dai11y 13/10/2020

13 October 2020

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]

week11y issue 46

12 October 2020

a11yresources A curated list of a11y resources by Hannah Milan. Browse browser extensions, bookmarklets, checklists, colour picker tools, articles, and even other accessibility focused newsletters (I won’t be offended 😉). Tech volunteers develop new online tool to help visually impaired access COVID-19 data The ‘Scottish Tech Army’ have created a dashboard of COVID-19 statistics in… [Read More]

dai11y 12/10/2020

12 October 2020

VoiceOver on iOS 14 Supports Description Lists This isn’t the first time I’ve talked about iOS 14, but Adrian Roselli highlights a lesser known improvement the update brings: support for <dl> description lists. Now, in some contexts, terms and definitions are read sensibly, e.g. “louche, term. ‘not reputable or decent’, definition”. In other contexts, such… [Read More]

dai11y 08/10/2020

08 October 2020

Work In Progress: Tabbing Order in the Accessibility Panel Firefox are adding a devtools feature which highlights all focusable elements and the order in which they will be tabbed. To view, download the Nightly version of Firefox, open the devtools, switch to the Accessibility panel, and check the “Show Tabbing Order” option. It’s not yet… [Read More]

dai11y 07/10/2020

07 October 2020

Tech volunteers develop new online tool to help visually impaired access COVID-19 data The ‘Scottish Tech Army’ have created a dashboard of COVID-19 statistics in Scotland, which, in a ‘world first’ uses ‘sonification’ to interpret visual data as sound. This enables screen reader users to get an idea of the general trend of a chart,… [Read More]

dai11y 06/10/2020

06 October 2020

a11yresources A curated list of a11y resources by Hannah Milan. Browse browser extensions, bookmarklets, checklists, colour picker tools, articles, and even other accessibility focused newsletters (I won’t be offended 😉).

week11y issue 45

05 October 2020

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 information quickly. Back Tap (tapping 2-3 times on the back of the phone) can… [Read More]

dai11y 05/10/2020

05 October 2020

Sound thinking: BBC helps audience to hear the details Article about how the BBC used ‘object-based media’ when recording Casualty (Series 34, Episode 36), which features a character with a hearing impairment. Object-based media samples sounds from different parts of the scene – the main dialogue, a heart rate monitor, background noise – and allows… [Read More]

dai11y 02/10/2020

02 October 2020

Gutenberg Accessibility Costs WordPress the W3C Work This is a story that has taken up a lot of headlines, and many articles assume a fair bit of background knowledge, so I’ll be giving a longer TLDR than normal (though still largely based on Adrian Roselli‘s article above): The World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) are redesigning… [Read More]

dai11y 01/10/2020

01 October 2020

As diabetes increases in sub-Saharan Africa, so will blindness A large number of people arriving at a health organisation in Tanzania have developed diabetic retinopathy – a complication of diabetes that can cause permanent blindness and is the leading cause of blindness in working age adults globally. Many patients are unaware they’re diabetic and are… [Read More]

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