Staying curious and learning more about AI and where it can help with accessibility, I see a lot of work done with bolting it on instead of shifting it left. Seems that shift left needs us once again.
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Regressions happen, but proper processes can prevent a lot of it. With accessibility it may be more difficult, but systems can help. Fixing one bug and introducing another one reveals poor system processes – consider accessibility governance.
Thanks to Michael Fairchild and Microsoft, we now have some accessibility benchmarks for a selected range of AI models – where they were tested with automatic accessibility tools after generating sample code. Project is called A11y LLM Eval, and it provides quite some insights, both directly and indirectly.
5 years of Web Accessibility Directive went fast. Progress is evident, but is it enough?
Long story short – all political party websites have issues, some are really obvious and all are excluding some groups of people. They should do better if they want to get votes from as many as possible. And shift accessibility left does not mean political left!
Please make sure you consider all users when developing countdowns, timers and similar dynamic information or risk making some experiences horrible.
Having an accessibility statement in itself is saying a lot, but only if the statement is telling the truth and in the right way.
You have probably read a lot about EAA, I know I have. It is an amazing thing, I am certain, but there are some parts that are not so amazing. This post informs you about both parts, we need to understand before we can improve.
Sometimes I read a post and have a need to add some personal views of mine. This time it’s a short list that came to my mind about being an accessibility specialist.
Recently I did an audit of a webpage rich with animations. And needed to warn people about them as sometimes they destroy the experience if we are not careful.
Vibe Coding is here and it’s amazing. It started a new era where it seems that make your own software is now often a better choice compared to buying it. But – please beware.
Accessibility statements are not there for authorities, but for your users. And 90/100 and similar scores mean different things to different people, so I suggest to drop them and rather make the statement understandable.
If you don’t believe me – check the latest draft of Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities Mapping and translate it to your product / service / organization.
A lot of opinions, a lot of academic studies, some lab testing, too little feedback from people with disabilities and too much hype – I need to add.
Unfortunately sometimes organizations take shortcuts and just make a generalized copy of accessibility statements from their competition or some random site.
People starting with accessibility can often get a bit biased perception and focus mainly on screen readers. I believe it has to do with the guidelines.
Save yourself time and resources and prepare before you buy an accessibility audit with these tips.
Demographics tells us that we need help. Automating the physical world requires robots. We need them to be accessible!
2025 is the year of European Accessibility Act. But we can establish that it will help with global accessibility, not only European.
Authentication is often a burden to many different groups of users, but for people depending on assistive technologies it can be a total barrier. What can we do to improve that?
WCAG 4.1.3 is dedicated to status messages and we encourage their use, but we need to be aware of some potential dangers that are often beyond strict technical conformance.
This is a summary for my Universal Design 2024 (UD2024) conference contribution, where I was using parts of EN 301 549 and WCAG to check how (in)accessible are iOS and Android mobile applications from 4 largest Norwegian banks.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines touch keyboard accessibility in a couple of success criteria. It’s essential for your native app to support keyboard interactions for it to be accessible. But how?
Grouping is not an exact science, but all designers and developers touching native mobile applications need to be aware of the simplification possibilities it can bring.
Native mobile applications are often more focused and with that – less noisy for users (and I meant that visually and non-visually). But platform choices can lead to inevitable inaccessibility as some abstractions lack support.
I lead a project to manually test 20 Slovenian e-commerce websites and wrote an article about it, called (In)Accessibility of Slovenian E-commerce the Year Before the European Accessibility Act.
We need to be aware of the limitation of the tools to be able to use them properly and to prevent any bias.
Time flies and after four years of directive we can reflect a bit more on the positive effects beyond public sector.
Question of dealing with conflicts between aesthetics and accessibility comes up a lot and sometimes it’s easy to just let one side win and be done with it. I think that we need a cultural shift to have both of them.