This pretty well sums up my feelings on the "America by design" stunt...

"In other words, we’re left with a web page announcing a new era of design for the United States government, but it’s tremendously costly to download, and inaccessible to many. What I want to suggest is that neither of these things are accidents: they read to me as signals of intent; of how this administration intends to practice design."

Well done, Ethan Marcotte.

#UX #design #accessibility

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/

This pretty well sums up my feelings on the "America by design" stunt...

"In other words, we’re left with a web page announcing a new era of design for the United States government, but it’s tremendously costly to download, and inaccessible to many. What I want to suggest is that neither of these things are accidents: they read to me as signals of intent; of how this administration intends to practice design."

Well done, Ethan Marcotte.

#UX #design #accessibility

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/

Why use Able Player instead of video? - Joe Dolson Web Accessibility https://www.joedolson.com/2025/07/why-use-able-player-instead-of-video/ #video #webdev #a11y #accessibility #html #webdevelopment

It's a really good idea to make your posts accessible:

- It helps blind, deaf & deafblind people read your post
- It also helps abled people read your post
- Accessible posts get more boosts

Here's a complete guide with step-by-step instructions and also lots of questions answered about this topic:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-make-posts-more-accessible-to-blind-people-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

As well as adding descriptions to images etc, there are also lots of things you can do to make text-only posts more accessible too.

#FediTips#Accessibility

It's a really good idea to make your posts accessible:

- It helps blind, deaf & deafblind people read your post
- It also helps abled people read your post
- Accessible posts get more boosts

Here's a complete guide with step-by-step instructions and also lots of questions answered about this topic:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-make-posts-more-accessible-to-blind-people-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

As well as adding descriptions to images etc, there are also lots of things you can do to make text-only posts more accessible too.

#FediTips#Accessibility

A lot of banks and financial institutions use this pattern,but also scramble things up.

For example, they'll ask for digits 4, 1 and 3 from a PIN, plus characters 2, 8 and 13 from your password.

In my opinion this fails WCAG SC 3.3.8 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#accessible-authentication-minimum but I'm not aware of anyone having challenged it.

#a11y #accessibility

@matuzo

I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for most other voices), and told Pied to set it as the Speech Dispatcher voice…

Now Orca sounds natural, and I can stand using it, for the first time in 20 years.

Video below demonstrates reading this post.

#Orca#SpeechDispatcher #accessibility#Pied#Linux #texttospeech

How do you make dialog on a web page read well through a screen reader when the speaking characters aren’t labeled as they are in a stage play or movie script?

Think a chat log of text messages between two people. Visually I’d just have paragraphs alternating between left and right text alignment. But how do I get this information across through text-to-speech systems?

How do you make dialog on a web page read well through a screen reader when the speaking characters aren’t labeled as they are in a stage play or movie script?

Think a chat log of text messages between two people. Visually I’d just have paragraphs alternating between left and right text alignment. But how do I get this information across through text-to-speech systems?

Here's an #accessibility question for you.

If you are left-handed, do you have any issues with the combinations Ctrl-C (copy) and Ctrl-V (paste) on your keyboard, if you semi-simultaneously need to use your mouse?

That is, while you are operating your mouse with the left hand (presumably), is it difficult for you to type Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V with your right?

Please comment only if you are left-handed (or ambidextrous) yourself. Thank you!

Boosts for reach much appreciated!

Here's an #accessibility question for you.

If you are left-handed, do you have any issues with the combinations Ctrl-C (copy) and Ctrl-V (paste) on your keyboard, if you semi-simultaneously need to use your mouse?

That is, while you are operating your mouse with the left hand (presumably), is it difficult for you to type Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V with your right?

Please comment only if you are left-handed (or ambidextrous) yourself. Thank you!

Boosts for reach much appreciated!

Firefox will soon be shipping Windows UI automation support for improved accessibility on Windows:

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/qljNUMTNtyA/m/f07WaqmmCgAJ

> UI Automation (UIA) is Microsoft's recommended accessibility framework for Windows, replacing the earlier Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) framework. [...] It offers several advantages over older frameworks including increased performance and security.

#Firefox #accessibility

I wrote a thing about text alternatives.

It’s about more than alt text.

I hope it helps some folks.

https://design.scotentblog.co.uk/providing-text-alternatives-for-non-text-content/

#a11y #accessibility

@Curator

We've been working on improving On-Screen Keyboard support in computers, mobile devices and TVs as part of the We Care About Your Input - KDE Goals initiative.

Check out what has been done so far in Plasma Virtual Keyboard and tell us what you'd like to see next. 💻️📱📺️

https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-virtual-keyboard-feedback-needed/39008

#kde#linux #accessibility #kdegoals #osk #virtualkeyboard#wayland

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

We've been working on improving On-Screen Keyboard support in computers, mobile devices and TVs as part of the We Care About Your Input - KDE Goals initiative.

Check out what has been done so far in Plasma Virtual Keyboard and tell us what you'd like to see next. 💻️📱📺️

https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-virtual-keyboard-feedback-needed/39008

#kde#linux #accessibility #kdegoals #osk #virtualkeyboard#wayland

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for most other voices), and told Pied to set it as the Speech Dispatcher voice…

Now Orca sounds natural, and I can stand using it, for the first time in 20 years.

Video below demonstrates reading this post.

#Orca#SpeechDispatcher #accessibility#Pied#Linux #texttospeech

My eyes are so itchy and watery (presumably due to seasonal allergies) that I haven't been able to get much work done in the past few days. I'm writing this toot with my eyes closed most of the time. 😑

Dear #accessibility hivemind, is there an easy way to have #Orca working with a natural-sounding text-to-speech voice, that is not eSpeak, but rather something like #MyCroft's Mimic3 ?

What's the state of the art for screenreader TTS voices on #Linux and how do I get it in #Fedora?

#a11y

Folks, @micr0 is the creator and maintainer of altbot@fuzzies.wtf and tldr@fuzzies.wtf, arguably two of the most useful #Fediverse bots I've ever seen, utilizing a locally run, low-power #LLM server operated with #privacy and #transparency primarily in mind.

If I wasn't already living off of charity, I would gladly donate to this cause. So instead, I'm asking everyone who is willing and able, please visit the post below and consider donating to help micr0 continue to provide two immensely powerful and helpful services for #inclusion and #accessibility. They deserve to at least break even on their bills for such (imho) important work.

Additionally, I encourage everyone to follow one or both bots (I'm not tagging them in the post to avoid triggering another loop like I did the last time) if you are overly-verbose like myself and need a concise, abridged version of my babblings, or don't have the spoons to write alt text for images AND videos.

#AltText#Solidarity #FOSS

https://wetdry.world/@micr0/115028873660699240

Folks, @micr0 is the creator and maintainer of altbot@fuzzies.wtf and tldr@fuzzies.wtf, arguably two of the most useful #Fediverse bots I've ever seen, utilizing a locally run, low-power #LLM server operated with #privacy and #transparency primarily in mind.

If I wasn't already living off of charity, I would gladly donate to this cause. So instead, I'm asking everyone who is willing and able, please visit the post below and consider donating to help micr0 continue to provide two immensely powerful and helpful services for #inclusion and #accessibility. They deserve to at least break even on their bills for such (imho) important work.

Additionally, I encourage everyone to follow one or both bots (I'm not tagging them in the post to avoid triggering another loop like I did the last time) if you are overly-verbose like myself and need a concise, abridged version of my babblings, or don't have the spoons to write alt text for images AND videos.

#AltText#Solidarity #FOSS

https://wetdry.world/@micr0/115028873660699240

Shoutout to the Luminus project for making the actual light theme that should have always been part of GNOME.

https://gitlab.com/dikasetyaprayogi/luminus-project

#GNOME#Linux #accessibility