An opinionated guide to accessibility testing Iain Bean shares his approach to accessibility testing a website: First impressions (on page load) – are there auto-playing videos, etc? There may be a number of obvious a11y issues to fix right off the bat. Tab around the page, checking if every interactable element can be focused, and… [Read More]
EyeMine V2 is here! EyeMine is free eye-control software for the game Minecraft. It allows players to navigate the world, mine resources, fight enemies, and essentially complete every in-game task using just their eyes. The source code is available on GitHub. There is a 4 minute video demonstrating how it works: the screen is split… [Read More]
Adobe unveils ambitious multi-year vision for PDF: Introduces Liquid Mode An Adobe announcement from September 2020, which I’ve somehow only just come across. Adobe Acrobat Reader on iOS, Android and Chromebook now has a ‘Liquid Reader’ mode, which is a button in the UI that processes the current PDF in the cloud and then renders… [Read More]
Modern CSS Upgrades To Improve Accessibility Stephanie Eckles shares some useful CSS tips. I’ve cherry-picked some highlights: The use of max() to ensure that a focus outline is always at least 1px wide, whilst allowing it to be relatively sized with em: button:focus { outline: max(1px, 0.1em) solid red } Use of focus-visible to only… [Read More]
Introducing Editoria11y: Accessibility Autocorrect The folks at Princeton University have released a tool, editoria11y, as a frontend module of JS and CSS (but also a Drupal module, and a WordPress plugin is in the works). The tool aims to catch only editorial accessibility errors, rather than the “ALL the errors” approach used by other accessibility… [Read More]
iPhones can now tell blind users where and how far away people are An article from October 2020, but it taught me something I didn’t know: iOS 14.2 allows you to detect whether there are people in view (using your camera), and how far away they are. iOS will say how far the person is… [Read More]
Is your CAPTCHA keeping humans out? CAPTCHAs are important for preventing DDoS attacks, as they prevent botnets from accessing processor-intensive parts of websites such as login forms. But they can give false positives, where CAPTCHAs filter out humans, which is particularly bad in the COVID-19 era where it is essential to be able to access… [Read More]
Clubhouse, the Shift to Spoken Social Media, and the Voices That Will Be Silenced Lawrence Weru discusses the Clubhouse app and what it is like as a person with a stutter. The invite-only app can gather over 1,000 people together in “rooms” for voice chats, where you can raise a ‘hand’ to ask to speak… [Read More]
Chrome now instantly captions audio and video on the web Live Captions, Google’s real-time captioning feature, is available now on Chrome. The technology, which first appeared on Pixel phones in 2019, has captions appearing as a small, movable box at the bottom of the browser. The captions are generated in real time from the sound… [Read More]
Add punctuation to your alt text Eric Bailey reminds us that we should always finish our alt text with punctuation, such as a full stop/period. This makes the screen reader voice pause slightly before announcing the next words in the sequence, which feels a lot more natural. Example code: <img src=”puppy.jpg” alt=”A golden retriever puppy… [Read More]
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