You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone
By @aardrian@toot.cafe.
Can AI write accessibility specs?
Great article by @gerireid@social.design.systems. The answer to the question in the title is “no”, but the process to getting there is interesting.
Toasts | Primer
GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.
A powerful rebuttal of the “Toast” paradigm.
Common misconceptions about screen readers
By TetraLogical’s Ela Gorla.
Stop inviting overlay employees & bad actors into Accessibility spaces
By Chris Yoong.
100% agree!
WCAG’s Longevity · Eric Eggert
I, @yatil@yatil.social, wrote about WCAG’s longevity and audio descriptions.
Custom Carets and Users: When The Caret Is No Longer a Stick (Yes, That’s a Poor Attempt at a Pun)
@aardrian@toot.cafe shining light on a new CSS property with accessibility implications
I’d feel better if the CSSWG did a better job of outlining risks and best practices, at least beyond stale WCAG links and suggestions that user style sheets are the best approach to get around forcing animations on users. Granted, the CSSWG had shown a certain amount of ignoring the Priority of Constituencies of late, so I’m also not terribly surprised.
forced-color-adjust: none is an unavoidable foot gun | Sarah Higley
A very long treatise on why text backplates were a bad idea. Most of the time.
About “best practices”
By @yatil@yatil.social
The first thing I noticed when reading his piece is that how he experienced the term is different from how I have. Which means we’re off to a good start. 😃
"Best practice" is just your opinion
@craigabbott@a11y.info about the term “best practice”
Yellow, Purple and the Myth of “Accessibility Limits Color Palettes”
Terrific article by the wonderful @stephaniewalter@front-end.social who shows how accessibility is about how you combine colors rather than just what colors you use.
So, let’s address the myth head-on. Accessibility does not limit your color palette choices. What feels limiting is often a lack of knowledge about WCAG color contrast, how to build accessible color palettes in tools like Figma. And sometimes, a lack of creativity.
Conformance vs compliance, accessibility standards edition
By @hdv@front-end.social
When something conforms to a standard, it “meets” or “satisfies” specific requirements in a standard.
Organisations can comply with regulation, for instance the laws and regulations that EU Member States adopted following Directive (EU) 2019/882, the European Accessibility Act.
Can components conform to WCAG?
By @hdv@front-end.social
We can build UI components with accessibility in mind. We can also document accessibility specifics alongside them. Both are helpful and recommended. What about claiming conformance? In this post, I'll talk about how WCAG doesn't allow for that, and why I believe that's a good thing.
Avoiding the word “help”
By me, @yatil@yatil.social
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
By @inclusivedesign24@indieweb.social
5 Hidden Costs in Your WCAG Audits
Some WCAG audit providers inflate findings with issues that are inaccurate, mislabeled, irrelevant, or impractical. They often miss the wider picture, leading to recommendations that do not reflect real accessibility needs These mistakes waste time and budget, while failing to deliver meaningful progress or inclusive outcomes. Worse still, you may still leave the door open […]
Check / Uncheck all in a Table
By @aardrian@toot.cafe
Fast, Simple, High Impact: DIY Accessibility Testing for Any Team
By @jolly@mstdn.io
Was my IAAP Certification worth it?
By @NicMakesStuff@indieweb.social
What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA
@eric@social.ericwbailey.website writes something @yatil@yatil.social shares it. That’s the rule.
There are no console errors for malformed ARIA. There’s also no alert dialog, beeping sound, or flashing light for your operating system, browser, or assistive technology. This fact is yet another reason why it is so important to test with actual assistive technology.
Browsers should really do this!
Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog
By @aardrian@toot.cafe
Can accessibility be whimsical?
By @sarajw@front-end.social
How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.
By @stephaniewalter@front-end.social
This talk, article, is for anyone who’s ever said “we need to make this accessible,” and got ignored, brushed off, or told, “We’ll do that later.” If you’re not in a leadership role, if you’re not officially “the accessibility person,” but you still want to drive change, this is for you.
Are 'CSS Carousels' accessible?
By @SaraSoueidan@front-end.social
So, there you have it. CSS Carousels are highly experimental, not currently accessible, and therefore, not ready for production.
Everything's More Complicated in Groups: Required Groups - TPGi
By @alicia@writing.exchange
The Impact of Web Accessibility Overlays
Master's Thesis by @dnikub@front-end.social
The true path to garbage code: Figma Sites
By @joedolson@toot.io
Automated accessibility test tools find even less than expected
I find myself increasingly asking what value do I get out of existing commercial accessibility testing tools? What do they catch? What do they not catch? I ask because I want to improve on the results, and I also want to know what exactly I need to manually inspect a web page for. So let's start wit
The WebAIM Million 2025: Solving the most common issues | Polypane
By @Kilian@mastodon.social
A TOOL’S ERRAND – HTML Accessibility
By @SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social
(Warning: “AI” generated image. #notMyDaleks :-p)
NOBODY is saying that automated tools are not useful, only that they cannot provide comprehensive coverage of WCAG 2.2 criteria.