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https://t.co/dkYhRadEeD • Javascript developer and cat herder, working on #a11y at Microsoft. Longer form thoughts at https://t.co/SAadixXpUa. She/her.
Seattle, WA
Joined March 2013
WAI-ARIA 1.2 is now a Web Standard (“W3C Recommendation”). It’s available from https://t.co/uQ9FQvbtvY It includes a changelog since WAI-ARIA 1.1. For an introduction to WAI-ARIA and related resources, see: WAI-ARIA Overview https://t.co/Xdsr0ih9ge
#ARIA #WAI-ARIA #a11y
w3.org
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
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Good thread. Though not mentioned, I think accessibility fits squarely in this phenomenon — to value it, one must appreciate the complexity of the world we’re building for, and care about social good. Viewpoints antithetical to the sort of company these people want to run.
That's where the "incompetence" comes in. It's an owner class looking at products that have become far more complicated than they ever imagined, and going, "That can't possibly be right????"
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Seems like a good time to convene a workhop on Mastodon basics. Blind and #a11Y allied folks - anyone actually - let's do this! https://t.co/q270xIuZdy
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Dear @Meetup: Alert! I've spoken at #Meetups in SF, Chicago, Toronto about digital accessibility + disability inclusion. It is SO DISAPPOINTING to find an overlay on your site. Please take it down ASAP if you care about Meetups being inclusive https://t.co/xxD1QgOvW8
#a11y 1/2
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I’ll be there at https://t.co/KYYlfOHBgH. Not leaving twitter yet, but I’d love to stay in touch there if/when this all falls apart 🥲
vis.social
26 Posts, 40 Following, 597 Followers · Web developer and cat herder, working on digital accessibility.
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For anyone here who wants to try mastodon but finds the whole process a bit much, I wrote a very simple step-by-step guide to starting up: https://t.co/RXsvzbe4au Includes semantic descriptions and accessibility info on the signup process :)
sarahmhigley.com
A very simple step-by-step guide to creating a Mastodon account, with a focus on accessibility.
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Just to clarify, I think a good-faith example of a v0 thing is it lacking features, or still having bugs — even accessibility bugs. A bad-faith “just isn’t ready” is a thing whose very design has fundamental unaddressed accessibility concerns.
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Shot: https://t.co/FZWzOdg4Kp Chaser:
It's confusing because sometimes the thing behind a flag is 'ready' to the point where we want developers to tell us everything that's wrong with it. But sometimes devs see that, say, a11y isn't correctly implemented, and assume we don't care about a11y. But it just isn't ready.
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For those asking for my slides from the #A11YTO conference here they are! Sorry for the wait but I feel like I just literally got home with all the travel lately. https://t.co/LxVLTJMOY8
docs.google.com
Accessibility in Action Indigenous Communities
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Slides from my talk ‘role=dice’ at #a11yTOgaming last Saturday: https://t.co/SCcuRx3cyh Tagged PDF, videos, links from my #a11yTOconf talk ‘Under-Engineered Patterns’: https://t.co/K8rgiFBbe4 I learned a valuable lesson: I cannot follow my script when giving an IRL talk.
adrianroselli.com
The slides for my talk are available as a
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I had the most fun making this slide 😁
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I know how to do hosting. And words. 🙈
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Love @annaecook killing her talk and calling out that ARIA often doesn’t need to be included in design accessibility annotations
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That sounds ridiculous, but only because everything is so firmly centered around pointer access. People then assume assistive tech and accessibility apis are the problem, rather than that our entire approach to web design and the web platform is ableist.
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I’ve never heard anyone suggest a core feature that only works for keyboard or screen reader users, but doesn’t work with a mouse. “We’ll roll out mouse support when mouse hardware and APIs improve”
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“We shouldn’t hold back the web just because screen readers/assistive tech/ARIA aren’t there yet” has a subtext of: “I fundamentally see the web as a platform designed for sighted mouse users, that is then adapted for disabled people” which is, in fact, ableism.
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Way too many people fundamentally misunderstand what accessibility standards are and what they do for design and development. Doing something non-standard is actually fine if you know what the standards are and why your design is actually more inclusive and does a better job.
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