@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social2025-11-12 21:56:59
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social2025-11-12 21:56:59
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-12-11 17:25:54
Because #accessibility is out of scope for Baseline, devs may not know how poorly supported a feature is and miss an opportunity to vote for things that are barriers to users and risks to orgs.
“Vote for the web features you want to see”
https://
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-10-01 07:29:43
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".
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-10-08 11:59:04
TIL: The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) runs AT surveys (kind of like WebAIM’s).
#accessibility
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-12-03 20:23:14
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
@chrysn@chaos.social2025-09-17 05:05:15
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…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-10-04 11:07:59
Content warning: web access design, state of play
Excellent article from @…, including both an overview and illustrative examples.
As an occasional web-tinkerer, I couldn't fully understand the web design details like a professional would. But from the parallels with event organising, I can tell that the overall vibe is spot-on: don't treat access as an afterthought which can be tacked on later, build it in from day 1.
"If you don't know enough about disabled users to understand their needs: find out. Knowing enough about accessibility to know when to seek out specialist guidance, and to understand it when you get it, should be a core competency for standards engineers. ...
"Getting this right requires a bit more work up-front, but – just as it is with front-end development – ultimately saves potential years of clean-up work (or having to scrap projects after years of effort), as well as avoiding harming disabled users."
#access #design #standards #WebStandards #accessibility #a11y #disability #UX
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-10-22 15:57:33
OpenAI / ChatGPT is shit at UI #accessibility:
• https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/08/15/ai-effluential/
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@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-12-02 20:38:42
424-word hot take: “You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone”
#accessibility
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-10-06 16:55:52
@lunalms@floss.social2025-12-01 19:45:50
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.
