Swearing and automatic captions Eric Bailey highlights the issue of how automatic captions deal with swearing. A number of providers automatically censor certain words, displaying a string of asterisks instead. There are lots of problems with this: Eric experiments with speaking specific swear words into a number of different applications that provide automatic captioning, e.g…. [Read More]

The 411 on 4.1.1 Adrian Roselli writes about WCAG SC 4.1.1: a 13.5 years old rule that first came out in WCAG 2.0. Roughly, it stipulates that content should have proper markup (elements only nested as per specifications, no duplicate attributes or IDs, etc). One of the authors recently-ish filed a proposal to clarify the… [Read More]

Giphy is adding alt text to make GIFs more accessible Giphy is working with Scribely (a “content accessibility solutions provider”) to add descriptive text to its most popular animated gifs. It will be professionally hand written, not auto-generated. Giphy is also planning to expose the alt text through its APIs, so that third party platforms… [Read More]

We’re fast approaching Christmas, and I have a gift for you. You can shape the future direction of this newsletter by filling in my survey! It would really help me to understand what you like or don’t like, which subjects you’d like to read more about, all that lovely stuff. All I Want for Christmas… [Read More]

A Guide To Keyboard Accessibility: HTML And CSS (Part 1) This is a comprehensive run-through of a lot of the stuff you may already know: how different tabindex values affect keyboard behaviour, the new(ish) :focus-within CSS selector to be able to apply focus styles on a container element, the new (and not ready to use… [Read More]

HTMHell Advent Calendar 2022 Manuel Matuzović’s famous “HTMHell” site cites lots of examples of bad HTML practices, copied from real websites. See “button disguised as a link“. Last year, Manuel created an ‘advent calendar’ of links to other sites, linking to articles about HTML. This year, Manuel has enlisted the help of 24 authors from… [Read More]

Should browsers offer site-specific user preference controls? (yes!) Stefan Judis dreams about what could be made possible in browsers in this short opinion-piece. Users can set an OS-level or browser-level preference for light or dark mode, but there’s currently little support for configuring this on a per-site basis. What if you simply prefer a particular… [Read More]