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How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.
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.
#accessibility#design#ux#advocacy#business impact#strategies
·stephaniewalter.design·
How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.
Automated accessibility test tools find even less than expected
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
#accessibility#testing#automation
·linkedin.com·
Automated accessibility test tools find even less than expected
Tooltips are presentational - TPGi
Tooltips are presentational - TPGi
By @siblingpastry@mastodon.world.
The ARIA tooltip role is functionally useless and semantically meaningless. The only legitimate use-case for tooltips is to show information that’s already accessibly defined. So tooltips only benefit sighted users, and are therefore presentational.
#aria#roles#accessibility
·tpgi.com·
Tooltips are presentational - TPGi
The Problem With PDF
The Problem With PDF
The one accessibility area I don’t like and avoid working on is PDF files. I frankly find the process people have to go through to make a PDF accessible is far too complex and far too antiquated. …
I get very frustrated with people that try and tell me I am wrong that PDFs are not the problem because frankly it’s always someone that makes a living teaching PDF remediation and or creating PDFs for others that are the ones saying this. They do not live with the inaccessible documents I have in my everyday life. It’s hard to always have to fight to read something and I am Telling you we need to solve this problem now.
#accessibility#PDF
·accessaces.com·
The Problem With PDF
Principles Of Web Accessibility
Principles Of Web Accessibility

A set of high-level guiding principles for approaching design and remediation for an accessible web.

By @heydon@front-end.social

Perfection is the enemy By default or death Parity is paramount Design for implementation Structure first Use your words Tools are not identities Less is less Fishing, not fish No points for performance Help evil to fail
#accessibility#a11y#design principles
·github.com·
Principles Of Web Accessibility
FTC Catches up to #accessiBe
FTC Catches up to #accessiBe
By @aardrian@toot.cafe
You might think this feels like vindication, but it does not.
Sure, it’s nice to be validated by the FTC after 5 years of shouting to anyone who will listen that accessiBe is a net harm for the disability community. But the settlement is a pittance.
Reports put accessiBe’s 2024 revenue at $51.3 million. The settlement has a fine of $1 million. Subtracted from its 2024 revenue, that leaves accessiBe with $50.3 million dollars for the year. Dollars earned by lying to customers, misrepresenting itself to the community, and arguably harming disabled users.
#accessibility#a11y#AI#overlays#FTC#accessiBe
·adrianroselli.com·
FTC Catches up to #accessiBe
FTC orders AI accessibility startup accessiBe to pay $1M for misleading advertising | TechCrunch
FTC orders AI accessibility startup accessiBe to pay $1M for misleading advertising | TechCrunch
Chef’s Kiss!
According to the FTC, accessiBe not only fell short of its promises to clients, but engaged in misleading marketing. accessiBe “deceptively formatted third-party articles and reviews” to appear as if they were independent opinions by impartial authors, said the agency in a press release, and failed to reveal “material connections” to supposedly objective reviewers.
#accessibility#AI#misleading advertising#ftc#accessibe
·techcrunch.com·
FTC orders AI accessibility startup accessiBe to pay $1M for misleading advertising | TechCrunch
How to Dehumanize Accessibility with AI | Ashlee M Boyer
How to Dehumanize Accessibility with AI | Ashlee M Boyer
@ashleemboyer@mstdn.social on why it’s dehumanizing and unnecessary to ask “AI” about the disabled experience, when disabled people exist.
AI is not impacted by inaccessibility. It is not a disabled person. It cannot explain web accessibility from the perspective of a disabled person.
Removing the human factor of inaccessibility stories does not build empathy. It dehumanizes the stories. It dehumanizes US.
Additionally, inaccessibility is not a result of a lack of empathy. It’s a result of ableism. To still position lack of empathy as the main problem in almost 2025, is a failure to consider vital historical context.
Creating AI caricatures of disabled people does not help us dismantle systemic ableism.
I also take issue with the alleged need for comments to be “appealing” or “humorous.” Nothing appealing nor humorous about inaccessibility. Inaccessibility is PAINFUL in every single sense of the word. When disabled people encounter inaccessibility, we are harmed every. single. time.
#accessibility#a11y#AI#disability
·ashleemboyer.com·
How to Dehumanize Accessibility with AI | Ashlee M Boyer
Beautiful focus outlines · Medienbäcker Thomas Günther
Beautiful focus outlines · Medienbäcker Thomas Günther
Some good focus considerations by @medienbaecker@mastodon.social
Unfortunately, focus outlines are often overlooked in web design. Clients and designers might not even notice them, leaving developers to handle design and implementation. Some might even suggest removing focus outlines for a cleaner aesthetic 😱
#css#accessibility#focus#focus-visible
·medienbaecker.com·
Beautiful focus outlines · Medienbäcker Thomas Günther
HTMHAIL - HTMHell
HTMHAIL - HTMHell

@tink@frontend.social about AI and the most basic of HTML questions.

(Spoiler in the reply.)

Suddenly I knew exactly how Arthur Dent felt, dealing with the Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Just like the cup of tea it dispensed to Arthur, the code provided by ChatGPT was, to paraphrase, almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the HTML for an accessible button.
#html#webstandards#accessibility#ai
·htmhell.dev·
HTMHAIL - HTMHell
Foundations: types of disability
Foundations: types of disability
By @TetraLogical@a11y.social
We are all, in essence, temporarily abled. As an ageing society, the reality is that our abilities are not fixed - they change over time. Disability is a complex and deeply personal experience that can impact anyone, whether through permanent, temporary, or situational conditions, or even a mix of these.
When something is inaccessible, it can be inaccessible to people with a permanent disability, such as blindness, but also those with temporary disabilities, like a migraine, or situational challenges, such as struggling to read a screen due to sun glare.
#disability#accessibility#types of disability#assistive technology
·tetralogical.com·
Foundations: types of disability
Mind The (Remediation) Gap - TPGi
Mind The (Remediation) Gap - TPGi
When auditors provide advice on accessibility issues, it's primarily about the HTML used. But do frontend developers actually know HTML these days?
I wish I were overstating the degree to which this has become an issue. But when I regularly talk to “full-stack developers” who don’t know how to write an unordered list or who don’t know that you can’t nest a button inside of a link, I’m convinced that the term “full-stack” has always been meaningless.
#accessibility#html#testing#javascript#frontend#development
·tpgi.com·
Mind The (Remediation) Gap - TPGi
Aria-activedescendant is not focus | Sarah Higley
Aria-activedescendant is not focus | Sarah Higley
@codingchaos@vis.social with everything there is to know about aria-activedescendant, and more!
This is an attribute that is entirely concerned with screen reader accessibility. Specifically, it allows certain scoped exceptions to the screen reader behavior of only enabling interaction with a single element at a time.
The thing about ARIA is that it does not affect browser behavior or functionality -- only semantics and accessibility API mappings. All keyboard events will still fire on the true focused element, and there are no global DOM methods to query the currently relevant active descendant in the manner of document.activeElement. The only context in which the active descendant behaves like a second focus is when it comes to a screen reader's virtual cursor.
Even for screen readers, aria-activedescendant is not entirely the same as a second focus.
#aria-activedescendant#combobox#focus#accessibility
·sarahmhigley.com·
Aria-activedescendant is not focus | Sarah Higley
WCAG2ICT Note Published
WCAG2ICT Note Published
Guidance on Applying WCAG 2 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT) is a completed W3C Group Note. WCAG2ICT describes how Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) principles, guidelines, and success criteria can be applied to non-web information and communications technologies (ICT), specifically to non-web documents and software. The document includes guidance for WCAG 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 success criteria and glossary terms. WCAG2ICT has been a key resource for including WCAG in ICT accessibility regulation, legislation, and standards around the world. This update facilitates further adoption of WCAG 2.1 and WCAG 2.2 in non-web contexts. For an introduction, see: WCAG2ICT Overview.
WCAG2ICT describes how Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) principles, guidelines, and success criteria can be applied to non-web information and communications technologies (ICT), specifically to non-web documents and software.
#wcag#wcag2ict#accessibility#a11y
·w3.org·
WCAG2ICT Note Published