Notices by Eric Eggert (yatil@yatil.social)

However, disabled people are limited in their human rights every day. Some less, some more. Your privilege to not see those discriminations does not overwrite their right to participate in an inclusive way. (2/2)

It’s always interesting to see who feels attacked when performative allyship is pointed out. Do I think people are on purpose performative? Maybe not always, maybe even rarely. But that’s a bias and people need to understand that.

When the people you want to be an ally for point out that your actions feel hollow and useless, then it is your place to listen and correct. It’s not their task to mitigate and put critique in a nice package.

Even well meaning peeps and orgs can do harm. Do better.

I think non-disabled people, even if they want to do the right thing, don’t know how all-encompassing disability discrimination is. They have the privilege to not encounter that discrimination every day. When it gets pointed out to them that they indeed could do things better or that there are societal issues, they see the loss of that privilege as a loss of a right. (1/2)

When the question is: headache from CO2 or from PM2.5 particles and Germany is like: YES!

I’m so glad I got these air filters.

@jscholes People over-explaining stuff to screen reader users is one of my pet peeves. “Should we write out this phone number as individual number words so that the screen reader does not announce it as a large number?” 😳

@Mela Ufff. Das geht gar nicht.

@Mela Möchte niemand verteidigen, aber im Ausgangs-/Gesuchposting hieß es, dass von Seiten der Referent*in abgesagt wurde und, dass Gebärdensprachdolmetscher*innen reserviert seien (aber nur für den Termin – was ein ganz anderes Verständnisproblem offenbart)… Also wohl keine “Ausladung”? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/katrin-n%C3%A4gele-0b3512256_wir-geben-noch-nicht-auf-unser-referent-activity-7282311181652877312-0XfY

I started writing a blog post… and then realized that I had already written that blog post. This happens more often than one would think.

https://yatil.net/blog/the-infuriating-inefficiency-of-accessibility-audits

Instead of “alt text” or “alt-text”, write “textual alternative for this/an image”.

You would be surprised how many people stumble over that bit of jargon.

@ralphruthe Shrinking
Silo
Slow Horses
Criminal Record

These are awful. One heading literally says “Making use of Diarrhea”. Congratulations “AI”. Congratulations MDN. https://hachyderm.io/@schalkneethling/113516811198997681

(And really, I try to not be grumpy, as a person from Germany who worked for W3C/WAI on _explaining WCAG_ and helping to translate WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 to German, that none of those newfangled experts even tried to ask me about my inputs. Why ask someone who has one of the largest experiences in accessibility and especially WCAG in the country? A prophet has no honor in their own country, it’s true. And I know other long-term accessibility people have the same experiences here.)

This is one reason why I never judge the people I work with. Wherever you are at your journey, the most important thing is that you actually started. Sure, you’ll make mistakes, but that’s why coaches are there, to guide you on your path.

Some accessibility people think our job is to punish developers and teams who make mistakes, but what we actually do is help them to be better. https://mastodon.social/@muan/113494844740565000

@kc Ist auch fantastisch, dass Erle die grundlegendsten Barrierefreiheitsdinge als take-aways feiert: Nicht nur durch Farbe unterscheiden, Orientierung wichtig!

(Dialog im Dunkeln in Wien fand ich ganz gut, weil dort relativ praktisch erklärt wird was physische Barrieren für blinde Menschen bedeuten. Dunkel-Restaurant – Finster in Essen – fand ich eher kontraproduktiv weil man halt keine Erfahrung damit hat. Das erregt eher Mitleid als Verständnis.)

@tagesschau

PDF und FDP haben nicht umsonst die gleichen Buchstaben. Denkt mal drüber nach! Follow the money!

😂

@GreenSkyOverMe @kc Das ganze Ökosystem ist nicht barrierefrei. Text umlaufen lassen wird kaum unterstützt, selbst wenn das Dokument entsprechend aufbereitet ist. Das ändern von Schriftarten und -Größen ist nicht so möglich, dass die Dokumente nutzbar bleiben.

Having a 3D printer in your office is a bad idea, right? Asking for a friend who’s has just seen this video: https://youtu.be/EfEYpGZqQw4

@aardrian I mean, I would, but I already said this in January 2019 😜 https://yatil.net/blog/much-ado-about-no-lists

Apart from creating custom UI elements, you shouldn’t need to use the role attribute at all.