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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://

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:

@… @… we love opt-in accessibility 😭

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.

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.

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…

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

What linters are we using for web accessibility these days?
#a11y #accessibility

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

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…

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

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21527 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

VietASR: Achieving Industry-level Vietnamese ASR with 50-hour labeled data and Large-Scale Speech Pretraining
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has made remarkable progress but heavily relies on large-scale labeled data, which is scarce for low-resource languages like Vietnamese. While existing systems such as Whisper, USM, and MMS achieve promising performance, their efficacy remains inadequate in terms of training costs, latency, and accessibility. To address these issues, we propose VietASR, a novel ASR training pipeline that leverages vast amounts of unlabeled data and a small set of labeled data.…

Applying the Principles of Universal Design to Make Astronomy More Accessible
Amanda Quirk, Tom Rice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23498 https://

Applying the Principles of Universal Design to Make Astronomy More Accessible
Universal Design (UD), an approach to accessibility that was first conceptualized in architecture to make buildings physically accessible, has since been applied to curriculum design to make classrooms accessible for a larger range of learning needs. In this paper, we illustrate how the concepts of UD are relevant outside of architecture and the creation of curricula by highlighting examples of norms that exist in the field of astronomy that create barriers for disabled folks. we discuss ways t…

Can we take a moment to appreciate that @… has a live translation of everything on stage, including panels, into sign language? 🔥
#PrototypeDemos #Accessibility

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

StreamLink: Large-Language-Model Driven Distributed Data Engineering System
Dawei Feng, Di Mei, Huiri Tan, Lei Ren, Xianying Lou, Zhangxi Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21575

StreamLink: Large-Language-Model Driven Distributed Data Engineering System
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable proficiency in natural language understanding (NLU), opening doors for innovative applications. We introduce StreamLink - an LLM-driven distributed data system designed to improve the efficiency and accessibility of data engineering tasks. We build StreamLink on top of distributed frameworks such as Apache Spark and Hadoop to handle large data at scale. One of the important design philosophies of StreamLink is to respect user data privacy by ut…

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

Multidimensional Assessment of Public Space Quality: A Comprehensive Framework Across Urban Space Typologies
Mary John, Sherzod Turaev, Saja Al-Dabet, Rawad Abdulghafor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21555

Multidimensional Assessment of Public Space Quality: A Comprehensive Framework Across Urban Space Typologies
This study presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating the quality of public spaces across various urban typologies. Through a systematic review of 159 research studies, we identify universal quality factors that transcend spatial types as well as specialized factors unique to specific public environments. Our findings establish accessibility (73.6%), safety/security (58.4%), and comfort (52.8%) as foundational requirements across all public space types, while revealing distinct quality p…

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

TABS. It is a question of #accessibility, you morons!
Death to #smartTabs (aka random haphazard inserts of spaces depending on the IDE at hand)!
#codingStyle

ChromFound: Towards A Universal Foundation Model for Single-Cell Chromatin Accessibility Data
Yifeng Jiao, Yuchen Liu, Yu Zhang, Xin Guo, Yushuai Wu, Chen Jiang, Jiyang Li, Hongwei Zhang, Limei Han, Xin Gao, Yuan Qi, Yuan Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12638

ChromFound: Towards A Universal Foundation Model for Single-Cell Chromatin Accessibility Data
The advent of single-cell Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin using sequencing (scATAC-seq) offers an innovative perspective for deciphering regulatory mechanisms by assembling a vast repository of single-cell chromatin accessibility data. While foundation models have achieved significant success in single-cell transcriptomics, there is currently no foundation model for scATAC-seq that supports zero-shot high-quality cell identification and comprehensive multi-omics analysis simultaneous…

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.

If you use a read later or bookmarking tool, are you noticing an increasing number of sites that don’t work with them or intentionally don’t allow content to be fetched?
I use wallabag as both productivity and accessibility helper and I’m definitely finding more content that isn’t available… is it just me?

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.

Hey, you. Yeah, you.
You know that quirky section you’ve got on your site that has its own fun background color?
Today’s a great day to validate your focus outlines’ color contrast in that section.
#accessibility #a11y

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

What are your favorite "accessibility red flags"?
In other words, when you first access a website, device, service, physical space, etc., what is something that immediately warns you, this won't go well for some disabled people?
I'd love to hear various perspectives, so please boost if you're willing.
#Disabled

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12638 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbi…

ChromFound: Towards A Universal Foundation Model for Single-Cell Chromatin Accessibility Data
The advent of single-cell Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin using sequencing (scATAC-seq) offers an innovative perspective for deciphering regulatory mechanisms by assembling a vast repository of single-cell chromatin accessibility data. While foundation models have achieved significant success in single-cell transcriptomics, there is currently no foundation model for scATAC-seq that supports zero-shot high-quality cell identification and comprehensive multi-omics analysis simultaneous…

Thank you @… and @… for responding quickly to accessibility barriers in @…
Socialfolio is a fun new way to collect and disp…