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Jessie Heald @JessieHealdUK@defcon.social
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Hi, I'm Jessie! I'm a late 20s full stack web developer from the UK who loves FOSS and tinkering with tech.

I'm the developer behind @11tyCMS .

🔒 I have an emerging interest in
🎨 Finding my love and enthusiasm for and what makes a good
♿ Learning about digital and how I can code more accessible experiences.
🌐 Love the and everything to do with it.
🤓 In my spare time, I work on my project:
🇪🇸 I speak B1 (intermediate) Spanish
🎹 I love playing piano and learning to compose music
👩‍🍳 Cooking and baking is a huge love of mine, love exploring new foods!
📚 I'm a huge nerd for reading an interesting academic paper or study, especially in .

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TheEvilSkeleton @TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems
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The thing that makes me really happy, probably as much as receiving donations themselves, is people are actually donating through Liberapay rather than the proprietary alternatives.

Just a few months ago, I had no idea how to set up Liberapay and gave up on it, because I got overwhelmed. A friend nudged me to reconsider it. I tried to set it up again, and got it properly set up this time. They were the first donor in Liberapay, and eventually, more and more people started to donate via Liberapay, surpassing GitHub Sponsors and Ko-fi.

Seriously, thank you @Liberapay for the wonderful platform, and to my friend who motivated me to set it up again!

TheEvilSkeleton @TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems
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WE DID IT, WE FUCKING DID IT

WE GOT KEYBOARD NAVIGATION WORKING IN GNOME CALENDAR'S MONTH VIEW

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c (not merged yet)

Do note that the screen recording attached won't have any alt text, to avoid redundancy. Everything written below is a detailed explanation of the experience, and the recording is essentially a visual demonstration:

- When entering the month view with Tab, focus is set to the first event widget, and pressing Tab will focus the next event widget horizontally.
- Ctrl+Tab will move focus to the month cell located at the focused event widget. Ctrl+Arrow will move focus to the edges of the view.
- When out of boundaries horizontally, the focus moves onto the other side of the view.
- When out of boundaries vertically, the view will automatically scroll to that direction.
- Shift+Arrow will move focus and initiate selection; pressing arrow keys will select ranges of cells, and letting go of Shift will display the new event popover.
- When a month cell has overflowing events (as in, there are not enough event widgets that can fit inside the month cell), pressing tab will focus the overflow button, and activating it will show a list of events.

Make month cells accessible (!564) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

gitlab.gnome.org · GitLab

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Turi @turi@vivaldi.net
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A couple of months ago a family friend had a very serious health issue and he couldn't move or speak much. So I put together a web app with a set of phrases, connected to a game controller, in a way that he could just select phrases from the list to communicate. Luckily this person got better quickly, and this app was no longer needed, but I decided to improve this experiment and publish it as an Open Source project.

So, this is VoxEase. It can be operated with a mouse, a touch screen, a computer keyboard, a game controller using a single hand, or you can set it to scan the list of phrases automatically so you only need to press one button to pick your phrase.
It only requires a modern browser and once downloaded it works offline.
It supports multiple languages and it can also be used by people with sight impairments (it works with screen readers).

Any suggestions on how to make it better are welcome!

Link: turisc.github.io/voxease/

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian@toot.cafe
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RE: mastodon.social/@accesstive_/1

Just a few months ago I found this company might have been fabricating reviews and ratings:
adrianroselli.com/2025/07/acce

Oh, and its doesn’t work.

So you know, buyer beware because are not solutions.

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Layne 🌱 @glittercleric@corteximplant.com
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My bio is getting unwieldy, so here's a pinned post with all relevant info about me!

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I'm Layne (he/him), an early 30s bi trans guy from Germany and a library assistant and research specialist irl. Autistic, disabled, nerdy & chronically online. Ecosocialist antifascist.

:BhjFlag_Transgender: trans rights are human rights!
:fckafd: punch fascists!

~

Have a list of things you will encounter here:

(I only boost posts with alt text)

(fantasy, scifi, thriller)





(working on always CWing)
(fuck SpaceX)

(rpg, action adventure)

[Header ID: progress pride flag comprised of NASA astrophotography © @thatfrisiangirlish.

Profile picture: a rainbow neon sign on a purple background featuring the phrases "love is love", "love wins", "support love", "live and let love" and "love is a human right" © Jason Leung @ Unsplash]

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter@front-end.social
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I won't have time to debunk the old "yellow is not accessible" myth in my axe-con talk.
But, you are lucky: I already wrote a whole article on how accessibility does NOT limit color choices.
What limits your choices is a lack of knowledge, and / or creativity. I can't do anything about creativity, but, I can help you with accessibility knowledge.

I built six WCAG-tested palettes to show that accessibility doesn’t limit creativity.

stephaniewalter.design/blog/ye

Accessibility: Yellow, Purple and the Myth of “Accessibility Limits Color Palettes”
Stef Walter @stephaniewalter@front-end.social
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What to expect:
- Six accessible yellow and purple palettes, ready to use
- Step-by-step guide to building palettes in Figma
- A 19 minutes video tutorial to make my whole process easy to follow

👉 Read the full article + tutorial on my blog: stephaniewalter.design/blog/ye

And if you don’t use Figma, I’ve added links to web-based tools so you can follow along too.

Yellow, Purple, and the Myth of “Accessibility Limits Color Palettes”  by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Inclusive Designer.

Accessibility does not limit creativity! Explore six distinct WCAG-compliant yellow and purple palettes and learn how to design your own.

stephaniewalter.design · Stéphanie Walter - Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert, Conference Speaker, Blog writer and Teacher.

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Snapp iOS Weekly @ios_newsletter_snapp@mastodon.social
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Making your SwiftUI app accessible to VoiceOver users? Discover essential accessibility modifiers - from labels and hints to proper element grouping for screen reader support.

🔗: wesleydegroot.nl/blog/voiceover by Wesley de Groot

VoiceOver - Wesley de Groot

VoiceOver is Apple's screen reader that enables blind and low vision users to navigate and interact with iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices. In this post, we'll explore how to make your SwiftUI apps fully accessible to VoiceOver users by providing clear, descriptive labels and implementing proper accessibility support. What is VoiceOver? VoiceOver is a gesture-based screen reader that speaks aloud the elements on the ...

wesleydegroot.nl

Link author: Wesley de Groot 🥷@0xWDG@mastodon.social

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PA Council of the Blind @PACounciloftheBlind@mastodon.social
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❄️ The 2026 Winter Olympics are complete...

But... the excitement continues!

The 2026 Paralympic Winter Games begin in early March & we are ready to celebrate athletes who demonstrate extraordinary skill, resilience & strength.

PCB proudly supports inclusive athletics and the powerful message the Paralympics bring to communities across PA & beyond.

Which events are you most looking forward to?

A winter-themed graphic from the Pennsylvania Council of the Blind celebrating the 2026 Winter Olympics and the upcoming Paralympic Winter Games. At the top is the PCB logo, shown as the outline of Pennsylvania with the letters “PCB” and braille dots beneath. The background features a blue winter gradient with subtle snowflake textures. Silhouettes of winter athletes appear on each side, representing both Olympic and Paralympic sports. Large text reads “Celebrating Team USA” and “Winter Olympics 2026,” with a highlighted line that says “Next Up: Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games.” Subtle braille dot patterns are incorporated into the snow at the bottom. At the bottom, text reads “Pennsylvania Council of the Blind.” The design is energetic, patriotic, and inclusive.
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Casey @kc@chaos.social
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Introducing WebAccessBench, a novel benchmark for AI language models to assess quality and WCAG conformance in generated web interfaces under realistic prompting conditions.

I did a bit of research and found that LLMs are incredibly bad at basic digital accessibility tasks. You can compare models and read the full white paper at conesible.de/wab.

Overall data suggests massive implications for society at large, and major discrimination of people with disabilities.

A sharepic that lists all benchmarked models and their score in a bar chart. Find them listed at https://conesible.de/wab. Beneath is a preview of the whitepaper PDF.
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Fitness Foundry (Coach Julio) @Fitnessfoundry@mas.to
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Rest is Rust. Motion is Lotion. 👟💨

🎯 Proof that "Age is just a number.” In our SPARTA Strength Class at the Malden Senior Center, we have rockstars from ages 65 to 93 proving that 💥HIIT is for everyone.

We are focusing on more than just reps—we are building community. 💪🏾

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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On the fediverse we also see a lot of accusations of Bluesky being owned by Jack Dorsey, and this isn't true. My understanding is that Jay performed an impressive amount of negotiation to allow Bluesky to receive funding independently.

These days Jack Dorsey is instead focusing on Nostr, which I can only describe as "a sequel to Secure Scuttlebutt with extremely bad vibes where bitcoin people talk about bitcoin"

Megan Lynch (she/her) @meganL@mas.to
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@CoMaps Hi - what you put in the alt text field is not an accurate alt text/image description.

This would be more accurate:

Graphic divided in half with the left side having white text on a green ground saying "Help us translate". The right side shows a close-up of a paper in a typewriter. Typed in all caps, in a column is:

Danke!
Thank you!
Merci!
Grazie!
Gracias!
Danke Je Wel!

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katherine @kayserifserif@sunny.garden
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a friend has asked for introductory/overview accessibility resources! i'm digging through some of my saved articles and blogs right now, but please feel free to recommend any that come to mind! i'm thinking anything that helps guide a curious person into thinking about "what is accessibility" and about ableism in design/tech/life.

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian@toot.cafe
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Client explaining spec: “Clicking the drop-down opens a product grid menu with pop-ups to choose colors.”

Me: “Wut.”

Technical pedantry is important in UI and digital accessibility work. As practitioners we have to translate lingo all the time.

Suggestions…

• Drop-down: adrianroselli.com/2020/03/stop
• Grid: adrianroselli.com/2024/07/be-c
• Menu: adrianroselli.com/2023/05/be-c
• Pop-up: adrianroselli.com/2021/07/stop

Illustration of IKEA stepping into a chest of drawers that is not secured to the wall, so it is falling on him.

Stop Using ‘Drop-down’

TL;DR: Stop using the word drop-down. Instead choose a term that accurately describes the control you want. I have worked both with native platform developers and web developers. While control names might differ, if a control was functionally the same then it was not an issue. A TextBox, for example,…

adrianroselli.com · Adrian Roselli

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @FOSDEM @mgifford@mastodon.social
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I built a small prototype exploring how we might publish structured accessibility information about physical buildings:

mgifford.github.io/accessible-

Web has standards as does the built environment.

There isn't a good model though to share the work to communicate what has been done via the web.

Serious critique welcome.

• What key attributes are missing?
• Are there existing standards to align with?
• What might stop adoption?
• What are the biggest risks in this approach?

Welcome to the Building Access Guide

A practical framework for communicating structured and transparent physical accessibility information.

mgifford.github.io · Building Access Guide

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Matt King 🍔 @mttkng@masto.98degrees.co.uk
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I guess you could call me a veteran. Been working on it since 1998 and spent the majority of my time at Dusted, a creative agency, shaping the web presence of our clients. Passionate about and as well as in general - particularly .

Other than that, I love watching decent and , walking the the short distances she can manage and taking photos of random shit.

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Lore :v_enby: @lorepozo@tech.lgbt
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I first used in 2017, but I haven't actively participated in social media or internet chats since birdsite and over a decade ago. But I want to get comfortable with it again!

I'm queer: transgender non-binary; pronouns they/them. :heart_progress: :blobhaj_flag_nonbinary:

I'm a software architect in New York 🧑‍💻 — I write , , and , but more than programming I focus on people and their ideas. I have a passion for , technical or otherwise, with a purpose of helping people make better decisions and find joy. I also love in design: you, me, and all people should be empowered by advancements of society.

I'm an optimistic person. I'm hopeful the world will improve for people who are trying to make it better.

Thanks for reading, have a lovely day!
🩷🩵🤍💜💛🖤

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Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk@mastodon.social
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Some more python.org updates:

We show a chart of supported Python versions at devguide.python.org/versions/ but that site is for developing CPython. So now it's also at python.org/downloads/

The "superseded by" had better styling, and added an EOL warning for older ones.

python.org/downloads/release/p

When creating a new release in the admin interface, prefill the release notes link to something like docs.python.org/3.15/whatsnew/ for pre-releases and docs.python.org/release/3.14.4 for full releases.

The supported versions chart in the devguide and at python.org/downloads.Python 3.9.7 release page showing with a red background: "Warning: Python 3.9.7 reached end-of-life on 2025-10-31. It is no longer supported and does not receive security updates. We recommend upgrading to the latest Python release." And with a yellow background: "Note: Python 3.9.7 has been superseded by Python 3.9.25."Admin interface showing the different release URLs.
Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk@mastodon.social
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I picked up some accessibility tips after watching @vossisbossMeagen Voss's talk at @pyladiescon, and improved the contrast ratio of H2 headers (github.com/python/pythondotorg) and wrapped the logo in a div instead of an H1 because we already use an H1 for the title, and you should maintain a hierarchy of headers (github.com/python/pythondotorg).

mastodon.social/@hugovk/115678

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian@toot.cafe
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Found by Nick Bromley on the A11y Slack:

“In browse mode in web browsers, NVDA no longer treats controls with 0 width or height as invisible. This may make it possible to access previously inaccessible ‘screen reader only’ content on some websites.”
nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1

No reason to panic. Just be aware in case your project has legacy / weird hiding techniques

NV Access | In-Process 10th February 2026

www.nvaccess.org

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @FOSDEM @mgifford@mastodon.social
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I would like the @fosdem community to embrace

In effort of that goal I've started by recording some problems and possible solutions for the website:
github.com/FOSDEM/website/issu

This is a lot of work that together, as a community, we need to address. needs to be more inclusive for people with disabilities.

25% of the population has disabilities & the are part of our community.

25% of the population has a disability. 100% of the population has temporary or situational barriers which needlessly stop them from accessing information on the web. The FOSDEM community isn't doi...

We need to make FOSDEM more accessible · Issue #338 · FOSDEM/website

25% of the population has a disability. 100% of the population has temporary or situational barriers which needlessly stop them from accessing information on the web. The FOSDEM community isn't doi...

github.com · GitHub

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Brain Computer Enterprises @bce@gnulinux.social
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Just received our first prototype of a Nickel-metal Hydride battery charger with a USB plug. This board is made to charge from 1 to 6 cells in series and supports a thermister for sensing overheating batteries.

This circuit design is planned to be a part of a pen-like stylus with a camera and haptic feedback for blind people to feel visual art.

codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-b

A PCB (Printed Circuit Board) with 4 prototyping holes on the left and 4 on the right. A female USB-C connector is at the bottom and three chips are across the top.
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Anubhav @anubhav@hachyderm.io
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/*
v4.3.0. Reduce vertical space.
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div .status__prepend
{
padding: 5px !important;
padding-bottom: 0px !important;
}
div .status
{
padding-top: 8px !important;
}
.content-warning
{
margin: auto !important;
padding: 2px 2px !important;
}
.content-warning *
{
display: inline !important;
}
.content-warning .link-button
{
margin-left: 5px !important;
margin-top: 5px !important;
}
.search
{
margin-bottom: 10px !important;
}

Anubhav @anubhav@hachyderm.io
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/*
v4.3.0. Make the toot editing area usable to show >2 lines on Reply/Edit.
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.reply-indicator__content, .reply-indicator__content *
{
visibility: collapse !important;
display: none !important;
}
div .link-footer
{
visibility: collapse !important;
}

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On MS Windows 10 with 125% zoom of 1920x1080 px resolution of 13.3 in screen, with 20 p[xt] font size in Firefox.

Showing the toot being replied to also makes the experience worse.

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Philip Kiff @pkiff@mastodon.social
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@dbDavid Bushell ☕ It would have been nice if someone at Mozilla had made sure their State of the Browser was navigable via keyboard-only. The main menu is hidden and missing hover styles, which is not accessible and anti-user.

I agree that the web needs Firefox. Though I stopped donating to Mozilla when I found out their CEO made $3 million in 2020 - the same year they laid off 300 employees.

Not sure what their CEO makes now, but the push to AI is not helping!

h/t @tante

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malaya @laya_wanders@social.coop
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Tomorrow, I participate in my 2nd hackathon: Social.coop x Cosocial Hackathon (2nd edition). 🧑🏾‍💻

Excited to assist in developing the wiki; thanks for organizing this event, @SocialCoop !

✨ You can still RSVP below: luma.com/04uq2wu6?tk=jlWVQa

Social.coop x Cosocial Hackathon (2nd edition) · Luma

We liked our first hackathon so much we're hosting another! Join us Saturday January 24 for a second hacking session on our new member sign-up and onboarding…

luma.com

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BicycleBen @BicycleBen@mas.to
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ICYMI: Challenging the County Council over its installation of a chicane barrier on a wide path used to access a shared use route under 100m away, while using outdated legislation and without considering equality of access.

fiets.uk/2024-07-18/the-contin

The continuing saga of a chicane barrier

Chronicling the protracted continuing saga of a new chicane barrier, installed suddenly and without warning in April 2024 by Warwickshire County Council, on a short path close to a formal shared use walking and cycling route - but without proper consideration to current legislation, design standards

fiets.uk · Fiets! Let's Cycle like the Dutch!

Link author: Fiets! Let's Cycle Like the Dutch@ben@fiets.uk

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