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Accessible PDFs can be an intimidating topic (and our guide is looong) — but don't worry: we have published a post with a gentle introduction to the topic on our blog, showing how #Typst makes your documents accessible automatically
Accessible PDFs can be an intimidating topic (and our guide is looong) — but don't worry: we have published a post with a gentle introduction to the topic on our blog, showing how #Typst makes your documents accessible automatically
Given that I’m going moderately punk with designing my #website, I inevitably stumbled upon #CSS custom cursors (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor) and decided to make my own extremely doodly ones. And it did work nicely, especially after I fucked up the colors and ended up with some pixels broken!
But then I re-read one of the latest @dbushell posts (https://dbushell.com/2025/10/27/custom-cursor-accessibility/), discouraging custom cursors. And yeah, it's not as exciting and fun as I expected it to be, due to #Accessibility and customization mess.
So I removed custom cursors 😢
Given that I’m going moderately punk with designing my #website, I inevitably stumbled upon #CSS custom cursors (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor) and decided to make my own extremely doodly ones. And it did work nicely, especially after I fucked up the colors and ended up with some pixels broken!
But then I re-read one of the latest @dbushell posts (https://dbushell.com/2025/10/27/custom-cursor-accessibility/), discouraging custom cursors. And yeah, it's not as exciting and fun as I expected it to be, due to #Accessibility and customization mess.
So I removed custom cursors 😢
For folks who are newer here, Alt Text is important in the fediverse because many of us want to foster a healthy, strong community. I try not to nag about this, just know that we’re less likely to boost something without good image description. Pro-tip: words like “guy”, “woman”, etc. are not useful because AltText is meant to *describe*. Thank you for valuing accessibility! It benefits the abled and disabled alike.
#accessibility #disability #fediTips #fediverse #Mastodon #welcome
For folks who are newer here, Alt Text is important in the fediverse because many of us want to foster a healthy, strong community. I try not to nag about this, just know that we’re less likely to boost something without good image description. Pro-tip: words like “guy”, “woman”, etc. are not useful because AltText is meant to *describe*. Thank you for valuing accessibility! It benefits the abled and disabled alike.
#accessibility #disability #fediTips #fediverse #Mastodon #welcome
Increasingly I see organizations requiring #accessibility practitioners to have certifications, what is also required is a recognition that some have been doing accessibility professionally for decades, how does this get formally recognized?
Hot off the presses! Unite 6.5 was released today (an app that creates site-specific browsers). I reviewed it last week, and I talked about how it was NOT accessible to screen readers. Only 5 days after I told the dev, he's made it pretty accessible! (not perfect but good)
Weil ich das heute schon ein paar Mal gesehen habe: Links gehören nicht in die bildbeschreibung, dort kann man sie nicht anklicken. Verlinkungen ausschließlich in den Tröt. #Accessibility #Bildbeschreibung
If your hold recording can have a forced advertisement in an AI voice about mammograms every 15 seconds, surely it can also have an option to wait in silence.
But no, my autistic ass has to listen to the fucking #clanker shill the same thing at me over and over again or no appointment.
I'm so sick of neurotypical bullshit and lack of care for people's differing level of tolerance I could burn something down.
Increasingly I see organizations requiring #accessibility practitioners to have certifications, what is also required is a recognition that some have been doing accessibility professionally for decades, how does this get formally recognized?
Weil ich das heute schon ein paar Mal gesehen habe: Links gehören nicht in die bildbeschreibung, dort kann man sie nicht anklicken. Verlinkungen ausschließlich in den Tröt. #Accessibility #Bildbeschreibung
A few recent open ebooks:
* Inclusive Teaching Online: Evidence-Based Strategies to Support #StudentSuccess in #HigherEd https://open.oregonstate.education/teachingonline/
* Advancing #Accessibility: Practical Strategies for Instructional Designers and Educators https://edtechbooks.org/accessibility
* #AILiteracy for Career & College Success https://pressbooks.montgomerycollege.edu/ailit/
* Learning With AI: A Student Edited Collection https://leeds.pressbooks.pub/learningwithai/
#EdDev #OnlineTeaching #AIEd
As someone who is totally blind, the Fediverse is the only place where I have ever been able to follow people such as photographers, artists, or even those who post pictures of their cats or the food they ate. The reason is that most of them use alt text. They take the time to describe the images that my screen reader can't recognise. Some write the descriptions themselves, and others use tools such as altbot. Some worry that their descriptions aren't good enough, especially when they are new at this. Let me assure you, not only are they good enough, they are extremely appreciated! If the rest of the world thought as you did, it would be a much better place. Don't hesitate to ask if you're unsure of something, but never think that we don't notice your effort.
#appreciation #accessibility #altbot #alttext #blind #blindness #fediverse #gratitude #images #inclusivity #peoplewhocare #pictures #technology
Those funky cool kids at Commodore have sent me another unsolicited email, this time with the font colour set to white so it's invisible. I guess every single person there only uses dark mode and never considers that some of us need light to see things.
Those funky cool kids at Commodore have sent me another unsolicited email, this time with the font colour set to white so it's invisible. I guess every single person there only uses dark mode and never considers that some of us need light to see things.
Getting this out of Google's paws is an unalloyed good. Blockly is a wonderful way for kids to ease into script-based programming. I've used it many times in lessons for kids as young as 8.
@mttaggart I was pleasantly surprised to see screen-reader support be a prominently mentioned roadmap item in this announcement, and I look forward to seeing where this goes. Up until this point, accessible alternatives to block-based coding have existed in the form of cost-prohibitive hardware devices (CodeJumper, ET AL). So having a generally-available nonvisual approach to this teaching method will be a major win for sure.
#accessibility #inclusivity #inclusiveDesign
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