week11y issue 40

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New TfL app to help Londoners travel safely round capital

  • The TfL Go app for iPhone (with an Android version landing this autumn) shows real-time train times for the London Underground, with information aimed to enable travel at quieter times to help customers maintain social distancing. It includes ‘step-free mode’ which shows all the stations with street-to-platform wheelchair access. It also has dynamic text sizes and is VoiceOver-compatible – read more on tfl.gov.uk.

Amazon Expands Accessibility Features With New Text Banner for Fire TV

  • Amazon has launched ‘Text Banner’, aimed at assisting users who struggle to read the onscreen text. This text banner appears in a fixed location on the screen and works across the Fire TV UI, but also Prime Video and other applications on your Amazon device. It can be enabled within Settings under Accessibility.
The new mode on the Fire TV summarises the currently focussed content in the bottom left hand side of the screen, in a high contrast purple/white box. Source: thestreamable.com.

a11y is web accessibility

  • Eric Bailey provides a comprehensive summary of why the term ‘a11y’ is useful, to address the common ironic adage “the term ‘a11y’ is itself inaccessible”. It is easier to type and to say, it allows more room for content inside tweets, and, crucially, it is more specific than ‘accessibility’ as it pertains to digital accessibility rather than something physical like wheelchair ramps for libraries. It is no different than using terms like i18n, 3D or WWII, and to suggest it is a problem is arguably a sign of ableism.

Is Twitter Trolling Us? Why Voice Tweets Are Already Problematic

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