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@aardrian@toot.cafe
2025-12-02 20:38:42

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…

@emilis@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-29 11:41:47

Interesting. I thought there was a recommendation to distinguish links from plain text. Will need to check again.
#w3c #accessibility

A screenshot from a WAI-ARIA W3C Recommendation on accessibility. The text in table of contents looks like plain text, but is a link. A dotted-underlined text is not a link, but an abbreviation. I gimped a couple of red arrows and explanations ("this is a link", "this is not") on top.
@hippyjo@c.im
2026-01-27 21:05:52

You think your lack of compassion makes you look edgy, funny, and cool, but it really just makes you look mean, ugly, and stupid.
When you have the option of showing compassion, choose compassion.
You always have that option...
#compassion #accessibility

@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-01-01 00:46:27

One of the best talks from #39C3 on the #accessibility of doing #hardware / #electronics, very t…

@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-11-12 21:56:59

#a11y #accessibility #UX

A picture of a cat, completely covered with large text that reads: normalize making meme texts bigger so it's easier to read while driving.
@lunalms@floss.social
2025-12-01 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.

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2025-12-11 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”

Does the feature with the most votes win? That would be fun, but no—browser development isn't a popularity contest. Browser vendors have to balance a massive number of factors: security, privacy, architectural complexity, device constraints, and existing standards positions.
@aardrian@toot.cafe
2025-12-03 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

MDN page: <track>: The Embed Text Track element. Baseline Widely available. Green checkmarks for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari. This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.
Same page, Browser compatibility table. The row for kind='descriptions' is marked “No” with a red X for all 12 listed browsers.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-11-18 19:33:20

Perhaps we should have more than one relatively fast trans-Canada option for travel!?
#accessibility #Transportation #Affordability #trains #rail #westjet
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/wes