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This week's career limiting accessibility regression from @… is to not show comments in pull request diff any more. There's a separate comment panel which you can look at (but not at the same time as the diff) where there are indications of content replies but these cannot be interacted with using standard accessibility tools.
I review very long pull requests for work and as a volunteer maintainer and I am not sure why we're okay with this constant march of degraded experience. #a11y

Accidentally hit the CONTROL key and SPACEBAR together while typing in MS Word, and was startled when my computer blurted out the word I was typing.
I knew TTS was possible, but I really didn't expect it to happen from a typo.
Irony abounds, as the word I was typing happened to be "accessibility"...
#a11y #keyboard

Found by Nick Bromley on the A11y Slack:
“In browse mode in web browsers, NVDA no longer treats controls with 0 width or height as invisible. This may make it possible to access previously inaccessible ‘screen reader only’ content on some websites.”
https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1

Moderators of tech(-adjacent) Discord servers: are y’all getting hit with spam of people advertising their services for AI or blockchain projects?
I ask because a few servers I mod have had a very noticeable uptick of such drive-by self-promo. It’s specifically webdev servers, and none of those servers have advertised themselves as spaces for AI or blockchain interests…

/perf-check /seo-audit /a11y-audit /compliance-check
🔄 Persistent session state in YAML Markdown:
📌 Phase tracking & file manifests
📌 Token usage per agent
📌 Error logs & retry counts
📌 Reliable resume after interruptions
🏗️ Guided design dialogue with depth-selectable reasoning (Quick/Standard/Deep), built-in codebase investigation, and 2-3 architectural approaches with trade-offs before any code is written

RE: https://a11y.info/@bbsmooth/116152608748504801
same tbh

Anyone know of any free Speech-to-text translator apps for Windows 11? Asking for a friend. Apparently the older version is being retired (I am not too sure about the in's and out's of it) #a11y #accessibility

Thanks to a question in A11y Slack, I dug up recent testing results on dynamic accDescriptions:
https://www.darins.page/articles/dynamic-accessible-descriptions-reference#update-03-11-2026
11 March 2026 from @…

Dynamic accessible descriptions reference - Darin Senneff
I recently needed to test the support of a dynamic accessible description – a element’s description that is initially one (or no) value, then changes to…

I was a little hopeful here: https://w3c.social/@w3cdevs/116375525807612315
Until I read:

Accessibility Law of Headlines:
Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong.
#a11y

Accessibility Law of Headlines
Betteridge’s law of headlines states that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. For at least the digital accessibility landscape, I would like to amend it, fork it, whatever it: Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong. Yes, that…

Trump's DOJ trying to do an end-run on Title II accessibility requirements for the web.
Don't let this happen!
What it all means, and what you can do to help...
#a11y #webAccess #accessibility

Red Alert: DOJ Web Rule in Danger
Last June, I wrote about the growing threats to the DOJ’s ADA Title II Web Accessibility Rule. That warning feels understated now. If you care about the accessibility of state and local government websites, read on. There are credible rumors…

Links need more than just a color change to distinguish them.
If your solution is `font-weight: 500`, don’t be surprised when you get dinged for 1.4.1 Use of Color.
`500` often renders no differently than the default (`400`). It’s adversarial conformance.
Use an underline.
#accessibility #a11y

“Barriers from Links with ARIA”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/01/barriers-from-links-with-aria.html
Tried to capture other ways using `aria-label` and/or `aria-hidden` within links can break them for non-SR users.
Corrections, additions welcome. Ma…

Barriers from Links with ARIA
Today Temani Afif asked a question: Are the below codes equivalent if we consider all the aspects? (a11y, semantic, something else maybe?) If not, what is missing (or should be changed) in the second code CSS by T. Afif (@css@front-end.social) 22 January 2026, 2:52pm I have my canned response that…