“Sassy Outwater-Wright: Accessibility Champion and More, Dies at 42” by @LFLegal:
https://www.lflegal.com/2025/07/sassy-outwater/
The “and more” is doing a lot of work there, because Sassy was so much more.

“Sassy Outwater-Wright: Accessibility Champion and More, Dies at 42” by @LFLegal:
https://www.lflegal.com/2025/07/sassy-outwater/
The “and more” is doing a lot of work there, because Sassy was so much more.
A great article on avoiding binary thinking in design, from @Cjforms.
"The world is analog and yes/no is a binary choice, so the two options rarely reflect the real world entirely accurately."
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
Progress! Not a win yet.
“Due to the receipt of significant adverse comments […] the effective date of the direct final rule […] is delayed until September 12, 2025.”
#Chrome #accessibility #neurodiversity
'Pop-up ads, hard-to-read fonts and robotic voices can overwhelm neurodivergent readers. LumiRead, a new Chrome extension built by a Northeastern computer science grad student, solves that.'
https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/07/09/chrome-accessibility-extension-lumiread/
a label and a name walk into a bar
"When is a label also an (accessible) name, when is it not and when is it neither?"
https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/07/14/a-label-and-a-name-walk-into-a-bar/
I've submitted a proposal to WHATWG about a provenance/origin classifier for alt text on images.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11448
The current HTML specification provides the alt attribute on images to supply alternative text for users who cannot see visual content. However, there is no way to indicate whether the alt text was authored by a human or generated automatically by a machine (e.g., via AI or computer vision).
#Development #Approaches
Proudest of these 128 kilobytes · Constraint-driven web development to the extreme https://ilo.im/165bzl
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#Constraints #Device #Browser #Accessibility #WebPerf #WebDev #Frontend #Fonts #SVG #JavaScript
How's the #MAC os betas currently, anything that is majorly broken, particularly where #voiceOver or app compatibility is concerned? #accessibility
Heads-up if you who care about people that are blind or use screen readers (software tools that read text from the screen for you) in general:
I occasionally see people use "fancy looking" text, here's a great example attached.
To someone that can read it, this clearly reads "free art raffles" followed by a heart and some icons.
Google's "Talkback" screen reader reads it as "Heart. Hermitian conjugate matrix."
So: the heart and the name of the last icon. None of the text that is, actually, symbols, not text.
Different screen readers handle this differently, but this can happen.
So, if you want to treat people fairly, don't use "fancy" over "working".
Sadly, the whole user profile looks like this.
This is intended as well-meant info, no rant!
Talk To Me, Not Around Me: The Erasure of Disabled Voices in Everyday Interaction
It's a scenario that plays out far too often. A visibly disabled person approaches a counter, before they can get a word in, the employee turns...
#disability #disabilityPrideMonth #accessible #accessibility #disabled #disabled
https://nyxstium.info/healthcare-advocacy/disability/talk-to-me-not-around-me/
"Now that Black American Sign Language (BASL) is in the news...it felt like a fitting and timely exchange. A few songs into her set, Badu glanced up at the screens, gestured to Atkins and pointed out how she was interpreting her band’s uptempo, bass‑heavy musical interludes. And let me tell you, nobody could have interpreted Badu's band in this way but a Black woman doing BASL."
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2025/07/11913405/erykah-badu-essence-fest-new-music-asl-performance
Today on the IC_null docket:
- Is a #fedora actually awesome?
- How's debian do where #accessibility is concerned?
- Will we have time for #kaliLinux?
I discuss the installation experience, the first-time experience for these distros when using a #screenReader, and we answer the question: can you actually #justSwitchToLinux if you depend on assistive tech?
The fun starts at 3 PM EST, 9 PM CEST over at https://twitch.tv/IC_Null or https://youtube.com/@viewpointunseen #selfPromo #stream #foss #tech #blind
Boosts appreciated: I am working on an #accessibility wiki, because info on accessibility for #blind people is fragmented. It is not ready for public release, but I would like to invite volunteers to help me improve the site. I need to get web devs, server maintainers, moderators, writers, and whoever else would be able to contribute. Please send me a DM if you're interested.
The Accessibility Pipeline for Frontend Teams, by @storybook.js.org:
https://storybook.js.org/blog/the-accessibility-pipeline-for-frontend-teams/
#Mastodon 4.4 also adjusts the #altText entry box to make both the text box and the display of the image you're describing smaller, putting them one on top of the other in the desktop site despite most computer screens being landscape.
Why? Change for the sake of change, and a deterioration of functionality many users rely on for #accessibility.
Konnectify iPaaS: Make Your Work Flow with No Code Automations
OpenProject 16.2 is Coming Soon!
Get a first look at what’s new in our upcoming release.
• New design and improved navigation
• Enhanced PDF exports for work packages
• Accessibility improvements
• SCIM server API (Enterprise add-on)
…with even more improvements coming in the new release.
Mark your calendar — OpenProject 16.2 launches on July 16.
Good night! #3GoodThings
1. Finished another chapter in Braille!
2. Baby carrots instead of potato chips with my sandwich for supper.
3. Wonderful people willing to let blind people test their websites to make them accessible for screen reader users.
Sleep well and may your dreams take you to the stars! #GoodNight #Braille #Accessibility
Today is a great day!
The first article I ever wrote has been published in a professional magazine. "Software #accessibility includes #gender diversity" can be read in the "Testing Experience" magazine.
You can download it here: https://www.testingexperience.media/ (email address must be supplied)
I'm stoked to share this topic, which is so dear to my heart, with my professional community.
This wouldn't have been possible without the input, support and feedback from many people and I'm very grateful to everyone of them.
I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd share this far and wide. Many more people need to be aware of the issues in the article, because being aware of them means that change becomes possible.