Notices by Léonie Watson (tink@w3c.social)

Can anyone put me in touch with a lawyer who really understands the European Accessibility Act (EAA)? I have a question I could use an opinion on - and happy to pay for the time. Thanks.

I've just encountered the cookie notice on the website for @verge for the first time in a while. A collected 4,297 partners are granted access to your browsing data if you accept them all, including 539 partners for "strictly necessary" cookies alone!

That's like telling a small town of people what you're doing, what you're interested in, where you came from, and more besides!

The @w3c ARIA in HTML specification has been updated:
https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/

These are the authoring rules for using #ARIA when #HTML is the host language.

In my talk on AI and Accessibility at #FFConf, I mentioned #AI voice clones being used by people who are non-verbal to have voices that are like their own or uniquely theirs. @benjaminparry just sent me this link about two voices with different regional accents being blended to do just this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7818y155v4o

#AI spurs revolution for some visually impaired people:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4lvw6vzkyo

#BBC #accessibility

@muan It is. I know you managed it (with grace and dedication), but it still happens too often. It's one of the reasons I like this post by Henny Swan from @TetraLogical@indieweb.social so much:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2023/06/05/the-only-accessibility-specialist-in-the-room/

I've used #Firefox as my primary browser for as long as I can remember.

I stuck with it when its performance was comparatively dreadful, and when its performance with my screen reader was worse, because I agreed with Mozilla's ethos.

Now #Mozilla has laid off another 30% of its people, and is no longer concentrating efforts on advocacy and/or its global programmes, it's getting harder to convince myself that their time isn't up.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/

A person I know who is in the early stages of a career in accessibility is hoping to find a screen reader user with web development experience to mentor them for a while. They're a screen reader user themselves and they want to level-up their knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript/ARIA in order to offer better recommendations when testing for accessibility. If this is you, or if you know someone it might be, drop me a DM? Thanks.