@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-06 07:18:35
Multi-Tool Analysis of User Interface & Accessibility in Deployed Web-Based Chatbots
Mukesh Rajmohan, Smit Desai, Sanchari Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04659
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-06-06 22:08:10
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.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-06-05 23:52:00
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…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-06-08 02:27:08
Meta found a new way to violate your privacy. Here’s what you can do.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/meta-found-a-new-way-to-violate-your-privacy-here-s-what-you-can-do/ar-AA1GecPs
@dankeck@a11y.social2025-04-07 00:54:07
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
@gfriend@mas.to2025-05-05 20:51:42
Everything you wanted to know about birthright citizenship. And then some.
Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Arguments at the Supreme Court Are Epically Bad - Slate https://apple.news/AGkCaScEfRkm2VNFajiKAfg
@ukraine_live_tagesschau@mastodon.social2025-06-06 07:52:40
@kerstinsailer@sciences.social2025-06-04 09:19:00
“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…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-06-07 00:42:41
The proper way to do this for a blind student would surely be some kind of physical manipulatives, not verbal descriptions. The thing is, I don’t have any blind students currently, and if I did, we’d work on individual accommodation and assistance.
With this alt text, I’m just trying to get •something• in there to be at least minimally accessible: head start on those accommodation, something helpful if I ever share this online, etc. If there’s any way for text to convey the spatial relationships, that would be better than the text I have.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-05-30 16:29:49
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://