I spent the last 5 years advocating for stateful URLs in modern applications. It’s a lonely and often frustrating fight to preserve this fundamental web principle, but it's crucial for usability and accessibility. This article is a great reminder. #a11y https://alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.html
#a11y
My Favorite Mac VoiceOver commands: "I hop into VoiceOver all the time to test the websites I’m building. By testing on a screen reader I can uncover bugs that a blind or low-vision person will encounter. Here are a few of the commands I use most often." #a11y https://thoughtbot.com/blog/my-favorite-mac-voiceover-commands
Tooltip Components Should Not Exist: "A look at why tooltip components are often the wrong abstraction in design systems, leading to accessibility issues, misuse, and inconsistent user experiences." #a11y https://tkdodo.eu/blog/tooltip-components-should-not-exist
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@se_davidobrien/114161547614556118
I wrote this thread up as a blog post earlier this year.
I was featured on NPR Marketplace discussing accessibility and AI. This has been a long time coming, and I am glad to share the episode I helped with.
Listen here:
https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2025/11/28/ais-role-in-improving-accessibility
#Accessibility #AI #Blind #LowVision #AssistiveTech #Inclusion #A11y #TechForGood
Notre collègue Magali Milbergue (@daisymoon) s’est prêtée au jeu de l’interview !
En parallèle de son métier d’experte en accessibilité, Magali milite de longue date en faveur de l’inclusion.
Sur LinkedIn, découvrez son parcours, son travail pour l’accessibilité et son engagement bénévole, notamment au sein de @compositech et @lapremiereligne. :
@IzzyOnDroid @downey @admin
@renchap
Indeed, this annoys me regularly also and it is very anti-#accessibility #a11y
📢 Atenció! Donem la benvinguda a Gisce, que uneix experiència energètica i tecnologia conscient. 💡
Ens complau comptar amb Gisce com a patrocinador de categoria A, amb més de 25 anys de trajectòria com a desenvolupador de solucions de programari essencials per al sector energètic.
El seu èxit es basa en el coneixement, passió per la tecnologia i millora contínua, valors clau per a l'#Accessibilitat.
El seu suport a l'#a11yConf2025 reforça que la tecnologia, en qualsevol sector, ha de ser robusta i centrada en l'usuari.
Gràcies pel vostre compromís! 🔌✨
📢 ¡Atención! Damos la bienvenida a Gisce, que une experiencia energética y tecnología consciente. 💡
Nos complace contar con Gisce como patrocinador de categoría A, con más de 25 años de trayectoria como desarrollador de soluciones de software esenciales para el sector energético.
Su éxito se basa en el conocimiento, pasión por la tecnología y mejora continua, valores clave para la #Accesibilidad.
Su apoyo a la #a11yConf2025 refuerza que la tecnología, en cualquier sector, debe ser robusta y centrada en el usuario.
¡Gracias por vuestro compromiso! 🔌✨
Your accessibility score is lying to you: "Automation misses most issues, and can make teams think they’re done." #a11y https://chrisyoong.com/blog/your-accessibility-score-is-lying-to-you
I sent out a newsletter issue today with a couple of updates, one of them is about me working on switching from the Vimeo video player to AblePlayer on the course website. https://github.com/ableplayer/ableplayer
Also a reminder that we have less than a week to go before Black Friday savings for the Practical Accessibility course expire! ⏳
You can get it for 30% off today: https://practical-accessibility.today
The offer expires on December 4th.
And subscribe to my newsletter here: https://sarasoueidan.com/newsletter/ 💌
The quiet, unglamorous labour of living with Type 1 Diabetes https://reframingdisability.substack.com/p/the-quiet-unglamorous-labour-of-living #a11y
Test your website at 200% zoom, it’s a WCAG AA requirement for people with low vision. Know that some people might make a 500% zoom on your content. Test your forms and critical information. #accessibility #a11y
The Idiot Sandwich - On Embedding Alt Text
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/the-idiot-sandwich-on-embedding-alt-text/
Alt text is great. It allows people who can't see an image to understand what that image represents.
For example, the code might say: <img src="whatever.gif" alt="Two cute kittens are playing on a blanket">
If you are blind, you get an idea of what's being conveyed by that image. If you're on a train and the WiFi craps out just before the image loads, you'll also benefit! If the image is of text in a language you don't read, your device can translate it for you.
The alt text can be as long or as short as is necessary. It might just be "kid giving a thumbs up" or it could be incredibly detailed. Here's how the BBC's Newsbeat typically adds alt text for younger viewers:
Is that too much? Maybe. It depends on your audience. For partially sighted kids who crave the same pop information as their sighted peers, I think it is great.
So alt text is a good thing. But people are lazy and don't always write it. Perhaps the answer is to embed alt text inside image metadata?
It's a lovely idea - and technically feasible - but it fails to account for user needs.
And that brings me to the point of this post. Who is your alt text for? What information are you trying to share?
Here's a good example. I looked at a bunch of popular memes which had alt-text pre-populated in them. Here's what they said:
Terence Eden
Whenever people talk about embedding alt text into images, I remember that lots of gif search services already try to do that.
Here's BlueSky's gif service. I searched for some popular memes. Each had alt-text baked in.
Take a look and tell me if you think that the embedded text conveys the sentiment of the image? If you couldn't see the animation, would you understand what was going on from that alt?
12 boosts 22 favoritesOK, so sometimes the captioner makes a mistake and thinks the Chuckle Brothers are kissing (WTF?!) perhaps we can excuse that as being an obscure image. But the "idiot sandwich" one is inexcusable. It's a popular meme with a specific meaning.
Which leaves me with a few questions for you:
- If you saw that the image you were sharing had crap alt text - would you bother editing it?
- Is bad alt text worse than no alt text?
- Can the same image have multiple meanings?
- Have you spent any time browsing the web with images turned off? Did you enjoy it?
🆕 blog! “The Idiot Sandwich - On Embedding Alt Text”
Alt text is great. It allows people who can't see an image to understand what that image represents.
For example, the code might say: <img src="whatever.gif" alt="Two cute kittens are playing on a blanket">
If you are blind, you get an idea of what's being conveyed by that image. If you're on a train…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/the-idiot-sandwich-on-embedding-alt-text/
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#a11y #accessibility #AltText #HTML
書かれているひとつひとつが、実感を伴って伝わってくる内容でした。
至るところにいろんな困ったが散らばっていることを知ってほしいとおもいます。多くの方に届け！
自分の身体が少し（たぶん一時的に）不自由になって感じたアクセシビリティーのこと - ヴェルク - IT起業の記録 https://tamukai.blog.velc.jp/entry/2025/11/27/161417
Finally hit publish on a blog post I've been writing for a while.
It's common to hear the term "fully accessible" used to describe products which have passed WCAG 2.2 level AA. But, are they really?
In this post, I explore 5 examples which highlight why WCAG, as awesome as it is, is not a measure of great usability or performance.
Le FALC, Facile À Lire et à Comprendre, vu par Karine Bardary, co-gérante de Com’Access.
Invitée dans le podcast de Agence LunaWeb, l'experte en accessibilité numérique présente les fondements de cette méthode et donne un exemple concret de traduction en FALC.
Elle y partage également son regard sur l’écriture inclusive ainsi que sur l’intelligence artificielle :
https://a42.fr/itw-karine-bardary (transcription disponible)
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