Guy Hickling

@RoseMusachio This is a very interesting approach. Besides requiring WCAG compliance, it also requires training of relevant staff, declaration of what actions you are doing to comply, feedback, and best of all, it applies to commercial businesses not just government! #accessibility #manitoba

#Accessibility For Manitobans Act: New Information and Communication Regulation - MLT Aikins - Western Canada's Law Firm #inclusion #PwD #disabilityinclusion buff.ly/3OdOJIT

Web designers - use good contrast in all your web pages. Many people can’t see as well as you can. Nor will you in twenty years time. #accessibility #a11y

Web developers - always aim for best possible colour contrast, many other people can’t see as well as you can. Nor will you in twenty years time! #accessibility #a11y

Craig Spencer - “Among the unvaccinated, the virus travels unhindered on a highway with multiple off-ramps and refueling stations. In the vaccinated, it gets lost in a maze of dead-end streets and cul-de-sacs.”

The W3C now has accessibility resources in 35 languages, including translations of the WCAG itself. w3.org/WAI/translatio… #accessibility #a11y

The AccessiByeBye browser extension, to stop so-called accessibility overlays messing up your screen reader or keyboard nav, also blocks the UserWay overlay (on WordPress) and EqualWeb, MaxAccess, and maybe others as well. Congrats to Pneuma Solutions. chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…

Does AccessiBe cause problems with your screen reader, or stop you using some websites? The Google Chrome browser now has the AccessiByeBye add-on to block the Accessibe overlay. chrome.google.com/webstore/detai… #accessibility #a11y

In USA, ADA website lawsuits continued to rise in 2020 despite the pandemic - or perhaps because of it as more people trying to use online facilities found they were not accessible to disabled people! #page=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">adatitleiii.com/2021/04/federa… #accessibility #a11y

@LFLegal It would be ten times worse if you only had 666!

Is it bad luck that I have 6666 twitter followers?

Check out my latest article: How do you find a good accessibility consultant? linkedin.com/pulse/how-do-y… via @LinkedIn

Has User Experience become User Exploitation? - read creativegood.com/blog/21/losing… #uxdesign

@zersiax I occasionally see websites use both methods on the same label. I saw a comment last year that this results in one mobile screen reader not announcing the label but didn't test it. In those cases I recommend they unnest it & just use the "for" as it's definitely not good HTML!

Are there any #accessibility concerns regarding nesting an associated input into it's corresponding label tag, rather than using a for='' id='' linkup?

178 website lawsuits in US have been started against companies who have been duped into using quick-fix widgets to make their websites accessible, in last 6 months (one per day), according to blog.usablenet.com/a-record-break… These widgets and overlays are a scam #ADA #accessibility #a11y

The law requires that you treat all people the same regardless of disability. So if your website doesn't show a keyboard focus indicator, make sure it doesn't show a mouse cursor either! #accessibility #a11y

Make accessibility a habit, not an action. #accessibility #a11y

Tactile photographs for blind people - ted.com/talks/truls_no… #accessibility #a11y

Website accessibility lawsuits? They only happen against companies that have no intention of helping disabled people unless they are forced to. Enlightened companies have long ago made their websites accessible, so don't get sued! #accessibility #a11y #ADA

@AkwyZ @AXSChat Microsoft touting this as the solution to texts for images in Word, Power Point etc is rubbish. Texts for images have to be carefully crafted, taking into account the surrounding context as well. Picking out a few objects and saying "job done" is a cop out. #accessibility #a11y

Microsoft's new image-captioning AI will help #accessibility in Word, Outlook, and beyond - Via @axschat #FutureOfWork #axschat - theverge.com/2020/10/14/215…

@a11ymcr Point out any one of them could temporarily need keyboard working should they have accident and end up with an arm in plaster for 3 months! It can happen to us all! But they should think of people permanently unable to use mouse.

How do you stress the importance of testing websites and apps with a keyboard to your team / company?

Showing the icon of an accessibility overlay, on your website, tells everyone the website isn't accessible. It's an invitation for a lawsuit! See 5 lawsuits in one month! accessdefense.com/?p=5378 #accessibility #a11y #ADA