I honestly don't know much about how accessability works (or doesn't) on Linux. I know about brltty, orca, and accesskit, but that is about it. I'd like to make postmarketOS more accessable though.

Me in 2019:
“A Model for WordPress Accessibility”
https://adrianroselli.com/2019/05/a-model-for-wordpress-accessibility.html

Mullenweg in 2025:
A plug-in, off-loaded to the community to build and maintain!
https://www.therepository.email/canonical-plugin-proposal-for-accessibility-prompts-concerns-from-contributors-and-experts

As part of our volunteer-driven accessibility initiative in GNOME Calendar, and for the first time in the 10+ years of Calendar's existence, we finally completed and merged the first step needed to have a working calendar app for people who rely on keyboard navigation. This merge request in particular makes the event widgets focusable with navigation keys (arrow left/up/right/down) and activatable with space/enter. This will be available in GNOME 49.

Most of GNOME Calendar's layout and widgets consist of custom widgets and complex calculations, both independently and according to other factors (window size, height and width of each cell, number of events, positioning, etc.), so these widgets need to be minimal to have as little overhead as possible. This means that these widgets also need to have the necessary accessibility features reimplemented or even rethought, including and starting with the event widgets.

We also hope to get other parts of GNOME Calendar accessible before GNOME 49, but I can't promise anything at the moment. We did start working with making the month view accessible: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/564

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The 2025 edition of Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) will take place on the 25 September 2025.

Got an idea for a talk? Our call for presentations is still open until the end of the month (31 May 2025).

https://inclusivedesign24.org/2025/

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 15th, instead of holding a webinar, we're asking people to pledge time to contribute to #accessibility in #WordPress. You can contribute to core, fix accessibility issues in your own products/website, create accessibility documentation, or anything that will make the web more accessible.

Join us! https://equalizedigital.com/gaad2025/ #a11y #opensource

Ugh, so annoying when closed captions are positioned on top of open captions...

Which means I'll have to turn off my closed captions to be able to properly read one of them, or change my semi-transparent background to a solid one, and then switch it back again after that video for ones that don't have open captions...

gibt es eigentlich gute a11y workshops/kurse? oder zertifizierung die was bringt für FE devs?

Hey #a11y friends — looking for a resource guide on writing an a11y statement, especially in “what makes an effective a11y statement”. Maybe common mistakes to look out for and such :)

I see something that looks like tabs.
I think “surely these are implemented as ARIA tablist but reload the whole UI”.
I am right.

Stop using role="tablist" if your page reloads.

FFS.

USABILITY TIP:
Do not show error messages that say “Something went wrong”. They frustrate users because they can’t take action about them. Instead, say: “You broke our app. It’s your fault. Write a 150 words apology in this box to continue:”
#ui #ux #usability #a11y

Saw this come up today & I have...thoughts.
Not sure how @altbot picks which images to review. Nice that it reports energy usage required to analyze the image, but the AI analysis here provides nothing at all of value. Seems like it would be mostly noise to screen-reader users (would love feedback from actual screen reader users. #a11y)
OTOH alt text provided by @paninid was literal text of image, in paragraphs by speaker.
https://fuzzies.wtf/@altbot/114420922097349011
For ref, original image: https://mastodon.world/@paninid/114420921655705924

#a11y friends: is WCAG-EM commonly used in your country? If not, is there another methodology that is used instead?

Today's Web Design Update: https://groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/g/webdev/c/psPhA7ypY38

Featuring @aardrian, @yatil, @scottohara, @homer, @deconspray, @sarajw, @heydon, @Edent, @stephaniewalter, @pxlnv, @Amy_Hupe, @boagworld,
and more.

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Thin Fonts Are a Usability Nightmare—And Finally, Designers Are Waking Up

https://webdesignerdepot.com/thin-fonts-are-a-usability-nightmare-and-finally-designers-are-waking-up/

I’m sharing one of my favorite podcasts, which has an episode all about #Disability etiquette 101. I feel so seen and heard. Some chair users can stand for short periods of time and people should not get bent out of shape! I can see a little bit, depending on lighting conditions, color contrast, and whether I am paying attention. #accessibility #a11y #blindmasto

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/feminist-survival-project/id1485281031?i=1000704458144

Here's a couple Fedora packages I found useful for accessibility in Gnome 48: sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-status-icons gnome-shell-extension-drive-menu #A11Y #Accessibility #Fedora42 #gnome48

Really lovely to see: after a two-year effort, Godot has integration with AccessKit, making the engine capable of working with screen readers. More work to be done, but definitely a win for accessibility

https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-5-dev-3/

I also updated my 23,297 word post (which I expect nobody to read and lives on mostly as a testament to accessiBe’s hubris and illegal actions) “#accessiBe Will Get You Sued” (anchor link):
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/06/accessibe-will-get-you-sued.html#FTCApprovesAccessiBeFine