@MoritzGiessmann same for me, it crashes constantly, takes a long time to load and I don’t get notifications. But I still haven’t lost hope that it will get better but I guess I’m forced to buy an alternative app soonish 😅
Had an interesting discussion yesterday with a small business owner (3 employees) complaining about the #accessibility#regulations they have to comply with and pay for.
"There will soon be new EU regulations for accessible websites I'll be forced to comply with and pay for. How should I afford that? If it is important for the state to integrate accessibility, why doesn't the state pay for it?"
IMO, you need regulations to facilitate change. But at the same time as enabling them, money should be invested in raising public awareness and educating developers, designers, managers, etc...
The sole responsibility can't just be put on a business owner.
@schrotie If your menu has multiple links, you should use an <ul> to group them. This adds structural information to assistive technologies and makes content more easily understandable.
What do Mark Zuckerberg, Prince William and Keanu Reeves have in common? 🤔
Apart from being white men, they are all colorblind.
September 6th (today) is #ColorBlindess Awareness Day! 👀🎨
Let's try not to make it harder for people with color deficiencies in our own designs. Use good #contrast in your #design, and think twice about #ColorCombinations.
#a11y Do not use colour as your only indicator for information! 🚫
This restaurant uses red, green and brown coloured dots to display the dietary info of a meal. There is no chance of telling them apart if you are #ColourBlind. They are just too similar.
To solve this issue:
Use different icons or abbreviations (e.g. v+ for vegan, v for vegetarian)
Write a word instead of relying on an icon
Use colours that are more distinguishable and have good contrast in addition (!) to the text
Regardless of whether it is online or offline, please never use colour as the only option for conveying information and distinguishing a visual element. 🙏
My partner suggested trying out the browser Arc, as it is “perfect for tab hoarders like you”.
How do I explain to him that I‘m in too deep and can’t just switch 2 entire browser profiles with 20-40 open tabs each, spread across different windows? 😬🙈
Can an image's hover/focus style within a link be a #WCAG error (1.4.11)?
I have 3 tab stops that go to the same URL (blog post). When I focus or hover the image, it gets a white overlay. The site's background is white. Is contrast of concern here? #accessibility
RSS feeds give me the same vibe as fax machines. I said what I said.
I have been coding for ~8 years and was never educated on RSS or how it is implemented. It was always treated as something outdated. So whenever someone announces their RSS feed, I feel uncomfortably young. 😬
@elly sounds like a better approach than me over here trying to find blog posts over newsletters and social media posts 😅 but idk, I never actually sat down and took the time to find out how RSS works. And professors back in school told me it’s not worth researching as „only a few websites still have that and it’s not gonna last much longer“.