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2026-08-17 14:13:43 GMT

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Yeah, I had started to move to demos hosted on my own site because I sensed it was a matter of time before Codepen went away as I knew it. I need to accelerate my effort.
I also got a response from one of their team on Bluesky when my five-node CSS-and-JS-free pen in the new editor crashed after being idel 10 minutes. Glad they’re paying attention, but I’m not using it.

2026-02-09 00:40:56 GMT

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But… “pigskin”? Isn’t that a term they use?

2025-12-31 13:48:18 GMT

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Oh, yeah, they could use another ‘D’ as a tail. But then I suppose it would look like the AInus has a butt plug in it or something.
@npub1jpy…yfwv

2025-12-31 13:45:54 GMT

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YES! It’s weird the core letter of the brand is at the bottom. Like, there’s nothing wrong with being a bottom, I just didn’t expect it.

2025-12-31 13:34:05 GMT

I just noticed Deque changed its logo from the combined ‘D’ and ‘Q’ letterform (visually representing the pronunciation) to the ‘AI’ anus (or “AInus”) of the big LLM purveyors.
I bet this was for Deque’s 100% WCAG ‘AI’ coverage, which must be getting released today to honor its March promise.
https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/115/814/435/654/142/323/original/c12e1f6ac7f8294b.png
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2025-12-05 21:12:18 GMT

Twenty-four. There are now 24 advents. All of you wiseacres suggesting I was one calendar away from an advent of advents can stuff it.
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/web-design-dev-advent-calendars-for-2025.html
Still not making a damn advent of advents tho.

2025-12-04 16:18:22 GMT

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PascaLLM’s wAIger. Hmm…
Matt’s might also work and even leans on homoglyphs in terrible fonts:
https://mstdn.social/@mattmay/115662180174488686
PascAI’s wager.
#note1pg6…4lwg

2025-12-04 16:00:57 GMT

My work days feel more and more like people outwardly employing Pascal’s Wager when talking about genAI, LLMs, agentic whatever fake-AI silliness. Saying the words for their bosses but not feeling it otherwise.
PAIscal’s Wager? Pascal’s wAIger? PascaLLM’s wager?

2025-12-02 20:38:42 GMT

424-word hot take: “You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/you-cant-make-something-accessible-to-everyone.html
#accessibility #a11y

2025-12-02 14:29:26 GMT

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If it bit me would I get all the powers of a banana?

2025-12-02 13:53:18 GMT

Apparently I have 1 skill rank in “Peeling bananas” and I also rolled a 1.
https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/115/650/304/206/246/252/original/f82524d90d6072de.jpg

2025-11-20 16:30:24 GMT

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Oof, so dealing with you *all day*. Pass along my condolences.

2025-11-20 14:50:26 GMT

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Is the lady a co-worker / peer, or simply collateral damage?

2025-11-20 14:24:15 GMT

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You’re a superstar. Though I think we both know you could have donated more, given the qualifier.

2025-11-20 04:49:34 GMT

Many digital accessibility practitioners are used to searching for stuff about NVDA and getting results for Nvidia instead, but today I see Nvidia’s earnings tending and I glance at it and think, “Whoah, when did NV Access get such a big donation?”

2025-11-15 13:00:55 GMT

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I assume a Twitter migration happened, partly owing to America’s worst politicians showing up there.

2025-11-12 11:26:21 GMT

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https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/115534720784069259

2025-11-11 18:27:35 GMT

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I was trying to find last night when that page was updated — but no archive history, no repo. Any of you have any idea?

2025-10-21 15:27:14 GMT

I have a ten-year-old post about typefaces for dyslexia to which I’ve added two 2016 links:
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5629233/
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27194598/
Via thread:
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/115293916964193528
My post:
https://adrianroselli.com/2015/03/typefaces-for-dyslexia.html#Update15
#accessibility #a11y

2025-09-26 17:20:54 GMT

Months ago (pre-Trump) I said the TikTok law would result in Trump weaponizing it if he got re-elected. Now with Ellison, Murdoch, and Dell (cowards and fascist enablers) it seems certain.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts/trump-jokes-he-would-make-tiktok-algorithm-100-maga-248357957601

2025-09-23 01:43:20 GMT

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Yeah. Fair. But that also implies some consultants (this one) have the money to sponsor anything other than… well, the events I sponsor.

2025-09-23 00:49:55 GMT

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I… is that… am I just waving at them?

2025-09-23 00:18:05 GMT

So do I resubmit my last few unaccepted CSUNATC presentation ideas just to see if one sticks? Or do I make myself a Mexican sundae?

2025-09-15 14:03:05 GMT

Genuinely surprised the DoJ is following through on this given its new effort to marginalize disabled people.
“US sues Uber, alleges discrimination against disabled riders”
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/us-sues-uber-alleges-discrimination-against-disabled-riders-2025-09-11/
DoJ release:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-uber-denying-rides-passengers-service-dogs-wheelchairs
#accessibility

2025-09-12 01:55:29 GMT

“Are hotel rooms accessible for people who use wheelchairs? NPR wants to hear from you”
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/11/g-s1-86969/hotel-safety-wheelchair-mobility
It’s a form embedded in an iframe, so you have to scroll down to scroll down. 22 questions, all text fields (longer fields to share your experiences).
#accessibility

2025-09-02 14:28:50 GMT

“What is Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act? And How Can We Defend it?”
https://dredf.org/what-is-section-503-of-the-rehabilitation-act-and-how-can-we-defend-it/
“Comments Needed to Stop Republican Attack on Section 503”
https://www.lflegal.com/2025/08/comments-needed-to-stop-republican-attack-on-section-503/
Where you can comment:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/01/2025-12233/modifications-to-the-regulations-implementing-section-503-of-the-rehabilitation-act-of-1973-as#open-comment
Due TODAY. I’ve left mine.
#accessibility
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2025-08-31 14:57:13 GMT

It’s weird that people continue to trust and media continues to fawn over such a demonstrably amoral company.
“Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off”
https://www.zdnet.com/article/meta-might-be-secretly-scanning-your-phones-camera-roll-how-to-check-and-turn-it-off/
“Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission”
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-created-flirty-chatbots-taylor-swift-other-celebrities-without-permission-2025-08-29/
At least get your kids and parents off it.

2025-07-24 19:14:49 GMT

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Oops, ‘per diem’ is not Limburgan after all (Limburgan? Limburgish?). So this instead:
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per diem
```
Bit of a typo `faux pas` on my part.

2025-07-24 18:18:41 GMT

No.
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I would like a cappuccino and a croissant, and hopefully it comes in under my per diem for my expenses.

```

2025-07-18 02:29:41 GMT

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If it’s LinkedIn, it’s a lie.
https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/114711203281675116

2025-07-15 13:28:08 GMT

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The first image is the default state of the Sitemorse ARTY page.
The second is with the ARTY ADHD feature activated. It desaturates and darkens the page, providing a non-darkened horizontal bar which follows your mouse pointer.
That’s the entirety of the ADHD feature.
https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/114/857/450/783/386/047/original/06a1cddc1472e94a.png
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2025-07-14 14:07:28 GMT

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The LinkedIn post from AAAnow (“The Digital Confidence Company”), where it fails to mention its own overlay, is still gathering feedback 10 days after it went up:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-accessibility-widgets-still-deserve-place-aaanow-uah4e/
It has no web site nor blog, so you can only participate there.

2025-07-14 13:49:50 GMT

There is yet another accessibility overlay vendor out there, though it makes no conformance guarantees. Nor security or privacy guarantees.
“#ARTY Could Get You Sued”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/arty-could-get-you-sued.html
#accessibility #a11y #overlay

2025-07-12 20:52:26 GMT

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The day before the floods, Texas Observer laid out the stark reality of Texas’ denial and Trumps cuts:
https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-texas-doge-cuts-disaster-aid/
But instead of connecting the dots, people are threatening a political cartoonist for maybe insulting dear leader:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/buffalo-cartoon-flood-threats-00448272
https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/114/842/241/918/648/050/original/93069593d2615694.png

2025-07-12 20:40:55 GMT

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Looks like a lot of incompetence from Texas officials may have resulted in many / most deaths:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/texas-flood-local-response.html
Because they don’t learn lessons:
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-flooding-evacuations-hurricane-helene
And Noem purged FEMA call centers the day after the flood while otherwise dodging accountability:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk8.r96a.4fjLaR8OXWTV&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Arbitrary and capricious.

2025-07-10 11:45:41 GMT

Noem delays FEMA flood response (including search & rescue) in Texas by three days:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/fema-texas-flood-noem
Noem is using that slow response as an excuse to cut FEMA:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5393277-noem-fema-elimination-texas-flooding/
This is what the administration does — defunds orgs, blames them for it, justifies to end or privatize them.

2025-07-08 14:53:02 GMT

Yeah, I had planned not to write any more of these since I had already gone after the big players. But this one poked me.
“#Accesstive Will Get You Sued”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/accesstive-will-get-you-sued.html
#overlay #accessibility #a11y

2025-06-30 15:41:10 GMT

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Welp, adding an overlay increases risk, so…

2025-06-30 14:37:50 GMT

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Welp, those fines will probably still land given all the existing evidence overlays don’t work. Failure of due diligence is not an excuse, IIRC.

2025-06-30 14:33:11 GMT

I had an architecture class where the professor spent an entire class discussing doorknobs. It was one of my favorite classes.
So the headline was all I needed to click this link:
“On the Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs”
https://sightlessscribbles.com/writing/nonfiction/20250626/
#accessibility

2025-06-18 22:11:57 GMT

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There is plenty of dated (pun) info out there (eg: https://gist.github.com/RobertAKARobin/850a408e04d5414e67d308a2b5847378). Many posts identify the problems, making it straightforward (if time consuming) to test. My suggestion is to try and then share what you find (as comments on existing posts, your own post, bug reports, etc). Not terribly helpful, but it’s the approach I take

2025-06-11 16:05:45 GMT

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You may think that digital accessibility is unrelated, but I assure you that every successful effort to chip away at rights and protections will be followed by another.
Don’t wait until it affects you personally. Speak up. This is low-risk, so do it while you can.
#a11y #accessibility

2025-06-11 16:02:33 GMT

Remember, Trump’s DoE is trying to roll back accessibility requirements for buildings (Section 504).
@npub13pl…gcca wrote about this and her 9 June update links to a newer comment template:
https://www.lflegal.com/2025/06/energy-department-rollback/#article-updates
All comments due 16 June 2025.
#accessibility

2025-06-06 17:20:03 GMT

“Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/06/where-to-put-focus-when-opening-a-modal-dialog.html
TL;DR: blanket statements about where to put focus when opening a modal dialog are wrong, including this one.
#UX #HTML

2025-05-18 11:30:44 GMT

https://bsky.app/profile/overlaytimeline.com/post/3lpg5cm3vtc2l

2025-05-15 13:30:42 GMT

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What “more information” do you mean? The page you link points to the WebAIM million, which explains and lets you look up sites:
https://webaim.org/projects/million/

2025-05-12 19:29:19 GMT

I’ll have a bunch of these 3" / 7.6cm (on the long edge) vinyl stickers with me at #AccessU. No need to come to my sessions; just find me.
Am not there today. Awaiting my next flight.
https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/114/496/514/058/994/860/original/707715279bac74ef.jpg

2025-05-10 14:35:00 GMT

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This one is in my updated links:
https://bsky.app/profile/kevinpowell.co/post/3loqhep3ckk2a
That’s an audience of nearly 1 million hearing that Figma Sites is pants.
If you know other places writing / videoing / podcasting / astral-projecting, then let me know.

2025-05-08 20:08:29 GMT

I’ve added a couple dozen links (to posts, articles, videos, examples, Figma responses, etc.) since this morning:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/do-not-publish-your-designs-on-the-web-with-figma-sites.html#Updates
It’s nice to know that my reaction to #Figma Sites was not an outlier.
#HTML #CSS #a11y #accessibility

2025-05-07 23:27:08 GMT

“Do Not Publish Your Designs on the Web with Figma Sites…”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/do-not-publish-your-designs-on-the-web-with-figma-sites.html
Figma announced Figma Sites, letting you publish your Figma designs directly to the web like it’s 1997.
#accessibility #a11y

2025-05-07 20:24:20 GMT

I see #Figma has decided to reincarnate FrontPage, but worse:
https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-figma-sites/
Sample 1, with 269 axe issues:
https://www.config.new/
Sample 2, with only 184 axe issues:
https://www.practice-type.com/
No mention of #accessibility in the announcement, so I guess none expected?
Anyway, get ahead of this, folks. We’re going back to 1999!
#a11y

2025-05-07 15:03:24 GMT

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I kept wanting to write a post about CSS carousels and kept not (I blame travel, etc).
Sara has done that:
https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-carousels-accessibility/
She clearly did more testing than Google. More free labor. More encoded anti-patterns.
#accessibility #a11y

2025-04-30 22:16:53 GMT

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I appreciate that CSS inert is called out explicitly in this post and talk:
https://w3c.social/@w3cdevs/114427052463464895
At roughly 5:51 in the video:
https://youtu.be/SYU4fb9sTTs
#accessibility #a11y #CSS

2025-04-26 00:40:29 GMT

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Progress on CSS inert: they’ll talk about it some more (this and the following comment):
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10711#issuecomment-2831201400
Though not thrilled with the implied justification that if other CSS can be misused that it was fine to add another way without maybe mitigating.
#accessibility #a11y

2025-04-24 14:24:16 GMT

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Ah, I was going to pull down the transcript as I am traveling today.
FWIW, the thing YouTube calls a transcript is anything but, which has nothing to do with the quality of auto-captions.
Anyway, I’ll maybe listen when I’m somewhere with a decent connection. Thanks!

2025-04-24 14:14:14 GMT

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Is there a transcript available?

2025-04-18 18:43:45 GMT

I got these wool dryer balls on a whim because soot sprites are awesome and when I pull my towels out of the dryer I was so grateful to past me for injecting some whimsy into the day.
Yes, that lack of punctuation was intentional.
https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/114/360/416/127/980/390/original/e490e9b543b2113e.jpg

2025-04-17 22:26:25 GMT

• US Citizen,
• held in jail at ICE request,
• despite birth certificate proof,
• and traffic misdemeanor dropped,
• under state law that is blocked.
We’ve known Trump / ICE will do this to US citizens. Could be any of us.
• https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/04/17/georgia-born-man-held-for-ice-under-floridas-new-anti-immigration-law/
• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-citizen-detained-ice-immigration-florida-rcna201800

2025-04-17 18:58:05 GMT

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I had to re-read it because I was worried I was belittling them. But I suspect you were referring to their use of “scary” and “thorny”. Which clearly got under my skin.
And agreed on the red flag. I find I now check teams to see if there’s a Googler there just so I can be ready for dismissive behavior.

2025-04-17 13:14:07 GMT

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Quite.

2025-04-17 11:58:54 GMT

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Yeah, I moved Piccalilli into my “do not trust” column: https://adrianroselli.com/2017/10/dont-use-aria-menu-roles-for-site-nav.html#Update03 (anchor link).
Or: https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/113636957887728135
So that’s a nice missive, but shrug.

2025-04-17 01:06:53 GMT

Me, for like a decade: don’t use menus for navigation.
Open-UI, for like a week: let’s make a newer menu element that also does navigation.
https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/1193
#accessibility #a11y

2025-04-15 23:23:08 GMT

Relaunched on Threadless!
The four principles of WCAG, plus more. You can pay money for them!
Available in black or white, set in Neue Helvetica Heavy or Atkinson Hyperlegible. You can choose shirt colors.
Black Helvetica:
https://aardrian.threadless.com/designs/pourpn-neue-helvetica-black-text
#a11y #accessibility
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2025-04-11 19:53:21 GMT

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That is almost literally my entire day every day.

2025-04-11 19:50:56 GMT

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I appreciate you responding, but you were right to just leave it be.
Absent good, hard data we’re both just… chillin’.

2025-04-11 19:44:07 GMT

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Ok, no leads.
Let me try the way that usually gets responses…
I know that prefers-contrast() is the best and perfect way to make accessible color themes happen in your workflow no matter your stack. It never misses and everybody not using it is doing web development wrong.

2025-04-11 14:34:30 GMT

Two years later and I’m still nodding my head to “I no longer understand prefers-contrast”:
https://kilianvalkhof.com/2023/css-html/i-no-longer-understand-prefers-contrast/
Not getting much help looking at CSSWG issues:
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20prefers-contrast%20label%3Amediaqueries-5
So, dear lazyweb and owing to deadlines, anyone got a good example / resource?
#CSS

2025-04-03 23:58:50 GMT

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Overall, I’m not a fan of the direction the CSSWG is taking — it feels like accessibility is not a first principle, but instead designers who get the ear of (or work for) browser makers are.
Such as:
https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/114265346050763629
I may be venting.

2025-04-03 23:51:27 GMT

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I’ve still not made a demo for CSS inert, partly because I’m trying to grok the nuance. But I’m following the issue.
A CSS inert property is risky and the use cases are shaky (IMO).
Scott just left good feedback (in addition to the 3 prior comments):
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10711#issuecomment-2777119047
#accessibility #a11y #css

2025-03-25 14:55:29 GMT

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Anyway, trying to understand months and weeks of intertwining standards group discussions and use cases and willingness to break the separation of concerns.
I hope to make a demo soon.
In the meantime, in 2013 I showed users printed pages more often than they interacted with carousels:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210613165534/https://webstandardssherpa.com/reviews/tracking-printed-pages/

2025-03-25 14:53:13 GMT

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The more I look into this carousels-via-CSS thing the more it worries me.
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/carousels-with-css?hl=en
I’ve found that:
• it is based on the APG carousel, which, ugh;
• it is the impetus for a CSS `inert` property, which, uh oh;
• #a11y pros have raised concerns, which, well yeah.
#accessibility #CSS

2025-03-21 19:50:23 GMT

Very glad the responses are primarily about accessibility:
https://front-end.social/@argyleink/114195746733247849
I feel like instead of addressing the years-long challenges with hammering out a native HTML pattern (see panel / panelset, etc.), some teams just run at a thing.
Kudos @npub1agr…9xth @npub1lpj…5j0h @npub1grg…2ql9 @npub15dl…nlg5
I wish I had the time to wade in.

2025-03-18 14:33:37 GMT

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Wait, I have to tag how many people? Guess I better get my friends to start blogging.
@npub1x5j…h42c @npub13wl…sa6r @npub1tkt…rygn @npub19ra…a2wv @npub1szd…5a79

2025-03-17 22:16:29 GMT

Thinking of adding to my blog posts where the social share buttons usually go:
“Don’t share: Twitter, Facebook. Because fuck them and giving them my content for free.”

2025-03-13 15:40:45 GMT

From @npub13pl…gcca’s CSUNATC, a reminder that if you feel like you aren’t able to push back on the illegal actions of this administration:
“Staying the accessibility course is resistance right now.”
#a11y #accessibility

2025-03-08 00:40:33 GMT

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Acknowledgment!
You just have to be in the (aptly named) Deque Discord to see it! And only two days after a direct question!
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/be-wary-of-accessibility-guarantees-from-anyone.html#Update03
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2025-03-07 16:50:43 GMT

Deque scrubbed its axe-con talk — with its goal of 100% coverage in automated WCAG testing — from YouTube and its event page with no acknowledgment that I’ve seen.
I captured slides, transcript, and YouTube chat, but not video itself (anchor):
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/be-wary-of-accessibility-guarantees-from-anyone.html#Update02
#a11y #accessibility

2025-03-06 21:00:19 GMT

Holy crap, if I filter out all the CUNATC talks that are vendor sales pitches or are flagrant efforts to jump on the ‘AI’ hype, there really isn’t a lot.
I look forward to the true value of CSUNATC — hallways chats!

2025-03-06 12:56:35 GMT

“Be Wary of Accessibility Guarantees from Anyone”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/be-wary-of-accessibility-guarantees-from-anyone.html
I updated it a couple days ago with a link to @npub15dl…nlg5’s post on same and two LinkedIn discussions (one from @npub1whv…820e). If you have links to others, let me know.
#a11y #accessibility

2025-03-06 01:21:46 GMT

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I made the thread into a post so you can share it with your social media manager or your mom or whatever:
“Don’t Use Fake Bold or Italic in Social Media”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/dont-use-fake-bold-or-italic-in-social-media.html
#a11y #accessibility

2025-03-05 15:17:30 GMT

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Imagine your local government sends this:
𝑇𝑠𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔: 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆. Updates to come in the next hour. Stay calm.
Now imagine the impact on screen reader users.
End of thread.
#a11y #accessibility

2025-03-05 15:16:54 GMT

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I’ve shared 6 screen reader experiences.
The takeaway should be DO NOT use sites like YayText•com to make fake bold or italic text (whether on Bluesky, LinkedIn, etc.).
If you’re a tester, you may see the speech logs show the characters. These are lies: https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech-viewer-logs-of-lies.html
Now…

2025-03-05 14:52:51 GMT

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TalkBack 15.2 / Chrome 133.
Announces the fake bold and fake italic as if it is regular text. TalkBack started doing this in 2021.
https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/114/110/385/073/658/947/original/6538517f3d9cdc06.mp4

2025-03-05 14:50:54 GMT

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VoiceOver / iPadOS 18.3.1 / Safari
Doesn’t announce the fake bold nor fake italic.
https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/114/110/376/940/955/121/original/dbb179bfb92ab584.mp4

2025-03-04 23:07:43 GMT

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I’m using default settings. Some users will have different settings, but understand screen reader users have the same range of skill & experience with their kit as everyone else has with their own kit.
Try with your built-in screen reader. Resources: https://adrianroselli.com/2022/11/your-accessibility-claims-are-wrong-unless.html#SRs (anchor link)

2025-03-04 22:05:52 GMT

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Narrator / Windows 11 24H2 / Edge 133.
Doesn’t announce the fake bold nor fake italic.
https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/114/106/426/077/765/973/original/5f8822364bce3525.mp4

2025-03-04 20:43:36 GMT

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VoiceOver / macOS 15.3.1 / Safari 18.3.
Doesn’t announce the fake bold nor fake italic.
https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/114/106/097/148/391/420/original/609dedf8c9963f37.mp4

2025-03-03 22:40:57 GMT

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Those two videos account for ~78% of primary screen reader use (https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/#primary) so I’m stopping there for today.
Anyway, this is not new information: https://adrianroselli.com/2018/01/improving-your-tweet-accessibility.html#Unicode
And please don’t reflexively blame screen readers:
https://adrianroselli.com/2021/10/blaming-screen-readers-red-flag.html
#a11y #accessibility

2025-03-03 22:22:24 GMT

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JAWS 2025 / Chrome 133.
Announces each fake bold and fake italic letter individually, including its case and style.
#a11y #accessibility
https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/114/100/827/104/651/816/original/558042a52f71e9e9.mp4

2025-03-03 22:19:38 GMT

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NVDA 2024.4.2 / Firefox 135.
Doesn’t announce the fake bold nor fake italic.
#a11y #accessibility
https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/114/100/816/296/625/036/original/28dcd050100967f1.mp4

2025-03-03 21:47:03 GMT

Please 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 eat the shrimp scampi in the fridge. It is tasty 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢.
(This is an example I am using to make a recording of how it’s announced by some screen readers. I will eventually reply with those videos.)

2025-03-03 21:39:19 GMT

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Nah, NVDA with Firefox doesn’t even announce the fake-bold.
I get to trot this example out again:
https://adrianroselli.com/2018/01/improving-your-tweet-accessibility.html#Unicode
Please 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 eat the shrimp scampi in the fridge. It is tasty 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢.
@npub1gtc…jeld

2025-02-25 15:41:25 GMT

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There are good people at Deque that do damn good work. But Deque is a corporation that has a product it regularly over-sells with bold promises. I have been critical of it for years. So there are people at Deque I will trust, but I will not trust Deque.

2025-02-25 15:35:00 GMT

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I dunno, is it? I guess it depends on your perspective and approach to digital accessibility.

2025-02-25 15:19:39 GMT

You know who else claimed they could make the web 100% accessible with automation and genAI? Most overlay companies (accessiBe in particular).
I should probably go watch something else before I get angrier.

2025-02-19 14:00:02 GMT

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Good pics. Good call.

2025-02-15 21:57:20 GMT

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[2/2]
• Apple seemed to confirm this when it suspended its own LLM-generated news alerts because of false reports. (17 January 2025) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5ggew08eyo
• Microsoft's research found that "while [LLMs] can improve worker efficiency, it can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving" (February 2025) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf

2025-02-15 21:57:05 GMT

Drafting a disclaimer for an LLM chatbot…
persistent alerty button under the chat fields: Do not use this output without confirming it.
Which pops a modal with the following:
Recent research confirms that the output of LLMs are inaccurate and lead to a reduction in critical thinking.
• BBC found found that "51% of all [LLM] answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant issues of some form." (11 February 2025) https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/bbc-research-into-ai-assistants.pdf
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2025-02-15 21:35:38 GMT

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Ace. Sometimes I wonder if I am coming off as a pedant and then remember that I am too much of a jerk to care. So thanks for humoring me.

2025-02-15 21:31:37 GMT

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I missed this because I have styles that hide toots with buff-ly links, but I saw your self-reply.
Anyway, this construct gets the red outline and ‘BAD’ text, but there is content there for users (when CSS loads):
```
a[target="_blank"]::after {
content: " (new window)"
}
```
And for poops and giggles, since I use this construct in embedded iframe demos so readers can pop out:
```
<a href="…" target="_top">Example</a>
```