Goodness those pop-up menu animations are the worst. And no way to disable them (reduce motion doesn’t affect them). Meaningless, gratuitous skeuomorphism that fails at even the basics of modeling the physical integrity of its source material.
What a shit show.

Liquid Ass should be a cautionary case study in Interface Design 101.

*smdh*

#ios26 #accessibility #design #decoration

@TheOneDoc @selfhosting FreedomBox seems interesting but, as a totally blind user, I have accessibility needs. So I opened the demo page from FreedomBox website and it brought me to a wrong certificate. SSL invalid, and even clicking on advanced -> proceed, it brought to a "forbidden" page in a JSON format. I'm currently using YunoHost in a VPS, for my self-hosting. #accessibility #blind #selfhosting

When I was mind mapping ALL of System Settings, I discovered a very curious app called Panel Editor buried VERY deep in macOS. And I mean deep. I went on an adventure trying to figure out what it was for, and I take you on that fascinating journey with me:

https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2026/01/panel-editor/

#Accessibility

Live in San Diego County and have an interest in public housing & affordable housing? Housing & Community Development Services' draft 5 year plan will be up for discussion at a public hearing on March 4. They're encouraging folks to submit comment as well.

https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/sdhcd/nppr/plans-policies-reports.html

#SanDiego #California #Housing #Accessibility

Live in San Diego County and have an interest in public housing & affordable housing? Housing & Community Development Services' draft 5 year plan will be up for discussion at a public hearing on March 4. They're encouraging folks to submit comment as well.

https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/sdhcd/nppr/plans-policies-reports.html

#SanDiego #California #Housing #Accessibility

When I was mind mapping ALL of System Settings, I discovered a very curious app called Panel Editor buried VERY deep in macOS. And I mean deep. I went on an adventure trying to figure out what it was for, and I take you on that fascinating journey with me:

https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2026/01/panel-editor/

#Accessibility

Are there any good alternative mastodon-clients to mona and tweesecake, which are both screen-reader accessible and work on mac?
I know enafore is a thing, but I don't like that one very much, due to it being browser-based and very limited in its features.
#accessible #accessibility #blind #fediverse #mastodon #macos

@jon Last time I tried Vivaldi, I recall facing some #accessibility issues. Have you chosen to prioritize that aspect of user requested improvement, or should I look elsewhere? :)

Today I heavily argued with a Hosting and VPS provider called IONOS; there's the domain ionos.com which brings to American site and there's no accessibility statement in that page. On the Italian though, ionos.it, on its footer I found an accessibility statement claiming this company took care of disability needs. It was very affordable. For 10 euro per month or so, I could obtain the Linux VPS L plan, with something like 4 CPU cores, 16GB RAM and 240 GB storage. I don't remember if it's exactly the amount of the offer but now I'm not talking about service's details.
Attracted by the offer I have subscribed to it and the products presentation and e-commerce procedure was actually accessible for screen reader users; but as soon as I has the service in hand, control panel and especially firewall rules, inaccessibility came. As an example, on a single firewall rule, the edit button was labelled with "y", the add with a "@" sign, the delete with a "]" (closed squared bracket) sign.
First thing I did was going to that accessibility page. There was no specialized e-mail for that kind of support but they linked to a contact form.
Clicked on it, it redirected me to a German-speaking page. Last time I spoke German was 1999.
And what did I find there? Phone numbers and a live-chat with German automated answers but nothing on accessibility.
I called them (Italian support) and warned them about the issue, they've been polite with me. I admit I've been quite unkind though, as I was angry. But I managed to obtain contract cancellation and they'll refund me tomorrow. But this issue must not remain under silence. What I'm asking is to all Ionos customers all over the world, to make them aware of this. It hasn't to pass under silence as this habit of placing a declaration without concretely working on accessibility, is becoming more and more normalized.
They find more convenience in violating the laws and losing customers, than create a real remediation.
And there are many faults for this: companies do their own interests, with no doubt. But our fault as people with disability, not to have stood up too much for the cause, or standing up in the wrong way. Not to have pressured governments about investing on LEARNING more than "tou must create accessible sites". You must create, but how many 30-40 years old developers have the culture of accessibility in mind?
How many companies and school have a real decades-long accessibility learning program?
No one wants to mock disability I'm convinced of this. But this practice is due to lack of basic awareness. We can not pretend of nothing.
I'm not inviting anyone to boycott. But to create awareness.
#accessibility #advocacy #awareness #blind #disability #SelfHost #SelfHosting

Today I heavily argued with a Hosting and VPS provider called IONOS; there's the domain ionos.com which brings to American site and there's no accessibility statement in that page. On the Italian though, ionos.it, on its footer I found an accessibility statement claiming this company took care of disability needs. It was very affordable. For 10 euro per month or so, I could obtain the Linux VPS L plan, with something like 4 CPU cores, 16GB RAM and 240 GB storage. I don't remember if it's exactly the amount of the offer but now I'm not talking about service's details.
Attracted by the offer I have subscribed to it and the products presentation and e-commerce procedure was actually accessible for screen reader users; but as soon as I has the service in hand, control panel and especially firewall rules, inaccessibility came. As an example, on a single firewall rule, the edit button was labelled with "y", the add with a "@" sign, the delete with a "]" (closed squared bracket) sign.
First thing I did was going to that accessibility page. There was no specialized e-mail for that kind of support but they linked to a contact form.
Clicked on it, it redirected me to a German-speaking page. Last time I spoke German was 1999.
And what did I find there? Phone numbers and a live-chat with German automated answers but nothing on accessibility.
I called them (Italian support) and warned them about the issue, they've been polite with me. I admit I've been quite unkind though, as I was angry. But I managed to obtain contract cancellation and they'll refund me tomorrow. But this issue must not remain under silence. What I'm asking is to all Ionos customers all over the world, to make them aware of this. It hasn't to pass under silence as this habit of placing a declaration without concretely working on accessibility, is becoming more and more normalized.
They find more convenience in violating the laws and losing customers, than create a real remediation.
And there are many faults for this: companies do their own interests, with no doubt. But our fault as people with disability, not to have stood up too much for the cause, or standing up in the wrong way. Not to have pressured governments about investing on LEARNING more than "tou must create accessible sites". You must create, but how many 30-40 years old developers have the culture of accessibility in mind?
How many companies and school have a real decades-long accessibility learning program?
No one wants to mock disability I'm convinced of this. But this practice is due to lack of basic awareness. We can not pretend of nothing.
I'm not inviting anyone to boycott. But to create awareness.
#accessibility #advocacy #awareness #blind #disability #SelfHost #SelfHosting

Hey lovelies 🩷

We think we've possibly got a few followers and mutuals who are blind and use some kinds of iOS mobile devices, right?

Enquiring because of a random encounter with another plural trans+ being on Reddit, who advised that they're legally blind and had not found any suitably accessible way to access the fediverse.

Can anybody advise whether there are any such ways, so we can give them some way or ways to join the friendlier fediverse community?

If not, they're stuck largely with Reddit and Bluesky 😅😔

The topic only came up after we advised that we'd found fedi to be much more plural friendly and accepting that most other such places... especially Reddit.

For clarity, we have zero experience of iOS and are not blind (at least presently at least), so we'd appreciate any firsthand experiences very much 🫶🏻

#AskFedi #iOS #accessibility

Hey lovelies 🩷

We think we've possibly got a few followers and mutuals who are blind and use some kinds of iOS mobile devices, right?

Enquiring because of a random encounter with another plural trans+ being on Reddit, who advised that they're legally blind and had not found any suitably accessible way to access the fediverse.

Can anybody advise whether there are any such ways, so we can give them some way or ways to join the friendlier fediverse community?

If not, they're stuck largely with Reddit and Bluesky 😅😔

The topic only came up after we advised that we'd found fedi to be much more plural friendly and accepting that most other such places... especially Reddit.

For clarity, we have zero experience of iOS and are not blind (at least presently at least), so we'd appreciate any firsthand experiences very much 🫶🏻

#AskFedi #iOS #accessibility

Are there any good alternative mastodon-clients to mona and tweesecake, which are both screen-reader accessible and work on mac?
I know enafore is a thing, but I don't like that one very much, due to it being browser-based and very limited in its features.
#accessible #accessibility #blind #fediverse #mastodon #macos

What Is the Minimum Markup Needed to Create a Modal?, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/minimal-modal.html

#modals #minimalism #html #css #accessibility

PSA: If you own an audio settings UI, it is now easier to enable mono audio on Linux
https://arunraghavan.net/2026/01/accessibility-update-enabling-mono-audio/

#linuxaudio #linux #pipewire #accessibility #a11y