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This, Still Not for Everyone, by @matthiasott:
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come check out the #WebAIM virtual conference tomorrow! Ted Drake and I will be talking about the challenges involved with trying to use AI to draft alt text; inaccuracies, hallucinations/confabulations, sanitization of disability representation and bias, lack of surrounding context, and more. Now with new potential solutions and prompts from when we presented this same topic back at #CSUN. #A11y https://conference.webaim.org/
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Sad news: the WebAIM mailing list is shutting down on August 27.
The archives will remain available.
Since 1999, the WebAIM @webaim email list has distributed discussions on web accessibility and provided a virtual community for a diverse range of members. I've been subscribed since 2002, and I learned more about accessibility from the list and its members than from any other single source on the web.
End of an era.
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I wonder, which additional user preference media features client hints it might make sense to have:
– Whether the user prefers texts in standard language or controlled natural/simplified/plain/easy language/easy read
– Whether the user prefers to see trigger warnings/content warnings by default (maybe even providing keywords)
– Indicating the attention span/short-term memory (low or average)
– Level of verbosity of text vs navigation/options
#accessibility #a11y #webAIM #waiAria #WCAG #rfc8942 -
@weirdwriter I also find this article and it's comments to be quite interesting. I don't understand allot of this so analyzing for author bias is hard for me, but finding any good info on #accessiBe is hard, so I'll take what I can get.
But I agree, this company is a problem, and in general automated access fixers and overlays are a bad idea.
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/06/accessibe-will-get-you-sued.html#Lawsuit
This other article brings the entire concept into question:
https://www.lflegal.com/2020/08/quick-fix/
#accessibility
#a11y
#access
#accessibilitytoolkit
#accessability
#accessibilitymatters
#accessibilityforall
#accessibletechnology
#DisabilityInUX
#webaccessibility
#wcag
#webaim
#accessable
#Blind
#visuallyimpaired
#blindness
#blindtech
#lowvision
#colorblind
#disability
#webdev
#webdevs
#uxdesign
#ux
#uxd
#uiux