Notices by Eric Eggert (yatil@yatil.social)

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.

@aral I use Cascadea and it works well, however, its last update was 2 years ago and I just hope that it never breaks.

Nothing to see here, just correcting the German Reviewers for Accessibility that yes, lists with one item are indeed lists and that they don’t indeed make it absurd and interfere a lot with screen reader users. (German, links to LinkedIn)

(Of course, don’t just put willy-nilly lists with one items into texts.)

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn🇱🇮ugcPost:7254779426708631552?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28ugcPost%3A7254779426708631552%2C7256269137037996032%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287256269137037996032%2Curn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A7254779426708631552%29

Ah! What’s more refreshing than waking up at 7am on a Saturday from the neighbors wood smoke? So disgusting.

I admire Zeldman a lot. He did and does a lot of good for the web and took risks, not at least with his event and publishing business. And I kinda wished he got out of WP, because this feels like an abusive power play here. Letting go of 10% of your staff for a personal vendetta and expecting the remaining employees to clean up the mess is just lazy leadership. You deserve better, Jeffrey.

https://zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-stayed/

@Codeschubse Klingt nach Körperverletzung.

Gute Besserung.

Here’s someone already dreaming up WCAG 3.1. WTF? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/understanding-apca-wcag-31-new-era-color-contrast-digital-boiano-itmyf

Without further comment, the author has dropped this link as a response to my comment: https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/meaning.html

Yes, that is the old WCAG 2.0 Understanding for WCAG Guideline 3.1. Which has nothing to do with WCAG 3. And nothing with color contrasts. *sigh*

@tagesschau Ich bin froh, dass Merz einsieht, dass sein Anbiedern an die Rechten sich nicht ausgezahlt hat und nur eine humanitäre Flüchtlingspolitik funktioniert. So viel Einsicht hatte ich ihm gar nicht zugetraut.

TIL captions make deaf or hard of hearing people hear.

The educational value of these “in brief” sections is bad. The goal is not that “videos can be played with captions”, it’s ensuring audio-only content can be perceived by deaf/HoH people. Why does it say “synchronized text”? What is “existing videos”? Why should non-existing videos have captions? And it’s important because people who are deaf/HoH need to be able to perceive content only available as audio.

#MyGriefWithInBrief

It should be something like:

**In Brief:** To enable deaf and hard of hearing folks to perceive information only available in audio, provide captions that are in sync with the video’s audio.