I have a new rule for my photography page. If the picture doesn't resonate with me when I describe it in the alt tag, it's not making the page. Also made it easy for everyone to switch between text and image :) Enjoy!

https://potloodgum.com/photography/

#a11ty #accessibility #designforeveryone

Do any #webdev folk know: if I inject text into a <dialog> after page load, but before it is shown with showModal(), will screen readers have access to the injected content? Also, is it necessary to set aria-modal="true" on <dialog> elements?

#accessibility #a11ty #html #javascript

Daily reminder that your CSS-only widgets are inaccessible
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/03/css-only-widgets-are-inaccessible.html
#A11ty #WebDev #Frontend

Mastodon.social alt text analysis report! 🧐

Me and my friend Cristal just published a report on image description usage on mastodon.social, as a group project for the Introduction to Data Science course of the Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Societies Erasmus Mundus Joint Master program.

Thoughts and feedback are welcome 💕

A huge thanks to @stefan for publishing the dataset on which we based our analysis!

NOTE: We are absolutely aware that the report has very little actual relevance, as the dataset contains a super limited amount of posts from one instance only. It was mainly an experimentation to test our data analysis skills.

#a11ty #accessibility #alttext #mastodon #mastodonsocial #report #dataScience #JupyterLab #JupyterNotebook #Python #pandas #MatPlotLib #NumPy

Is writing “a11ty” instead of “accessibility” inaccessible? Discuss.

#a11ty #accessibility

On popover accessibility: what the browser does and doesn’t do
https://hidde.blog/popover-accessibility/
#Popover #a11ty #HTML

📖 A letter to my younger self, as an accessibility advocate
https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2024/03/letters-to-an-accessibility-advocate/
#a11ty

with #london elections coming, and all the current worries about photo id voter suppression, i'm finally #goingpostal. the form to do so was a gov.uk webform, so usability is #a11ty good! i will not however be mailing my #postalvote, but instead dropping it off at the station on polling day. this is allowed, and means you still get the physical sensation of joining in, quite possibly without the photo id requirement (voter impersonation is known to be v rare)

"Accessibility for designers" by @stephaniewalter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6zVqfESWdI
(from @penpot) #a11ty #design

Oh bummer, Mastodon allows to add a descriptive text to a video (who go as title+aria-label attributes on the <video> element) but it's not possible to load a separate subtitle file.
Wouldn't be better? Or at least in addition? #a11ty

Accessibility and CSS customisation in Mastodon: The “Publish” button
(aka why you probably shouldn't use custom CSS labels)
https://guerilla.studio/blog/accessibility-css-customisation-mastodon-publish-button/?ref=tooooot
#a11ty #MastoAdmin #CSS

Hey #a11ty friends. The Washington Post open sourced their #designSystem. Why care? Its a huge treasure trove of #accessibility resources. Fantastic!
https://build.washingtonpost.com/resources/accessibility?itid=lk_inline_manual_2

About custom cursors: https://ericwbailey.website/published/dont-use-custom-css-mouse-cursors/

TLDR: "One of design’s primary goals is to make things usable. Choices that don’t prioritize usability mean you are practicing decoration, not design."

(I may use this quote as a signature for my professional mails )

#design #a11ty #css #cursors #grumpyChoan

If you're looking to fill your agenda at DevConf this year with practical tools & hands-on examples, then this talk is for you!
Nhlanhla is an R&D Software Engineer at BBD; Social Cohesion Advocate at the Dept Arts & Culture; & a Board member for the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation. He is also committed to making software solutions accessible to all.
Look at our agenda for a detailed breakdown of this exciting talk!

#accessibility #testing #DevConf #techevent #software #A11ty