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Alt text is a legal requirement across the EU and still being ignored by organizations that should know better. Personally, I think alt text is hidden away and the importance isn't stresses enough on Mastodon. In fact, I think it should be required. The bar is low and the failure is still common.
#accessibility #altText #a11y
https://edtechfactotum.com/adding-alt-text-and-more-to-images-in-mastodon/
Typography is treated as a brand decision and an accessibility decision in different meetings, but they're the same decision. This WPA11y Day session covers how font choice, line length, spacing, and contrast directly affect cognitive load and reading fluency, especially for users with dyslexia and low vision. Worth watching if you think WCAG text contrast requirements are the whole story.
#accessibility #a11y #typography
https://wpaccessibility.day/2025/sessions/typography-readability-and-digital-accessibility/
Session Video Space for positioning sign language player This session is available in 3 languages! Can you help translate more? Unless taking advantage of text-to-speech tools, visiting a website or using an app typically involves some degree of active reading, more or less in-depth. This reading experience can vary significantly depending on a range of […]
Still seeing placeholder used as a label in production code in 2026. The text disappears when users start typing, fails contrast requirements, and isn't reliably announced by all screen readers. It was never meant to be a label. Use a visible, persistent label element. Full stop.
#accessibility #forms #a11y
https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/07/21/super-short-note-placeholder-perfidy/
Microsoft added accessible math support to Word and PowerPoint, with MathML and LaTeX rendering for screen readers and other AT. STEM content has been a persistent gap in document accessibility. If your users create or consume math-heavy files in Office, this is worth knowing and worth testing with your AT of choice.
#accessibility #assistiveTechnology #Microsoft365
Honest GAAD take: years of awareness days have not moved the needle enough on actual digital accessibility. The gap between "people know it matters" and "people do it" is still enormous. Awareness without accountability and tooling doesn't close that gap.
#accessibility #GAAD #a11y
https://buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/gaad-2026-not-much-to-celebrate-yet
The argument: if CSS enforced semantic HTML by default, skipping accessibility would require active effort to undo. Right now the defaults let you style divs into fake buttons and never notice. The TailwindCSS model in particular makes it trivially easy to write presentation-first markup with zero structural meaning. Accessibility being opt-in is partly a tooling problem
#css #a11y #semanticHTML
https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/our-css-isnt-opinionated-enough/
Brands spend enormous resources building visual identity and then cut off a significant portion of their audience with inaccessible choices. Victoria Ottah's WP Accessibility Day talk frames this as a brand effectiveness problem before it's a compliance one. If people can't read, see, or understand your brand, you're not reaching them, and that's a business failure with a straightforward fix.
#accessibility #brandDesign #a11y
Session Video Space for positioning sign language player This session is available in 2 languages! Can you help translate more? In the race to build visually iconic brands, we’ve overlooked a simple truth: if people can’t read, see, or understand your brand, are you really reaching them? What if your brand’s typography can’t be read […]
Over a billion people live with disabilities. Disability is not as a technical edge case but as a central feature of society that we consistently design around instead of for. The line between disabled and not yet disabled is thinner than most designers and devs acknowledge.
#disability #accessibility #inclusion
https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/living-with-disabilities/
People with disabilities are not marginal to society but central to it – and the injustices they face reveal the failures of a world that treats human dignity as subordinate to profit.
Apple Intelligence is getting baked into accessibility features, not just as a separate AI layer. Things like Personal Voice improvements, eye tracking, and enhanced screen reader support. The integration approach is what matters here: AI as a capability that makes existing a11y features more effective.
The right question is whether these features actually get tested with disabled users before shipping or just assumed to help.
#accessibility #apple #a11y
https://lifehacker.com/tech/apple-new-ai-accessibility-features
Skip links are one of those fundamentals that still get botched constantly. Keyboard users shouldn't have to tab through 50 items to get to main content. This walkthrough covers correct implementation, including the visibility behavior that trips up devs who've only half-built it before.
#accessibility #keyboard #a11y
