What are people using to test their website's accessibility (a11y)?
Since I use Hugo to generate the pages, my source is all Markdown, so I was hoping to find something I can just point at my website, like a linter. Unless there's a Markdown a11y linter I don't know about…
Hello #accessibility community, I have a question regarding #cms user interfaces. I may have gotten the gig to implement a website with strong #a11y focus, tech stack of my choice.
I'm gonna go with @astro and want to implement a CMS that is as accessible as possible. Do you have any experience with the following platforms?
A lot going on here:
• Verbose.
• The instructions sometimes lie.
• Some triggers are a problem.
• Fake-dialog has issues.
• Those are links, not disclosure triggers.
• Verbose.
• Also, verbose.
I'm an objector of some kind to generative AI creating alt text in the browser. Not because it's not useful, but because it's done on the client-side.
I'd rather have a genAI propose an alternative once during the contribution (accepted or not if the image is decorative), than multiple energy-consuming different genAI executing on every client computer to create different alternatives based on what they perceive in the context and what they "know" of the current user interests.
Over on hell-site @ashleemboyer shared the following she found in the wild:
<nav aria-label="Navigation header with 5 links and 1 dropdown menu with links">
It gave wrong counts, it was verbose, it used lingo, and it was utterly unnecessary (there was one other <nav> on the page, but in the <footer>).
Most sites don’t need to (shouldn’t) have accNames on <nav>. If you have more than on <nav> in the same landmark, then maybe?
"Earlier in 2024 I was approached by @Wilto to answer some questions on HTML headings. At the time I was only vaguely aware that the interview would become part of a printed Zine (pleasant surprise face), published by Mat with profits going to support Trans Lifeline."
So interesting, segmenting video via mindmaps instead of timestamps https://akomaps.com/
"Ako Maps is a suite of learning tools that links visual diagrams to video lessons.. Ako Maps can be 'linked' to lessons. Browse the map, then click a topic to navigate directly to that topic in the video"
Please remember that WCAG itself is the bare minimum of #accessibility. Conforming to WCAG does not guarantee something is accessible. It does not even guarantee something is usable. All WCAG does is provide you with a starting point. Lots of WCAG failures suggest the page has not even made it to the starting line.