. Compiled by Ricky Onsman.

Weekly Reading List: www.tpgi.com/weekly-readi...

#accessibility #a11y #web #development

04.08.2025 12:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Speakers – A11y Camp

I'm excited to be joining a classy lineup of international and Australian speakers at A11y Camp 2025 in Melbourne 28-30 October. Come and join us!

a11ycamp.com.au/speakers-and...

#a11ycamp #accessibility #a11y

02.08.2025 02:09 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Weekly Reading List 28 July 2025 - TPGi A weekly roundup of links to digital accessibility industry news, posted every Monday. Compiled by Ricky Onsman.

Weekly Reading List 28 July 2025 www.tpgi.com/weekly-readi...

#accessibility #a11y #web #design #development

29.07.2025 07:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Knowledge Center Newsletter - TPGi The TPGi Knowledge Center Newsletter is published monthly and distributed by email.

Latest edition of the @tpgi.bsky.social Knowledge Center email newsletter has been sent out. Web version and subscribe details at www.tpgi.com/knowledge-ce.... #accessibility #a11y

19.07.2025 07:34 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Blockquotes in Screen Readers TL;DR: This post does not assert the correct way to code blockquotes, it will only demonstrate how screen readers announce some existing patterns. Test Details The first four examples are lifted from ...

Two years ago I took 7 `<blockquote>` variations (W3C & WHATWG HTML) and reported their output across 7 screen readers, for a measly 49 variations:
adrianroselli.com/2023/07/bloc...

I made one anti-recommendation (and fixed MDN’s). I also explained the pattern I use.

#accessibility #a11y #HTML

13.07.2025 21:47 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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OZeWAI - Ask the Professionals - 2 May 2025 Get tickets on Humanitix - OZeWAI - Ask the Professionals - 2 May 2025 hosted by OZeWAI. Online. Friday 2nd May 2025. Find event information.

@ozewai.bsky.social Presents: Ask the Professional – Accessibility & CMS

@wpaccessibility.day organizing leads—@amberhinds.bsky.social, Ricky Blacker, and @ronsman.bsky.social are on the panel to answer your questions.

It's happening in a few hours!! Details in the link.

01.05.2025 22:30 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Exploring AI's Role in Accessibility
Join us as we talk to Aaron Gustafson, Accessibility Innovation Strategist for Microsoft, where among other things, he helps run the "AI for Accessibility" grant program. We'll discuss some of the ways AI is making a meaningful difference for people with disabilities including: generating alternative text for images, voice preservation, voice recognition, text transformation and more. Exploring AI's Role in Accessibility

Exploring AI's Role in Accessibility...
We often talk about the bad side of AI (ethics, perpetuating biases, content theft), but AI has a huge potential to also help improve the lives of many people, from generative alternative text for images, voice preservation, voice recognition, and more.

01.05.2025 07:30 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Some recipes say to poach in chicken stock. Personally, I find that's a bit much so I poach my chicken in water with half a chicken stock cube crumbled into it. Just adds a little extra flavour to the result.

04.02.2025 05:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Poached in water, stock or 50/50 (diluted stock)?

04.02.2025 01:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sunday night satisfaction: I've completed writing a new TPGi Tutor training course, Introduction to Mobile Accessibility. It still has to pass the Knowledge Center credibility tests, but I'm pretty happy with it. It's my job, but TBH I think writing a novel would be easier.

05.01.2025 11:47 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Alright! My visa's approved and flights are booked to attend the CSUN conference in March. California, here I come! #accessibility #conference

02.01.2025 22:52 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Whole series is superb.

26.12.2024 07:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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