#faciliti — Public Fediverse posts

This a good distillation of #accessibility #overlays:
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/07/13/its-really-this-thing-that-gets-me/

If they were actually useful, they wouldn’t need to use SLAPPs to silence detractors (#AudioEye, #Faciliti), or see their clients or themselves sued for failing to work (#accessiBe), or regularly misrepresent their relationship with standards bodies (#UserWay)

Scams upon scams.

#a11y

A couple tweets over on the hell-site this week about #overlays that came my way…

• https://twitter.com/mr_chrishinds/status/1807780708334576015
• https://twitter.com/bethannon/status/1807782839162978470

Neither disclose if the overlay is #accessiBe, #AudioEye, #Faciliti, #UserWay, or one of the others.

Oh hey, it’s #GAAD.

Be on the lookout for the (mostly corporate) performative A11yship of #GAAD which is about to fill your timelines.

A couple years ago I demonstrated #overlay companies as the worst offenders:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/05/the-performative-a11yship-of-gaad.html

#accessiBe #AudioEye #FACILiti #LevelAccess #UserWay #accessibility #a11y

“Socks, lies, and accessibility”
https://janmaarten.com/gaad-2023/

Where @janmaarten shows that just a couple days after #accessiBe’s CEO promised to stop being such a lying liarface it went and used sock puppet Twitter accounts to promote its #overlay.

As I keep saying, past behavior is a predictor of future behavior (side-eyes #AudioEye, #UserWay, #FACILiti).

#a11y #accessibility

Updated posts to reference the FT #overlay article, all with the same content (so pick your favorite overlay)…

• #UserWay: https://adrianroselli.com/2021/09/userway-will-get-you-sued.html#FT

• #accessiBe: https://adrianroselli.com/2020/06/accessibe-will-get-you-sued.html#Update28

• #AudioEye: https://adrianroselli.com/2023/02/audioeye-will-get-you-sued.html#comment-285754

I did not add it to #FACILiti because it is not explicitly named in the post. But they are also terrible and bullies.

Thanks to @tink for first sharing the article.

#accessibility #a11y

Sharing a LinkedIn (ugh) post because it hits at core concerns over the marketing- and revenue-driven models of the (abled) corporate efforts supplanting genuine #accessibility in favor of inadequate tools pitched using FUD, now buying veneers of credibility despite often amoral actions:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7159537701438865408/

By @fedbysandrine
#a11y #overlay #AudioEye #accessiBe #UserWay #FACILiti

Over in the walled-garden A11y Slack, the IAAP rep there has left this statement and said proper statements will be going out on its socials:
https://web-a11y.slack.com/archives/C0382G2EGKH/p1706288656965409

Links in post:
• “webpage” https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/about/governance-and-positions#focus2
• “European Disability Forum” https://www.edf-feph.org/
• “joint statement regarding overlays” https://www.edf-feph.org/publications/joint-statement-on-accessibility-overlays/

Sorry for the wall of text.

#overlay #UserWay #FACILiti #AccessiWay #accessibility #a11y #IAAP

Late to the party because I really needed to think about this.

I *believe* what is happening is IAAP is hosting a session promoting #overlays.

It has 7 dudes on a panel:

• One is from #FACILiti (filed SLAPPs against disabled critics).
• One from #UserWay (known for lifting content, failing at WCAG).
• One from #AccessiWay (was so bad I ignored it).

And then three more I’m disappointed to see aligning themselves with this.

What’s the point of IAAP again?

https://web.archive.org/web/20240126161325/https://zerocon24.zeroproject.org/sessions/c2Vzc2lvbjoxNjMzMDM%3D
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