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Access graph: a novel graph representation of public transport networks for accessibility analysis
Tina \v{S}filigoj, Aljo\v{s}a Peperko, Oded Cats
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08361

Access graph: a novel graph representation of public transport networks for accessibility analysis
Accessibility, defined as travel impedance between spatially dispersed opportunities for activity, is one of the main determinants of public transport (PT) use. In-depth understanding of its properties is crucial for optimal public transport systems planning and design. Although the concept has been around for decades and there is a large body of literature on accessibility operationalisation and measurement, a unified approach is lacking. To this end, we introduce a novel graph representation …

Beyond Compliance: A User-Autonomy Framework for Inclusive and Customizable Web Accessibility
Lalitha A R
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10324 https://

Beyond Compliance: A User-Autonomy Framework for Inclusive and Customizable Web Accessibility
This paper proposes a shift from compliance-centered web accessibility to a care-driven model that prioritizes user autonomy, using neurodivergent users as a catalyst case for broader personalization needs. While accessibility standards offer a flexible framework, they are often interpreted and implemented as static compliance checklists, our approach reframes it as a flexible, user-centered process. We introduce a customizable Comfort Mode framework that allows users to adapt interface setting…

Remember, Trump’s DoE is trying to roll back accessibility requirements for buildings (Section 504).
@… wrote about this and her 9 June update links to a newer comment template:
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New Attempt to Roll Back Accessibility Requirements - Comments Needed
For over forty years the United States has had regulations that say new buildings must be accessible to people with disabilities if the building is built by an organization that receives federal funds. Now the trump administration is taking the first steps to undo this long history of access in the

I know as a developer just how hard it is to actually make it work, but perhaps the lesson of the Liquid Glass public reaction fiasco is for Apple to just give users •much• more control over the UI theme.
Between the retina transition, iOS 7, accessibility improvements like variable text size, dark mode support, and the long migration away from hard-coded layouts, we developers have grown used to making more adaptable UIs. Lots of the building blocks for OS-level theming are there, both in SwiftUI and in UIKit.
If Apple said “Themes are coming!” at WWDC 26, developers would adapt.
Assuming we still have a functioning society at that point.
From @…:
https://mastodon.social/@realmacdan/113792374380828124

EmbodiedGen: Towards a Generative 3D World Engine for Embodied Intelligence
Wang Xinjie, Liu Liu, Cao Yu, Wu Ruiqi, Qin Wenkang, Wang Dehui, Sui Wei, Su Zhizhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10600

EmbodiedGen: Towards a Generative 3D World Engine for Embodied Intelligence
Constructing a physically realistic and accurately scaled simulated 3D world is crucial for the training and evaluation of embodied intelligence tasks. The diversity, realism, low cost accessibility and affordability of 3D data assets are critical for achieving generalization and scalability in embodied AI. However, most current embodied intelligence tasks still rely heavily on traditional 3D computer graphics assets manually created and annotated, which suffer from high production costs and li…

@… Hi, you work in accessibility at Apple, right?
I've found a serious issue with the iPhone's RTT call transcription.
By default, it *saves the transcript* of the call in the call log. This constitutes a recording of the call, and this transcript is saved on the iPhone without the knowledge or consent of the other parties on the call. This is ILLE…

<div aria-label> equivalent of an elevator buttons
#accessibility #a11y

Aside from my upcoming project:
Here's a handy guide of accessibility features on this year's #DublinPride
https://dublinpride.ie/accessibility/

Here's an accessibility tip for Fedilab, an Android app for Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, and GoToSocial.
There are two settings that hide the top bar and compose button when a timeline is scrolled down. This helps to make the UI less cluttered for sighted users. But it makes these controls unavailable to screen readers. (Continued in reply.)
#Android

“We need to go beyond legislation to a cultural change, where disability is treated as an identity to be celebrated.”
Brilliant article in the FT on housing design for disability and the aesthetics of accessibility
https://www.ft.com/content/05309cf9-96d9-460…

The aesthetics of accessibility: design for disability that’s dynamic not dreary
Architecture is at a fertile inflection point. But while housebuilding goals, sustainability and retrofitting are dominating the agenda, why does accessibility too often remain an afterthought?

LLM-Driven Personalized Answer Generation and Evaluation
Mohammadreza Molavi, Mohammadreza Tavakoli, Mohammad Moein, Abdolali Faraji, G\'abor Kismih\'ok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10829

LLM-Driven Personalized Answer Generation and Evaluation
Online learning has experienced rapid growth due to its flexibility and accessibility. Personalization, adapted to the needs of individual learners, is crucial for enhancing the learning experience, particularly in online settings. A key aspect of personalization is providing learners with answers customized to their specific questions. This paper therefore explores the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate personalized answers to learners' questions, thereby enhancing engagemen…

«HellCaptcha: Accessibility Theater at Its Worst»
hCaptcha is not only useless and easily broken by bad actors (we tried it for the personal science/#quantifiedself wiki without it having any impact on spam), it also is impossible to use by legitimate users who rely on accessibility tools…
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/hellcaptcha-accessibility-theater-at-its-worst/

Looked at latest W3C Draft of “Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI,” specifically the overlays section:
https://w3c.github.io/ai-accessibility/#accessibility-overlays
I still think it needs to be stricken:

🔮 The Future of AI Development
Kimi K2 represents a paradigm shift in AI accessibility. By open-sourcing a trillion-parameter model with state-of-the-art capabilities, Moonshot AI is democratizing advanced AI development 🌍

Prompt-Guided Latent Diffusion with Predictive Class Conditioning for 3D Prostate MRI Generation
Emerson P. Grabke, Masoom A. Haider, Babak Taati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10230 …

Prompt-Guided Latent Diffusion with Predictive Class Conditioning for 3D Prostate MRI Generation
Latent diffusion models (LDM) could alleviate data scarcity challenges affecting machine learning development for medical imaging. However, medical LDM training typically relies on performance- or scientific accessibility-limiting strategies including a reliance on short-prompt text encoders, the reuse of non-medical LDMs, or a requirement for fine-tuning with large data volumes. We propose a Class-Conditioned Efficient Large Language model Adapter (CCELLA) to address these limitations. CCELLA …

Throwaway #WWDC25 thoughts:
• No trillion dollar company needs anyone’s defense
• Having said that, Liquid Glass is cool and I hope they sort out accessibility contrast / legibility
• People who remember Vista but not Aqua are, uh, not old heads I guess. It’s fine but not a great comparison there

I read this press release and I think the only thing I found interesting was the bit about improved accessibility...
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-its-tools-and-technologies-for-developers/

Apple supercharges its tools and technologies for developers to foster creativity, innovation, and design
Apple announced new technologies and enhancements to its developer tools to help developers create more beautiful, intelligent, and engaging apps.

Nesting focusable elements is problematic. Have you seen any good blogposts, docs, or other #accessibility resources that go into *why* nesting is problematic?
I’m looking for something I could link to in a blogpost of my own, on a somewhat different topic. Preference is for something in-depth, and not marketing slop for a company (especially not for anyone affiliated with an overlay vendo…

I really, really appreciate Apple’s commitment to accessibility. Credit where credit is due. https://iosdev.space/@dadederk/114667016708618877

Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day to everyone in the Fediverse! And remember your alt text!
#GAAD

From Translink
A new era for SkyTrain: The Mark V rolls into service on the Expo Line
The first of 47 new trains that will bring more space, comfort, and modern design to customers across Metro Vancouver.
Wider aisles with more standing room, handrails and new leaning pads
Spacious multi-use areas for bikes, luggage, strollers, wheelchairs, & other mobility devices
Enhanced safety and accessibility with visual door closure and emergency braking indicators

XR Extreme Reach: in 2024, only 9% of TV ads had closed captions and 1% had audio descriptions, despite over half of adults watching content with captions on (TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/06/xr-report-accessibility-advertising/

XR: Most TV ads lack accessibility features like captions
The shortcoming means viewers with disabilities aren't engaging with brand messaging on TV.

In iOS 26 beta 3, Apple dials back the degree of translucency in many UI elements, following user complaints about Liquid Glass (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/ios-26-beta-3-dials-back-liquid-glass/

iOS 26 beta 3 dials back Liquid Glass | TechCrunch
The early version in the first developer beta of iOS 26 and the accompanying updates for Apple's other devices still left room for improvement in terms of usability, accessibility, and legibility.

Voor wie wel eens nieuwsbrieven maakt in HTML:
https://css-tricks.com/html-email-accessibility-report-2025/

HTML Email Accessibility Report 2025 | CSS-Tricks
Some weekend reading on the heels of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAADM), which took place yesterday. The Email Markup Consortium (EMC) released its

WordPress may be run by… that guy, but it still has a massive user base. They all need better accessibility documentation.
@… wants to improve it, but needs sponsors:
https://

Multi-Tool Analysis of User Interface & Accessibility in Deployed Web-Based Chatbots
Mukesh Rajmohan, Smit Desai, Sanchari Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04659

Multi-Tool Analysis of User Interface & Accessibility in Deployed Web-Based Chatbots
In this work, we present a multi-tool evaluation of 106 deployed web-based chatbots, across domains like healthcare, education and customer service, comprising both standalone applications and embedded widgets using automated tools (Google Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights, SiteImprove Accessibility Checker) and manual audits (Microsoft Accessibility Insights). Our analysis reveals that over 80% of chatbots exhibit at least one critical accessibility issue, and 45% suffer from missing semantic str…

Linking Data Citation to Repository Visibility: An Empirical Study
Fakhri Momeni, Janete Saldanha Bach, Brigitte Mathiak, Peter Mutschke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09530

Linking Data Citation to Repository Visibility: An Empirical Study
In today's data-driven research landscape, dataset visibility and accessibility play a crucial role in advancing scientific knowledge. At the same time, data citation is essential for maintaining academic integrity, acknowledging contributions, validating research outcomes, and fostering scientific reproducibility. As a critical link, it connects scholarly publications with the datasets that drive scientific progress. This study investigates whether repository visibility influences data citatio…

A Cytology Dataset for Early Detection of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Garima Jain, Sanghamitra Pati, Mona Duggal, Amit Sethi, Abhijeet Patil, Gururaj Malekar, Nilesh Kowe, Jitender Kumar, Jatin Kashyap, Divyajeet Rout, Deepali, Hitesh, Nishi Halduniya, Sharat Kumar, Heena Tabassum, Rupinder Singh Dhaliwal, Sucheta Devi Khuraijam, Sushma Khuraijam, Sharmila Laishram, Simmi Kharb, Sunita Singh, K. Swaminadtan, Ranjana Solanki, Deepika Hemranjani, Shashank Nath Singh, Uma Handa, Manvee…

A Cytology Dataset for Early Detection of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Oral squamous cell carcinoma OSCC is a major global health burden, particularly in several regions across Asia, Africa, and South America, where it accounts for a significant proportion of cancer cases. Early detection dramatically improves outcomes, with stage I cancers achieving up to 90 percent survival. However, traditional diagnosis based on histopathology has limited accessibility in low-resource settings because it is invasive, resource-intensive, and reliant on expert pathologists. On t…

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OpenTCM: A GraphRAG-Empowered LLM-based System for Traditional Chinese Medicine Knowledge Retrieval and Diagnosis
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) represents a rich repository of ancient medical knowledge that continues to play an important role in modern healthcare. Due to the complexity and breadth of the TCM literature, the integration of AI technologies is critical for its modernization and broader accessibility. However, this integration poses considerable challenges, including the interpretation of obscure classical Chinese texts and the modeling of intricate semantic relationships among TCM concep…

Great opportunity to show people the accessibility settings.
https://mastodon.social/@andjsch/114655906181034852

Andreas Schantl (@andjsch@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images Just installed the iOS 26 Beta for a test drive on my spare iPhone and while the glassy look is fancy to some degree, it makes things poorly visible. I am sure a lot of people will have troubles reading text on such transparent layers and generally finding small icons with bad contrast. #ios26 #apple #wwdc25 #accessibility

Accessibility for the Working Mathematician
Julius Ross
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22667 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22667

Accessibility for the Working Mathematician
If you only take one thing away from this document I would like it tobe this: Creating accessible documents requires authors have a working understanding of accessibility, and write with accessibility in mind.

Measuring Communication Quality of Interest Rate Announcements
Jonathan Benchimol, Itamar Caspi, Sophia Kazinnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09868 https://

Measuring Communication Quality of Interest Rate Announcements
We use text-mining techniques to measure the accessibility and quality of information within the texts of interest rate announcements published by the Bank of Israel over the past decade. We find that comprehension of interest rate announcements published by the Bank of Israel requires fewer years of education than interest rate announcements published by the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. In addition, we show that the sentiment within these announcements is aligned with economi…

👋 Unsere Kolleg:innen vom @…–Kommunikationskreis haben sich vom 4. bis 5. Juni in Mannheim getroffen, um über Themen wie digital accessibility, Infografiken und Social Media-Vorlagen zu diskutieren und zu vernetzen.📊
#NFDIrocks
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Folks designing digital experiences: think about how this can translate to what you’re making.
#design #accessibility #a11y

Hey, folks who understand alt text and limited vision accessibility:
I have need to write alt text for the diagram below. The alt text needs to be comprehensible to somebody who is encountering this kind of diagram for the ••very first time••. I could describe the images using the relevant jargon, but that would only serve people who already know the thing this activity is teaching them!
Any suggestions for how I could write good alt text for something like this? Is it possible? (The horizontal black bars are minus signs, i.e. subtraction. This is clear from context in the text, but probably not clear in the image.)
PLEASE NOTE: I am looking for people with ••relevant accessibility expertise••, not just random best shots from people who (like me) don’t really know much about this kind of problem.

TikTok's Research API: Problems Without Explanations
Carlos Entrena-Serrano, Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano, Raziye Buse \c{C}etin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09746

TikTok's Research API: Problems Without Explanations
Following the Digital Services Act of 2023, which requires Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) to facilitate data accessibility for independent research, TikTok augmented its Research API access within Europe in July 2023. This action was intended to ensure compliance with the DSA, bolster transparency, and address systemic risks. Nonetheless, research findings reveal that despite this expansion, notable limitations and inconsistencies persist withi…

@… @… we love opt-in accessibility 😭

#Accessibility is definitely an underrated topic.
I'm glad that @… is raising awareness at @….

Advancing Digital Accessibility: Integrating AR/VR and Health Tech for Inclusive Healthcare Solutions
Vishnu Ramineni, Shivareddy Devarapalli, Balakrishna Pothineni, Prema Kumar Veerapaneni, Aditya Gupta, Pankaj Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24039

Advancing Digital Accessibility: Integrating AR/VR and Health Tech for Inclusive Healthcare Solutions
Modern healthcare domain incorporates a feature of digital accessibility to ensure seamless flow of online services for the patients. However, this feature of digital accessibility poses a challenge particularly for patients with disabilities. To eradicate this issue and provide immersive and user-friendly experiences, evolving technologies like Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are integrated in medical applications to enhance accessibility. The present research paper aims to stu…

MATE: LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Translation Environment for Accessibility Applications
Aleksandr Algazinov, Matt Laing, Paul Laban
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19502

MATE: LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Translation Environment for Accessibility Applications
Accessibility remains a critical concern in today's society, as many technologies are not developed to support the full range of user needs. Existing multi-agent systems (MAS) often cannot provide comprehensive assistance for users in need due to the lack of customization stemming from closed-source designs. Consequently, individuals with disabilities frequently encounter significant barriers when attempting to interact with digital environments. We introduce MATE, a multimodal accessibility MA…

Looking forward to it!
https://mastodon.social/@karlgroves/114534519629700177

Disentangling Spatial and Structural Drivers of Housing Prices through Bayesian Networks: A Case Study of Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia
Alvaro Garcia Murga, Manuele Leonelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09539

Disentangling Spatial and Structural Drivers of Housing Prices through Bayesian Networks: A Case Study of Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia
Understanding how housing prices respond to spatial accessibility, structural attributes, and typological distinctions is central to contemporary urban research and policy. In cities marked by affordability stress and market segmentation, models that offer both predictive capability and interpretive clarity are increasingly needed. This study applies discrete Bayesian networks to model residential price formation across Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia using over 180,000 geo-referenced housing l…

What the fuck is it with #overlay companies and their apologists commenting on my blog?
I got two today (on the same post):
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/ftc-

FTC Catches up to #accessiBe
From the FTC on Friday: The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibility tool to make any website compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for people with disabilities. FTC Order…

LighthouseGS: Indoor Structure-aware 3D Gaussian Splatting for Panorama-Style Mobile Captures
Seungoh Han, Jaehoon Jang, Hyunsu Kim, Jaeheung Surh, Junhyung Kwak, Hyowon Ha, Kyungdon Joo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06109

LighthouseGS: Indoor Structure-aware 3D Gaussian Splatting for Panorama-Style Mobile Captures
Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled real-time novel view synthesis (NVS) with impressive quality in indoor scenes. However, achieving high-fidelity rendering requires meticulously captured images covering the entire scene, limiting accessibility for general users. We aim to develop a practical 3DGS-based NVS framework using simple panorama-style motion with a handheld camera (e.g., mobile device). While convenient, this rotation-dominant motion and narrow baseline make …

A Self-Training Approach for Whisper to Enhance Long Dysarthric Speech Recognition
Shiyao Wang, Jiaming Zhou, Shiwan Zhao, Yong Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22810

A Self-Training Approach for Whisper to Enhance Long Dysarthric Speech Recognition
Dysarthric speech recognition (DSR) enhances the accessibility of smart devices for dysarthric speakers with limited mobility. Previously, DSR research was constrained by the fact that existing datasets typically consisted of isolated words, command phrases, and a limited number of sentences spoken by a few individuals. This constrained research to command-interaction systems and speaker adaptation. The Speech Accessibility Project (SAP) changed this by releasing a large and diverse English dys…

An interview with Mario Kart World producer Kosuke Yabuki on balancing chaos and accessibility, redesigning core mechanics, and more, ahead of its June 5 launch (Christopher Cruz/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-ga

The Making of ‘Mario Kart World’: ‘We Have to Think About the Chaos’
Mario Kart World producer Kosuke Yabuki talks the interconnected world, 150cc speed, and the driving cow

A commitment to disabled users deserves more than one day a year.
Subscribe to the Accessibility Weekly email newsletter! Every Monday you'll learn the latest scuttlebutt from expert disabled users and digital accessibility professionals.
https://a11yweekly.com

I'm increasingly preferring individuals’ blogs over corporate blogs for accessibility guidance, even when those corporations are meant to be accessibility-focused.
SEO chasing and consumer funneling really dilute the usefulness of articles, it turns out.

Hyperspectral Dual-Comb Compressive Imaging for Minimally-Invasive Video-Rate Endomicroscopy
Myoung-Gyun Suh (Howard), David Dang (Howard), Maodong Gao (Howard), Yucheng Jin (Howard), Byoung Jun Park (Howard), Beyonce Hu (Howard), Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp (Howard), Ho Wai (Howard), Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04157

Hyperspectral Dual-Comb Compressive Imaging for Minimally-Invasive Video-Rate Endomicroscopy
Endoscopic imaging is essential for real-time visualization of internal organs, yet conventional systems remain bulky, complex, and expensive due to their reliance on large, multi-element optical components. This limits their accessibility to delicate or constrained anatomical regions. Achieving real-time, high-resolution endomicroscopy using compact, low-cost hardware at the hundred-micron scale remains an unsolved challenge. Optical fibers offer a promising route toward miniaturization by pro…

SPACE: Your Genomic Profile Predictor is a Powerful DNA Foundation Model
Zhao Yang, Jiwei Zhu, Bing Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01833 https://

SPACE: Your Genomic Profile Predictor is a Powerful DNA Foundation Model
Inspired by the success of unsupervised pre-training paradigms, researchers have applied these approaches to DNA pre-training. However, we argue that these approaches alone yield suboptimal results because pure DNA sequences lack sufficient information, since their functions are regulated by genomic profiles like chromatin accessibility. Here, we demonstrate that supervised training for genomic profile prediction serves as a more effective alternative to pure sequence pre-training. Furthermore,…

Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Digital Accessibility for Medicaid Populations in Telehealth Adoption
Vishnu Ramineni, Aditya Gupta, Balakrishna Pothineni, Isan Sahoo, Shivareddy Devarapalli, Balaji Shesharao Ingole
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24035

Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Digital Accessibility for Medicaid Populations in Telehealth Adoption
The swift evolution of telehealth has revolutionized how medical professionals deliver healthcare services and boost convenience and accessibility. Yet, the Medicaid population encounters several impediments in utilizing facilities especially owing to poor internet connectivity, less awareness about digital platforms, and a shortage of assistive technologies. The paper aims to explicate key factors behind digital accessibility for Medicaid populations and expounds robust solutions to eradicate …

“Mission Impossible - Accessibility Job Roles”
https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/mission-impossible-accessibility-job-roles/
@…

Mission Impossible - Accessibility Job Roles
Analysis of a bloated and impossible job advert for accessibility.

TFW you build a site with @… and web platform standards (== semantic HTML, modern CSS, a little bit of JavaScript, and a dash of ARIA) and you look at Lighthouse for the first time …
Looks like industry best practices actually work. (Sorry for using my platform to ruin anyone’s day. 🥰) 🍋

MGC: A Compiler Framework Exploiting Compositional Blindness in Aligned LLMs for Malware Generation
Lu Yan, Zhuo Zhang, Xiangzhe Xu, Shengwei An, Guangyu Shen, Zhou Xuan, Xuan Chen, Xiangyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02057

MGC: A Compiler Framework Exploiting Compositional Blindness in Aligned LLMs for Malware Generation
Large language models (LLMs) have democratized software development, reducing the expertise barrier for programming complex applications. This accessibility extends to malicious software development, raising significant security concerns. While LLM providers have implemented alignment mechanisms to prevent direct generation of overtly malicious code, these safeguards predominantly evaluate individual prompts in isolation, overlooking a critical vulnerability: malicious operations can be systema…

TransLink and the City of New Westminster have completed major upgrades to a 737-metre stretch of the BC Parkway along Stewardson Way, between River Drive and 14th Street. These enhancements are designed to improve safety, comfort, and accessibility along this vital active transportation corridor.
Key upgrades include:
A widened pathway with separate lanes for cyclists and pedestrians making it comfortable and convenient for all modes of active transportation

Come along to Street66 and belt your heart out. We'll have a karaoke set up in the upstairs. Tickets are €10.
Proceeds: All proceeds go to support Palestinians in Palestine
Accessibility: Street 66 is accessible from Exchange Street Upper (behind Street), with a ramp entrance to the main floor, which also has accessible toilets.
h…

Advancing Digital Accessibility In Digital Pharmacy, Healthcare, And Wearable Devices: Inclusive Solutions for Enhanced Patient Engagement
Vishnu Ramineni, Balaji Shesharao Ingole, Nikhil Kumar Pulipeta, Balakrishna Pothineni, Aditya Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24042

Advancing Digital Accessibility In Digital Pharmacy, Healthcare, And Wearable Devices: Inclusive Solutions for Enhanced Patient Engagement
Modern healthcare facilities demand digital accessibility to guarantee equal access to telemedicine platforms, online pharmacy services, and health monitoring devices that can be worn or are handy. With the rising call for the implementation of robust digital healthcare solutions, people with disabilities encounter impediments in their endeavor of managing and getting accustomed to these modern technologies owing to insufficient accessibility features. The paper highlights the role of comprehen…

From Release to Adoption: Challenges in Reusing Pre-trained AI Models for Downstream Developers
Peerachai Banyongrakkul, Mansooreh Zahedi, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Christoph Treude, Haoyu Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23234

From Release to Adoption: Challenges in Reusing Pre-trained AI Models for Downstream Developers
Pre-trained models (PTMs) have gained widespread popularity and achieved remarkable success across various fields, driven by their groundbreaking performance and easy accessibility through hosting providers. However, the challenges faced by downstream developers in reusing PTMs in software systems are less explored. To bridge this knowledge gap, we qualitatively created and analyzed a dataset of 840 PTM-related issue reports from 31 OSS GitHub projects. We systematically developed a comprehensi…

Phenylalanine modification in plasma-driven biocatalysis revealed by solvent accessibility and reactive dynamics in combination with protein mass spectrometry
Hanna-Friederike Poggemann, Sabrina Klopsch, Simon Homann, Tim Dirks, Sina Sch\"akermann, Julia E. Bandow, Timo Jacob, Christoph Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20205…

Phenylalanine modification in plasma-driven biocatalysis revealed by solvent accessibility and reactive dynamics in combination with protein mass spectrometry
Biocatalysis is an emerging field that provides an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional catalysis, but still it faces some challenges. One of the major difficulties for biocatalysts that require reactive species like H2O2 as co-substrates lies in the concentration of these reactive species. On the one hand, they are used as reactants, but on the other hand, they inactivate the enzymes at high concentrations. When utilizing non-thermal plasma to deliver H2O2 for biocatalysis, it …

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A Meta-Learning Method for Estimation of Causal Excursion Effects to Assess Time-Varying Moderation
Advances in wearable technologies and health interventions delivered by smartphones have greatly increased the accessibility of mobile health (mHealth) interventions. Micro-randomized trials (MRTs) are designed to assess the effectiveness of the mHealth intervention and introduce a novel class of causal estimands called "causal excursion effects." These estimands enable the evaluation of how intervention effects change over time and are influenced by individual characteristics or context. Exist…

Last week I asked Google to stop releasing broken things. Apologists said maybe I needed to contribute more, write code or demos.
Last year I outlined some of what I *have* done and how, for the most part, Google / Web•dev doesn’t give a shit:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/07…

Don’t Use Web•dev for Accessibility Info
Web.dev is a site from Google Chrome developer relations that provides content both to evangelize Chrome and to more broadly support the web platform. Rachel Andrew’s monthly “new to the platform” posts are effectively required reading to try to stay abreast of the browser support landscape. However, the accessibility content…

GamerAstra: Enhancing Video Game Accessibility for Blind and Low-Vision Players through a Multi-Agent AI Framework
Tianrun Qiu, Changxin Chen, Sizhe Cheng, Yiming Yang, Yixiao Guo, Zhicong Lu, Yuxin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22937

GamerAstra: Enhancing Video Game Accessibility for Blind and Low-Vision Players through a Multi-Agent AI Framework
Blind and low-vision (BLV) players encounter critical challenges in engaging with video games due to the inaccessibility of visual elements, difficulties in navigating interfaces, and limitations in sending interaction input. Moreover, the development of specialized accessibility features typically requires substantial programming effort and is often implemented on a game-by-game basis. To address these challenges, we introduce \textit{GamerAstra}, a generalized accessibility framework that lev…

I’m concerned the Overlay Community Group has found a way to normalize overlays by influencing the W3C draft “Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/09/accessibility-at-the-edg…

‘Accessibility at the Edge’ W3C CG Is an Overlay Smoke Screen
Another post where I lay it all out in the title. What follows is why I am making this assertion (with a handy table of contents). Timeline 26 May 2022 at 10:58am ET 26 May 2022 at 7:56pm ET 27 May 2022 at 7:38pm ET 28 May 2022 at 5:04pm…

This #GAAD and every GAAD, you can champion #accessibility by hiring accessibility specialists, paying them well, ensuring they have what they need to be successful and make a change, and by not putting their heads on the chopping block first whenever layoffs roll around.

Ome Paul doet u vandaag de groeten vanuit Würzburg, waar we met de accessibility nerds praten over accessibility-nerd-zaken.
#a11yclub

RAM-W600: A Multi-Task Wrist Dataset and Benchmark for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Songxiao Yang, Haolin Wang, Yao Fu, Ye Tian, Tamotsu Kamishima, Masayuki Ikebe, Yafei Ou, Masatoshi Okutomi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05193

RAM-W600: A Multi-Task Wrist Dataset and Benchmark for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common autoimmune disease that has been the focus of research in computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) and disease monitoring. In clinical settings, conventional radiography (CR) is widely used for the screening and evaluation of RA due to its low cost and accessibility. The wrist is a critical region for the diagnosis of RA. However, CAD research in this area remains limited, primarily due to the challenges in acquiring high-quality instance-level annotations. (i) The w…

Deepfake Technology Unveiled: The Commoditization of AI and Its Impact on Digital Trust
Claudiu Popa, Rex Pallath, Liam Cunningham, Hewad Tahiri, Abiram Kesavarajah, Tao Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07363

Deepfake Technology Unveiled: The Commoditization of AI and Its Impact on Digital Trust
Deepfake Technology Unveiled: The Commoditization of AI and Its Impact on Digital Trust. With the increasing accessibility of generative AI, tools for voice cloning, face-swapping, and synthetic media creation have advanced significantly, lowering both financial and technical barriers for their use. While these technologies present innovative opportunities, their rapid growth raises concerns about trust, privacy, and security. This white paper explores the implications of deepfake technology, a…

Lucy has opinions about overlays that should feel familiar to just about everyone:
“Don’t use that accessibility overlay”
https://accessaces.com/dont-use-that-accessibility-overlay/
Definitely don’t use ones that collude with drive-by lawsuit attor…

GOLFer: Smaller LM-Generated Documents Hallucination Filter & Combiner for Query Expansion in Information Retrieval
Lingyuan Liu, Mengxiang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04762

GOLFer: Smaller LM-Generated Documents Hallucination Filter & Combiner for Query Expansion in Information Retrieval
Large language models (LLMs)-based query expansion for information retrieval augments queries with generated hypothetical documents with LLMs. However, its performance relies heavily on the scale of the language models (LMs), necessitating larger, more advanced LLMs. This approach is costly, computationally intensive, and often has limited accessibility. To address these limitations, we introduce GOLFer - Smaller LMs-Generated Documents Hallucination Filter & Combiner - a novel method leveragin…

Subtitled Media Adaptations for People with Aphasia: Ongoing Accessibility Barriers and Emerging Design Practices
Zihao You, Michael Crabb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21201

Subtitled Media Adaptations for People with Aphasia: Ongoing Accessibility Barriers and Emerging Design Practices
The consumption of subtitles via TVs, laptops and smartphones has the potential to marginalize people based on their complex accessibility needs. The current one-size-fits-all approach to this accessibility aid is no longer fit for purpose and work is required to look at how it can be adapted to be personalised for individual users based on individual context, content, and consumption habits. People with Aphasia, for example, encounter significant challenges in understanding subtitle texts. W…

Acoustic evaluation of a neural network dedicated to the detection of animal vocalisations
J\'er\'emy Rouch (CRNL-ENES), M Ducrettet (CRNL-ENES, ISYEB), S Haupert (ISYEB), R Emonet (LabHC), F S\`ebe (CRNL-ENES, OFB - DRAS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01974

Acoustic evaluation of a neural network dedicated to the detection of animal vocalisations
The accessibility of long-duration recorders, adapted to sometimes demanding field conditions, has enabled the deployment of extensive animal population monitoring campaigns through ecoacoustics. The effectiveness of automatic signal detection methods, increasingly based on neural approaches, is frequently evaluated solely through machine learning metrics, while acoustic analysis of performance remains rare. As part of the acoustic monitoring of Rock Ptarmigan populations, we propose here a sim…

Yau-YauAL: A computer tool for solving nonlinear filtering problems
Yu Wang, Shuyuan Xu, Xueda Wei, Xinrui Luo, Stephen Shing-Toung Yau, Shing-Tung Yau, Rongling Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08976

Yau-YauAL: A computer tool for solving nonlinear filtering problems
The Yau-Yau nonlinear filter has increasingly emerged as a powerful tool to study stochastic complex systems. To leverage it to a wider spectrum of application scenarios, we pack the Yau-Yau filtering ALgorithms (YauYauAL) into a package of computer software. Yau-YauAL was written in R, designed to simplify the implementation of the Yau-Yau filter for solving nonlinear filtering problems. Combining R's accessibility with C++ (via Rcpp) for computational efficiency, YauYauAL provides an intuitiv…

Yeah, I had planned not to write any more of these since I had already gone after the big players. But this one poked me.
“#Accesstive Will Get You Sued”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/acce…

#Accesstive Will Get You Sued
I can’t actually assert the Accesstive overlay will result in a lawsuit, though there is a trend of overlays attracting lawsuits. Attorneys say overlays don’t protect from lawsuits, either. Regardless of the company making it, if you wonder if you should use an accessibility overlay, the answer is no. Accesstive’s…

Evaluation of Large Language Model-Driven AutoML in Data and Model Management from Human-Centered Perspective
Jiapeng Yao, Lantian Zhang, Jiping Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05962

Evaluation of Large Language Model-Driven AutoML in Data and Model Management from Human-Centered Perspective
As organizations increasingly seek to leverage machine learning (ML) capabilities, the technical complexity of implementing ML solutions creates significant barriers to adoption and impacts operational efficiency. This research examines how Large Language Models (LLMs) can transform the accessibility of ML technologies within organizations through a human-centered Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) approach. Through a comprehensive user study involving 15 professionals across various roles and…

This is the first time I’ve heard of a web #accessibility lawsuit *demanding* an overlay:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:734050244680636…

Talked with a site owner this afternoon who has received a subpoena for a website accessibility suit. | Bet Hannon
Talked with a site owner this afternoon who has received a subpoena for a website accessibility suit. Typical serial plaintiff, with dozens of cookie-cutter suits. What isn't typical however, is that the plaintiff's attorney wants to make only putting an overlay widget on the site the only requirement to settle. I've never heard of that before. Almost always the requirement is that the site conform to WCAG 2.1 AA within 12-24 months. Has anyone seen this happening with a defendant before? I t…

2. Many online accessibility checkers apparently audit text contrast without actually applying `prefers-contrast: more` to the stylesheet. This seems…broken?

Accessibility Barriers in Multi-Terabyte Public Datasets: The Gap Between Promise and Practice
Marc Bara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13256 https://

Accessibility Barriers in Multi-Terabyte Public Datasets: The Gap Between Promise and Practice
The promise of "free and open" multi-terabyte datasets often collides with harsh realities. While these datasets may be technically accessible, practical barriers -- from processing complexity to hidden costs -- create a system that primarily serves well-funded institutions. This study examines accessibility challenges across web crawls, satellite imagery, scientific data, and collaborative projects, revealing a consistent two-tier system where theoretical openness masks practical exclusivity. …

Encoding of Demographic and Anatomical Information in Chest X-Ray-based Severe Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Classifiers
Basudha Pal, Rama Chellappa, Muhammad Umair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03192

Encoding of Demographic and Anatomical Information in Chest X-Ray-based Severe Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Classifiers
While echocardiography and MRI are clinical standards for evaluating cardiac structure, their use is limited by cost and accessibility.We introduce a direct classification framework that predicts severe left ventricular hypertrophy from chest X-rays, without relying on anatomical measurements or demographic inputs. Our approach achieves high AUROC and AUPRC, and employs Mutual Information Neural Estimation to quantify feature expressivity. This reveals clinically meaningful attribute encoding a…

Context…
‘Accessibility at the Edge’ W3C CG Is an overlay smoke screen:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/09/accessibility-at-the-edge-w3c-cg-is-an-overlay-smoke-screen.html
It has drafted a report…
“Accessi…

‘Accessibility at the Edge’ W3C CG Is an Overlay Smoke Screen
Another post where I lay it all out in the title. What follows is why I am making this assertion (with a handy table of contents). Timeline 26 May 2022 at 10:58am ET 26 May 2022 at 7:56pm ET 27 May 2022 at 7:38pm ET 28 May 2022 at 5:04pm…

"You don't hire diverse teams to fix accessibility issues, you hire them to fix a lack of imagination"
#a11yclub

Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods
Patricia Piedade, Peter A Hayton, Cynthia Bennett, Anna R L Carter, Clara Crivellaro, Alan Dix, Jess McGowan, Katta Spiel, Miriam Sturdee, Garreth W. Tigwell, Hugo Nicolau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24057

Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods
The popularity of accessibility research has grown recently, improving digital inclusion for people with disabilities. However, researchers, including those who have disabilities, have attempted to include people with disabilities in all aspects of design, and they have identified a myriad of practical accessibility barriers posed by tools and methods leveraged by human-computer interaction (HCI) researchers during prototyping. To build a more inclusive technological landscape, we must question…

3. Sa11y is a really great tool: https://sa11y.netlify.app It’s a live, in-page accessibility audit whose workflow is far, far more useful for actually improving the page than the server-based “enter your URL” online services. Killer features:
- It live-highlights potential issues on the page.
- It lets you dismiss warnings and •remembers that you dismissed them•, so it can offer subjective concerns that require manual review (e.g. “this image is marked as decorative; is that correct?”).
- Per the previous post, it actually respects the contrast setting, because it reports on what’s on the screen.

I know it’s just an overlay vendor looking for a backlink (which I removed) by asking a silly question, but it’s a good opportunity to point out that target size isn’t about (only) touch. It benefits far more users (even voice control):
https://adrianroselli.com/2019/06/targ

Target Size and 2.5.5
TL;DR: Regardless of what accessibility conformance level you target, try to ensure that interactive controls are at least 44 by 44 pixels in size. Links in blocks of text are exempt. Overview In real life there is typically both a visual and tactile component to an interface. You have to…

Towards 3D Semantic Image Synthesis for Medical Imaging
Wenwu Tang, Khaled Seyam, Bin Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00206 https://a…

Towards 3D Semantic Image Synthesis for Medical Imaging
In the medical domain, acquiring large datasets is challenging due to both accessibility issues and stringent privacy regulations. Consequently, data availability and privacy protection are major obstacles to applying machine learning in medical imaging. To address this, our study proposes the Med-LSDM (Latent Semantic Diffusion Model), which operates directly in the 3D domain and leverages de-identified semantic maps to generate synthetic data as a method of privacy preservation and data augme…

UPDATES:
1. My site (https://innig.net/) now offers high-contrast theme if the OS / browser is set to high contrast mode. Works in both light and dark mode! Further accessibility improvements to come.

Between Regulation and Accessibility: How Chinese University Students Navigate Global and Domestic Generative AI
Qin Xie, Ming Li, Fei Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14377

Between Regulation and Accessibility: How Chinese University Students Navigate Global and Domestic Generative AI
Despite the rapid proliferation of generative AI in higher education, students in China face significant barriers in accessing global tools like ChatGPT due to regulations and constraints. Grounded in the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) model, this study employs qualitative interviews to investigate how Chinese university students interact with both global and domestic generative AIs in the learning process. Findings reveal that engagement is shaped by accessibilit…

A computationally frugal open-source foundation model for thoracic disease detection in lung cancer screening programs
Niccol\`o McConnell, Pardeep Vasudev, Daisuke Yamada, Daryl Cheng, Mehran Azimbagirad, John McCabe, Shahab Aslani, Ahmed H. Shahin, Yukun Zhou, The SUMMIT Consortium, Andre Altmann, Yipeng Hu, Paul Taylor, Sam M. Janes, Daniel C. Alexander, Joseph Jacob

A computationally frugal open-source foundation model for thoracic disease detection in lung cancer screening programs
Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) imaging employed in lung cancer screening (LCS) programs is increasing in uptake worldwide. LCS programs herald a generational opportunity to simultaneously detect cancer and non-cancer-related early-stage lung disease. Yet these efforts are hampered by a shortage of radiologists to interpret scans at scale. Here, we present TANGERINE, a computationally frugal, open-source vision foundation model for volumetric LDCT analysis. Designed for broad accessibility …

Social post:
https://bsky.app/profile/lflegal.bsky.social/post/3lqofepe7kc2e
Blog post:

Understanding Visually Impaired Tramway Passengers Interaction with Public Transport Systems
Dominik Mimra, Dominik Kaar, Enrico Del Re, Novel Certad, Joshua Cherian Varughese, David Seibt, Cristina Olaverri-Monreal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03687

Understanding Visually Impaired Tramway Passengers Interaction with Public Transport Systems
Designing inclusive public transport services is crucial to developing modern, barrier-free smart city infrastructure. This research contributes to the design of inclusive public transport by considering accessibility challenges emerging from socio-technical systems, thus demanding the integration of technological and social solutions. Using Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as a theoretical framework and a mixed-method approach, including shadowing and a focus group, this study examines the socio-tec…

If you’ve paid attention to my ramblings over the last decade-plus, then you’ve heard me to talk about selfish accessibility.
It’s nice to see others embrace it.
“Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs”
https://nolanlawson.com/2025/06/16/sel

Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs
All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazillion other concerns when you’re trying to c…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16456 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Position: Beyond Assistance -- Reimagining LLMs as Ethical and Adaptive Co-Creators in Mental Health Care
This position paper argues for a fundamental shift in how Large Language Models (LLMs) are integrated into the mental health care domain. We advocate for their role as co-creators rather than mere assistive tools. While LLMs have the potential to enhance accessibility, personalization, and crisis intervention, their adoption remains limited due to concerns about bias, evaluation, over-reliance, dehumanization, and regulatory uncertainties. To address these challenges, we propose two structured …

Time is short — submit to #ID24 today (or tomorrow, or I guess maybe Saturday):
https://inclusivedesign24.org/2025/
Submission window closes 31 May.
Then block out your calendar for ID24 on …

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

Visual Privacy Management with Generative AI for Blind and Low-Vision People
Tanusree Sharma, Yu-Yun Tseng, Lotus Zhang, Ayae Ide, Kelly Avery Mack, Leah Findlater, Danna Gurari, Yang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00286

Visual Privacy Management with Generative AI for Blind and Low-Vision People
Blind and low vision (BLV) individuals use Generative AI (GenAI) tools to interpret and manage visual content in their daily lives. While such tools can enhance the accessibility of visual content and so enable greater user independence, they also introduce complex challenges around visual privacy. In this paper, we investigate the current practices and future design preferences of blind and low vision individuals through an interview study with 21 participants. Our findings reveal a range of c…

When a user identifies a potential accessibility challenge in your CSS endeavor, the response should not be, “have you considered a user stylesheet?”
Don’t be do dismissive.

Screen Reader Users in the Vibe Coding Era: Adaptation, Empowerment, and New Accessibility Landscape
Nan Chen, Luna K. Qiu, Arran Zeyu Wang, Zilong Wang, Yuqing Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13270

Screen Reader Users in the Vibe Coding Era: Adaptation, Empowerment, and New Accessibility Landscape
The rise of generative AI agents has reshaped human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work by shifting users' roles from direct task execution to supervising machine-driven actions, especially in programming (e.g., "vibe coding"). However, there is limited understanding of how screen reader users engage with these systems in practice. To address this gap, we conducted a longitudinal study with 16 screen reader users, exploring their experiences with AI code assistants in d…

Email as the Interface to Generative AI Models: Seamless Administrative Automation
Andres Navarro, Carlos de Quinto, Jos\'e Alberto Hern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23850

Email as the Interface to Generative AI Models: Seamless Administrative Automation
This paper introduces a novel architectural framework that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) with email interfaces to automate administrative tasks, specifically targeting accessibility barriers in enterprise environments. The system connects email communication channels with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and intelligent automation, enabling non-technical administrative staff to delegate complex form-filling and document processing tasks using familiar email interfaces. By treating …

Fun bug:
Screen readers stick paragraphs together when display: block is present in ::before and :after
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/428077782
Have confirmed for myself.
Who doesn't like CSS display property bugs that blow up accessibility? Oh rig…

Positioning AI Tools to Support Online Harm Reduction Practice: Applications and Design Directions
Kaixuan Wang, Jason T. Jacques, Chenxin Diao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22941

Positioning AI Tools to Support Online Harm Reduction Practice: Applications and Design Directions
Access to accurate and actionable harm reduction information can directly impact the health outcomes of People Who Use Drugs (PWUD), yet existing online channels often fail to meet their diverse and dynamic needs due to limitations in adaptability, accessibility, and the pervasive impact of stigma. Large Language Models (LLMs) present a novel opportunity to enhance information provision, but their application in such a high-stakes domain is under-explored and presents socio-technical challenges…

I was hit with paywall the first time I look at the Forbes Accessibility 100. Now that I can (archive link: https://archive.is/G0ZCD), I was trying to find a breakdown of disabled folks (to start).
It seems Angela Young has already pegged it as low:

Sheri Byrne-Haber points out that some disability-related orgs use overlays and as a result you should probably not trust those orgs:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sheribyrnehaber_access…

Autism Speaks. | Sheri Byrne-Haber (disabled)
Autism Speaks. United Spinal Association. Special Olympics. @Sins Invalid. What do they have in common? They are all organizations that claim to be allies of people who are neurodiverse or have disabilities. Every single one of them uses an overlay on their websites. Overlays are shortcuts that don’t resolve accessibility barriers created through sloppy coding practices. They create a false sense of compliance, often interfering with assistive technology and user experience. Overlay compan…