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

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".

Just me trying to reconcile Baseline listing `<track>` as “widely available” and all browsers shown with green checks when down the page there’s an entire row of red Xes for one of the core accessibility features of `<track>`.
#HTML #accessibility

#a11y #accessibility #UX

🎧 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…

424-word hot take: “You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone”
#accessibility

You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone
This post’s title is unpleasant, but it’s important to acknowledge the reality of the human condition and limitations in technologies. Even purpose-built assistive tech. Broadly, when someone says something is “accessible” that’s a hopeful statement that is based on some best efforts. Of course, there are bad actors who assert…

Tell me you don’t understand ARIA (nor accNames) without telling me.
#a11y #accessibility #ARIA #CSS

OpenAI / ChatGPT is shit at UI #accessibility:
• https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/08/15/ai-effluential/
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Perhaps we should have more than one relatively fast trans-Canada option for travel!?
#accessibility #Transportation #Affordability #trains #rail #westjet
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/westjet-power-wheelchair-weight-limit-9.6982990

The project ‘Ausbildung digitalisieren – Betriebe stärken’ by @… promotes #digitalisation of in-house training and further education in #Saxony—against #SkillsShortages and for a more inclusive #VocationalTrainingSystem.
Goals: Introduction of #LunaLMS in model companies, further development through on-site customisation, documentation of successes for other companies, and improved integration of trainees with special needs for #accessibility or #multilingualism.