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#WordPress #accessibility #a11y

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Assisting people with blindness and other vision issues is more than reason enough BUT if you still need to be convinced of the need for alt text, remember that things don't always work smoothly in the fediverse (for the same reasons we like it!).

...there can be image display issues, and when that happens, alt text is helpful for 100% of users.

New in Prisma: you can open a product in the shopping lists app (S-ostoslista) and press a button to make the light on the shelf label blink.
Finding products more easily in the supermarket is useful for everyone, but this might be especially useful if you can’t see the products very well, or have trouble reading the labels.
This is currently working in Prisma in Tripla (Pasila) it’s coming more widely soon.
#accessibility #saavutettavuus

People keep telling me I don’t know how good I have it. That modern systems are easy, and that accessibility has come so far I should be grateful. So I decided to test that claim the hard way.
I’m running Windows XP for a month. Not in a VM. Not themed. Real XP. Real hardware. A 2009 Samsung NC10, with 2GB of RAM, an SSD, and the original drivers I had to dig up from the depths of the internet.
No speech at install. I used OCR to get through it.
Display drivers broke four times.
Serpent is the only browser I could get working.
I installed Office 2003.
Got JAWS 15 running after a registry hack.
NVDA still works fine.
I even played some old audio games I never got to try growing up.
I haven’t found a decent ad blocker or antivirus yet. I’m not expecting this to go smoothly. I don’t even really believe I’ll make it the full 30 days. But I’m doing it anyway.
Day 1 is up. Written and published from Windows XP.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dea
#WindowsXP #Accessibility #BlindComputing #RetroTech
#NVDA #JAWS #audiogames
#30DaysOfXP

fireborn.mataroa.blogDead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 — fireborn

When dealing with accessible UX projects it often helps to talk to the target user:

I was talking to a totally blind work friend & colleague about examples of when accessibility measures are not practical.

He told me of a time when the person in charge of the street name signs in an area of Spain wanted to add braille to them.

My friend responded by asking if all blind people would also be equipped with ladders to reach the signs to touch them & read them.

After a chat with a blind person the project was dropped.

Context: In Spain street signs are up high, around 1st floor level & can only be reached with long ladders or similar.

Dear map app makers,

I'm zooming in to read the street names, I can see the streets just fine

Continually shrinking text to micro-font prevents me from knowing which road is
which

Paper maps are readable because they don't shrink their text as you look at them more closely

Also, for mobile devices let me pin North to the top ( or whatever side I want ) of my device

I can rotate the device if I want to look at the map from another angle, reorienting text would be fine

hey fedi, will using a css hack to make a checkbox act like a dropdown navigation menu be bad for #accessibility?

I'm trying to use absolutely zero js for my website, and on mobile I want to have a dropdown navigation menu in my header so that people can navigate to the other parts of my site. on desktop the site is wide enough to just have them directly in the navbar, but on mobile it needs to be a dropdown.

here's an example of it in use: codepen.io/markcaron/pen/wdVmpB

codepen.ioPure CSS Dropdown without JavaScript...

So, Microsoft Copilot on Android is the only LLM AI app that reads out responses using TalkBack when you type to it, cause blind people all speak to their devices cause obviously blind people can't use touch screens /s. So Google's Gemini and ChatGPT got out-accessibled by Microsoft of all companies. If only Outlook for Android were so good.

#AI#LLM#Microsoft

Tip of the day: Whether due to a physical infirmity or just a product of getting older, viewing things on screen can become more difficult. Changing the interface isn’t something that’s simply done and everyone has their own level of correction needed. Here are a few ways to make things a bit easier on your eyes. #accessibility #devonthink #devonthinktogo #ios #macos #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday devontechnologies.com/blog/202