#til <progress> elements need labels for #accessibility

I think because I've only used one in the context of a form's submission I figured it was unnecessary to label it for visual or non-visual users, but I'm sure I'm being ignorant of something, so I'll add a "form submitting" label! I also learnt about aria-busy and aria-described by to point to the progress.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/progress

Thanks to #WebAIM's #wave accessibility checker extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/wave-accessibility-tool/

#webDev #a11y

Aline von Bornhaupt shares the common issues, from the latest #WebAIM 2025 report on #accessibility of the top 1,000,000 sites. 94.8% of home pages had detected WCAG 2 failures. You can get charts and tables at https://webaim.org/projects/million/

How to Audit Web Accessibility With [the] WAVE Extension, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://www.sitepoint.com/audit-accessibility-with-wave/

#howtos #accessibility #auditing #browserextensions #webaim

come check out the #WebAIM virtual conference tomorrow! Ted Drake and I will be talking about the challenges involved with trying to use AI to draft alt text; inaccuracies, hallucinations/confabulations, sanitization of disability representation and bias, lack of surrounding context, and more. Now with new potential solutions and prompts from when we presented this same topic back at #CSUN. #A11y https://conference.webaim.org/

For those who don't know, WebAIM @webaim is a non-profit service centre operating out of Utah State University.

They run the WebAIM Million project, which reports on the accessibility of the home pages of the top 1000,000 websites. [1]

Over the years, I've found their resources on Creating Accessible Documents to be a reliable link to share with folks to begin learning about document accessibility. [2]

[1] https://webaim.org/projects/million/

[2] https://webaim.org/techniques/word/

#WebAIM #Word #Accessibility

Sad news: the WebAIM mailing list is shutting down on August 27.

The archives will remain available.

Since 1999, the WebAIM @webaim email list has distributed discussions on web accessibility and provided a virtual community for a diverse range of members. I've been subscribed since 2002, and I learned more about accessibility from the list and its members than from any other single source on the web.

End of an era.

https://webaim.org/discussion/mail_message?id=50993

#WebAIM #Listserv #Accessibility

#Barrierefrei #Webdesign #a11y
#Joomla Kunden-Website: Lighthouse gibt 100% für Barrierefreiheit. Der Joomla eigene Barriere-Checker meckert auch nicht. Aber #Webaim https://wave.webaim.org/ gibt Kontrast-Warnungen für die Überschriften im Footer heraus, selbst wenn Hintergrund weiß und Schrift schwarz eingestellt ist. Wie kann das sein? False Positive von Webaim?
Link zur betroffenen Webseite sende ich gerne per PN

3 Tools to Help Fix the Web’s Most Common WCAG 2.2 Failures, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://spin.atomicobject.com/fix-common-wcag-2-failures/

#accessibility #wcag #tooling #lighthouse #google #webaim

WebAIM Million Results Show That Shopping Sites Have Worst Accessibility, by @cerovac_a11y:

https://cerovac.com/a11y/2025/04/webaim-million-results-show-that-shopping-sites-have-worst-accessibility/

#webaim #metrics #accessibility #ecommerce

#WebAIM 2025 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 websites is out. #TYPO3 is ranked 4th behind Divi, Webflow, Adobe EM. This makes it the #1 #opensource CMS for web accessibility & the go-to solution for #free and #accessible solution for #digital #sovereignty https://webaim.org/projects/million/#CMS

About the complexity in websites, my observations are in line with the new #webaim million report:

https://webaim.org/projects/million/

The #GAAD Foundation is partnering with #WebAIM to collect and share anonymized salary and other job-related data with the first annual Global Digital #Accessibility Salary #Survey (GDASS). The goal is to inform both organizations investing or ready to invest in accessibility, as well as the people who make technology or digital products accessible as they start or progress in their careers.

Complete the survey at https://gaad.foundation/what-we-do/gdass
#A11Y

Just did the "Global Digital Accessibility Salary Survey" by #WebAim. Looking forward to the results!

If you want to participate, go here:

https://webaim.org/projects/salary/survey

The link on the website shown after submitting the survey is wrong, by the way...

#a11y #accessibility #disability #survey #salary

Barrierefreiheit wird bald zur Pflicht: Was Firmen an ihren Websites ändern müssen

https://www.golem.de/news/barrierefreiheit-deutsche-webseiten-sind-versetzungsgefaehrdet-2409-188655.html

#Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz #Barrierefreiheit #WebAIM #webdev

listening to the #WebAIM #accessibility conference today! https://conference.webaim.org/schedule

Used my Saturday morning rainy cafe run to work on my #WebAIM conference slides. The first time I have brought anything other than a book with me. I must be panicking. At least this time none of the 7am crowd asked me what kind of pedestrian book I was reading (though there was a side conversation about remote gaming and VTTs).

1½ weeks to me rambling about tables:
https://conference.webaim.org/schedule

The votes are in, looks like #biden won this one, sorry #trump

"Both sites are better than average pages found in the #WebAIM Million, but both could improve significantly with a few relatively simple changes that would not require throwing out an entire widget or design. They would just involve tweaks to what’s already there."

https://webaim.org/blog/2024-campaign-site-accessibility/

#accessibility #a11y #disability

@heiseonline Das Rot auf Dunkelgrau in eurem Forum ist laut #WebAIM nicht kontrastreich genug. #a11y

https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=CF091A&bcolor=323232

For the past 3 hours, I have been learning to use the essentials of #VoiceOver (the built-in #iOS, #iPadOS, and #macOS screen reader) with the help of an article on #WebAIM.

It is really helpful giving an overview and also being a cheat sheet for common commands.

What browser are you using together with VoiceOver? I guess it works best with #Safari, but I am using it with #Firefox for now.

Quite a lot to learn, but already having many aha moments!

https://webaim.org/articles/voiceover/

#a11y

Though as the latest #WebAIM survey results show, that's <10% of all respondents on desktop.

And as @yatil has pointed out, many of them are ... well people like me. Who happen to have high-spec Macs on hand for our jobs.