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#a11y

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Adrian Roselli

Frank raises a good point (yes, Karl did too) — ‘AI’ in all its meanings is being swallowed whole. The only way for #accessibility practitioners to make sure it isn’t more of a mess is to get involved:

“Resisting at the table: AI, disability, and access”
frank.computer/blog/2025/03/ge

He points to recent work on a W3C Group Draft Note where you can kick in.

Frank Elavsky, a smiling white man with glasses and brown hair.
Frank Elavsky · Resisting at the table: AI, disability, and accessNobody who is a good person who also dislikes AI wants to hear this: Refusal and resistance are necessary, but if we don’t have power, we will probably lose. We need to resist and refuse while we still have a place at the table. And if we don’t have a place at the table, we need to invite ourselves to it.
#a11y
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Shelly Brisbin

Am #a11y feature Slack desperately needs is the ability to display alt text for screenshots, GIFs and other images, plus a reminder to create that alt text when such an item is embedded. My Slack threads have become a sea of inaccessible boxes.

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Aral Balkan

If something I boost has image(s) without alt text, please check the following posts in the thread. I don’t boost posts without providing alt text (and often I just don’t boost posts without alt text that I might have otherwise unless I think they’re worth the time/effort for me to do it).

If I do this for one of your posts, please edit the post and copy/paste the text I’ve provided into the image descriptions so people who rely on screen readers can know what’s in them too.

Let’s keep the fediverse accessible.

Thanks 💕

#accessibility#a11y#screenReaders
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Adrian Roselli

“Here is a list of WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA success criteria that I think cannot be completely tested with automated tools. These criteria require manual testing because they involve meaning, usability, intent, or user experience that automated tools cannot fully evaluate.”
html5accessibility.com/stuff/2

@SteveFaulkner with the automation-to-WCAG-pipeline fatberg.

html5accessibility.comA TOOL’S ERRAND – HTML Accessibility
#a11y#accessibility
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Casey

Why is it that to this day, I haven’t seen a single international digital accessibility professional speak out against Trump? Why have they not been to any protests? Why are they not making visible any disabled people who suffer under the new US administration and the removal of resources?

Oh yeah right, it‘s just a fucking business. #a11y

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Casey

Building accessible applications is not about respect.

It‘s about a goddamn human right and also avoiding technical debt by following standards and convetions. Stop downplaying this. And stop making yourselves look like you care about people. #accessibility #a11y

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Eric Eggert

Sometimes I wonder if me writing up trivial issues like the following is making a difference. I mean, if you are a developer, and you don’t see what is wrong here in like half of a 10th of a second, what are you even doing? Respectfully.

<input
type="radio"
id="radio-abcd"
aria-label="[object Object]. "
checked=""
value="1"
/>
<label for="radio-abcd">Useful label</label>

#a11y#accessibility
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