Ricky Onsman

Weekly Reading List August 4 2025 - TPGi A weekly roundup of links to digital accessibility industry news, posted every Monday. Compiled by Ricky Onsman.

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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!

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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.

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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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Whole series is superb.

That is true, too. But just a few grapes or sultanas can kill a dog.

Some fruits are fine: apples, various berries, melon, bananas, mango - but grapes in any form cause kidney failure and, in sufficient amounts, death.

Grapes in any form. Deadly.

I would guess that also extends to having conversations with the thought leader and turning those into articulate, well-formed writing.

One of the things I appreciate about Bluesky is that it has brought back together (some of) the accessibility folks who helped make Twitter such a great space for accessibility learners circa 2020 to 2022. Seeing some of these folks show up here has been great. Like getting the gang back together.

I'm in my 60s. Nothing to add.

😀

The Environment Minister can put science ahead of the salmon industry's profits and protect the endangered Maugean skate before it becomes extinct.

Help save the skate! Add your name > theaus.in/save_the_skate #auspol

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Fair enough. There are, inevitably, t-shirts etc.

Grange Hill sausage

The "kids" version at least has gone beyond Back to the Future to become a cultural reference in itself, used in lots of contexts. No problemo.

The Grange Hill sausage!

Seems like a bargain.

So Australia. Channel 7 has to switch from the cricket to the news. Two South Australian batters in Adelaide Test, 50,000 people, one batter is on 99. Channel 7: "The news can wait". Head scores his century. Classic. #AUSvIND #cricket #AustraliaAllOver

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Voice Navigation Feedback Thank you for agreeing to fill out this survey. We will use the responses to learn the best way to implement the label in name WCAG success criterion for form controls. We have created a test site an...

If you use your voice to navigate websites, the #W3C Accessibility Conformance Testing Rules Community Group and Task Force want your help to test 27 controls:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It'll help them understand which patterns work (and which don't) for #WCAG 2.5.3 Label in Name