Join us tomorrow for “Organizational Scaffolding for Accessible Design and Content” with Rob Carr, Strategic Accessibility Coordinator at WebAIM.
April 29, 12pm ET.
https://a11ytalks.com/posts/2025-apr
#A11y #Accessibility #AccessibleDesign #AccessibleContent
A few weeks ago, I was searching for an article that summarized what can go wrong with flashing content (e.g. WCAG 2.3.1). I didn’t find anything that quite captured the “why this matters”, rather than the “how to test”, so tried writing something beginner-friendly:
http://mallonbacka.com/blog/2025/04/animations-causing-harm/
#accessibility #a11y
Thin Fonts Are a Usability Nightmare—And Finally, Designers Are Waking Up
Many educators struggle to make their eLearning content accessible to all learners, and this often leads to accidentally excluding students with disabilities. Learn how to test your eLearning materials.
https://www.a11y-collective.com/blog/accessibility-in-elearning/
#a11y
#accessibility
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I tried to figure out the difference between a menu and a navigation, give it a read if you have some time to spare:
https://stevefrenzel.dev/posts/menu-and-navigation-the-difference/
Let me know if I got something wrong, I'd appreciate your feedback. 
"FTC Approves Final Order Requiring accessiBe to pay $1 Million"
That’s a big news. Overlays are bullshit. WCAG must be implemented in source code, not with that kind of magic tools.
Next, some French companies selling such unefficient tools too?
Vous êtes un organisme de formation et vous souhaitez adapter vos parcours d'apprentissage au handicap et à l'accessibilité numérique ?
Participez à notre journée de découverte dédiée aux professionnel·les de la formation, le lundi 16 juin, en visioconférence !
Familiarisez-vous avec les notions et outils essentiels pour initier une démarche d'accessibilité numérique dans vos projets de formation :
Accessibility Techniques app for iOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/accessibility-techniques/id6474141089 #Accessibility #A11y #iOS
Here's a couple Fedora packages I found useful for accessibility in Gnome 48: sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-status-icons gnome-shell-extension-drive-menu #A11Y #Accessibility #Fedora42 #gnome48
“Abandoning the accessibility consultant career path”
https://lea.codes/posts/2025-04-25-abandoning-the-accessibility-consultant-path/
This tracks — broken cert, unaddressed audits, no dev work, focus on conformance over impact. I think pivoting to becoming a skilled dev is a good fit.
Digital accessibility abbreviations and acronyms guide https://www.sitelint.com/blog/digital-accessibility-abbreviations-and-acronyms-guide #Accessibility #A11y
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.
Really lovely to see: after a two-year effort, Godot has integration with AccessKit, making the engine capable of working with screen readers. More work to be done, but definitely a win for accessibility
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-5-dev-3/
I also updated my 23,297 word post (which I expect nobody to read and lives on mostly as a testament to accessiBe’s hubris and illegal actions) “#accessiBe Will Get You Sued” (anchor link):
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/06/accessibe-will-get-you-sued.html#FTCApprovesAccessiBeFine
Just updated! My Calendar 3.6.0 and My Calendar Pro 3.2.0. #WordPress #plugins #a11y https://www.joedolson.com/2025/04/my-calendar-v3-6-0-and-my-calendar-pro-v3-2-0/
La Commission fédérale du commerce (FTC) a approuvé une ordonnance définitive à l'encontre d'accessiBe (un outil de surcouche d'accessibilité). AccessiBe doit payer une amende d'un million de dollars pour publicité trompeuse !
La décision finale interdit à accessiBe de prétendre que ses produits automatisés peuvent rendre n'importe quel site web conforme aux WCAG ou garantir le maintien de cette conformité dans le temps, à moins qu'elle ne dispose de preuves à l'appui de ces allégations.
Sometimes I find myself wanting (or needing) to write about accessibility, but I shy away from it.
The negative impact of giving incorrect advice scares me away from giving any advice at all. I fear doing more harm than good.
Just a few ways you can take action, regarding making #Linux more accessible and easier to transition to. https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/114383942276569963 #Accessibility #A11y
"Le menu accessibilité, un ami à éviter ?"
Le score d’accessibilité moyen sur les 93 sites était de 61% sur les critères d’accessibilité testés dans le cadre de l’audit simplifié. Lorsqu’un menu accessibilité est en place, le score d’accessibilité tombe à 53 %, et pour les sites sans menu accessibilité, le score est de 63%.
Les outils de surcouche ne rendent pas les sites accessibles, encore un élément de preuve. Et pire, il semblerait que quand on en a un sur son site, on a tendance à mettre de côté la réelle prise en compte des règles d'accessibilité, qui sont le socle de base nécessaire.
Bon, je l'avais déjà constaté mais avoir une petite étude sur ça ne fait pas de mal !
https://accessibilite.public.lu/fr/news/2025-03-18-menus.html
