Today’s dai11y is a two-article special – both written by Raghavendra Satish Peri: The Captcha Conundrum & Accessible Alternatives Raghavendra, a blind, accessibility specialist, talks through the problems they faced trying to create an account on Wikipedia. They were faced with a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). It was… [Read More]

Today’s dai11y is a double HTMHell issue! Debugging HTML: Accessibility “In Chrome or Edge open DevTools, click the Elements tab, select the element you want to inspect and click the Accessibility tab. The accessibility pane shows you how the element is represented in the accessibility tree, which ARIA attributes it has, and its computed properties.”… [Read More]

Please note that an unfinished draft of this article was accidentally published earlier. The finished draft below has been hastily rewritten. I don’t know what happened to the previous version – very frustrating my changes were lost! The ADA lawsuit settlement involving an accessibility overlay A UX Collective article about a recent case against accessibility… [Read More]

Twitch streamer beats Dark Souls 3 with a single button Twitch streamer Rudeism used a homemade, single-buttoned controller to complete Dark Souls 3, a notoriously difficult game. In order for the one-button system to work, he mapped the game’s inputs to Morse code. He pressed the button 258,250 times during his two-month run of the… [Read More]

Letting users tick a ‘none’ checkbox A GOV.UK blog post from the Design System team, describing why they’ve added a new feature to the checkboxes component. When answering questions, users can be unsure what to do if none of the options apply to them. Users “want to give a clear answer, especially if they’re concerned… [Read More]

Chancey Fleet writes a Twitter thread about their experience using Google Translate’s new “Transcribe” feature for iOS. Chancey wanted to watch Netflix’s House of Flowers, which is in Spanish. It has English subtitles, but the ‘audio description’ of scenes is in Spanish. Chancey uses VoiceOver with a Braille screen reader, i.e. it outputs to a… [Read More]

Blind People Won the Right to Break Ebook DRM. In 3 Years, They’ll Have to Do It Again This Wired article details how accessibility advocates in America regularly have to go to court in order to be granted an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyrights Act (DMCA). The exemptions, which last for three years at… [Read More]

National Convention Sponsorship Statement Regarding accessiBe The (American) National Federation of the Blind made a statement in June, about accessiBe, the market leading ‘accessibility overlay’ company that I’ve written about several times now. I missed this when it came out, and wouldn’t have known about it were it not for Steve Faulkner’s tweet. He picks… [Read More]

Gorillas’ nav: a case study A really interesting article by developer & accessibility advocate Kitty Giraudel, explaining how they built the main navigation on their employer’s website, Gorillas. It’s a hamburger menu style across all screen sizes, not just on mobile. You have to tap on the ‘hamburger’ to expand the menu and show the… [Read More]

Vicky Teinaki shares this tip on Twitter: “I was today years old when I found out that I can share a Google Slides presentation in html (for screen reader users and magnification users) by swapping out ‘/edit’ in the URL for ‘/htmlpresent’.”