Jeff Chandler posted a link in the Post Status Slack yesterday leading to an article complaining about the underlined link requirement for WordPress themes. It’s an interesting read, and it makes some good points about what kinds of link decorations can pass the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and be fundamentally more interesting than an underline. If you read Nick Hamze’s article, I recommend doing it on a mobile device; the readability on desktop is more than a little bit iffy. […]
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“The primary threat for accessibility on the web is neglect.”
The title of this post is a direct quote from an article Alice Boxhall just published: A threat model for accessibility on the web. The post talks about the challenges in creating web standards that successfully support accessibility needs, and how frustrating that process is. You should read this article. It will help you understand how standards are created. It will also help you understand why many accessibility practitioners actively oppose using some standard features. It’s easy to believe that […]
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The next release of Able Player is out today! This release continues the process of modernizing Able Player, but also includes some useful new key features. This release is synchronized with Able Player for WordPress 2.2.0, which incorporates the features of the updated player. Design & Responsiveness Changes The primary focuses in Able Player 4.7.0 were on updating the design and adding support for synchronizing sign language sources from YouTube. The design updates are extensive; removing floats and replacing with […]
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Accessibility Show number eight was a fun one. For most shows, I’ve searched out specific sites that demonstrate particular problems so that we can demonstrate different ways that problem shows up in real sites. For this one, however, I wanted to show something else, as well: how ubiquitous keyboard accessibility problems really are. So instead of carefully pre-selecting sites, I just grabbed the first ones in the list as I saw it at the time. It would have been nice […]
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What is it about software maintenance that makes it interesting? Why should we love software maintenance in open source software?
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