#a11y — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #a11y, aggregated by home.social.
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It’s weird how we treat alt text as an afterthought. I see empty attributes all the time. But remember, it’s not just for assistive tech. If a connection drops, that text is the only thing the user gets. It’s also your silent sales pitch for SEO when the image doesn’t render. Describe the context, not just the pixels. Make it useful. #accessibility #a11y #alt-text
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Heya folks, for those of you who have been paying attention to my Audio Tetris project, I have a big announcement: Version 1.1.1 is now out and ready for you to enjoy. What's new? Audio Tetris now is localized for UK/US English, European/Canadian French, Italian, German, European/Latin American Spanish, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Audio Tetris also now supports dark and light modes plus larger fonts for the menu system meant for low vision users. Grab your copy here: https://github.com/thegregariousdragon/audio-tetris/releases or if you have v1.0.4 or later, just use the built-in updater to update to the latest version. If you have any issues, please get in touch and feedback is definitely encouraged. One more thing... I'd like to welcome Jericho Dread as a collaborator to the project. I'm looking forward to the contributions that he brings to the project... #A11Y #Accessibility #Blind #AudioGame #Tetris #Update #NewFeatures
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Don't even get me started on the arrogant, piss-poor disregard for all kinds of accessibility issues.
- folks with vision/mobility issues
- folks with poor internet connectivity/limited bandwitdth
- folks unable to afford the latest/greatest computersI personally hold these "designers" in absolute unrestrained loathing & contempt.
Sounds somewhat weird to say, but web design as oppresion/descrimination is a very real thing.
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How long does it take to remediate accessibility audit findings? https://inclusionimpact.co/blog/how-lo…ng-does-it-take-to-remediate-accessibility-audit-findings/ #a11y
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Say it in Sign Language: Hell, No https://progressive.org/latest/say-it-…in-sign-language-hell-no-ervin-20260817/ #a11y
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ICYMI: How to Write Accessible Website Copy: Abby Wood
Explore how to create accessible web copy that balances creativity with inclusivity, focusing on clear, purpose-driven content for diverse audiences.
https://equalizedigital.com/how-to-write-accessible-website-copy-abby-wood/
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IMHO, it is rare to find an educational resource that delivers a serious and important topic in a format that is both light-hearted and tasteful. This video from Australia's DARU about the Human Rights Model of Disability meets that standard very well, in my opinion.
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Can a blog post be handwritten? https://lobste.rs/s/wxjtxq #a11y #web
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My Presentation @[email protected]
Empowering Independent Artists & Underrepresented Talent Through Tech
The Problem: The Broken Music Promotion Ecosystem
The Solution: Open, Equitable Infrastructure #a11y
Example projects - ibloud.github.io
Comparable project @[email protected]
#mntech
GitHub - Loptr-Lab/training: L... -
Weekly Reading List
Digital accessibility news from the last week.
https://reading-lists.kc.vispero.com/2026/08/24/weekly-reading-list-august-24-2026/
You can get a weekly link to this direct to your email inbox if you want, see top of this issue.
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Access Information News for Monday, August 24, 2026 - Volume 1081 | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://accessinformationnews.com/newsletter-08-24-2026/♿️ The Week's News in Access Information
A Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. Publication
#news #accessibility #a11y #disability #blind #deaf #DeafBlind #ainAccess Information News. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in access information.
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Access Information News for Monday, August 24, 2026 - Volume 1081 | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://accessinformationnews.com/newsletter-08-24-2026/♿️ The Week's News in Access Information
A Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. Publication
#news #accessibility #a11y #disability #blind #deaf #DeafBlind #ainAccess Information News. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in access information.
Email Subscribers: 47,058 🔢️
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Access Information News for Monday, August 24, 2026 - Volume 1081 | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://accessinformationnews.com/newsletter-08-24-2026/♿️ The Week's News in Access Information
A Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. Publication
#news #accessibility #a11y #disability #blind #deaf #DeafBlind #ainAccess Information News. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in access information.
Email Subscribers: 47,058 🔢️
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Building accessible apps is hard. Doing so without blocking your sprints is even harder.
We're AriaWorks 👋 We’re here because we know that most accessibility issues happen at edge cases your team was never prepared for.
We combine expert #a11y audits with technical training, turning complex guidelines into ready-to-use patterns for frontend, QA, and UX teams.
Learn more about our work: https://ariaworks.io
#Introduction #WebAccessibility #a11y #WebDev #Frontend #UX #InclusiveDesign
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The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility https://lobste.rs/s/9i36rv #a11y #design
https://www.osnews.com/story/144892/the-text-mode-lie-why-modern-tuis-are-a-nightmare-for-accessibility/ -
CW: How must foreign-language text be transcribed in an image description? CW: long (over 2,200 characters), alt-text meta, image description meta
I'm pretty sure that posting this will turn out completely futile. But I'll try anyway.
I'm especially asking the Mastodon alt-text enforcers: How must foreign-language text be transcribed, both by Web accessibility standards and by Mastodon's alt-text standards?
Let's assume I have some text in an image that's in a different language than the post and therefore in a different language than the image description. But I still have to transcribe it.
Now, according to image-describing rules, text must always be transcribed 100% verbatim. Word by word, character by character, exactly identical to the original in the image.
Here's the catch: Screen reader software may not be able to reliably switch the language in which they read out text in the middle of a description. They definitely cannot switch the language in the middle of an alt-text, I know that, just like they cannot navigate within alt-text.
This means that if I describe an image in English, but there's French text somewhere, a screen reader may read it out as gobbledygook instead of proper French. It may read the French text like it's English.
But even if the screen reader did read out the French text in proper French, someone who doesn't understand French won't understand the text.
This leaves me with two options:- Transcribe the foreign-language text verbatim, add a translation afterwards.
This would make the foreign-language text understandable, but it would also produce gobbledygook. - Give a translated transcript of the foreign-language text that's as close to the original as possible.
No gobbledygook, but I'd break the rule of always transcribing text verbatim.
The latter option would produce weird results if applied to a sign with essentially the same text in French, English and German where the French and German texts translate into something that slightly differs from both each other and the English text. I've happened upon this before.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Transcript #Transcripts #ScreenReader #ScreenReaders #ForeignLanguage #Inclusion #A11y #Accessibility - Transcribe the foreign-language text verbatim, add a translation afterwards.
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Was just thinking. We've got a good choice of TTS voices on macOS and iOS now, some available and some in TestFlight betas.
Would love to see the True Voice voices there too. I have them for NVDA on Windows.
Can someone make that happen?
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On 4 June the Tribunal judiciaire de Caen ordered Carrefour to fix carrefour.fr within six months. Their defence was that they already met 71% of RGAA criteria. The judge said a site cannot be only somewhat accessible.
I build a tool that shows you a conformance percentage. That ruling made me think hard about what a score is for, and what it can never be.
Also: WebAIM found the web got measurably worse this year.
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Behold! @ChanceyFleet and I are introducing BopQuest, the new word search feature for WordBopper!
Every month will bring a new themed set of words that you must find during any game mode. Each one found adds to your overall WordBopper ranking, and if you find them all by the end of the month, you'll get a bonus of as many rank points as there are words in the list!
So Bop to it, your quest awaits! #Blind #A11y https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wordbopper/id6766375951
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ElevenReader can now read Kindle content.
https://elevenreader.io/kindle-read-aloud @doubletap @disabledvoices @news @CarrieOnA11y
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linux is so good, i had to use windows for a bit and wow linux is so good, why aren't people using linux? it's so good, don't they know windows is bad?
yk i'm really tired of having this shit boosted onto my tl and if you're doing it you're getting muted. for the last time:
i want to use Linux. i cannot use Linux the way i can use Windows, because the accessibility is a mess. because i don't get the functionality from Linux that i get from Windows, i use Windows. whenever i bring this up, i'm told "that sucks, good thing it's open source, you should fix it".i am so sick of having the same conversation over and over again and i'm running out of patience for this crap. please try to actually care about disabled people. if you can't help materially, you can help by remembering we're still in the room when you go to make the same godsdamn noise for the trillionth time.
#Linux #A11Y