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“A threat model for accessibility on the web”
https://alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-model-for-accessibility-on-the-web/
A deep, well-researched & cited piece from @…

A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice
A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community

Fanatics, I am once again boosting this into the void for your edification.
https://mas.to/@markwyner/109797687993819959

@… we are not loving the accessibility of “mic” to reflect mute/unmute

Shared Control for Game Accessibility: Understanding Current Human Cooperation Practices to Inform the Design of Partial Automation Solutions
Dragan Ahmetovic, Matteo Manzoni, Filippo Corti, Sergio Mascetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02132

Shared Control for Game Accessibility: Understanding Current Human Cooperation Practices to Inform the Design of Partial Automation Solutions
Shared control is a form of video gaming accessibility support that allows players with disabilities to delegate inaccessible controls to another person. Through interviews involving 14 individuals with lived experience of accessible gaming in shared control, we explore the ways in which shared control technologies are adopted in practice, the accessibility challenges they address, and how the support currently provided in shared control can be automated to remove the need for a human assistant…

BUSINESS LEADER: We don't want to constrain our addressable market by getting too specific with our user persona. This product is for everyone!
DESIGNER: That's great! Let's talk about accessibility
BUSINESS LEADER: Oh, I didn't mean it like *that*
#a11y #UX

A good account (bot) to follow, it reminds when I forget to add an alt-text to a picture and makes one,
https://fuzzies.wtf/@altbot

Altbot (@altbot@fuzzies.wtf)
129K Posts, 4.35K Following, 3.92K Followers · Hi! I'm Altbot™ your accessibility companion! I help make the Fediverse more inclusive by generating alt-text descriptions for images. Let me assist you! How to Use: > Mention me (@altbot) in a reply to any post with images! > Follow me and I'll follow back to help with your posts > I'll generate alt-text for images that need it Important Notes: Your media is processed locally on my own server and NOTHING is saved or used for training. Comple…

from my link log —
a11y.css: a web page accessibility linter.
https://ffoodd.github.io/a11y.css/
saved 2025-11-03 https://dotat.at/:/CKOLK.html

#Accessibility modelers using #r5r #rstats, check this GUI for playing around with R5 network. If many people find it useful, I would get signal if I should invest any more free time into it.

thank me later
#discord

Guess which iOS Safari screenshot has an option on to improve visual accessibility

Principles Of Web Accessibility
A set of high-level guiding principles for approaching web accessibility. How to approach accessible web interface design.
– by @…
🌐 https://

GitHub - Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility: How to approach accessible web interface design
How to approach accessible web interface design. Contribute to Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility development by creating an account on GitHub.

Increasing accessibility by public transport benefits local economy: the effect of a new metro line in Rome
Francesco Marzolla, Bruno Campanelli, Hygor Piaget Monteiro Melo, Matteo Bruno, Vittorio Loreto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01449

Increasing accessibility by public transport benefits local economy: the effect of a new metro line in Rome
This study investigates the economic impact of Metro C, a major expansion of Rome's metro system. Using a difference-in-differences (DID) approach within a multiplicative framework, the research quantifies the impact of increased accessibility on local economic activities. The results show a statistically significant rise in the number of economic activities in areas affected by the new line. A mild decline in economic diversity suggests the emergence of spatial clustering of similar activities…

Honestly, #emoji and icons in #Unicode are a true horror.
Yeah, sure. It's great that you don't have to use <img/> anymore and you can just paste a random Unicode character. You can get graphics into fields where only text was originally intended (like bug summaries). Even better, you can now easily get cool colorful icons on terminal with almost no effort.
However, it is an #accessibility nightmare. People are now encoding *information* in random graphical symbols. Symbols that require huge fonts to render, or huge character tables to describe.
Yeah, a bare <img/> carrying information sucks. However, you can add a *meaningful* alt-text to the image, and accessibility tools can use that text to provide meaningful context. Like "bug fix".
However, emojis and icons are symbolic. The best you can get is some description like "hammer and wrench", so people can kinda figure out that it's probably a "bug fix". Or maybe it was a "maintenance task"? Or you'll get a "unknown character 0x1F6E0". And I'm sure people will surely enjoy cross-referencing a "legend" of such "unknown characters".

Scaling Accessibility Education: Reflections from a Workshop Targeting CS Educators and Software Professionals
P D Parthasarathy, Anshu M Mittal, Swaroop Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22759

Scaling Accessibility Education: Reflections from a Workshop Targeting CS Educators and Software Professionals
Despite growing global attention to digital accessibility, research from India highlights a significant gap in accessibility training for both computing educators and software professionals. To address this need, we designed and conducted an experiential workshop aimed at building foundational capacity in accessibility practices among 77 participants, including computer science (CS) faculty and industry practitioners. The one-day workshop combined hands-on activities, tool demonstrations, and c…

Interoperable verification and dissemination of software assets in repositories using COAR Notify
Matteo Cancellieri, Martin Docekal, David Pride, Morane Gruenpeter, David Douard, Petr Knoth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02335

Interoperable verification and dissemination of software assets in repositories using COAR Notify
The discoverability, attribution, and reusability of open research software are often hindered by its obscurity within academic manuscripts. To address this, the SoFAIR project (2024-2025) introduces a comprehensive workflow leveraging machine learning tools for extracting software mentions from research papers. The project integrates repository systems, authors, and services like HAL and Software Heritage to ensure proper archiving, citation, and accessibility of research software in alignment…

No big deal just a small music venue where bands play changing the city for the better...
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/09/24/cactus-club-accessibility-improvements-inspire-city-officials/

Cactus Club Accessibility Improvements Inspire City Officials
City will waive fees for additions like wheelchair ramps. 'We want thousands more.

Just posted a public test build of OmniDiskSweeper 1.16:
https://omnistaging.omnigroup.com/omnidisksweeper/
• Accessible Sizes — Each file now provides an accessibility title (e.g. “Desktop"), an accessibility value describing its size (e.g. “need permission to fully…

Facilitating Cognitive Accessibility with LLMs: A Multi-Task Approach to Easy-to-Read Text Generation
Fran\c{c}ois Ledoyen, Ga\"el Dias, Jeremie Pantin, Alexis Lechervy, Fabrice Maurel, Youssef Chahir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00662

Facilitating Cognitive Accessibility with LLMs: A Multi-Task Approach to Easy-to-Read Text Generation
Simplifying complex texts is essential for ensuring equitable access to information, especially for individuals with cognitive impairments. The Easy-to-Read (ETR) initiative offers a framework for making content accessible to the neurodivergent population, but the manual creation of such texts remains time-consuming and resource-intensive. In this work, we investigate the potential of large language models (LLMs) to automate the generation of ETR content. To address the scarcity of aligned corp…

1/N Juurikaan ei ole näkynyt iloisia viestejä siitä, miten WCAG 2.2. on nyt ISO-standardi "ISO/IEC 40500:2025 - Information technology — W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2." https://www.iso.org/standard/91029.html - saatavana peräti ilmaiseksi! (Miten nyt käy ISO:n talouden?)…

ISO/IEC 40500:2025
Information technology — W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2

Use of LLMs in preparing accessible scientific papers
Allison Doami, Christine James, Dan Lu, Lia Prins, Annette Torrence, Boris Veytsman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00826 https:…

Use of LLMs in preparing accessible scientific papers
Making scientific papers accessible may require reprocessing old papers to create output compliant with accessibility standards. An important step there is to convert the visual formatting to the logical one. In this report we describe our attempt at zero shot conversion of arXiv papers. Our results are mixed: while it is possible to do conversion, the reliability is not too good. We discuss alternative approaches to this problem.

An Agent-Based Simulation of Ageing Societies: Accessibility and Care Dynamics in Remote Areas
Roberto garrone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26496 https://arx…

An Agent-Based Simulation of Ageing Societies: Accessibility and Care Dynamics in Remote Areas
This paper presents an agent-based simulation of accessibility and care dynamics in ageing societies, applied to the Italian inner area of Premeno (VB). The model integrates census and municipal data, drone-derived elevation models, GIS road networks, and survey-based caregiving information to generate synthetic populations of older adults and their caregivers. Agents are organized into dyads with socio-economic and mobility attributes, enabling the simulation of both micro-scale accessibility …

The dimensions of accessibility: proximity, opportunities, values
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11875

The dimensions of accessibility: proximity, opportunities, values
Accessibility is essential for designing inclusive urban systems. However, the attempt to capture the complexity of accessibility in a single universal metric has often limited its effective use in design, measurement, and governance across various fields. Building on the work of Levinson and Wu, we emphasise that accessibility consists of several key dimensions. Specifically, we introduce a conceptual framework that defines accessibility through three main dimensions: Proximity (which pertains…

Shopify is legitimately angry at drive-by ADA lawsuits:
https://www.shopify.com/news/accessibility-lawsuits
But Shopify is wrong there are “no clear guidelines.” That’s a signal the author didn’t consult Shopify’s own team.
Shopify also fails to note its role to pro…

The small business shakedown: Why thousands of entrepreneurs are getting buried in lawsuits
Murky accessibility laws make compliance nearly impossible. Ultimately, it’s a loss for both small businesses and disability advocates.

Designing Gaze Analytics for ELA Instruction: A User-Centered Dashboard with Conversational AI Support
Eduardo Davalos, Yike Zhang, Shruti Jain, Namrata Srivastava, Trieu Truong, Nafees-ul Haque, Tristan Van, Jorge Salas, Sara McFadden, Sun-Joo Cho, Gautam Biswas, Amanda Goodwin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03741

Designing Gaze Analytics for ELA Instruction: A User-Centered Dashboard with Conversational AI Support
Eye-tracking offers rich insights into student cognition and engagement, but remains underutilized in classroom-facing educational technology due to challenges in data interpretation and accessibility. In this paper, we present the iterative design and evaluation of a gaze-based learning analytics dashboard for English Language Arts (ELA), developed through five studies involving teachers and students. Guided by user-centered design and data storytelling principles, we explored how gaze data ca…

Who Gets Left Behind? Auditing Disability Inclusivity in Large Language Models
Deepika Dash, Yeshil Bangera, Mithil Bangera, Gouthami Vadithya, Srikant Panda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00963

Who Gets Left Behind? Auditing Disability Inclusivity in Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for accessibility guidance, yet many disability groups remain underserved by their advice. To address this gap, we present taxonomy aligned benchmark1 of human validated, general purpose accessibility questions, designed to systematically audit inclusivity across disabilities. Our benchmark evaluates models along three dimensions: Question-Level Coverage (breadth within answers), Disability-Level Coverage (balance across nine disability categor…

Are LLMs ready to help non-expert users to make charts of official statistics data?
Gadir Suleymanli, Alexander Rogiers, Lucas Lageweg, Jefrey Lijffijt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01197

Are LLMs ready to help non-expert users to make charts of official statistics data?
In this time when biased information, deep fakes, and propaganda proliferate, the accessibility of reliable data sources is more important than ever. National statistical institutes provide curated data that contain quantitative information on a wide range of topics. However, that information is typically spread across many tables and the plain numbers may be arduous to process. Hence, this open data may be practically inaccessible. We ask the question "Are current Generative AI models capable …

A Unified Denoising and Adaptation Framework for Self-Supervised Bengali Dialectal ASR
Swadhin Biswas, Imran, Tuhin Sheikh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00988 https://

A Unified Denoising and Adaptation Framework for Self-Supervised Bengali Dialectal ASR
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for Bengali, the world's fifth most spoken language, remains a significant challenge, critically hindering technological accessibility for its over 270 million speakers. This challenge is compounded by two persistent and intertwined factors: the language's vast dialectal diversity and the prevalence of acoustic noise in real-world environments. While state-of-the-art self-supervised learning (SSL) models have advanced ASR for low-resource languages, they often…

Sonification and haptic feedback for mathematical graph accessibility: State of the art and future directions in assistive technologies and educational applications for users with visual impairments https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000186056 Cf. The vOICe

Sonification and Haptic Feedback for Mathematical Graph Accessibility : State of the art and future directions in assistive technologies and educational applications for users with visual impairments

https://karlgroves.com/how-much-should-you-spend-on-accessibility/
“… a good rule of thumb is to treat accessibility as a core part of your compliance strategy. Aiming for 5%–10% of your compliance budget is a solid starting point. For some, that may mean 0.1%–0…

I just registered for #WPA11yDay, a free, virtual 24-hour conference on WordPress accessibility taking place October 15-16, and you should too!
Get your free ticket at https://2025.wpaccessibility.day/.

WordPress Accessibility Day 2025 - WordPress Accessibility Day 2025
WordPress Accessibility Day is a free 24-hour global event dedicated to addressing website accessibility in WordPress. October 15-16, 2025.

And like, y’all do know you can use accessibility features right? There’s no shame in using them okay? Idk if it’s internalised ableism or something but some people seem to refuse to use those features and then just complain they can’t read????

Bridging Technical Capability and User Accessibility: Off-grid Civilian Emergency Communication
Karim Khamaisi, Oliver Kamer, Bruno Rodrigues, Jan von der Assen, Burkhard Stiller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22568

Bridging Technical Capability and User Accessibility: Off-grid Civilian Emergency Communication
During large-scale crises disrupting cellular and Internet infrastructure, civilians lack reliable methods for communication, aid coordination, and access to trustworthy information. This paper presents a unified emergency communication system integrating a low-power, long-range network with a crisis-oriented smartphone application, enabling decentralized and off-grid civilian communication. Unlike previous solutions separating physical layer resilience from user layer usability, our design mer…

#Netflix greenlights 10-for-1 stock split on its shares trading over $1000 to boost accessibility to traders and aid employee stock share plans
On November 17th, traders who own a single Netflix share as of Nov 10th will own 10 shares, though the company’s underlying value will remain the same. Netflix shares have surged about 270% over the past three years to $1,089 as of today’s close.
This r…

Benchmarking PDF Accessibility Evaluation A Dataset and Framework for Assessing Automated and LLM-Based Approaches for Accessibility Testing
Anukriti Kumar, Tanushree Padath, Lucy Lu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18965

Investigation of Using Non-Contact Electrodes for Fetal ECG Monitoring
Tai Le, Hau Luu, Loan Pham-Nguyen, Hung Viet-Dao, Duc Nguyen Minh, Afshan B. Hameed, Hoang Nguyen, Liem Thanh Nguyen, Huy-Dung Han, Hung Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00550

Investigation of Using Non-Contact Electrodes for Fetal ECG Monitoring
Regular physiological monitoring of maternal and fetal parameters is indispensable for ensuring safe outcomes during pregnancy and parturition. Fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) assessment is crucial to detect fetal distress and developmental anomalies. Given challenges of prenatal care due to the lack of medical professionals and the limit of accessibility, especially in remote and resource-poor areas, we develop a fECG monitoring system using novel non-contact electrodes (NCE) to record the feta…

Skill, Will, or Both? Understanding Digital Inaccessibility from Accessibility Professionals' Viewpoint
P D Parthasarathy, Rachel F. Adler, Devorah Kletenik, Swaroop Joshi, Anshu M Mittal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23287

Skill, Will, or Both? Understanding Digital Inaccessibility from Accessibility Professionals' Viewpoint
Digital inaccessibility continues to be a significant barrier to true inclusion and equality. WebAIM's 2024 report reveals that only 4.1% of the world's top one million website homepages are fully accessible. Furthermore, the percentage of web pages with detectable Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) failures has only decreased by 1.9\% over the past five years, from 97.8%. To gain deeper insights into the persistent challenges of digital accessibility, we conducted a comprehensive surv…

Inside Pangyo Techno Valley, South Korea's "Silicon Valley" that is home to 1,800 startups, R&D centers, and global tech firms, as it strives for global impact (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/sout

South Korea's 'Silicon Valley' struggles to live up to its global ambitions | TechCrunch
South Korea’s Pangyo continues to anchor the nation’s tech economy, though accessibility and competition test its edge.

On the Evolution of Federated Post-Training Large Language Models: A Model Accessibility View
Tao Guo, Junxiao Wang, Fushuo Huo, Laizhong Cui, Song Guo, Jie Gui, Dacheng Tao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16261

On the Evolution of Federated Post-Training Large Language Models: A Model Accessibility View
Federated Learning (FL) enables training models across decentralized data silos while preserving client data privacy. Recent research has explored efficient methods for post-training large language models (LLMs) within FL to address computational and communication challenges. While existing approaches often rely on access to LLMs' internal information, which is frequently restricted in real-world scenarios, an inference-only paradigm (black-box FedLLM) has emerged to address these limitations. …

“Motability Operations is committed to ensuring that its customers have fair access to home charging, so they can benefit from the convenience, cost savings and accessibility benefits it offers, while safeguarding the accessibility of pavements for disabled pedestrians.
Research undertaken with [..] customers has identified a variety of accessibility challenges with existing cross-pavement products, and a range of considerations for more accessible future designs.”

Home charging for all | Motability Operations
Improving access to home charging is more important than ever. Our report explores the role cross-pavement products could play in creating a smooth EV transition.

I appreciate Hidde’s ability to take preposterous claims by a major accessibility tooling maker and the rampant thievery of IP by LLM makers, consider their dehumanizing output, and propose this gentle, whisper-soft rebuke:
https://hidde.blog/teaching-llms-or-companies/

Yes, let's teach LLMs accessibility, but also provide the companies using them with better strategies
Some thoughts on teaching LLMs accessibility.

Detecting YouTube Scam Videos via Multimodal Signals and Policy Reasoning
Ummay Kulsum, Aafaq Sabir, Abhinaya S. B., Anupam Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23418 https://

Detecting YouTube Scam Videos via Multimodal Signals and Policy Reasoning
YouTube has emerged as a dominant platform for both information dissemination and entertainment. However, its vast accessibility has also made it a target for scammers, who frequently upload deceptive or malicious content. Prior research has documented a range of scam types, and detection approaches rely primarily on textual or statistical metadata. Although effective to some extent, these signals are easy to evade and potentially overlook other modalities, such as visual cues. In this study,…

Location Matters: Leveraging Multi-Resolution Geo-Embeddings for Housing Search
Ivo Silva (QuintoAndar), Pedro Nogueira (QuintoAndar), Guilherme Bonaldo (QuintoAndar)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01196

Location Matters: Leveraging Multi-Resolution Geo-Embeddings for Housing Search
QuintoAndar Group is Latin America's largest housing platform, revolutionizing property rentals and sales. Headquartered in Brazil, it simplifies the housing process by eliminating paperwork and enhancing accessibility for tenants, buyers, and landlords. With thousands of houses available for each city, users struggle to find the ideal home. In this context, location plays a pivotal role, as it significantly influences property value, access to amenities, and life quality. A great location can …

Inclusive Easy-to-Read Generation for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments
Fran\c{c}ois Ledoyen, Ga\"el Dias, Alexis Lechervy, Jeremie Pantin, Fabrice Maurel, Youssef Chahir, Elisa Gouzonnat, M\'elanie Berthelot, Stanislas Moravac, Armony Altinier, Amy Khairalla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00691

Inclusive Easy-to-Read Generation for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments
Ensuring accessibility for individuals with cognitive impairments is essential for autonomy, self-determination, and full citizenship. However, manual Easy-to-Read (ETR) text adaptations are slow, costly, and difficult to scale, limiting access to crucial information in healthcare, education, and civic life. AI-driven ETR generation offers a scalable solution but faces key challenges, including dataset scarcity, domain adaptation, and balancing lightweight learning of Large Language Models (LLM…

On the Relationship between Space-Time Accessibility and Leisure Activity Participation
Yuan Liao, Rafael H. M. Pereira, Jorge Gil, Silvia De Sojo Caso, Laura Alessandretti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10307

On the Relationship between Space-Time Accessibility and Leisure Activity Participation
Understanding how accessibility shapes participation in leisure activities is central to promoting inclusive and vibrant urban life. Conventional accessibility measures often focus on potential access from fixed home locations, overlooking the constraints and opportunities embedded in daily routines. In this study, we introduce a space-time accessibility (SPA) metric rooted in the capability approach, capturing feasible leisure opportunities between home and work given a certain time budget, in…

Social and Telepresence Robots for Accessibility and Inclusion in Small Museums
Nello Balossino, Rossana Damiano, Cristina Gena, Alberto Lillo, Anna Maria Marras, Claudio Mattutino, Antonio Pizzo, Alessia Prin, Fabiana Vernero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05946

Social and Telepresence Robots for Accessibility and Inclusion in Small Museums
There are still many museums that present accessibility barriers, particularly regarding perceptual, cultural, and cognitive aspects. This is especially evident in low-density population areas. The aim of the ROBSO-PM project is to improve the accessibility of small museums through the use of social robots and social telepresence robots, focusing on three museums as case studies: the Museum of the Holy Shroud in Turin, a small but globally known institution, and two lesser known mountain museum…

🚀 Multiple Execution Profiles: Configure different models (GPT-5, O3) with varying approval policies and sandbox modes for different agent roles
📊 Rich Agent Ecosystem: Ships with starter personas for code review, debugging, security auditing, performance analysis, documentation, and accessibility
🔄 Zero Fluff Philosophy: Single delegate tool with minimal attack surface, avoiding complex orchestrators while maintaining simplicity through

🎧 Listening (at 1.5x speed … 😅) to a wonderful conversation between two of my favourite people: @… navigating the world of web #accessibility with @…

Terminal users who use #accessibility tools, what is your take on emoji in console applications, especially compared to marker characters (eg. angular brackets for directions or hashes for comments) and to explicitly spelled out labels?
Does an "info" emoji render "ℹ️ Some information" (or a warning as in "⚠️ X went wrong") get across well for terminal assi…

The Accessibility Paradox: How Blind and Low Vision Employees Experience and Negotiate Accessibility in the Technology Industry
Aparajita Marathe, Anne Marie Piper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18492

The Accessibility Paradox: How Blind and Low Vision Employees Experience and Negotiate Accessibility in the Technology Industry
Many technology companies aim to improve access and inclusion not only by making their products accessible but also by bringing people with disabilities into the tech workforce. We know less about how accessibility is experienced and negotiated by disabled workers within these organizations. Through interviews with 20 BLV workers across various tech companies, we uncover a persistent misalignment between organizational attempts at accessibility and the current realities of these employees. We i…

Patch-Based Diffusion for Data-Efficient, Radiologist-Preferred MRI Reconstruction
Rohan Sanda, Asad Aali, Andrew Johnston, Eduardo Reis, Jonathan Singh, Gordon Wetzstein, Sara Fridovich-Keil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21531

Patch-Based Diffusion for Data-Efficient, Radiologist-Preferred MRI Reconstruction
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) requires long acquisition times, raising costs, reducing accessibility, and making scans more susceptible to motion artifacts. Diffusion probabilistic models that learn data-driven priors can potentially assist in reducing acquisition time. However, they typically require large training datasets that can be prohibitively expensive to collect. Patch-based diffusion models have shown promise in learning effective data-driven priors over small real-valued datasets,…

CASE: An Agentic AI Framework for Enhancing Scam Intelligence in Digital Payments
Nitish Jaipuria, Lorenzo Gatto, Zijun Kan, Shankey Poddar, Bill Cheung, Diksha Bansal, Ramanan Balakrishnan, Aviral Suri, Jose Estevez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19932

CASE: An Agentic AI Framework for Enhancing Scam Intelligence in Digital Payments
The proliferation of digital payment platforms has transformed commerce, offering unmatched convenience and accessibility globally. However, this growth has also attracted malicious actors, leading to a corresponding increase in sophisticated social engineering scams. These scams are often initiated and orchestrated on multiple surfaces outside the payment platform, making user and transaction-based signals insufficient for a complete understanding of the scam's methodology and underlying patte…

Gotta love how quickly pull request best practices get abandoned the moment accessibility work is involved.

#GiftLink: This is #America, already great
The Strange Beauty of New York’s Bodega Ramps - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/arts/design/deli-bodega-ramps-accessibility.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d08.s7GZ.BYmSO2ouTLlr&smid=url-share

Investigating VR Accessibility Reviews for Users with Disabilities: A Qualitative Analysis
Yi Wang, Chetan Arora, Xiao Liu, Thuong Hoang, ZHengxin Zhang, Henry Been Lirn Duh, John Grundy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13051

Investigating VR Accessibility Reviews for Users with Disabilities: A Qualitative Analysis
Accessibility reviews provide valuable insights into both the limitations and benefits experienced by users with disabilities when using virtual reality (VR) applications. However, a comprehensive investigation into VR accessibility for users with disabilities is still lacking. To fill this gap, this study analyzes user reviews from the Meta and Steam stores of VR apps, focusing on the reported issues affecting users with disabilities. We applied selection criteria to 1,367,419 reviews from the…

Guess who Alec Baldwin had on his podcast.
Listen to the episode and hear YDS student Andrea Barton Reeves '26 M.A.R. discuss her work ensuring accessibility to services and support for thousands of Connecticut residents, and how she remains grounded in her values of transparency, integrity, and service to others. #WeAreCalled

Department of Social Services Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves on Connecticut’s Future
Podcast Episode · Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin · 10/21/2025 · 43m

"53 allies watching 4 Russians beating up one Ukrainian"
🔥 https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115081068211336900

Randahl Fink (@randahl@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Trump's Alaska peace summit was a failure, because Trump and Putin cannot end the Ukraine war. But we can — and this is how: https://youtu.be/eeiKAftt3_c (For accessibility, this video has #subtitles)

@… @… the ascii drawings/charts (and accessibility there-in) goes off the rails a bit but otherwise a very cool experiment!

Just spent some time explaining that while I’m very happy to show off my setup, “which tool do you use?” is not the same question at all as “what tool would you recommend I try?”
I can only use tools with accessibility support and I’m terminal-minded. I also refuse to perpetuate the myth that “real” tech must look like this.

The dimensions of accessibility: proximity, opportunities, values
Matteo Bruno, Bruno Campanelli, Hygor Piaget Monteiro Melo, Lavinia Rossi Mori, Vittorio Loreto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11875

The dimensions of accessibility: proximity, opportunities, values
Accessibility is essential for designing inclusive urban systems. However, the attempt to capture the complexity of accessibility in a single universal metric has often limited its effective use in design, measurement, and governance across various fields. Building on the work of Levinson and Wu, we emphasise that accessibility consists of several key dimensions. Specifically, we introduce a conceptual framework that defines accessibility through three main dimensions: Proximity (which pertains…

From a 2016 idea to national policy: using transparency to fix security, cut costs & boost control. Now also in Belgium — and measuring accessibility too. See how open data, cyber tokens & a few surprises at #WHY2025 make society safer (and some people nervous).

How we made the Netherlands more secure and accessible using transparency WHY2025
It started with a simple idea in 2016: make the state of security of our government transparent/public. The simple idea has become national government policy. Using transparency we've helped fix tons of security issues, reduce costs and increased control on IT. This year we've rolled out in Belgium and started measuring accessibility of websites in the same fashion. Learn how we've achieved extreme impact with a minimal budget and keep on doing so. Security and accessibility must be commodities.

It's Word Press Accessibility Day!
A free online conference with global scope and participation.
I just saw a great session on accessibility and the "global south" which refers to a lot of places in rural USA as much as it does to South America and African countries.
Technological disparities including bandwidth, computer power, stable electric supply, and poverty-limited access to technology and software are still huge problems that affect business and societ…

Schedule - WordPress Accessibility Day 2025
See the great talks we have planned for this year!

It’s late 2025 and Safari still breaks accessibility via display properties:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299321
Amended my 2022 post as a result:

From Indexing to Coding: A New Paradigm for Data Availability Sampling
Moritz Grundei, Aayush Rajasekaran, Kishori Konwar, Muriel Medard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21586 https:/…

From Indexing to Coding: A New Paradigm for Data Availability Sampling
The data availability problem is a central challenge in blockchain systems and lies at the core of the accessibility and scalability issues faced by platforms such as Ethereum. Modern solutions employ several approaches, with data availability sampling (DAS) being the most self-sufficient and minimalistic in its security assumptions. Existing DAS methods typically form cryptographic commitments on codewords of fixed-rate erasure codes, which restrict light nodes to sampling from a predetermined…

BLUEX Revisited: Enhancing Benchmark Coverage with Automatic Captioning
Jo\~ao Guilherme Alves Santos, Giovana Kerche Bon\'as, Thales Sales Almeida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21294

BLUEX Revisited: Enhancing Benchmark Coverage with Automatic Captioning
With the growing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), there is an increasing need for robust evaluation methods, especially in multilingual and non-English contexts. We present an updated version of the BLUEX dataset, now including 2024-2025 exams and automatically generated image captions using state-of-the-art models, enhancing its relevance for data contamination studies in LLM pretraining. Captioning strategies increase accessibility to text-only models by more than 40%, producing …

Has anyone making this feature actually asked any accessibility experts and any disabled people if this is a good idea?
Because in practice this will give you terrible results, because AI can’t know what you intent do communicate with the image.
Even if it would give good results (it doesn’t and never will) and you’re too lazy to write alt text yourself, it would be better to do this on the receiving end where the disabled person could fine-tune generative alt text to their specific needs.
https://mastodon.social/@MonaApp/115406286404369048

4 updates to old posts this week:
1. Embeds Beau Vass’s id24 video:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/01/comparing-manual-and-free-automated-wcag-reviews.html#Update07
2. Embeds Lola Odelola’s id24 video:

Comparing Manual and Free Automated WCAG Reviews
Automated accessibility testing tools cannot test 100% of WCAG. This position is not controversial. Other than overlay vendors, no automated tool maker makes that claim. This is partly because WCAG is targeted at humans, not code, and so nuance and context apply. Free automated accessibility testing tools may have even…

Understanding Accessibility Needs of Blind Authors on CMS-Based Websites
Guillermo Vera-Amaro, Jos\'e Rafael Rojano-C\'aceres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15045 https://…

Understanding Accessibility Needs of Blind Authors on CMS-Based Websites
This paper addresses the limited attention given to blind users as content creators in Content Management Systems (CMS), a gap that remains under-explored in web accessibility research. For blind authors, effective interaction with CMS platforms requires more than technical compliance; it demands interfaces designed with semantic clarity, predictable navigation, and meaningful feedback for screen reader users. This study investigates the accessibility barriers blind users face when performing k…

#RAVEN: Realtime Accessibility in Virtual ENvironments for blind and low-vision people https://arxiv.org/html/2510.06573v1

macOS 26 Tahoe review: Liquid Glass has small regressions in usability and accessibility but the upgrade has enough iterative changes like automated Shortcuts (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/macos-26-tahoe-the-ars-techn…

macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica Review
Liquid Glass brings translucent sheen to the typical batch of iterative changes.

IR-Agent: Expert-Inspired LLM Agents for Structure Elucidation from Infrared Spectra
Heewoong Noh, Namkyeong Lee, Gyoung S. Na, Kibum Kim, Chanyoung Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16112

IR-Agent: Expert-Inspired LLM Agents for Structure Elucidation from Infrared Spectra
Spectral analysis provides crucial clues for the elucidation of unknown materials. Among various techniques, infrared spectroscopy (IR) plays an important role in laboratory settings due to its high accessibility and low cost. However, existing approaches often fail to reflect expert analytical processes and lack flexibility in incorporating diverse types of chemical knowledge, which is essential in real-world analytical scenarios. In this paper, we propose IR-Agent, a novel multi-agent framewo…

I’m getting the distinct sense nobody at Google saw this. Or at least nobody with authority. So if you work there, forward it to your boss.
“My Request to Google on Accessibility”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html…

My Request to Google on Accessibility
Hey, Alphabet or Google or Chrome or whomever in that illegal monopoly continues to release things to the web platform that are full of accessibility barriers, I have what I think is a straightforward request. My Request Please, if your team cannot explain how the thing satisfies all WCAG Success…

Multi-Robot Vision-Based Task and Motion Planning for EV Battery Disassembly and Sorting
Abdelaziz Shaarawy, Cansu Erdogan, Rustam Stolkin, Alireza Rastegarpanah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21020

Multi-Robot Vision-Based Task and Motion Planning for EV Battery Disassembly and Sorting
Electric-vehicle (EV) battery disassembly requires precise multi-robot coordination, short and reliable motions, and robust collision safety in cluttered, dynamic scenes. We propose a four-layer task-and-motion planning (TAMP) framework that couples symbolic task planning and cost- and accessibility-aware allocation with a TP-GMM-guided motion planner learned from demonstrations. Stereo vision with YOLOv8 provides real-time component localization, while OctoMap-based 3D mapping and FCL(Flexible…

Playing telephone with generative models: "verification disability," "compelled reliance," and accessibility in data visualization
Frank Elavsky, Cindy Xiong Bearfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12192

Playing telephone with generative models: "verification disability," "compelled reliance," and accessibility in data visualization
This paper is a collaborative piece between two worlds of expertise in the field of data visualization: accessibility and bias. In particular, the rise of generative models playing a role in accessibility is a worrying trend for data visualization. These models are increasingly used to help author visualizations as well as generate descriptions of existing visualizations for people who are blind, low vision, or use assistive technologies such as screen readers. Sighted human-to-human bias has a…

In my experience, speaking to my computer does not improve privacy, and certainly not when the machine listens to everything and phones it all home.
https://infosec.exchange/@defendopsdiaries/115384105662411639
Sure, accessibility is a benefit, but Windows alrea…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[2/2]:
- Bridging Technical Capability and User Accessibility: Off-grid Civilian Emergency Communication
Karim Khamaisi, Oliver Kamer, Bruno Rodrigues, Jan von der Assen, Burkhard Stiller

Beyond SSO: Mobile Money Authentication for Inclusive e-Government in Sub-Saharan Africa
Oluwole Adewusi, Wallace S. Msagusa, Jean Pierre Imanirumva, Okemawo Obadofin, Jema D. Ndibwile
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20592

Beyond SSO: Mobile Money Authentication for Inclusive e-Government in Sub-Saharan Africa
The rapid adoption of Mobile Money Services (MMS) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) offers a viable path to improve e-Government service accessibility in the face of persistent low internet penetration. However, existing Mobile Money Authentication (MMA) methods face critical limitations, including susceptibility to SIM swapping, weak session protection, and poor scalability during peak demand. This study introduces a hybrid MMA framework that combines Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD)-b…

"Accessibility people, you go work on that thing of yours over there": Addressing Disability Inclusion in AI Product Organizations
Sanika Moharana, Cynthia L. Bennett, Erin Buehler, Michael Madaio, Vinita Tibdewal, Shaun K. Kane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16607

"Accessibility people, you go work on that thing of yours over there": Addressing Disability Inclusion in AI Product Organizations
The rapid emergence of generative AI has changed the way that technology is designed, constructed, maintained, and evaluated. Decisions made when creating AI-powered systems may impact some users disproportionately, such as people with disabilities. In this paper, we report on an interview study with 25 AI practitioners across multiple roles (engineering, research, UX, and responsible AI) about how their work processes and artifacts may impact end users with disabilities. We found that practiti…

Addressing Visual Impairments with Model-Driven Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review
Judith Michael, Lukas Netz, Bernhard Rumpe, Ingo M\"uller, John Grundy, Shavindra Wickramathilaka, Hourieh Khalajzadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06483

Addressing Visual Impairments with Model-Driven Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review
Software applications often pose barriers for users with accessibility needs, e.g., visual impairments. Model-driven engineering (MDE), with its systematic nature of code derivation, offers systematic methods to integrate accessibility concerns into software development while reducing manual effort. This paper presents a systematic literature review on how MDE addresses accessibility for vision impairments. From 447 initially identified papers, 30 primary studies met the inclusion criteria. Abo…

I boosted this the other day:
https://w3c.social/@wai/115131341361675726
But I have not yet read the Accessibility Maturity Model Draft Note:
https:/…

OpenAI / ChatGPT is shit at UI #accessibility:
• https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/08/15/ai-effluential/
•

Using Real Names of Disabled Participant-Contributors to Practice Citational Justice in Accessibility
Jonathan Zong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14257 https://

Using Real Names of Disabled Participant-Contributors to Practice Citational Justice in Accessibility
In accessibility research involving human subjects, researchers conventionally anonymize their research participants to protect privacy. However, a lack of intentionality about who to publicly acknowledge for intellectual contributions to research can lead to the erasure of disabled individuals' work and knowledge. In this paper, I propose identifying disabled research participants by name (with consent) as a practice of citational justice. I share observations from examples of this practice in…

Leveraging Large Language Models for Accurate Sign Language Translation in Low-Resource Scenarios
Luana Bulla, Gabriele Tuccio, Misael Mongiov\`i, Aldo Gangemi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18183

Leveraging Large Language Models for Accurate Sign Language Translation in Low-Resource Scenarios
Translating natural languages into sign languages is a highly complex and underexplored task. Despite growing interest in accessibility and inclusivity, the development of robust translation systems remains hindered by the limited availability of parallel corpora which align natural language with sign language data. Existing methods often struggle to generalize in these data-scarce environments, as the few datasets available are typically domain-specific, lack standardization, or fail to captur…

“W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 approved as ISO/IEC international standard”
https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2025/wcag22-iso-pas/
ISO/IEC 40500:2025 (no cost):

W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 approved as ISO/IEC international standard
WCAG 2.2 is now ISO/IEC 40500:2025. This standard enables more countries to formally adopt WCAG 2.2. ISO/IEC 40500:2025 is free from the ISO website. Supporting resources and translations are free from the W3C website.

Gamification of Immersive Cervical Rehabilitation Exercises in VR: An Exploratory Study on Chin Tuck and Range of Motion Exercises
Haitham Abdelsalam, Chanelle Montpetit, Arash Harirpoush, Maryse Fortin, Yiming Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18580

Gamification of Immersive Cervical Rehabilitation Exercises in VR: An Exploratory Study on Chin Tuck and Range of Motion Exercises
Chronic neck pain is a prevalent condition that affects millions of individuals worldwide, causing significant individual suffering and socioeconomic burdens. Although exercise rehabilitation is a staple in relieving pain and improving muscle function for the condition, traditional one-on-one rehabilitation sessions are costly and suffer from poor adherence and accessibility for the patients. Thanks to the increasing accessibility and recent advancements in sensing and display technology, virtu…

Unfortunately, standards work may be a function of who has the biggest platform for social media polls (that maybe pre-judge the outcome).
I’m hoping those who work in or near #accessibility can offer some feedback to more fundamental, not pre-judged, questions here:

"I thought it was my mistake, but it's really the design'': A Critical Examination of the Accessibility of User-Enacted Moderation Tools on Facebook and X
Sudhamshu Hosamane, Alyvia Walters, Yao Lyu, Shagun Jhaver
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10789

"I thought it was my mistake, but it's really the design'': A Critical Examination of the Accessibility of User-Enacted Moderation Tools on Facebook and X
As social media platforms increasingly promote the use of user-enacted moderation tools (e.g., reporting, blocking, content filters) to address online harms, it becomes crucially important that such controls are usable for everyone. We evaluate the accessibility of these moderation tools on two mainstream platforms -- Facebook and X -- through interviews and task-based walkthroughs with 15 individuals with vision impairments. Adapting the lens of \emph{administrative burden of safety work}, we …

Whoah.
We’re halfway there.
Whoah.
We’re living on a … video stream:
#id24

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

EchoAid: Enhancing Livestream Shopping Accessibility for the DHH Community
Zeyu Yang, Zheng Wei, Yang Zhang, Xian Xu, Changyang He, Muzhi Zhou, Pan Hui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08020

EchoAid: Enhancing Livestream Shopping Accessibility for the DHH Community
Livestream shopping platforms often overlook the accessibility needs of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) community, leading to barriers such as information inaccessibility and overload. To tackle these challenges, we developed \textit{EchoAid}, a mobile app designed to improve the livestream shopping experience for DHH users. \textit{EchoAid} utilizes advanced speech-to-text conversion, Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) technology, and Large Language Models (LLMs) to simplify the comple…

A reference to this GitHub blog post has come at me a few different ways, eg:
https://bsky.app/profile/longtail.news/post/3m2cfqbihhq2c
But that URL is 404:

CoSight: Exploring Viewer Contributions to Online Video Accessibility Through Descriptive Commenting
Ruolin wang, Xingyu Liu, Biao Wang, Wayne Zhang, Ziqian Liao, Ziwen Li, Amy Pavel, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08582

CoSight: Exploring Viewer Contributions to Online Video Accessibility Through Descriptive Commenting
The rapid growth of online video content has outpaced efforts to make visual information accessible to blind and low vision (BLV) audiences. While professional Audio Description (AD) remains the gold standard, it is costly and difficult to scale across the vast volume of online media. In this work, we explore a complementary approach to broaden participation in video accessibility: engaging everyday video viewers at their watching and commenting time. We introduce CoSight, a Chrome extension th…

Related to my last boost, still annoyed this DID NOT make it into WCAG 2.2:
3.2.7 Hidden Controls (Level AA): Controls needed to progress or complete a process are visible at the time they are needed without requiring pointer hover or keyboard focus, or a mechanism is available to make them persistently visible.
https://www.…

https://bsky.app/profile/codingchaos.bsky.social/post/3lzhhag4xxk2k
(2 post thread)

Sarah Higley (@codingchaos.bsky.social)
Adrian is wrong about exactly one thing in his post, which is that “when the caret is no longer a stick” is an *excellent* pun. Added to this: in my experience running user tests with low vision users, customizing the caret is actually pretty common as an accessibility affordance. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Accessibility Beyond Accommodations: A Systematic Redesign of Introduction to Computer Science for Students with Visual Impairments
Vaanee Tripathi, Aalok Thakkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05056

Accessibility Beyond Accommodations: A Systematic Redesign of Introduction to Computer Science for Students with Visual Impairments
Computer science education has evolved extensively; however, systemic barriers still prevent students with visual impairments from fully participating. While existing research has developed specialized programming tools and assistive technologies, these solutions remain fragmented and often require complex technical infrastructure, which limits their classroom implementation. Current approaches treat accessibility as individual accommodations rather than integral curriculum design, creating gap…

https://bsky.app/profile/ericwbailey.website/post/3m27zvanqsc2d
Over on Bluesky from @…

Eric Bailey (@ericwbailey.website)
"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." https://alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-model-for-accessibility-on-the-web/

Updated 10 posts on my site, largely linking to these:
• Joe’s underlines: https://www.joedolson.com/2025/10/why-wordpress-themes-require-underlines-on-links/
• Alice’s treatise:

Why WordPress Themes Require Underlines on Links - Joe Dolson Web Accessibility
Jeff Chandler posted a link in the Post Status Slack yesterday leading to an article complaining about the underlined link requirement for WordPress

Sometimes I stumble across something I played around with (10!) years ago and am surprised how little I knew yet how fun it was to make.
https://codepen.io/aardrian/pen/rVZKoR

SVGs in Messages
I was playing with SVG sprites and figured I'd post the stuff here. SVG files are compressed versions from Picon library. Added accessibility features....

TIL: The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) runs AT surveys (kind of like WebAIM’s).
#accessibility

I feel like this Masto post will be evidence in yet another claim against Air Canada for wrecking someone’s mobility aid.
https://mastodon.social/@mollyanglin/115228115467133057

Molly Anglin (@mollyanglin@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Sitting on the tarmac for an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Ottawa… The ground crew spent 2 hrs trying to fit a wheelchair into the cargo. After a very long time, they took it off the plane - but appeared to have detached the battery and maybe broken it. 😱 There were maybe 7-10 people out there trying to fix it. I feel for the owner of that chair! #accessibility #aircanada