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Daniela Kubesch<p>It's almost time for Global Accessibility Awareness Day and I can finally share my thesis in an accessible format 🎉</p><p>Due to the mandatory template used, the thesis PDF is not accessible. So there was no way I was going to share it with the world. It took a year, but I managed to create a website with an <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/accessible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessible</span></a> <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/version" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>version</span></a> of the 160-pages thesis on <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/AccessibilityOverlays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AccessibilityOverlays</span></a>, and some additional content! </p><p>You can find it here: <a href="https://overlays.dnikub.dev" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">overlays.dnikub.dev</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> ✨</p>
FeralRobots<p>Minor podcast-prompted epiphany/question:<br>Has anyone looked at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AccessibilityOverlays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AccessibilityOverlays</span></a> as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spyware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spyware</span></a>?<br>There's certainly energy devoted to examining them, but the people looking at them are interested in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usability</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> (which such <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/overlays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>overlays</span></a> almost invariably make worse). But think about what they are: voluntary cross-site script injections, with mysterious functionality. That'd be an utterly ideal way to introduce spyware.</p>
FeralRobots<p>The problem with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AccessibilityOverlays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AccessibilityOverlays</span></a>, I find, is that people DON'T BELIEVE they make things worse. 'Why would people continue to spend money on them if they just make things worse?'</p><p>To which I'm always tempted to reply: Have you paid attention to anything at all in your entire life?</p>
FeralRobots<p>I've personally never seen a case where an accessibility overlay didn't make the accessibility of a website worse than it would have been without the overlay.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AccessibilityOverlays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AccessibilityOverlays</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/a11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>a11y</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AccessibilityOverlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AccessibilityOverlay</span></a></p>
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