Web developer with a strong focus on #accessibility and how assumptions baked into technology can intersect with #disability. Writes about the impact #disasters can have on website #usability.
Additional interests: #UX #UserTesting #Screenreaders #AltText #HTML #CSS
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| General toots | @mikemccaffrey |
My first paid software development job was on accessibility software. I remember visiting a user to help set up our code, and the sheer joy he had at being able to communicate more quickly than he had been able to for years.
Seeing the effort put into improving modern Linux accessibility is heartwarming. There's been almost 20 years of almost nobody caring. It's important. It's worthwhile.
Say thank you to the people doing that work. Stop amplifying the people saying that work isn't happening.
Funny, good #Drupal / CMS development is also about restricting the number of features and options that the editors can see so the interface is not overwhelming (and so they don't unintentionally break things). I guess I didn't explicitly think of it as #Accessibility.
Good news that #HamburgerMenus are now broadly recognized for showing a hidden menu, and no longer seem to be a huge #accessibility problem!
However, I'd like to know more about their claims that people expect the hamburger menu to be at the top left. That does not seem like best practice to me, since logos are usually clickable and also aligned to the left, so you've got competing touch targets in the same area.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/hamburger-menu-icon-recognizability
Teen Vogue continues to be a goddamn treasure and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-be-an-activist-when-youre-unable-to-attend-protests
Do NOT let this get overlooked: a MAJOR win for civil rights happened today.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/scotus-ajt-ruling-disability-rights-schools-tharpe/
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