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Meryl Evans, CPACC 🦻May 20, 2025

Frontend Dogma Oct 10, 2024

Accessibility Is Everyone’s Responsibility, by @MerylEvans:

https://meryl.net/accessibility-everyones-responsibility/

Accessibility Is Everyone's Responsibility – Meryl.net home

ContentsSummaryAccessibility Is More Than ComplianceThe Business Case for AccessibilityPractical Steps for LeadersRole-Specific Accessibility ResponsibilitiesCustomersHuman resourcesProcurementGraphic DesignersMarketing and communicationsManagersExecutivesFinanceCleaning crewProduct teamsCustomer supportFacilitiesMaking Progress with AccessibilityLevel up Your Accessibility and Inclusion Efforts SummaryThis article talks about how everyone, no matter their job, has a part to play in making places and services accessible and welcoming for all. ... Read more

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Meryl Evans, CPACC 🦻May 20, 2025

Links by @[email protected]Sep 23, 2024

⭐️ The Complete Guide to Captioned Videos

By @MerylEvans

https://meryl.net/captioned-videos-complete-guide/

Everything You Need to Know About Captioned Videos | Meryl.net home

Get all your captioned video questions answered in this guide including why, what, and how to create great captions to get more video views.

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Meryl Evans, CPACC 🦻May 20, 2025

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Steve Woodson Aug 21, 2023

〰️ Progress over Perfection

Credit to @MerylEvans for this wonderful phrase that I repeat to myself all the time.

It’s still hard for me - as a web developer - to focus on incremental improvements and not worry about achieving some level of perfection.

But it’s important to acknowledge that every bit helps make a difference. It’s critical to start down that path of progress, learning, and sharing.

Otherwise we’ll be waiting for a “perfect” that never comes.
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Meryl Evans, CPACC 🦻May 20, 2025

Ann 🧡 (she/her)Jul 6, 2023

@kirsty Ah, that makes sense. If you ever do need to do down the route of seriously sorting out strobing content there's a very in-depth article on MDN web docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/Seizure_disorders, also Apple has some new features where users can turn this off

The other resource I'd recommend is @MerylEvans content on captioning: https://meryl.net/tag/captioned-videos/

Web accessibility for seizures and physical reactions - Accessibility | MDN

This article introduces concepts behind making web content accessible for those with vestibular disorders, and how to measure and prevent content leading to seizures and/or other physical reactions.

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Meryl Evans, CPACC 🦻May 20, 2025

Frontend Dogma Nov 8, 2024

Accessibility for the Deaf / Hard of Hearing and Progress Over Perfection, by @MerylEvans (@[email protected]):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROFEXy-X-JU

Meryl Evans: Accessibility for the Deaf / Hard of Hearing and Progress Over Perfection

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Meryl Evans, CPACC 🦻May 20, 2025

cariefisher May 13, 2025

Day 2 of our #GAAD Accessibility Copilot video series 🚀

Today we meet @MerylEvans — a speaker, consultant, & accessibility advocate who was born deaf. During calls she relies on captions to follow the conversation, which makes taking notes very difficult 🗒️

Recently, she needed to pull notes from a call. She dropped the meeting transcript into GitHub Copilot, asked for a summary & key points — just like that she had what she needed to prep for a big keynote ✨

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159086

How to use GitHub Copilot to get meeting transcripts [Day 2] · community · Discussion #159086

@merylke shows us how she uses GitHub Copilot to serve as a sidekick for notetaking during calls. Copilot_Accessibility_Meryl_FINAL_Captions.mov This video is part of our Five ways you can use GitH...

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Meryl Evans, CPACC 🦻May 20, 2025

Steve Faulkner May 13, 2025

Best kept secret: the IBM accessibility checker, blows other #a11y testing tools out of the water
✅ open source and well maintained
✅ Free and ad free
✅ multiple rulesets
✅ export results to excel

https://www.ibm.com/able/toolkit/tools/#develop

Meryl Evans, CPACC 🦻Mar 3, 2023

Why I start most of my presentations the same way ... https://buff.ly/41NvFci

#Disability #Communication

Meryl Evans, CPACC (deaf) on LinkedIn: #merylmots #communication #disability | 19 comments

I start most presentations the same way. I mention I was born hearing-free, or in medical terms profoundly deaf. That's where this deaf accent comes from. I've… | 19 comments on LinkedIn

Meryl Evans, CPACC 🦻Mar 2, 2023

The Most Difﬁcult TV Shows to Understand https://buff.ly/3SKV2HB

Mic drop line: "Subtitles are primarily an #accessibility tool, and there are important guidelines to keep them accessible."

Hope Stranger Things
tone down the sound captions in S5.

The Most Difﬁcult TV Shows to Understand

Who says that nobody reads anymore? Some four out of five 18-25-year-olds use subtitles when watching TV shows, even though only one in ten of these say they are deaf or hard of hearing.

Meryl Evans, CPACC 🦻Mar 1, 2023

How did not know about this? Purple Vest Mission https://buff.ly/3EN3PCW Thank you for doing this, Access Israel. Thanks for telling me about it, Ella Decker!

#Accessibility #Disability

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