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Christian, Head of Accessiblity at Government Digital Service, part of Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Terrible puns. Music wot I wrote at https://soundcloud.com/user-480796149
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If you test something (any context, not just accessibility or even digital), and it fails a test, but you find out it shouldn't have failed a test, would you refer to it as a "false positive" or a "false negative"? Logically either seems possible, which also feels somewhat illogical.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The work never ends in improving service components. Recently, file upload was updated including making it work better with Dragon. As ever, government are doing the hard work to make things better for all. design-system.service.gov.uk/components/f... #Accessibility #a11y #AccessibilityRegulations

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

www.linkedin.com/posts/access... #Accessibility #AccessibilityRegulations #a11y with thanks to @joelanman.bsky.social for sharing this.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

how do my autistic comrades prepare for a day that they know will be "full on"?

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

There are no bad or wrong colours in the rainbow for accessibility, but it does depend on the background, so a dark red probably works against white, but a pale yellow or green doesn’t.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I use an iPad pro for reading music, and I often annotate PDFs with things like piano fingering or extra accidentals. Often when it is a medium to large PDF it crashes out and loses the most recent annotations, so I have to keep closing and reopening. Feels like an Apple problem. Anyone else?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

A win for truth and history: A National Park Service page(removed by Musk) on the Underground Railroad has been restored to prominently feature Harriet Tubman, after her image and quote were removed earlier this year. Now, her legacy as a fearless champion for freedom has rightfully been restored. ✊

submitted 5 days ago • 131 comments

You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

My reaction to any of the purple/pink/name-a-colour pound kind of ideas that people are worth designing for if they have cash

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

When creating PDFs, avoid using "Print to PDF." A screen reader user may still be able to access the text of PDFs created this way, but heading structure, alternative text, and any other tag structure will be lost. Using "Save As" or "Export" can preserve these tags.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

In my experience many "quick questions" are accurately described in the sense that the question is quick, but getting to the answer is often not so easy.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Get to it, #knitters of #knitsky! Alt text, FTW. 😊 (Change your settings so that it’ll remind you. It’s under accessibility!)

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re looking for a place to talk, to explore, to learn, come join us on April 9

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For (baby) Boomers and other generations that are fine with many technologies like phones and spreadsheets, but struggling to get to grips with AI, a new large language model ChatGPT like AI is being developed in Aspen, Colorado. With a friendly face, it is to be known as Ask Aspen.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Not specifically about digital accessibility but important to be aware of developments in Quantum computing: www.linkedin.com/posts/access...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Following a number of complaints about Cadbury chocolate bar openings only being suited to right handed people they are introducing a left handed version. These should be stocked on the left hand side of shelves containing the bars and for the time being will just be Dairy Milk and Whole Nut.

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