How Shadow DOM and accessibility are in conflict
By @sundress@eigenmagic.net
Accessibility
I'm a Spotless Giraffe.
By @ben@a11y.info
The results were, as you've probably guessed, disappointing. DALL-E surfaced standard-issue arms and hands. Midjourney showed veiny, muscular arms with hands that seemed painfully clasped together, but still, the anatomy was standard-issue. Thumbs, too, were inescapable. I tried again several times, rewording the prompts and making them more specific, all to no avail. If I was gonna make my arms happen, it certainly wasn't going to come easily.
It's easy to point to a technical reason for this experience. Bodies like mine are incredibly uncommon, and the probability that anyone who looks like me found their way into the AIs' training data is very unlikely, let alone in a well-described, well-classified way. I am the spotless giraffe.
Yes, Deaf People Can Listen to Music | Ashlee M Boyer
Music is an art that can be experienced by anyone.
Role-playing game
By @marcus@mastodon.social
How to make charts and graphs more accessible - Pope Tech Blog
via @stephaniewalter@front-end.social
Dark Mode: How Users Think About It and Issues to Avoid
via: @stephaniewalter@front-end.social
Lawsuits over disabled Americans’ access to websites have surged
archived 4 Sep 2023 13:00:57 UTC
Equivalent experience can cut both ways
By @eric@social.ericwbailey.website
Web Apps: Why Offering A Low Contrast Mode Makes You More Accessible, Not Less
The current high contrast standard actively locks out users from accessing your web apps
Sommer Panage - Building accessibility into your company, team, and culture - YouTube
By @sommer@macaw.social
A11y: Semantics, Contrast and... Anxiety?
By @sarajw@front-end.social
A Designer’s Guide to Documenting Accessibility & User Interactions by Stéphanie Walter
Why, what and how designers should document accessibility requirements and user interactions to make product better and more inclusive
quick and very dirty target size checker – HTML Accessibility
Multiple objections on WCAG 2.2
The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group received several objections as part of the final step in publication of WCAG 2.2. We are working to resolve these as…
Where to Put Focus When Deleting a Thing
TL;DR: When deleting something you should generally move focus to the prior equivalent control or its grouping container. Why This Is a Thing Plenty of user interfaces let users delete things that are on the screen. It may be an extra address, a calendar item, a message (the same as…
Considerations for TV user interface accessibility - TetraLogical
Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion. We can help you with knowledge, experience, strategy, assessments, and development.
A guide to designing accessible, WCAG-conformant focus indicators – Sara Soueidan, inclusive design engineer
Update to @SaraSoueidan@front-end.social’s excellent articles. Now with more current WCAG 2.2!
Zine Accessibility And Low Vision | Veronica With Four Eyes
Learn more about zine accessibility and how to create accessible zines for screen readers, assistive technology, and blind/low vision audiences
AG Working Group - What’s Next | LinkedIn
This post focuses on the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group’s (AG) next steps. If you are curious about how the group works or what you can expect over the next year, this post is for you.
Do No Harm Guide Centering Accessibility in Data Visualization.pdf
Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization | by Amy Cesal | Nightingale | Medium
How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try
An intro to designing accessible data visualizations by Sarah L. Fossheim
10 dos and don'ts for designing accessible data visualizations, including real-life examples and resources
Episode 63: How to Integrate Accessibility into Your Data Viz Workflow — Featuring Frank Elavsky — Data Viz Today
Welcome to episode 63 of Data Viz Today. What can we do to make our data visualizations more accessible to more people, especially those with disabilities? In this episode, Frank Elavsky shares how we can integrate accessibility into our current data visualization workflow. It’s a skill just like
The Accessibility of Data Visualizations on the Web for Screen Reader Users: Practices and Experiences During COVID-19 | ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
Data visualization has become an increasingly important means of effective data communication and has played a vital role in broadcasting the progression of COVID-19. Accessible data representations, however, have lagged behind, leaving areas of ...
Chartability
The problem with disabling paste and what to do instead
Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK
In iOS 17, Siri can make the web speak
On a Safari page where Reader is available (right), tell Siri to “read this.” Within Accessibility settings (left, center), you can enable Speak Screen or Speak Selection, choose from a expanded nu…
How To Adapt Puzzle Games For Low Vision | Veroniiiica
Adapt puzzle games for low vision and enjoy word searches, sudoku, crosswords, and other puzzle games with assistive technology
Best practice for TV user interface accessibility - TetraLogical
Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion. We can help you with knowledge, experience, strategy, assessments, and development.
Designing Accessible Text Over Images: Best Practices, Techniques, And Resources (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
In Part 2 of the series, Hannah Milan reviews in detail various accessible text over images techniques for designing your web and mobile app content, including framing the image, soft-colored gradients technique, text styles and text position, solid color shapes, and use of colored backgrounds. And finally, the emphasis will once again be placed on the accessibility aspect, which needs to be “baked in” right from the start rather than being an afterthought in your design process.