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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-22 at 00:58

“We like the way <figure> announces with VoiceOver.”

“Ok, which VoiceOver?”

Remember that VoiceOver on macOS is different than VoiceOver on iOS. Maybe even different than iPadOS, etc., but that’s for you to test. I ain’t got time for that.

VoiceOver desktop: https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/brief-note-on-figure-and-figcaption-support.html#Code-VOmacOS (anchor link)

VoiceOver iDevice: https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/brief-note-on-figure-and-figcaption-support.html#Code-VOiPadOS (anchor link)

[#]a11y #accessibility

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-21 at 16:39

Regular reminder that while the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG) bills itself as a copy/paste-ready pattern library, it is not.

Nor is it a W3C specification, standard, or even note. It is strictly reference info (mostly for keyboard use only)

https://adrianroselli.com/2019/02/uncanny-a11y.html#APG (anchor link)

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-21 at 14:13

Also this.

https://mastodon.social/@karlgroves/113866721331887842

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-21 at 13:11

If you pardon hundreds of violent neo-nazis and give your un-elected BFF a platform to give a Nazi salute (twice) during your inauguration, then you’re a neo-nazi. This is not hyperbole. Dismissing it or excusing it is enabling neo-nazis, their violent past, and their violent future.

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-20 at 17:57

Via @libcolleen (https://glammr.us/@libcolleen/113861810319502239), the new Hunters Point library is finally going to address its stairs-only access:

https://licpost.com/queens-public-library-and-nyc-agree-to-make-hunters-point-branch-ada-compliant-feds

You may have seen me share bits on the Hell site a few years ago:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20191004184356/https://gothamist.com/news/new-41-million-hunters-point-library-has-one-major-flaw

• https://bookriot.com/library-renovations-and-accessibility/

• https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our-meeting-on-accessibility-is-just-down-those-stairs

[#]accessibility

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-20 at 17:25

Filed a Safari bug:

[#]286267 AX: VoiceOver does not announce text preceding some phrasing elements

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286267

A 413 error is preventing me from attaching this video, which is annoying because it demonstrates it to a (sighted hearing) tester.

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-18 at 19:17

Chrome, as of 132, finally has keyboard support for scrolling containers:

https://adrianroselli.com/2022/06/keyboard-only-scrolling-areas.html#Update15

This assumes it doesn’t get rolled back again, as it has every other time it was deployed since 2018.

Silence from Safari.

[#]accessibility #a11y

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-17 at 20:27

Enjoy this last weekend, America.

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-17 at 19:01

Jewish Business News: “FTC Fines Israel’s AI Web Accessibility Company AccessiBe $1Million Over Deceptive Claims”

https://web.archive.org/web/20250117185134/https://jewishbusinessnews.com/2025/01/06/ftc-fines-israels-ai-web-accessibility-company-accessibe-1million-over-deceptive-claims/

I get that ¼ of the article is dedicated to statements from #accessiBe. But another ¼ for regurgitated accessiBe marketing feels a bit much.

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-17 at 18:54

Who needs TikTok when GM sells it to anyone?

“FTC Takes Action Against General Motors for Sharing Drivers’ Precise Location and Driving Behavior Data Without Consent”

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-takes-action-against-general-motors-sharing-drivers-precise-location-driving-behavior-data

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-17 at 18:46

VO/desktop bug via @elly:

https://adrianroselli.com/2017/12/tweaking-text-level-styles.html#comment-327387

Using this pen:

https://cdpn.io/aardrian/debug/rNRxZmP

We both experience VO ignoring the start of most sentences when using read-all.

Is this a known issue?

[#]accessibility #a11y #Safari

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-17 at 14:10

Who needs TikTok when Google is just giving it away?

https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/113843524617946865

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-17 at 13:27

“Apple suspends error-strewn AI generated news alerts”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5ggew08eyo

Dumping the false news alerts is good. But for broken app alerts, will VoiceOver announce the italics differently (it doesn’t for web) or will those users not get that critical context?

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-16 at 21:15

Hey.

Don’t wrap a <figure> in a link.

Definitely don’t use a title on that link.

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/dont-wrap-figure-in-a-link.html

[#]html #accessibility #a11y

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-16 at 19:02

Oh fuck you, 2025.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-dead-director-blue-velvet-twin-peaks-1236276106/

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-16 at 17:43

Another reason progressive enhancement (and alt text and smaller files and avoiding frameworks and so on) is valuable is that helps minimize the impact of petty corporate tantrums.

“AT&T pulls 5G home Internet from New York to protest state affordability law.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/att-complies-with-law-requiring-cheap-internet-by-ending-a-service-in-ny/

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-16 at 16:02

This is really an accurate reference to my shiny shorn scalp and the fact that when I do talk about accessibility, it’s nonsense & gibberish to most people.

https://bsky.app/profile/scopicengineer.bsky.social/post/3lftapbxkss2z

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-16 at 15:55

Listen, my posts about accessibility overlays would be shorter if they simply stopped producing such a high volume of evidence that they don’t work and then continually lie about that fact.

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-16 at 15:13

This is one way to ensure my career in digital accessibility continues…

https://social.vivaldi.net/@Odaeus/113837734033555472

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Written by Adrian Roselli on 2025-01-15 at 20:42

And @Richr has a 2019 post (updated most recently mid-2024) that goes into more detail about typography than mine even attempts:

https://clagnut.com/blog/2395/

Which I have also linked from my brief post.

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