Issue 25 of month11y is a special one: it marks two years since the first issue in December 2019. If you count all the dai11y, week11y, fortnight11y and month11y newsletters together, I’ve now published over 600 newsletters! I didn’t honestly know if I’d be able to keep it up, especially after stepping down from frontend… [Read More]
At long last, we’ve hit the 100 issue milestone (or, if you count all the dai11y, week11y, fortnight11y and month11y newsletters together, over 600!). I’ve been publishing week11y newsletters for over two years now, with the first issue published in October 2019. I didn’t honestly know if I’d be able to keep it up, especially… [Read More]
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]
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]
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]
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