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Inautilo Jan 4, 2025

#Business #Reports
Overlays’ false claims finally get their due · “The U.S. FTC has put accessibility overlay vendors on notice.” https://ilo.im/161od0

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#Accessibility #AccessibilityOverlay #FTC #USA #Design #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend

Overlays' false claims finally get their due

Color me surprised. For years, accessibility professionals have been trying to call attention to the misleading claims being made by overlay vendors. Despite...

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Daniela Kubesch Jul 9, 2024

TIL at #IKTForum that #Joomla once integrated an #AccessibilityOverlay. However, they found that it was not accepted by their users because those who need help have already generally adjusted settings in their browsers. Therefore, I was told, they removed the overlay again.

pablolarah Jun 11, 2024

🔴 Accessibility overlays are not for disabled people
by Martin Underhill @tempertemper @tempertemper
#AccessibilityOverlay #accessibility

https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/accessibility-overlays-are-not-for-disabled-people

Accessibility overlays are not for disabled people

Those little accessibility widgets you see on some websites are absolutely not for who you think they are.

tempertemper Web Design

Accessible Libraries Mar 11, 2024

Are you considering using an #AccessibilityOverlay for your library's website, or purchasing a service that does? Read this first: https://accessiblelibraries.ca/resources/accessibility-overlays/
#a11y #libraries #accessibility #overlays

Accessibility Overlays – AccessibleLibraries.ca

Inautilo Mar 11, 2024

#Business
What’s needed for AI-powered website accessibility · “For AI to put me out of a job, I have to do my job for longer first.” https://ilo.im/15y7we

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#Job #Accessibility #AccessibilityOverlay #AI #GenerativeAI #Design #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend

What we need if we want AI to improve website accessibility – Julie Grundy

D.Hamlin.Music Mar 11, 2024

Thank you #accessibilityoverlay for automatically enabling, informing me to change your settings or disable that I could go to a specific button, it would have helped if every button was not just called button, also would have been nice if you had not replaced every navigation object with a label that said the type and level of them but without any function, and also forcing a mobile webpage to use keyboard navigation and pass through commands to do anything. As a #blind #screenreader user this is very helpful to decide what businesses I will not be doing business with, have fun explaining to your clients how your product helped them with pesky customers wanting to pay them for things. @mastoblind

pablolarah Mar 4, 2024

🟢🟡 Accessibility Darkness
by Steve Faulkner @SteveFaulkner @SteveFaulkner
#accessibility #AccessibilityOverlay

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2024/03/03/accessibility-darkness-2/

accessibility darkness – HTML Accessibility

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FeralRobots Feb 15, 2024

@freakonometrics It's not a new take, though: Institutions have been arguing for a couple decades by now that they're not responsible for the regulatory compliance of stuff they outsource. I'm most familiar with how it's worked in accessibility where I had to explain to my agency bosses & our clients that we can't outsource the responsibility to field accessible web content. (#AccessibilityOverlay vendors are selling a lot of product making this non-starter argument by insinuation.)

FeralRobots Feb 1, 2024

Mike #Paciello joining #Audioeye is a real WTF moment.
I can totally buy that he believes his reasons for doing this balance out to the good, but Audioeye has a long & well-documented history of being bad actors who try to SLAPP critics into silence, when they're not shilling harmful #AccessibilityOverlay non-solutions. #accessibility #a11y
https://mstdn.social/@ppatel/111856959685646510