frequent11y is now 1 year old! 🎉 Since the first issue of dai11y on 28th October 2019, I’ve published well over 200 posts covering design, technology, science and ethics in the world of accessibility. I’ve been really enjoying reading so many articles and sharing them with you, and I’ve really appreciated the nice comments and… [Read More]
How we recruited people with low/no digital skills on Carer’s Allowance A GOV.UK blog from 2015. They wanted to find people on the lowest end of the digital inclusion scale for user research, to ensure a service they were building could be used by anybody. Asking people “How would you rate your computer skills?” wasn’t… [Read More]
Games are being remastered with little thought to accessibility This article came out in June in response to a slew of remastered games being released around May. Many of these games from circa 2010 lacked accessibility features at the time, and haven’t been given any accessibility love in the remaster, lacking basic things like controls… [Read More]
:focus-visible Is Here Matthias Ott writes about the situation where clicking on an element activates its :focus styles – something that can be perceived as ugly. With this new property, you can style elements if they receive keyboard focus, while avoiding styling if they receive focus via mouse click. Example: :focus:not(:focus-visible) { outline: 0 }… [Read More]
frequent11y is 1 year old today! 🎉 Since the first issue of dai11y on 28th October 2019, I’ve published 211 posts covering design, technology, science and ethics in the world of accessibility. I’ve been really enjoying reading so many articles and sharing them with you, and I’ve really appreciated the nice comments and encouragement from… [Read More]
Google Slides – Present slides with captions When you present Google Slides, you can turn on automatic captions to display your words in real time as you speak them (this only works with Chrome devices set to U.S. English). After you click “Present”, click the “CC” button or use CTRL + SHIFT + C (use… [Read More]
Here’s your frequent11y newsletter for the month of October, brought to you by @ChrisBAshton: How do the new iOS 14 accessibility features stack up? Deque reviews the new a11y features in iOS 14. It supports widgets on the home screen, e.g. for at-a-glance weather reports, which makes it easier for everybody to find out pertinent… [Read More]
How studying fruit flies might help us prevent age-related hearing loss in humans Fruit flies are prone to age-related hearing loss – just like humans, whose molecular pathways of hearing are very similar – maintaining their sensitive hearing for about 85% of their 58 day lives. The article goes into more scientific detail than I’m… [Read More]
Renting while disabled: ‘Being in a wheelchair means I pay double the rent’ 93% of the UK’s 8.5 million rental properties are inaccessible. It’s up to local authorities to set and enforce accessibility targets, but just 5% are requiring developers to construct wheelchair-suitable housing. Finding an accessible home is difficult as property websites lack accessibility… [Read More]
Cursor Pro Mouse Highlighter This popped up in my inbox and it looks like a useful tool for people with mild/moderate visual impairments. Through a global toggle in your Mac’s native menu bar, it can be turned on to provide a highlight ‘orb’ around your cursor so that it is easier to keep track of,… [Read More]
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