Sometimes, the right use of ARIA can improve your UI for end users.

🎥 Watch @hidde.blog's excellent talk on both the good parts and common pitfalls of ARIA, delivered at Pixel Pioneers Bristol 2025: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuTh...

#throwbackthursday #tbthursday #a11y #accessibility

I got to talk to the @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social audience about why accessibility testing on the web is so hard. Buckle in for this one, we go through the accessibility tree & specs to various APIs before we get to screen readers.

It's a good one!
www.youtube.com/live/idSl4JD...

Summary of a segment:

Ezra Klein: What does the line mean to you?

Coates: Well if someone refuses my humanity that’s a line.

Ezra: What do you do if most of America is beyond that line?

Coates: Welcome to Black America

Lmfao

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor.

Who could have predicted?

Oh, right.

Took a family member for a needs assessment the other day & it really opened my eyes to the tools available to my disposal that could help me work better.

Now looking at Genio, some kind of diction & speech-to-text software.

Today has been a slog to get through and the pre-workout just about helped but felt nothing like it did when I first started.

Day 14? of my “preworkout as ADHD meds bc I can’t afford ADHD meds” & the effect of the caffeine is almost non-existent. It was good while it lasted but now 250mg does only very little for me now, my body is used to it, despite taking a 3 week break.

May she rest in eternal freedom & peace. ❤️🕊️

Just in case you missed in among all the digital ID talk today -

Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority

Blair was spotted outside Trump Tower this week, as was Rishi Sunak

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m glad you enjoyed it!

Wow, incredible. Huge win for the No Azure for Apartheid organizers.

Yh, as far as I understand it depends on the OS version. I wouldn’t expect both to be on the same machine (but could be wrong).

We don’t unless we discuss with the ATs which we hope to do with ACD. There are some instances where a AT intentionally doesn’t announce something, so we’d hope to surface those instances.

@sarasoueidan.com I just realised I’m not sure I andwered your question. We know what platform APIs a screenreader uses based on the platform their available on. So JAWS = inaccessible2 or UIA bc JAWS is available on Windows.

I'm going to be talking about why we have very little by way of accessibility interoperability data on the web platform in under 30mins!!

I'll be exploring what gaps exists in the resources we have now & how ACD plans to address them.

You can watch the livestream here: youtube.com/live/idSl4JD...

Whoah.
We’re halfway there.
Whoah.
We’re living on a … video stream:
inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/

Twelve sessions to go, I’m tech hosting the next eight.

#id24

@inclusivedesign24.bsky.social is back tomorrow!

It’s a free 24-hour event sharing knowledge and celebrating inclusive design.

🗓️ Check the schedule: inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/

▶️ Subscribe to the YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/inclusivedes...

#A11y #AccessibilityConference #id24

This is tomorrow! @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social is a 24 hour online conference with loads of amazing speakers across timezones. You're bound to find an interesting talk or 2 in your TZ but checkout the schedule here: inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/

I'm up at 4pm BST 😆

I am re-entering the world of speaking after a 3(!) year long break! If you're interested You can catch me at:

- "Audiom: Building inclusive maps as the token sighted developer" - Inclusive Design 24 at 4:00am UTC, 25 Sep(inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/)
apologies to the euro buddies!
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There's a masive lack of decent up-to-date Android emulation options. Google doesn't have a Pixel 10 emulator in the official Android studio, let alone anything non-Google like Samsung or Xiaomi

If you have an Android device running Chrome 140 & want to help me out adding yours to Polypane, DM me!

"Limit children's doomscrolling to two hours," say Lib Dems, while their grandparents spend six hours a day on social media spreading racist bile and AI slop. But they're untouchable, because they're ~pensioners~.

I need to befriend someone in South Korea/Japan/China who can send me skincare, my skin loves asian skincare but the prices over here are diabolical 😭