Disabled buttons don’t have to suck by @justinewin_ stories.justinewin.com/disabled-butto…

An Accessibility-First Approach To Chart Visual Design — Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com/2022/07/access…

“For Blind Internet Users, the Fix Can Be Worse Than the Flaws” nytimes.com/2022/07/13/tec… “Companies say their A.I.-powered tools are the best way to fix accessibility problems online, but many blind people find they make websites harder to use.”

We’ve been talking about it. You’ve been asking for it. We’ve been working on it. Today, we launched it: the image description reminder! It’s live to 10% of global Twitter across Android, iOS, and Web. 🧵 (1 of 6)

Blind people live in digital precarity, never knowing when a company will release software updates that break access. It can happen when no accessibility lead exists to check, or when an accessibility team lacks internal authority to stop inaccessible releases from shipping.

e-Box Enterprise. Weer een "mailbox" van de overheid erbij waar PDF's in staan die me zeggen dat ik een bericht heb op minfin.be. Het zou grappig zijn als het niet zo triestig was.

LinkedIn has added A11y as options under Jobs Starting this week, LinkedIn now allows you to add A11y jobs to your job preferences & profile. This is a great step on getting more wide-spread recognition for a11y roles & a11y professionals. LinkedIn news: bit.ly/3eMyk1u

Want to make your app accessible? Today we have launched beta.appt.org, a new platform to help you! Read articles about #accessibility features and their usage, code examples for #Android, #iOS, #Flutter, #ReactNative, #Xamarin, relevant #a11y guidelines and more!

“The need for accessibility features is just a matter of time. We all will gain some disabilities as we grow old.” — Slava Shestopalov 🇺🇦 uxdesign.cc/twitter-remind…

Saul - “I’m not really disabled, it’s just the environment that actually disables me” 💙

This looks very promising: practical-accessibility.today

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Can everyone please stop adding their Mastodon usernames to their Twitter names? It’s really frustrating for screen reader users. Hearing them being read out loud when scrolling down my timeline isn’t fun. Add it to your bio or make a pinned tweet instead.

Remember that if you don't work on making your apps accessible, Darth Vader will find your lack of accessibility disturbing. Don't say I didn't warn you... 😁

#UX A list of user frustrations and user deligthers, to build less frustrating experiences in 2023 by Vitaly Friedman 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 smashingmagazine.com/2023/01/usabil…

Without further ado ... I've created a brand new side-by-side video. One uses captioning best practices (except it's open instead of closed) and the other uses different types of Hormozi-style options. Which do you prefer? #Accessibility #Video

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What does AI mean for accessibility? Together with accessibility expert Gijs Veyfeyken I took a deep dive, and wrote a blog post about it 👇

There's a lot of AI fluff out there, not to mention the damage done by overlay companies. But combining Whisper AI and ChatGPT to create captions, transcripts, summaries and highlights for videos or podcasts at a large scale sounds like a win to me. craftzing.com/what-we-think/…