There is yet another accessibility overlay vendor out there, though it makes no conformance guarantees. Nor security or privacy guarantees.
“#ARTY Could Get You Sued”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/arty-could-get-you-sued.html
There is yet another accessibility overlay vendor out there, though it makes no conformance guarantees. Nor security or privacy guarantees.
“#ARTY Could Get You Sued”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/arty-could-get-you-sued.html
The LinkedIn post from AAAnow (“The Digital Confidence Company”), where it fails to mention its own overlay, is still gathering feedback 10 days after it went up:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-accessibility-widgets-still-deserve-place-aaanow-uah4e/
It has no web site nor blog, so you can only participate there.
The first image is the default state of the Sitemorse ARTY page.
The second is with the ARTY ADHD feature activated. It desaturates and darkens the page, providing a non-darkened horizontal bar which follows your mouse pointer.
That’s the entirety of the ADHD feature.
The dyslexia feature has one setting — it changes *some* of the text to Open Dyslexic, but (on the ARTY page) none of the main copy. I mostly found it in the footer links (partially obscured by the overlay).
I saw no changes to text size, spacing, alignment, leading, kerning, nor word-spacing.
The oddly-named vision feature also has one setting — which on the demo page made the body text blue, enlarged some of the text, and cranked up the saturation.
Both images show off the changes, including the alarmingly-large footer links and the unchanged small overlay text.
Only one option for the Color button (despite the three tiny circles that imply more features, like growed-up overlays offer).
The first image is the default state of the page again.
The second image shows the feature makes the page… desaturated? Looks like the ADHD feature minus the box?
The Motor feature in Arty warrants two images. This is my default window size.
Nearly illegible, between overlapping and clipping past viewport. To use the primary nav, I would have to disable this accessibility feature. The giant pointer does not indicate links when hovering.
The page had no animations, videos, flashing, spinning, whooping, dancing, etc. so this may have been a poor test of the seizure option.
The first image is the default state of the page. The second image looks like the color setting — desaturated. Perhaps meant to blunt adjacent vibrant colors?
The text-only setting re-creates the reader mode in your browser. It excludes sidebars, headers, footers, nav, etc.
It has the added bonus that when you turn it off, the ARTY accessibility overlay is gone (with no obvious way to turn it back on). But hey, now you can read the page footer!
Last example.
NOT a screen reader proxy. But relies on user to drag mouse pointer around for things to be announced.
Does not highlight the thing (other overlays do). Does not announce `title` tool-tips nor any of the overlay text (nor text partially obscured by overlay).
End of thread.
If you are interested in how #Arty, the #accessibility #overlay from Sitemorse / AAAnow may or may not be useful (or a legal risk), more detail here:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/arty-could-get-you-sued.html
As a bonus for reading this far, I attached a screen shot with all but one ARTY feature activated.