Accessabilly

Did you know each emoji has a coded description that gets read aloud by screen readers? This demo by Alexa Heinrich shows what happens when a screen reader encounters a post that uses an emoji to function as a bullet point. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSMs...

"Companies don’t push apps because installing one improves your spiritual wellbeing." webdesignerdepot.com/nobody-wants...

I'm speaking live right now! www.youtube.com/live/h3JhFyO...

Sometimes you look at an old HTML document and see some weird tags and snippets from bygone eras. I've complied many legacy HTML bits I've noticed and documented what they were and why there were present. Many of them are rather obscure. Satisfy your curiosity: vale.rocks/posts/html-r...

Screen Reader User Survey #11 webaim.org/projects/scr... #Accessibility #AssistiveTech #ScreenReader @webaim.bsky.social

Interesting read! Things you might not have on your radar while checking awesome new CSS features. 😎

I saw a great introduction to CSS Grid Lanes, aka Masonry Layouts, by @patrickbrosset.com at CSS Day 2026. I liked the versatility of its use cases, but I was also concerned that it's inaccessible by default. matuzo.at/blog/2026/gr...

axe and Lighthouse catch issues, not experiences. Great insights from David Mello on smarter Playwright a11y testing. www.davidmello.com/s... #Accessibility #A11y #Playwright #WebAccessibility #SoftwareTesting #InclusiveDesign #QA #WCAG #DevOps #AutomationTesting

A very helpful article on lists and ARIA by @scottohara.me: www.scottohara.me/blog/2018/05... 👍 ...and a great CodePen demonstrating how to keep ordered lists machine-readable even without visible counters: codepen.io/scottohara/p... 😎

My grandfather, a manufacturer in postwar Germany, hired a blind man to work at his telephone exchange - a remarkably progressive step for the time. The man proved to be his most accurate and reliable employee, staying until retirement. 🤝 As things come full circle, I’m proud of my grandfather...

The latest Firefox stable release includes some superb additions like #CSS color-mix() accepting multiple color values, light-dark() accepting image values, ariaNotify, sizes=auto on images, and more: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/M... "None of these are baseline yet, so check MDN for support."

@carlomasala1.bsky.social Rügen - der weiche Unterleib der NATO! Ich brech ab! 👏

Now we're talking! "...the industry pretends the problem is about awareness. It isn’t about awareness. It’s about who’s writing the front-end code, and whether they’re qualified to write it." I couldn't agree more, @gbbns.co! gbbns.co/journal/acce...

🚨 Active supply chain attack on axios@1.14.1. The latest version pulls in plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 -- a brand-new package that didn't exist before today. We're still investigating. If you use axios, pin your version and audit your lockfile. socket.dev/blog/axios-n...

Don't use role="progressbar" for multi-step forms. The spec says: "A progressbar indicates that the user's request has been received and the application is making progress toward completing the requested action." Use an OL and aria-current. role="progressbar" sends the wrong message.

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Typo of the day: Love-Region instead of Live-Region 😍

It costs $0.00 to uninstall that Big Tech browser you’ve always used and switch to a European browser that has no AI and doesn’t collect your data. 🫶🏻

🇩🇪 Ohrfutter! 🎧 Ein neuer Podcast zur Barrierefreiheit. Noch nicht reingehört, könnte spannend sein. www.bfit-bund.de/SharedDocs/K...

O most gracious Lord of HTML, how cometh it that mine ears have not yet heard of <plaintext>? 🧐 htmhell.dev/adventcalend... By my troth, I do hereby commend unto thee the most infernal Advent Calendar of Sir @matuzo.at, named HTML Hell! ☠️

Interesting stuff coming up: blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/20...

Flashing content faster than 3x per second can exclude users. My latest piece outlines practical steps to meet “Three Flashes” and build safer, inclusive experiences. What’s your approach? buff.ly/wU8Ge4T #DigitalAccessibility #InclusiveDesign #WCAG #WebStandards #A11y

How do you describe the accessibility profession? "A spoilsport for developers that wants to be a mentor." 😍

@correctiv.org and the Stiftung "Zugang für alle" have tested 70 municipal websites for accessibility with sobering results. 😱The Correctiv-page itself has some #a11y issues though... 🫠 correctiv.org/barrierefrei...

A Guide to Creating Accessible PDFs Using Free Tools, by @stvfrnzl@mastodon.online (@piccalil.li): https://piccalil.li/blog/a-guide-to-creating-accessible-pdfs-using-free-tools/ #guides #accessibility #pdf #tooling #testing

Today I learned `header` and `footer` elements lose their ARIA roles when being included in sectioning content. www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-lear...

You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.

“Mind the WCAG automation gap” by Steve Faulkner digs into what’s possible (and what isn’t) with automated #accessibility tools. Machines help, but they can’t replace human judgment. html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/0... #WCAG #A11y #WebDev #Testing #Automation #DigitalAccessibility

Most important #a11y read you will get today!

Accessibility question For ::backdrop's (dialog overlays) that have a semi-transparent bg to obscure the page behind them: Should we make the backdrop more obscured for `prefers-reduced-transparency`? Like if the backdrop is black/40% should we make it black/80%? 100%? Should we blur the bg?

Thank you @tetralogical.com for the great article on misconceptions about screen readers! 👍 tetralogical.com/blog/2025/10... Just at the right time for me to argue on a current #a11y issue in TinyMCE that most likely was caused by one of those: 👇 github.com/tinymce/tiny...

This article confirms my observations. Most developers hired by us (university, technical college, years of experience) have never heard of #a11y. Lack of knowledge and awareness is primarily an academic problem! 🧐 Serene impressively demonstrates how you can still start a career in this field. 👇

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most. So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion. interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

Super useful! 👇

We’ve archived 1 trillion web pages via the Wayback Machine. Help us preserve 1 trillion more with P2P fundraising: donate.archive.org/1T #Wayback1T

👁️‍🗨️ WCAG’s Longevity by Eric Eggert "There are several reasons why WCAG 2 is such a long-living standard. The main reasons, in my opinion, are the very solid foundation it is built on, the accumulation of experience with the standard in practice" #WCAG #a11y #standards yatil.net/blog/wcags-l...

New Shirt "for the discerning accessibility advocate and anti-fascist" #a11y #antifascist www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

Shitty prompt of today: Find a video element with Cypress and Testing Library. Shitty answers of today (GPT4, GPT5): cy.findByRole('video'); Don't! De rien...

If you really do (seriously, really do) need to create a PDF, Steve has your back to help you make sure you make that PDF accessible without having to fork out for Adobe Acrobat Pro. piccalil.li/blog/a-guide...

👉🏽 Screen reader HTML lookup app & support tables Updated 28 September 2025 - new test and notes added #HTML #screenReaders #Webstandards tetralogical.github.io/screen-reade...

Searching for an accessible third party npm library? Maybe have a first look via this 🧐: isitaccessible.dev It checks the lib for open #a11y issues and returns a score considering closed issues. 😎

If you have questions for any of the id24 speakers, post them with the #id24 hashtag and the moderators will throw them at the speaker(s) toward the end of their session.

@inclusivedesign24.bsky.social is live! inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/

I got tired of not finding an accessible cookie banner. So, I made one: www.npmjs.com/package/@afi...

Focus rings! Plural! I wrote for @piccalil.li about how to create a branded double ring focus effect that is dynamically generated based on the interactive element's text color. piccalil.li/blog/taking-...