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Codeberg.org

#Blind users, users that rely heavily on #keyboardNavigation or anyone else with a preference on that matter (please indicate what applies in the comments):

Do you have a preference for or comments on the format of URLs? During user research, we have learned that URLs that are easy to handle are a good thing.

We are currently considering to introduce URLs that do not need more reserved usernames in #Forgejo, such as codeberg.org/-/something/ or codeberg.org/_something/.

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Ben Myers 🦖

Hey, you. Yeah, you.

You know that quirky section you’ve got on your site that has its own fun background color?

Today’s a great day to validate your focus outlines’ color contrast in that section.

#accessibility#a11y
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Megan Lynch (she/her)

@windsorwindsor2 @neil That's when it's helpful for people using the app to contact the developer to tell them of the issue. That way it's not just blind folks asking for better alt text, but sighted people. And, sadly, it then gets prioritized higher than it would be if only disabled people were asking for accessibility.

Thanks for speaking up about the UI problems that get in the way. #Accessibility #a11y

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The A11y Collective

Ever seen fancy italics, bold text, or even gothic letters in a slick marketing post on social media?

These platforms do not offer text formatting, so people use weird mathematical characters from the fringes of the Unicode spectrum. And because they aren't really letters screen reader software will announce them as silence or incomprehensible garbage.

@aardrian has the lodown in "Don’t Use Fake Bold or Italic in Social Media"
adrianroselli.com/2025/03/dont

#a11y
#accessibility

Adrian Roselli · Don’t Use Fake Bold or Italic in Social MediaI posted something on Mastodon that uses Unicode math symbols to produce fake bold and fake italic text. I used YayText.com to generate it, but I am not linking it because you I don’t want you to use it. I embedded the post, but you can go to it directly…
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Jonathan Schofield

…Convenience wants us to replace actual care and discernment with a machine generated image description which:

- includes text that isn’t present but was in the enclosing post anyway
- is of a cartoon that “May be a cartoon” and isn’t a “photo”
- cannot recognise characterisations central to the image’s satire
- repeats words that are there
- and mistakes drawn elements for non-existent Arabic text

and to tell people who need image descriptions that this is ‘better’ than nothing

#ai#a11y
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ThomasAPowell

It's abundantly clear to me that the tag soup we have accepted as reasonable #HTML markup is going to continue to get worse. LLMs without guidance tend to everything in a <div>, avoid semantic elements unless told otherwise, and give literally everything a class. It's infuriating.

I wonder how many #webdev novices understand these tools don't just generate what they may view as harmless syntax we can quibble about and may bake in design choices that may deeply users #a11y wise.

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