Digital Accessibility Consultant at Intopia with a degree in Fine Arts. Australian-bred but still very Japanese.
Opinions are my own.
He/Him/His.
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Check out the results from @intopia’s Assistive Technology Survey 2025! Intopia gathered input from over 200 participants in Australia and New Zealand about how they use assistive technology, what works, and what doesn't.
https://surveys.intopia.digital/assistive-technology-survey-2025-results/
A11y Camp 2026 Call for Presentations is open!
Got something to share?
A lesson learned the hard way?
A way to make things more accessible that others need to hear?
We want it!
Join us at ICC Sydney, 23 – 25 November and help shape the next A11y Camp.
We're looking for the most brilliant presentations, insightful panels, and practical workshops to inspire the Australian accessibility community.
Submissions close 12 April 2026.
Submit your proposal: https://a11ycamp.com.au/call-for-presentations/
How the hell am I supposed to even argue with this?
Coworker about accessibility (in the context of "why don't devs/their bosses book the accessibility training for frontend developers we offer?"):
"for me as a front-end developer, accessibility is a niche issue. I have a hundred other problems to deal with. The fact that a small group of 2–4% of the market has trouble using my website is, frankly, none of my concern. Especially when it requires a huge amount of extra effort to implement and maintain. Either a UI library handles it for me, or I simply don’t do it."
I'm quite helpless in the face of this major fail of both human decency AND work ethic. And I assume they aren't a singular phenomenon, they just trust me enough to speak frankly.
Educating accessibility overlay companies from the inside doesn’t work.
This is what Chris Yoong tried: he joined an overlay company, checked the product, put together a presentation to explain why it was harming people. They could have pivoted. Instead, they decided to double down, and changed their rationale to keep the same for profit. In case you wondered.
https://chrisyoong.com/blog/educating-accessibility-overlay-companies
https://chrisyoong.com/blog/educating-accessibility-overlay-companies
On any given day, I have roughly 5 or so fucks to give.
Before anyone takes that as a confession of total selfishness, I want to be precise about what I mean...
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/tread-carefully-because-you-tread-on-my-fucks/
If you're curious how much of WCAG can be automatically tested (a FAQ I get), this page displays testing rules (ACT) by Success Criterion https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/rules/
As a companion, there is also @SteveFaulkner's excellent “Mind the automation gap” https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/03/27/mind-the-wcag-automation-gap/
Was lovely to present about WCAG-EM 2 today at #CSUNATC #csunatc26, great questions and feedback!
My slides are on https://hidde.github.io/b6-logius/20260307-csun-wcag-em/
1000 richest people are approched. "The end of the world is here. Time to go to your doomsday bunker", they are told. The billionaires nodded. They knew this was coming. They were prepared.
So they gathered their loved ones and locked themselves in luxury bunkers. No contact to outside world.
10 years later they emerge. The world has healed. The air is breathable, people are happy. "What was the catastrophy?" they ask the first person they meet.
She screams: "THEY GOT OUT!!!"
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