Jay Pope
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Web accessibility, websites, business, basketball, and life. Web Accessibility Specialist @PopeTechA11y
Utah
Joined February 2013
It is also a public quality. Its not in the background, you can't hide it. Accessibility is public information even if it is sometimes obfuscated. #a11y
Accessibility is a quality, an inherent part of your code or design. It's not a feature you can choose to add or not. Accessibility quality exists irrespective of whether you take it into consideration. What other aspects of your code or design do you leave up to chance? #a11y
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Save the dates! The Web Accessibility in Mind Conference in partnership with @PopeTechA11y will be held September 16-17, 2025. Put a hold on your calendar for our free virtual conference on web accessibility! Registration information and speaker announcements soon. Tell a friend!
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Want to know what updates are coming to the WAVE testing engine and Pope Tech? Join us and the @webaim team for an hour webinar on Oct 10th, 2024 at 12pm ET.
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A resource for creating accessible course content inside of Canvas.
Accessible courses need alternative text on images, heading structure, proper contrast, descriptive links, and accessible documents and videos. Check out our full guide for making accessible Canvas courses: https://t.co/b5zG3IMo1Z
@Canvas_by_Inst
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Loved @LeonieWatson's talk at #WebAIMConf today. Imagining a world with voice customization protected by guardrails of operating system settings and derivatives of user settings. Can learn more about it at
tink.uk
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Just like we should always ask “Could this meeting have been an email?” …we should always ask “Could this PDF have been web page?”
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If you have wondered what WAVE's purple ARIA category means or how ARIA affects website use this article is pretty useful. The video linked in the article goes through some real world examples and how they affect screen readers.
First rule of ARIA is don’t use ARIA. Learn more in our beginner’s guide. #AccessibilityFocus #A11y
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We can't wait! The conference is free and will be held Sep 7-8, save the date and register today - https://t.co/cMcaqXCQwU. Speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.
We're thrilled to announce the Web Accessibility in Mind Conference in partnership with @PopeTechA11y - https://t.co/ZvEVU9W8gT. This new, two-day FREE virtual conference will feature substantive presentations by an incredible lineup of speakers. Register today! And please share.
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"Great alternative text is also succinct and considers the image’s purpose. In fact, depending on the purpose, the same image could have different alternative text."
As part of our Alternative Text focus for the month of April we created an in depth dive into alternative text. #A11y #AccessibilityFocus
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Just use a link is like a bad sequel to just use a button. HTML semantics matter.
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I just stumbled upon 2 websites where all the links were divs and no you can't focus on them with a keyboard. The divs have classes called nav-link. Just use a link!
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Simplify first #pdfPurge
Today was a good day. We’ve removed almost 1,000 inaccessible PDFs from our health information pages and converted the most used to webpages. Now the work begins to audit, consolidate, rewrite and recreate the 1,000 as beautiful, simple pages. Here we goooo… #a11y #ContentDesign
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The role of Automated Testing: Automated testing shouldn't be your entire web accessibility strategy but as a key part of your strategy it can be empowering.
blog.pope.tech
Manual testing is required but automated testing can make your life easier. A look at 6 benefits of automated testing.
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I can't stop thinking about this one, it is quite impressive. I can just imagine the code review on this. I notice you added the aria role of button to both of these elements that together are trying to recreate the default styling and functionality of a link? tabindex -2?
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At a recent webinar for accessibility in higher ed the speaker mentioned that they find it more helpful to think of web accessibility as a habit rather than another thing they have to do. Do what you already do but consistently make it accessible in the process. #a11y
Consistency in web accessibility efforts is often underrated.
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What are you doing at your company to raise awareness of disability and accessibility? No one is going to give you that role. You can create it. Give a 10 minute presentation. Email some stats. Ask who wants to join an informal group.
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Interactions with companies support on twitter where they don't try and understand the issue or really even solve it make me cringe. By focusing completely on perception rather than their customer they accomplish nothing. This is in regards to the comments from dominoes
Did @dominos fix their website yet? #accessibility
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Web accessibility isn't as simple as adding some JavaScript but it isn't too hard that you can't do it. #a11y
Can you just add some JavaScript to make your website accessible? or do you have to be an expert to improve the accessibility of your website? https://t.co/7XT5sm83op
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I also found it interesting that this improvement happened at the same time that the WebAIM million project observed an increase in errors across the top million homepages.
We recently reanalyzed a sample of pages from every college and university website in the US - We are excited to observe a decrease in accessibility errors per page by 17% in the past 12 months! Full report -
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Tips for improving website accessibility? Wrong answers only 😉
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