@IAmDannyBoling @georgetakei We need to have a bigger discussion about the emotional labor of this (and the etiquette of demanding it from others in public), only because it is 2025 in an era where automation for this is becoming a realistic expectation
It is time to get sanctimonious — not at all users — but at developers of screen readers (and client software, but those days are also drawing to a close), because #accessibility for all and #AltText for all should be an automatic privilege
This isn’t on the same level as hiding topics behind warning tags.
I am posting this due to the wonderful enthusiasm of the developer in regards to accessibility. When I asked if this app is accessible with Talkback, this was the response I received.
"Comment from Hakanft on R/Android
Thanks for asking — and that's a really important point!
The app was built using React Native (with Expo), so it should support basic TalkBack functionality out of the box. However, I haven’t fully optimized or tested it for screen reader accessibility yet.
Your question made me realize I need to improve this — and I will! If you're open to sharing feedback after trying it, I'd truly appreciate it."
The app itself is not only a great idea but can be extremely helpful. It is a fun way to gauge your water intake and ensure that you are drinking enough water each day. It also works with twenty-nine languages! Below is the full discussion on Reddit, ttcomplete with IOS and Android links.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1lzl46o/just_launched_my_free_multilingual_water_reminder/
Later today, I'll be trying out RIM with a friend. Let's see how it does! This will be immensely interesting.
“Sassy Outwater-Wright: Accessibility Champion and More, Dies at 42” by @LFLegal:
https://www.lflegal.com/2025/07/sassy-outwater/
The “and more” is doing a lot of work there, because Sassy was so much more.
Want to change Call Audio Routing?
Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Call Audio Routing
WTF has Touch got to do with audio routing??
What a mess.
A great article on avoiding binary thinking in design, from @Cjforms.
"The world is analog and yes/no is a binary choice, so the two options rarely reflect the real world entirely accurately."
#OpenSource is a bag of worms when #Accessibility is ignored.
Free Software is not meant to exclude others.
There is yet another accessibility overlay vendor out there, though it makes no conformance guarantees. Nor security or privacy guarantees.
“#ARTY Could Get You Sued”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/arty-could-get-you-sued.html
Progress! Not a win yet.
“Due to the receipt of significant adverse comments […] the effective date of the direct final rule […] is delayed until September 12, 2025.”
#Chrome #accessibility #neurodiversity
'Pop-up ads, hard-to-read fonts and robotic voices can overwhelm neurodivergent readers. LumiRead, a new Chrome extension built by a Northeastern computer science grad student, solves that.'
https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/07/09/chrome-accessibility-extension-lumiread/
a label and a name walk into a bar
"When is a label also an (accessible) name, when is it not and when is it neither?"
https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/07/14/a-label-and-a-name-walk-into-a-bar/
I've submitted a proposal to WHATWG about a provenance/origin classifier for alt text on images.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11448
The current HTML specification provides the alt attribute on images to supply alternative text for users who cannot see visual content. However, there is no way to indicate whether the alt text was authored by a human or generated automatically by a machine (e.g., via AI or computer vision).
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