- https://wagtail.org/blog/htmx-accessibility-gaps-data-and-recommendations/ (htmx accessibility gaps: data and recommendations. A look at available data, known gotchas, and how to address the gaps)

--<--

Recommendations

Accessibility gets a mention in the htmx docs as part of Progressive Enhancement. This is a bit light on details for my liking, and I think oversimplifies what it means to build accessible UIs. Those oversimplifications are common in online htmx resources. I’d phrase them as:

- Simple HTML is all you need. That’s true – except when your UI becomes complex enough that it’s not.

- The least JavaScript the better. Also somewhat true – except when it leads to leaving out essential accessibility considerations.

-->--

Does anybody know any good accessibility keyboards/mouse for people with Essential Tremors? The tremors are not super severe but the person that needs it can't use a regular keyboard.

At times like these, when everything is moving fast it's really easy to inadvertently leave out our Blind/low vision friends.

Please remember to add alt text to your images as you're sharing information!

An interesting look at how the #Accesibility features of #AbletonMove support #Blind and low vision users.

https://cdm.link/ableton-move-is-a-hit-for-blind-and-low-vision-users/

Hi everyone! I’m Daniel Torres Burriel, CEO of Torresburriel Estudio, a UX agency helping companies create user-centered digital experiences with strategic focus and measurable results.

What we do: UX Research, UI Design, Digital Strategy, and UX Training (UX-PM certification).

Passionate about digital culture, ethical tech, open source, security, privacy, and CLI.

Let’s connect if you share interests!

@inquiline yeah having to zoom out way below 100% to see the interface is such an #accesibility fail lol

Ah, I see that BlueSky has joined LinkedIn in supplanting Twitter as the primary source of accessibility misinformation.

Gente que usáis #Buffer: Por cambios de #accesibilidad (según un artículo que enlazan) han limitado el texto alternativo a 150 caracteres. Mucha gente (me incluyo) damos un montón de datos y se nos queda corto... así que os aviso para que no pille a nadie con dudas de por qué ahora le falla.

Personalmente me parece una muy mala decisión porque muchas veces el texto alternativo no sólo explica imágenes, si no que traduce textos.

El artículo: https://support.buffer.com/article/618-adding-alt-text-to-your-images

I’m getting closer to completing my accessible play gift to families at my soon to be old work. These are battery interrupters that can easily adapt some toys for switches. You put one on one side of one battery in the battery box. I guess you can’t see it but it has an audio cable that the switch can be plugged into. Then you have an adapted toy with no soldering #accesibility

blind games presents forza motorsport practice race on grand oak

https://diode.zone/videos/watch/f05d060c-287d-44d8-b16e-762512e35e8a

Churches account for 20 percent of all polling places in the United States, but religious entities are exempt from the ADA. #voting #ada #accesibility #churches
https://progressive.org/latest/many-churches-arent-accessible-ervin-20240510/

@actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @neurodiversity @autisticadvocacy

Can you help me out? I’m looking for some sources to share about workplace accommodations for neurodivergent folks, and I’d like to be able to recommend more than the typical big-magazine articles. I’d prefer to share resources that have actually been made by / with ND folks

I know they’re out there. I’ve read them. I trusted my ability to search them back up again too much . Do you have any links you can push my way?

Ok WTF #NewZealand ? Not that I condone lotto, but given this worked just fine after I changed the user agent ... My mum won't understand why she can't get to her #lotto ? #accesibility

approximately 73.2553% of #accesibility issues i've seen recently come from "we decided to keep our UI nice and clean by hiding shit in a tooltip!", followed by the crushing realisation of what it means to have an accessible tooltip #wcag #a11y

A high-profile denial of seating accommodation shows the importance of accessibility in public spaces. #accesibility #disabilityrights
https://progressive.org/latest/disabled-people-are-not-fire-hazards-ervin-20240131/

If you are going to put a useless ALT on your images, just to get out of the way, you might as well not put anything at all....

It is very frustrating to open the alt and read in it something that, instead of explaining and contextualizing the image, misinforms, confuses or is redundant...

As the saying goes: if you are going to do a favor, do it well.

This is important. My mother is currently facing substantial issues regarding her arms, making it difficult for her to effectively operate her keyboard for work. Her computer is running on Fedora Kinoite, and she's in need of reliable voice dictation software to facilitate her job comfortably.

While I'm currently assisting her, it's not really a sustainable long-term solution. If anyone is aware of a high-quality speech-to-text software, preferably one that can function offline and is open-source, please do let me know. This is crucial because the content of her work is confidential, and we need a reliable and secure solution.

Boosts are welcomed.

Yesterday I had to use a Windows PC in Chinese. Since all menus have icons, it was surprisingly easier than expected to navigate and figure out a lot of the stuff (I still needed a wee bit of help).

On GNOME/GTK, icons in menus and other controls are somehow considered a bad thing and have been removed from all over the place.

There’s a huge difference in how much easier it is to use systems where controls have icons. It’s even possible to figure it out if you can’t read.