Apple Marks Global Accessibility Awareness Day with Features Coming to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Later This Year
Thursday is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and as in years past, Apple has previewed several new accessibility features coming later this year. This year, Apple is focusing on a wide range of accessibility features covering cognitive, vision, hearing, mobility, and speech, which were designed with feedback from disability communities. The company hasn’t said when these
A subset of ARIA roles are defined as having presentational children. These are mostly a subset of widget roles Presentational Children The DOM descendants are presentational. User agents SHOULD NOT expose descendants of this element through the...
A non-exhaustive and in-progress list of people and resources in Accessibility and Data Visualization - dataviza11y/resources: A non-exhaustive and in-progress list of people and resources in Acces...
Microsoft Edge now allows you to simulate dark, light, high contrast mode, blurred vision and colour deficiencies right from the Device Emulation toolbar | Christian Heilmann
Gareth Ford Williams about new “dyslexic-friendly font” that looks terribly unreadable
No, no, no, no and no! What is it with designers making wild claims about fixing the reading experience for dyslexics like me, without offering up the research… | 21 comments on LinkedIn
Using a screen reader on mobile is challenging because users must access information sequentially and they cannot easily scan page content. Screen-reader users do not consider accessibility menus helpful.
No, APG’s Support Charts Are Not ‘Can I Use’ for ARIA
TL;DR: Despite claims, APG’s support charts are not ARIA support charts and they are not analogous to Can I Use. While brand new and likely to grow, their scope is still strictly APG patterns. Why I Say This I have opinions on the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG). I am…
Solving the CSS layout and source order disconnect - Chrome Developers
Your feedback is wanted on a proposed solution for the problem of layout methods arranging items in an order that is disconnected from the source of the document.
I have written a bunch about responsive tables. Maybe too much. I keep trying to give developers the information they need to make informed decisions — ARIA attributes, screen reader & browser pairing results, bugs, and so on. I have spread things out over years of posts. I have filed…
The Potentially Dangerous Non-Accessibility Of Cookie Notices — @marcus@mastodon.social
In this piece, a Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) auditor shares some cookie banner error patterns that can massively hurt a page’s overall conformance. Let’s explore what to look out for with this omnipresent piece of the web interface.
‘Accessibility at the Edge’ W3C CG Is an Overlay Smoke Screen
Another post where I lay it all out in the title. What follows is why I am making this assertion (with a handy table of contents). Timeline 26 May 2022 at 10:58am ET 26 May 2022 at 7:56pm ET 27 May 2022 at 7:38pm ET 28 May 2022 at 5:04pm…