PDX Accessibility & UX MeetupThe presentation from our January meetup is now available on YouTube 🙌 Check out @mikemai2awesome presenting “Tiny CSS, Big Impact”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3evzleHla1k
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bondolo@zersiax My argument is that #a11y is no different than #i18n, security, or text layout. If we put any or all of these as burden on individual developers we should totally expect spectacularly inconsistent, incomplete and frequently terrible outcomes. Each of these things is just one of 5000 competing concerns that they have building a product.
Jonathan LamotheDoes anyone happen to know if there's an easy way to get #emacs's nov.el package to display text using the #OpenDyslexic font? I was hoping there was a customization variable, but it seems not.
Perhaps I could run it in a terminal editor and change the terminal's font, but then I'd lose things like images.
I can hack something together if I really need to, I'd just rather not if there's a simpler solution available.
Edit: I was able to do this through M-x customize-face
westbrook@noleli Makes me think more on the state here. Maybe it's not that we should have a more introspective selector here. Maybe it's that we're not adequately reporting up the state. If a shadow host can be `:focus` when a child is focused, then why can't it be `:focus-visible`? With such a thing then `:has(:focus-visible)` would work in this case.
Not sure the right solutions, but something SHOULD be done here! 🤞
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Adrian Roselli, pH0“Unpacking the accessibility trap of Google Slides’ ‘Beautify’ feature”
https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/its/2026/03/25/unpacking-the-accessibility-trap-of-google-slides-beautify-feature/
I’ve added this as a bullet to my post “My Request to Google on Accessibility”: https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html#WTF
Google again showing its incompetence.
Accessibility in the NewsArt exhibition designed for blind visitors marks latest step in accessibility at Washington Pavilion https://pigeon605.com/art-exhibition-designed-for-blind-visitors-marks-latest-step-in-accessibility-at-washington-pavilion/ #a11y
Joseph LeeHmmm, should I bring back an NVDA add-on just to address issues with latest WebView2 based Microsoft Copilot? The latest Copilot release (147.0.x.y) is essentially a gateway to Copilot web interface, meaning browse mode will be engaged once a prompt is entered. One can then use browse mode commands to review the generated output (presented as a live region). This is the exact same mechanism used by Copilot app back in 2024. #A11Y
Al Puzzuoli@bitwarden Hello, Any update on this issue? When using the Bitwarden Chrome extension to add an item, it is currently not possible to select the item type via the keyboard. This is a moderate to severe issue for those who can't use a mouse. I imagine this should be relatively easy to fix. Yet I first reported it last December and after your initial acknowledgement, there have been no further status updates. Could you please give this issue a bump? Thanks!#bvitwarden #a11y
Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)I heartily recommend testing your apps with various accessibility settings enabled.
You can find so many odd issues with those. "Always Show Scrollbars", for example:
* I found a performance bug with vertical tabs in #Firefox that completely flew under the radar: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2016616#c14
* Noticed the awkward look of scrollbars in the middle of Meld: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/-/issues/956
* Discovered misalignment in GNOME Calendar's week view: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/621
lizzzzardHow the hell am I supposed to even argue with this?
Coworker about accessibility (in the context of "why don't devs/their bosses book the accessibility training for frontend developers we offer?"):
"for me as a front-end developer, accessibility is a niche issue. I have a hundred other problems to deal with. The fact that a small group of 2–4% of the market has trouble using my website is, frankly, none of my concern. Especially when it requires a huge amount of extra effort to implement and maintain. Either a UI library handles it for me, or I simply don’t do it."
I'm quite helpless in the face of this major fail of both human decency AND work ethic. And I assume they aren't a singular phenomenon, they just trust me enough to speak frankly.