Mastodawn

"Looks clean. Minimal. Modern." That's the excuse for 16px icons in a toolbar. Then you put your thumb on it. And you miss. Every. Single. Time. That's not a you problem — it's a design failure. WCAG 2.5.8 exists for exactly this reason: 24px is the minimum target size. Want your product to work for people with motor impairments, large fingers, or shaky hands? Aim for 32px. Aesthetics don't trump usability. 🔗 https://tarnoff.info #a11y #Accessibility #UXDesign #WCAG #InclusiveDesign

Nat Tarnoff

Accessibility, Artist, Music, Philosophy

Nat Tarnoff

Jecture 1d ago

Here's the counterintuitive truth: adding ARIA to your site often makes it WORSE for screen reader users. Data shows pages with ARIA have significantly more errors than pages without. Why? Developers slap on aria-label and role="menu" without the keyboard support those roles require. Use native HTML first. ARIA is a last resort — and only if you understand the full contract. 🔗 https://a11yweekly.com/issue/494/ #a11y #Accessibility #ARIA #WebDev #WCAG

The WebAIM Million - 2026 Update

A weekly dose of web accessibility to help you bring it into your everyday work.

Accessibility Weekly

Jecture 1d ago

WebAIM just dropped their 2026 Million report. Eight consecutive years of evaluating 1 million homepages. The headline hasn't changed: over 95% have detectable WCAG failures. Eight years of industry conferences, training programs, legal mandates, and accessibility frameworks — and the needle barely moves. If your strategy isn't working, change the strategy. 🔗 https://a11yweekly.com/issue/494/ #a11y #Accessibility #WCAG #WebDev #DigitalInclusion

The WebAIM Million - 2026 Update

A weekly dose of web accessibility to help you bring it into your everyday work.

Accessibility Weekly

Jecture 2d ago

Stop blaming designers for your accessibility failures. Audits get run. Boxes get ticked. Footer statements get published. And nine months after the EU Accessibility Act deadline, most teams have moved on. Accessibility isn't a design handoff problem — it's a software engineering execution problem. The gap between spec and implementation is where disabled users get left behind. 🔗 https://a11yweekly.com/issue/495/ #a11y #Accessibility #WebDev #EAA #WCAG

The Accessibility Problem Isn't Design. It's Engineering

A weekly dose of web accessibility to help you bring it into your everyday work.

Accessibility Weekly

Jecture 2d ago

The GSA just confirmed what disabled people have known for years: government websites are failing accessibility standards. And in many cases, the technology intended to improve access is actively making things worse. Public digital services aren't optional for the people who need them most. This isn't just a UX problem — it's a civil rights issue. https://fedscoop.com #a11y #GovTech #Accessibility #DigitalEquity #Section508

FedScoop

FedScoop delivers up-to-the-minute breaking government tech news and is the government IT community's platform for education and collaboration

FedScoop

Jecture 3d ago

Adrian Roselli's concept of "adversarial conformance" is something every dev and designer needs to understand. Using font-weight:500 to distinguish links from surrounding text technically avoids a WCAG failure — but it's not actually accessible. Passing a checkpoint is meaningless if real users can't perceive the difference. Stop gaming the guidelines. Make things actually work. https://adrianroselli.com #a11y #Accessibility #WCAG #WebDev #InclusiveDesign

Adrian Roselli — Consultant, Writer, Speaker

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Adrian Roselli

Jecture 3d ago

Australia just rebranded disability cuts as a "sustainability taskforce." Let's be clear: no amount of bureaucratic language makes cutting support for disabled people okay. Disabled Australians rely on these services to live, work, and participate in society. This is not sustainability — it's austerity with better PR. https://cripminds.com #a11y #Accessibility #DisabilityRights #NDIS #Australia

Crip Minds

Editorial arts platform publishing disability-led perspectives on creative technology.

Crip Minds

Jecture 4d ago

Here's an under-discussed accessibility problem: AI assistive tools — the ones that genuinely help blind and visually impaired users navigate the web — keep getting blocked by bot detection systems. There's a quiet revolution in AI-powered accessibility. And websites are accidentally shutting it out. https://timdixon.net/blog/2026/04/ #a11y #Accessibility #AI #AssistiveTechnology #DigitalInclusion

April 2026 - TIM DIXON

TIM DIXON

Jecture 4d ago

Most developers aren't intentionally hostile to accessibility. They just never feel the urgency — until a lawsuit lands, or a disabled colleague can't use their product. This piece on getting devs to care explores carrots (pride, empathy, recognition) and sticks (audits, legal, public shame). Both are needed. Neither works alone.

https://buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/getting-developers-to-care-about-accessibility/

#a11y #Accessibility #WebDev #InclusiveDesign #AccessibilityMatters

Getting Developers to Care about Accessibility: Carrots and Sticks

Two technology professionals standing at a large monitor, looking at user journeys Most developers aren't intentionally hostile to accessibility. They just...

Access * Ability

Jecture 5d ago

Adobe InDesign 2026 now auto-generates AI alt text for images. Sounds like a win — and it can be, for speed. But the accuracy still requires human judgment. AI-generated alt text for complex infographics, charts, or decorative images regularly misses the mark. Use it as a starting point, not a finish line. https://creative-boost.com/adobe-indesi... #a11y #Accessibility #AI #InclusiveDesign #WCAG

Adobe InDesign’s AI Alt-Text Generator: What Designers Need to Know | Design Domination

The 2026 release of Adobe InDesign includes a new feature, the AI Alt-text generator, which automatically generates Alt-text for images for accessibility. Should designers who create accessible PDFs from InDesign trust it as part of their accessibility work? Or is it more of a risk? If you’re creating accessible documents in InDesign, here’s what you […]

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