#aoda — Public Fediverse posts

If you are confused about your schedule, here's a summary. The PDF schedules provided by the City of Toronto and Circular Materials are both correct. Some map areas have changed their pickup schedules: for example, Parkdale used to be Wed Day 2 and they have now switched to Wed Day 1. The PDF versions of the maps show these changes correctly. But the mobile app and website lookup function don't.

Folks affected by Day switches should have received special printed mail notices about these changes, but some didn't.

One disappointing note about the PDF calendars: while those on the city's site are visually identical to those on Circular Materials site, the ones used by Circular Materials are inaccessible and untagged. Why don't they use the same tagged versions that are on the city site? Who knows! Does Circular Materials even know about the AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act)? No they don't.

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#Accessibility #AODA #a11y #TaggedPDF #recycling #calendars #Toronto #CircularMaterials

One particularly controversial move was the Ontario decision to outsource building accessibility assessments to the Rick Hansen Foundation.

That new court building with accessibility issues? It received a "Rick Hansen Foundation Gold Accessibility Certification". Rather than fix the obviously broken design and planning process for public infrastructure, the government points to the certification and says it met the standards.

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#AODA #Accessibility #RickHansenFoundation #RHFCertified

For #work I've gotta implement a site with several spaces for author input using #wysiwyg editors. I'm using #TipTap (based on prosemirror) because it's fairly flexible with custom add-ons that I'll need to implement.

Does anybody that uses accessibility tools on the web have particular gripes with existing WYSIWYG editing experiences? (Eg ckeditor, tinymce, google docs, o365).

I need to put LATEX editing and image insertion/captioning and table nonsense in the editor, and I've got the opportunity to make the whole experience more accessible, but I don't have a tonne of access to individuals with hands-on experience using this kind of tool with different perspectives. The guidelines only get you so far!

Any input helps!

#a11y #aoda #accessibility