Notices by Eric Eggert (yatil@yatil.social)

>  Künftig muss man sich ab Tag eins krankschreiben lassen – telefonisch soll es gar nicht mehr gehen. 

Diese Bundesregierung ist einfach nur widerlich. Ja, bitte alle infizierten Menschen in Grippe/Covid-Hochzeiten in die Praxen schleusen, damit sich bitte, bitte auch ganz viele andere infizieren. Die Hausärzte haben ja auch nichts zu tun und wir haben ja auch keinen Hausarztmangel.

That, however is a workaround: if the element has no appropriate role, it’s guesswork for users (that’s why we have 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value). And it also fails 2.1.1 Keyboard.

In any of those cases, use a <button> element and it will fix both issues. They are focusable, and activating them with the keyboard conveniently also fires a click event.

#AnnoyingThingsPeoplePostOnLinkedIn (2/2)

In my series “annoying things people post on LinkedIn”, this gem.

Nothing is “invisible to keyboard”, keyboards don’t have eyes. It cannot receive focus. It’s also not “invisible to screen readers”. Screen readers will read the content just fine. If the text is specific enough, users of screen readers might think to simulate a mouse click on the element that would then fire the onClick event. (1/2)

BBC: “We are commissioning a new series of Doctor Who!”

Doctor Who fans: “The BBC cancelled Doctor Who!”

This is an extremely normal fandom.

(And sure, announcing and then walking back on a logistically very unlikely Christmas Special was a bad move. I think we can all agree on that!)

#DoctorWho

Almost 2.5 years since I bought the new router in preparation for the fiber connection that was put in front of the house and would be put into the house, quote, “maybe by April”. Apparently April 2027. 🤷♂️

I kinda want the Murderbot books numbered like the bible. People are quoting random things from there, and I think it would be fun to just refer to Murderbot 12:19 sometimes.

🫣🤣

Outsourcing accessibility considerations to “AI” leads to the erasure of disabled people when designing and creating. That’s the goal. It’s digital euthanasia.

I’m done mincing my words about this.

“WCAG must be backwards compatible because it is used in regulation” is a bullshit claim. The new EN 301549 which is based on WCAG changes stuff and breaks backwards compatibility.

It’s double ridiculous because instead of changing a few things breaking backwards compatibility and have people adapt every year, WCAG 3 breaks everything and everyone has to relearn, and yet somehow that is supposed to be adapted really quickly.

Which one is it?

#WCAG

@KaraLG84 It’s probably a gradual change, but HTML AAM was first published in 2015, and I think that was the beginning (or maybe just codifying what was already happened at the time in the wake of ARIA). There are probably subroutines/heuristics that might still access raw HTML, but I would think they are super rare.

https://www.w3.org/standards/history/html-aam-1.0/

> Each screen reader interprets your HTML differently.

Fun fact: No screen reader interprets HTML these days.

Nothing better than getting your air polluted by your neighbors at 6:40 and then from 9:00 on a Saturday.

It’s 2026, it’s not even especially cold, all houses are attached to gas, but no, burning wood it is.

#holzofenGate

If your “AI” says that it might be problematic for accessibility that your “Accessibility Workshop” (title element) page has a heading level 1 that says “Interested in a workshop?”, then your “AI” is full of patronizing bullshit.

“Screen reader users will be completely confused!” Are you fucking kidding me? And then accessibility people post it on LinkedIn and are happy that Claude whatever it’s called has volunteered accessibility information. Without explicit prompting. 100% a nonissue.

🤬

RE: https://wisskomm.social/@rwthaachenuniversity/116441752423676692

Transkript:

Wer profitiert wirklich vom geplanten Tankrabatt der Bundesregierung? Um 17 Cent pro Liter soll die Mineralölsteuer ja ab dem 1. Mai sinken. befristet auf zwei Monate. Eine Studie der RWTH Aachen zeigt nun, nutzen dürfte das vor allem wohlhabenden Haushalten. Denn am meisten sparen diejenigen, die besonders viel verbrauchen. Und das sind in der Regel Menschen, denen mehr Geld zur Verfügung steht. (1/x)

New article: https://yatil.net/blog/screen-readers-are-not-testing-tools

“Do accessibility for AIs” has the same ring to it as “do accessibility for SEO” had. It's the plea to at least do it for the robots if you can't be arsed to do it for real humans.

It's dehumanizing.

And sure, in some ableist instances it might work, and in the end how you get to accessibility does not really matter, but I have seen projects under these premises collapse.

For example, someone might suggest Markdown files instead of making stuff accessible. And poof, the whole argument is gone

A former client of mine needs to get their @getkirby website updated and give some technical support. They also want to move to the @thezeroclub ZeroOne theme.

The client is US-based and in the accessibility space.

I have built the previous version of the site many moons ago, and would be available to talk through the details.

I think it’s a good project for a freelancer for around 2 weeks.

DMs are open ;-)

#GetKirby

Most accessibility solutions that depend on “AI” are mere “better workarounds”. And I don't say that “better workarounds” has no value—quite the contrary. But a ramp made from Legos is a better workaround than no ramp or a ramp made from rubble, but it is not a solution to the inaccessibility. It just papers over the injustice and inequality.

Wenn man verstehen will wie Barrierefreiheit in Deutschland tickt, dann muss man sich nur die Art und Weise anschauen wie PDFler, IAAP und eine Handvoll Agenturen das Thema monopolisieren.

Da wird sich gegenseitig auf die Schultern geklopft bis die Schulterblätter quietschen.

Und das alles nur für die paar Euros.

(Verüble es niemandem da mitzumachen, aber schön ist’s nicht.)

Well, well, well…

#sora #ai

In the Rheinland-Palatinate state election the party that ran on repealing the climate neutrality law that promised CO2 neutrality 5 years before Germany as a whole.

Their candidate is the brother of the federal German transportation minister.

People see the disadvantages of fossil fuel dependency today, and these politicians will make that suffering longer and worse. And yet they manage to vote against their own interests.

This is extremely frustrating.