Y’all. I just launched v1.5 of my macOS color contrast checker, Ratio. A couple of bugs squashed and it’s ready for your accessibility ventures in design and development.
https://ratioapp.markwyner.com
#Ratio #W3C #Accessibility #A11y #ColorContrast #macOS #App #Software #Design #FrontEnd #Development
Y’all. I just launched v1.5 of my macOS color contrast checker, Ratio. A couple of bugs squashed and it’s ready for your accessibility ventures in design and development.
https://ratioapp.markwyner.com
#Ratio #W3C #Accessibility #A11y #ColorContrast #macOS #App #Software #Design #FrontEnd #Development
@menelion @delta @marcozehe I’ve talked to him before, and he seems like a pretty cool dude.
Okay, I believe I have found a temporary workaround to the issue with using the Delta Chat voice message recording interface issue I reported yesterday. Basically, use the Voice Memos app to record the audio, then attach it as a file to your chat and send it off. It’s not ideal, and the issue I mentioned should definitely be fixed, but Delta Chat on iOS doesn’t actually crash, it just temporarily breaks VoiceOver in the voice message recording interface. You can use the usual swipe up gesture from the bottom of your screen to close Delta Chat and VoiceOver works normally. Figured I’d update everyone on what I discovered. @delta should know about this, as I added a comment to the GitHub issue I submitted yesterday explaining the same thing. #A11Y #Accessibility #VoiceOver #iOS #BugReport #DeltaChat
@noondlyt
On a desktop browser perhaps?
I use the Advanced Web Interface. Pressing the j/k keys moves forward (down)/backward (up) through my feed. Posts (one at a time) have the blue border as you navigate.
@DaveMasonDotMe FYI, any time you have #Mastodon Web open, you can press the ? (Question mark) and the keyboard shortcut cheat sheet will open. (Unless the curser is in textbox) #FediTips #accessibility #A11y
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It’s a post now:
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/honoring-mobile-os-text-size.html
712 words, but the images are huge (dimensions, not file size). I also captured fresh images (last night’s were an old version of my demo).
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Anyway, I promised @eric and @codingchaos last night to share it but promptly fell asleep. The electrician will be here soon, so I’m doing this in my mobile and have to edit a couple typos in this thread.
Enjoy?
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It’s a post now:
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/honoring-mobile-os-text-size.html
712 words, but the images are huge (dimensions, not file size). I also captured fresh images (last night’s were an old version of my demo).
By now it's 50 percent win and 50 percent fail, with AI, every day.
Win: Forgot the name of some sweets and I wrote a prompt: "which sweets are these? Strong mint, they are hard, packed in paper envelope, by touch they seem oval pills. Their name has something to do with fish".
The output returned "fisherman's friend original strong"... Found. Bought.
FAIL: tried to write a story with this plot. Blind girl scared by a stalker who touched her and followed her everywhere. Girl talks to policeman. The description refers to blindness in many ways but, in the end, it says the policeman gives her A PAPER VCARD "if it happens again, calls me".
But if you described the white cane just a dozen words ago!
Then (even at work) someone asks me why I have not tried vibe coding yet. Not with this high failure probability! Not me. Not for my own needs.
I use it, partially rely on it, for moderate needs.
#a11y #accessibility #ai #blind #EpicFail #everyday #experience #tech #writing
Talking about accessibility, Trunk is the worst fediverse client. Blind users avoid it like death - unless you want to fill their resources whatever they are, of feedbacks.
Just to be precise: my purpose is not to humiliate anyone, but to remind the world, we exist. If we stay sitting by ourselves and complain in our comfort zone only, we obtain nothing.
#a11y #accessibility #blind #fediverse
How should text-to-speech handle ruby annotations like furigana in Japanese or pinyin in Chinese so screen reader users get the intended experience?
We just published a new W3C draft note from the Internationalization Activity: Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements
This explores diverse reading strategies across writing systems and defines essential user needs.
How should text-to-speech handle ruby annotations like furigana in Japanese or pinyin in Chinese so screen reader users get the intended experience?
We just published a new W3C draft note from the Internationalization Activity: Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements
This explores diverse reading strategies across writing systems and defines essential user needs.
This link, believe it or not, is for you to send accessibility feedback. #accessibility #a11y
This link, believe it or not, is for you to send accessibility feedback. #accessibility #a11y
Hi Folks,
I am looking for screen reader users to test a site taking approximately one hour. This is a paid gig - $50 via a gift card. Please ping me for more details.
Please boost for reach.
Thanks!
Time to gently pencil it into your busy social calendars ... Inclusive Design 24 #id24 will take place on the 24 September 2026. The call for presentations will open around April time... but if you already have an idea, or you'd like to help out as a guest host, get in touch!
