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Snugug @snugug@mas.to
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For those who wanted to see the code behind my CSS-only magical sticky auto-expanding sidebar nav in action, I've put together a little CodePen for you! I've narrowed down the relevant code to just what's needed to get this to work, with some very minimal JavaScript to improve the accessibility of it! I've even left you a little challenge in there for you, let me see how you accomplish it!

codepen.io/Snugug/pen/VYezVKr
mas.to/@snugug/115259058092836

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just adrienne @adrienne@social.treehouse.systems
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Folks, i need a job or a contract so bad. I'm a full-stack developer, i work in several frameworks (including and ), and with several CMSes (notably and but i can also work in Wordpress). I've got SQL wizard skills and a deep focus on and solid, maintainable, semantic HTML and CSS on the front end. Please hire me!

I'm a dual US/Canadian citizen and prefer fully remote work but can also do in-office in Vancouver/the Lower Mainland area.

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Daniela Kubesch @dnikub@front-end.social
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Simplified Accessibility Testing, right from your browser?! 💡🔍

I designed and coded this little landing page to showcase all the browser powered by and created by my wonderful team here at mindscreen.

Take a look: tools.caat.report/

Perhaps one of these bookmarklets could be integrated into your process? 👀

A stylized icon of a cat below the text: Simplified accessibility testing, right from the browser. Powered by caat.report.

Accessibility Bookmarklets by CAAT.report

Simplify accessibility testing, right from your browser with bookmarklet powered by CAAT.report.

tools.caat.report · CAAT

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Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
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Anyone interested in helping me test a tool I'm working on?

Right now it can tell you how many of your images are missing alt text. Some ideas I am playing with:

- check for image descriptions that are too long or too short (Whatever that means! And what about non-English text?)
- check if you CapitalizeYourHashtags properly

Link: data.stefanbohacek.com/project

A screenshot from the linked website showing my profile image, my name, and the text below, followed by a grid of images: Out of your 5,549 posts, 269 have visual media attached. Out of the 278 images and videos you posted in total, 269 have alt text. That's about 97%. You're doing a great job! Here are some of the images that are missing description.
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Robin Kanatzar @Robinkanatzar@mastodon.green
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Come hear me speak about "Engineering Accessibility: Practical, Maintainable, Testable" at Pragma Conference and Do iOS this fall!

🍝 Pragma Conference: October 30th in Bologna, Italy
pragmaconference.com/

🧇 Do iOS: November 12 in Amsterdam do-ios.com/

Pasta and stroopwaffles, here I come! 🤣

#Pragma Conference 2025 | The iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS, tvOS Developers Conference

#Pragma Conference 2025 | October | Italy | The Apple Developers Conference

pragmaconference.com

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Jimmie Jephson @jimmiejephson@mastodon.social
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I was asked to write a short , I'm a Accessibility Specialist, Front-end dev and scrum Master from Sweden. Been in the industry for about 20 years. I work at Axess Lab doing audis to help companies with their digital solutions and trying to make the digital world a better place for everyone. A big thing but if we all come together and help out with this we will achieve some great things!

If you have any questions, just fire away! :)

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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw@front-end.social
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Hello accessibility friends,

I'm working on gathering information for accessibility bug tickets - our customer supporters would like to know what to ask the people chatting in.

My first concern is how to respectfully find out as much as we can about the customer's setup without outright asking for their disability.

I'm hoping most cases will be clear, like "I can't read that text, it's grey on grey" or "I can't access the [interactive element] with my keyboard"

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TheEvilSkeleton @TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems
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After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published "GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days", where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!

tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-cal

GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days

There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth collaborating with, especially with the recent community growth and engagement over the past few years. Georges Stavracas and Jeff Fortin Tam are some of the best maintainers I have ever worked with. I cannot express how thankful I am of Jeff’s underappreciated superhuman capabilities to voluntarily coordinate huge initiatives and issue trackers. One of Jeff’s many initiatives is gnome-calendar#1036: the accessibility initiative, which is a big and detailed list of issues related to accessibility. In my opinion, GNOME Calendar’s biggest problem was the lack of accessibility support, which made the app completely unusable for people exclusively using a keyboard, or people relying on assistive technologies. This article will explain in details about the fundamental issues that held back accessibility in GNOME Calendar since the very beginning of its existence (12 years at a minimum), the progress we have made with accessibility as well as our thought process in achieving it, and the now and future of accessibility in GNOME Calendar.

tesk.page · TheEvilSkeleton

Link author: TheEvilSkeleton@TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems

TheEvilSkeleton @TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems
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At last, all the accessibility improvements on GNOME Calendar are finally available as a stable release. Get it on Flathub while it's hot!!!

flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.

GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days

There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth collaborating with, especially with the recent community growth and engagement over the past few years. Georges Stavracas and Jeff Fortin Tam are some of the best maintainers I have ever worked with. I cannot express how thankful I am of Jeff’s underappreciated superhuman capabilities to voluntarily coordinate huge initiatives and issue trackers. One of Jeff’s many initiatives is gnome-calendar#1036: the accessibility initiative, which is a big and detailed list of issues related to accessibility. In my opinion, GNOME Calendar’s biggest problem was the lack of accessibility support, which made the app completely unusable for people exclusively using a keyboard, or people relying on assistive technologies. This article will explain in details about the fundamental issues that held back accessibility in GNOME Calendar since the very beginning of its existence (12 years at a minimum), the progress we have made with accessibility as well as our thought process in achieving it, and the now and future of accessibility in GNOME Calendar.

tesk.page · TheEvilSkeleton

Link author: TheEvilSkeleton@TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems

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Meryl Evans, CPACC 🦻 @MerylEvans@mastodon.social
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Thank you, TEDx for viewing as an important topic and for making it an Editor’s Pick. Thank you Shannah Hayley and TEDxPlano for the opportunity! Thanks to Thomas Logan, Makoto Ueki, and Ashley Coffey for making the talk possible

youtu.be/Wx8gGP79QTY

The pandemic's influence on accessibility | Meryl Evans | TEDxPlano

While no one wanted a pandemic to happen, Meryl Evans points out that history has shown events like this can lead to changes for the better. For her, the ris...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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Ollie Boermans @ollicle@mastodon.social
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Most certainly not just me! <details> in popover (opened with popovertarget) breaks keyboard navigation.

Firefox: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.
Chrome: issues.chromium.org/issues/424
My test case: ollicle.com/jot/details-in-pop

The workaround in both browsers is to use JavaScript `showPopover()` to open the popover, thanks @keithamus

Safari is the good guy in this particular occasion

Update: showPopover is not the workaround I hoped for:

1972609 - Tab navigation unexpected behavior for summary/details inside popover

ASSIGNED (mozilla) in Core - DOM: Core & HTML. Last updated 2025-08-29.

bugzilla.mozilla.org

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Michael Hanscom @djwudi@tenforward.social
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Here’s my / post (updated 5/25/24):

Hi! I’m Michael, but can frequently be found online as “djwudi”.

Grew up in , now exist just south of most of the time.

Currently work in as the Program Manager at Highline College.

I’m a / fan. is my home fandom, and I volunteer for @norwescon, a local regional fan-run con, and for @SeattleWorldcon2025 .

I read a lot of SF . Trek novels are my go-to “comfort food”. I’m slowly working my way through all the Best Novel winners, and every year read all of the nominees for the before the annual award ceremony at Norwescon.

Speaking of the Philip K. Dick Award and , as of (2023), I am the award ceremony coordinator for Norwescon. This means I oversee the award ceremony and work with nominated authors and their agents as we invite them to attend the ceremony.

I’m one of the many Seattleites who “used to be a ”. For me, it was about a decade in in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s, primarily at The Lost Abbey and Gig’s Music Theatre. Focused on alternative genres: goth/industrial/synth pop/ebm/techno/etc. These days I occasionally pop up on Twitch, and semi-regularly DJ the Thursday night dance at Norwescon.

Though recently more on the fringes, I try to be part of the (Seattle / ) community whenever possible. I used to be a regular at The Vogue (on 12th), and these days try to get out to the Mercury once every month or two.

/ user by choice, Windows user if paid.

Oh, and: 51, white, cis, male, statistically straight, healthy, white-collar employed, not rich but comfortably not poor, married, homeowner, neurotypical (as far as I know). In other words, living with a lot of that I try to be aware of and use for good.

- - 🖖🏻

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Coral 😷 @coral@kind.social
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Redoing my intro on my shiny new instance:

Hi, I'm Coral (NOT Carol)

In real life I love , , crafting, cozy video games, biking, reading, and gardening. I have a spouse, two , and two

At work I'm into , , (don't talk to me about DEI without the A), and . I'm a librarian, electrical engineer, and former prof, now doing via for an

so

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Coral @coral@code4lib.social
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Hi, I'm Coral (NOT Carol)

In real life I love , , crafting, cozy video games, biking, reading, and gardening. I have a spouse, two , and two . We're moving to upstate NY.

At work I'm into , , (don't talk to me about DEI without the A), and . I'm a librarian, electrical engineer, and former prof, now doing via for an

Still dealing w/ and knowledge that

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Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo: @paul@tapbots.social
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When the movies about the downfall of Apple are written, screenwriters will disagree about when it started. Jobs death, Cook takeover, Ive taking control, Ive leaving, Dye doing whatever the hell he's doing, Swift/UI engineers taking over, etc.. etc.. etc…

To me it'll always be this.

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Steve Faulkner @SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social
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👀 @w3cWorld Wide Web Consortium WAI invites you to comment on the updated:
W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 Working Draft

w3.org/TR/wcag-3.0/

W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0

W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 will provide a wide range of recommendations for making web content more accessible to users with disabilities. Following these guidelines will address many of the needs of users with blindness, low vision and other vision impairments; deafness and hearing loss; limited movement and dexterity; speech disabilities; sensory disorders; cognitive and learning disabilities; and combinations of any of these disabilities. These guidelines address the accessibility of web content on desktops, laptops, tablets, mobile devices, wearable devices, and other Web of Things devices. The guidelines apply to various types of web content, including static, dynamic, interactive, and streaming content; audiovisual media; virtual and augmented reality; and alternative access presentation and control. These guidelines also address related web tools such as user agents (browsers and assistive technologies), content management systems, authoring tools, and testing tools.

www.w3.org

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Web Accessibility Initiative @wai@w3c.social
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W3C WAI invites you to comment on the updated W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 Working Draft. This in-progress draft has more guidelines, requirements, and assertions ready for review. There are some sections that are not yet updated.

For background, timeline, and up-to-date information, see WCAG 3 Introduction: w3.org/WAI/wcag3

For review questions and how to comment, see the section 'About this draft'.

WCAG 3 Working Draft: w3.org/TR/wcag-3.0/

WCAG 3 Introduction

Introduces the W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 Working Draft. WCAG documents explain how to make the web more accessible to people with disabilities.

www.w3.org · Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm: @markwyner@mas.to
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Y’all. I did it. I just published my very first macOS app. 🎉

It’s a color contrast checker for accessibility compliance. I designed and built it for myself, but I’m also gifting it to the world.

It’s not in the App Store, but it is signed for safety. And it will let you know when there’s an update.

I’m a little giddy about it. 😊

UPDATE: new versioning system. v1.2 is available now.

ratioapp.markwyner.com

Ratio App: Accessibility Color Contrast Checker for macOS

Accessibility color contrast checker for macOS with support for WCAG and APCA.

ratioapp.markwyner.com · Mark Wyner

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Accessibility Club @a11yclub@mastodon.social
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📣 Big news: is getting its own meetup, and it's happening on 3 September (in one week). 💥

On the initiative of Josefine Schaefer and @sweckenmannSonja Weckenmann, with inaugural talks by @NinaGerlingNina en dé­tail and Detlev Fischer, generously hosted by slashwhy.

All individuals with any level of knowledge are welcome to attend; participation is free (but registration is required). All details at accessibility.club/event/acces

Who are we meeting in Hamburg next week?

Accessibility Club Meetup #12

An informal meetup for web workers & designers about web accessibility & assistive technology — September 3rd, 2025, Hamburg

accessibility.club

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Dion @diondiondion@indieweb.social
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folks, what's your take on this UI pattern that's quite common on social platforms:

A button with a verb label (e.g. "Follow") that, after the button was pressed, changes to an adjective describing the status (e.g. "Following"), rather than being explicit about the action it'll perform when pressed again (e.g. "Unfollow").

Do you find this problematic in practice?

Screenshot from Instagram showing a list of accounts with a Follow button in each row. Some of the buttons are de-emphasized and say "Following". The account names and avatars are blurred out for privacy.
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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm: @markwyner@mas.to
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@fremachucaFrederico Machuca @carapaceSimon Forman @adamAdam Newbold :usa_distress:

Most def. Thanks for tagging me in!

inclusive-components.design/

tarnoff.info/

silviamaggidesign.com/ (@silviamaggi)

neurodiversity.design/

colorandcontrast.com/

gerireid.com/blog/wcag-design-

bitsofco.de/the-accessibility-

accessiblenumbers.com/

whocanuse.com/

I’ve also been designing/building accessible interfaces for a very long time. I should write about it more. But I did write a couple of pieces:

markwrites.io/build-a-simple-c

Inclusive Components

A blog trying to be a pattern library. All about designing inclusive web interfaces, piece by piece.

inclusive-components.design · Inclusive Components

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian@toot.cafe
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In the past, Safari folks moved on the pile of `display` bugs after I started filing web compat PRs to change support notes.

Trying these as bug reports first, before I make PRs to change support:
• github.com/mdn/browser-compat-
• github.com/mdn/browser-compat-
• github.com/mdn/browser-compat-
• github.com/mdn/browser-compat-

What type of issue is this? Incorrect support data. What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete? Support for the <del> element is incomplete / has regressed in Safari 18 (through 18.5 ...

html.elements.del - Safari with VoiceOver does not announce text preceding `<del>` element · Issue #27443 · mdn/browser-compat-data

What type of issue is this? Incorrect support data. What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete? Support for the <del> element is incomplete / has regressed in Safari 18 (through 18.5 ...

github.com · GitHub

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