Florian
So ... the #CSUN list of exhibitors page is now a bunch of buttons that, when pressed, tell screen readers absolutely nothing and add a modal to the end of the DOM that you have to go find, which in turn has buttons that go to a website for said exhibitor.
Premier #blindness conference in the US and we can't even follow basic #web #accessibility practices I see. Great look guys, incredibly impressed. /s
Mar 10 at 2:55pmWeb
Show threadFlorianMar 10
I should add that they did make sure that tabbing, after pressing the button for an exhibitor, moves focus into the modal. Since that's definitely what we all do, right? Tab around when there's no form fields to fill in :)
Show threadD.Hamlin.MusicMar 10
@zersiax I was trying to schedule an appointment with Nj Mvc yesterday, it was a mess before getting to selecting a date/time where it all fell apart, they do have phone scheduling but you have to know that's offered.
Show thread🏳️‍⚧️PepperTheVixen🦯Mar 10
@zersiax I have a certain amount of forgiveness for bad screen reader accessibility. That forgiveness does not exist here. Absolute fucking bellends. This is a conference for blind people. Why the fuck is it inaccessible to blind people? I hope their accessibility team bites the heads off of everyone on the website team
Show threadFlorianMar 10
@PepperTheVixen Looks like someone at the conference is asking for feedback and I've already passed this on, I'm going to see if I can get to the bottom of just ... how this blew up so badly :-O
Show threadD.Hamlin.MusicMar 10
@zersiax @PepperTheVixen Just hope someone from AudioEye or Userway doesn't get involved and suggest an overlay will fix it.
Show thread🏳️‍⚧️PepperTheVixen🦯Mar 10
@dhamlinmusic @zersiax Overlay companies can shove their slopware up their collective ass
Show threadD.Hamlin.MusicMar 10
@PepperTheVixen @zersiax if we're shitting on overlays we should loop @aardrian in.
Show threadAdrian Roselli, pH0Mar 10
@dhamlinmusic @PepperTheVixen @zersiax
Given that two overlay vendors have rooms here, I don't think I can avoid it. I'm horrified conference organizers allowed it.
Show threadD.Hamlin.MusicMar 10
@aardrian @PepperTheVixen @zersiax Yeah that does not make sense
Show thread🏳️‍⚧️PepperTheVixen🦯Mar 10
@aardrian @dhamlinmusic @zersiax That's incredibly unfortunate. I remember going several years back. The fad was glasses with cameras and screens on them at that time. I kinda wanna go back to that fad. It was less damaging than this current garbage
Show threadFlorianMar 10
@dhamlinmusic @PepperTheVixen there's plenty of aI-powered accessibility fixer-upper-type tools listed in the exhibitors list so that would not surprise me :P
Show threadJoshuaMar 10
@zersiax oh ewww, and this is sopust to be a confrence for blind people? oh wow