I thought that some of you might find this interesting, since so many in the Fediverse genuinely care about accessibility.
Note: The description was taken from the Top Tech Tidbits newsletter. The second link is to the article itself.

https://www.toptechtidbits.com/tidbits2025/06192025/index.html

"This article provides an updated guide for enhancing the accessibility of social media posts, focusing on critical elements like alt text, fonts, hashtags, and content warnings. It emphasizes practical tips to create inclusive content that can be navigated by individuals using screen readers and other assistive technologies."

https://a2i.co.uk/blog/accessible-social-media-content/

#accessibility #AltText #Android #AssistiveTechnology #blind #ContentWarnings #fonts #hashtags #inclusion #IOS #NVDA #posts #ScreenReaders #SocialMedia #Talkback #technology #Windows

Are there any Hamburg based blind or visually impaired ux/ui designers, users or programmers on here?

I'm not blind but have an academic background in human-computer interaction and have thought a lot about purpose-built ui/ux for screen readers during the past few weeks and would love to have some folx to bounce around ideas for better, "accessibility first" interface design.

Any code which might result from these discussions would be free (in the GPL sense) and open-source of course!

#ux #ui #accessibility #screenreaders #blindtech

I can't remember where/when I found them, maybe on fedi, but these two lists of how unicode characters are pronounced in JAWS or NVDA (two popular screen readers) are useful to think about when writing alt text or text intended for screen readers.

https://stevefaulkner.github.io/symbols/SymbolsJAWS.html

https://stevefaulkner.github.io/symbols/SymbolsNVDA.html

#screenReaders #accessability

Make Screen Readers Talk With the ARIA Notify API, by @alex86:

https://www.oidaisdes.org/aria-notify-first-look.en/

#accessibility #screenreaders #aria #apis #javascript

Just published a blog post tearing into hCaptcha’s so-called “accessibility” mode.

It’s not accessibility. It’s a cookie. And to get that cookie, you now have to submit your email and send a code via SMS to an U.S. phone number. It fails silently. It doesn’t confirm anything. You click “Confirm Code” and get “An error has occurred.” No cookie. No fallback. No support. And if you somehow get it? It’s a third-party cookie your browser probably blocks, and it expires. Then you get to do it all again.

Meanwhile, hCaptcha’s text-based challenge — the only mode that might actually work with a screen reader — isn’t tied to the cookie at all. It only shows up if the website owner specifically enables it. Most don’t. So even if you’re blind, even if you’re using assistive tech, you get the same unusable image grid as everyone else.

This isn’t accessibility. It’s exclusion wrapped in PR.

The blog post breaks it all down: how the cookie flow works (or doesn’t), why the system is broken by design, how developers got misled, and what real alternatives look like. If you care about accessible design or just want to understand how bad this gets, read it.

Link: https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/hellcaptcha-accessibility-theater-at-its-worst/

#Accessibility #a11y #BlindTech #hCaptcha #HellCaptcha #UX #WebDev #ScreenReaders #Disability #TechRant #DevTools #Ableism #Privacy #FOSS #Inclusion

Those having issues with the start menu not reading when searching for items please submit your comments here
https://aka.ms/AAwefzf
Thanks.
#Technology #ScreenReaders #NVDA

As we are making good progress on #accessibility for GNOME Calendar lately (big thanks to @TheEvilSkeleton there) I have now rewritten and updated the description of this meta ticket to reflect the current status: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1036

15 of 28 checklist items completed as of May 22nd, 2025, based on what issues I've been able to find so far.

#a11y #GNOMECalendar #GNOME #keyboardnavigation #screenreaders #Linux

Menus vs. Navigation in Accessibility Design

Steve Frenzel breaks down the often-confused difference between "menus" and "navigation" in web accessibility—and why getting it right matters for screen reader users.

https://stevefrenzel.dev/posts/menu-and-navigation-the-difference/

#Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign #ScreenReaders #InclusiveDesign #UX

#Development #Mindsets
Awareness · Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day https://ilo.im/163x1n

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#GAAD #Awareness #Accessibility #ScreenReaders #Design #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #HTML

😩 In the distant past circa 2000-2006 I had a link to a page that listed how screen readers supported various HTML elements, Have tried but cannot find it in 2025, anybody have any recollection or pointer to such a page?

#a11y #historical #screenReaders

Event Handling in JAWS and NVDA, by @siblingpastry (@TPGi):

https://www.tpgi.com/event-handling-in-jaws-and-nvda/

#accessibility #screenreaders #jaws #nvda #events #javascript #comparisons

For #Accountants and #Bookkeepers of #Mastodon, do most companies use Excel for accounting/bookkeeping? or is quickbooks the main driver? if excel is used, is there some sort of template specifically made for accounting and how would I gain access to it? I'd like to know how to make 4 documents and credit and debit each, statement of financial position, Income statements, Statement of cashflows, and invoices. It would really help because I'm #Blind and Excel is very #Accessible with #ScreenReaders, and I would love to get back into accounting if at all possible, as it was my favorite subject in College and if I could gain employment in that field, I'd gladly do it again. Thank you for your assistance, and if you don't know the answer, please boost for reach.

👀 "ARIA Notify is designed to address scenarios where a visual change that’s not tied to a DOM change and not accessible to assistive technology users, happens in the page. Examples include changing the format of text in a document, or when a person joins a video conference call."

#ARIA #WebDev #accessibility #screenReaders

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/05/05/creating-a-more-accessible-web-with-aria-notify/

Following today's post on the Microsoft Edge blog, I've started a page of ARIA Notify examples that currently only function in Edge Canary:

https://jscholes.github.io/ariaNotify.html

The blog post:

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/05/05/creating-a-more-accessible-web-with-aria-notify/

#accessibility #screenReader #screenReaders

🫡 “complications can arise with event handling, because screen readers intercept events, and don’t necessarily pass them on to the browser. Even then, events don’t always match the input type, since desktop screen readers are typically controlled with a keyboard, yet keyboard actions might fire mouse events.”

by @siblingpastry

#screenReaders #JavaScript #a11y

https://www.tpgi.com/event-handling-in-jaws-and-nvda/

To other #blind #students, what tools have you used to help you format your papers with #APA styling and #citations? My #university provides #Perrla for free to students, but it doesn't seem to be the most #accessible with #ScreenReaders, at least not the online version. I haven't tried the add-on for #MicrosoftWord. With the online version, though, I don't see any keyboard shortcuts, and when you move into the edit box to start writing a paper, focus gets trapped there and it's hard to get out, so I don't think it's the best tool for me. The only other tool I know of is the reference manager built into Microsoft Word, but it seems to have fewer features and doesn't really help you format your paper like Perrla does, something I was looking forward to since all the APA rules for styling seem hard to remember.
#College #CollegeStudent #accessibility #JAWS #ScreenReaders #writing
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