#a11y

📢 The #w3cTPAC 2026 breakouts schedule is now available!
▶️ https://www.w3.org/calendar/tpac2026/breakout-sessions/grid/

Taking place from 26 to 30 October 2026, these sessions bring the @w3c community together to discuss new ideas and ongoing work across the consortium.

This year, we received 90 proposals covering topics including the agentic Web, #security, documentation, #a11y, #payments, #WoT, #policy, #AI and many more!

Explore the proposals: https://github.com/w3c/tpac2026-breakouts/issues

ブログを書きました。スマホアプリをFlutterで開発する案件に #アクセシビリティ スペシャリストとして参画した際に得られたノウハウを書いています。 #a11y #accessibility これは 2026年9月29日に開催されたDevelopersIO 2026 Osaka Day2 での登壇資料です。

https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/flutter-accessibility-developersio2026/

📣 W3C and Marsh are excited to announce the Dublin Developer Meetup! Held alongside TPAC 2026, the event brings together Dublin’s developer community and @w3c members for inspiring tech talks by @tink, @Yoav and @patrickbrosset.

Register now and join us on Monday 26 October in #Dublin 🇮🇪
▶️ https://www.w3.org/events/meetups/2026/dublin-developer-meetup/

Participation in the meetup is open to everyone at no cost. Space is limited!

We gratefully thank Marsh for hosting the event.

#w3cTPAC #WebPerformance #AI #a11y #WebMCP

📣 W3C and Marsh are excited to announce the Dublin Developer Meetup! Held alongside TPAC 2026, the event brings together Dublin’s developer community and @w3c members for inspiring tech talks by @tink, @Yoav and @patrickbrosset.

Register now and join us on Monday 26 October in #Dublin 🇮🇪
▶️ https://www.w3.org/events/meetups/2026/dublin-developer-meetup/

Participation in the meetup is open to everyone at no cost. Space is limited!

We gratefully thank Marsh for hosting the event.

#w3cTPAC #WebPerformance #AI #a11y #WebMCP

Announcing Accessible PDF View, an open-source Chrome extension I built that turns the PDF you're viewing into accessible HTML. Runs entirely in the browser — no server involved. On Chrome, it also generates image alt text with the browser's built-in LLM. https://accessiblepdfview.org/ #accessibility #a11y

Accessible PDF Viewを発表します。私が開発したオープンソースのChrome拡張で、サイト閲覧中にPDFを迅速にアクセシブルなHTMLに変換します。 サーバーを利用せずブラウザで処理します。 Chromeでは、ブラウザ搭載LLMで画像の代替テキストも生成します。https://accessiblepdfview.org/ja/ #accessibility #a11y

Le @w3c vient de publier une mise à jour des traductions en français des WCAG 2.1 et 2.2, après des mois de travail fournis par le comité de traduction piloté par Access42.

Pourquoi ces traductions avaient-elles besoin d’une mise à jour ? Et quels sont les principaux changements ? On vous dit tout !

https://a42.fr/maj-trads-wcag-2026

#a11y #WCAG #W3C

Le @w3c vient de publier une mise à jour des traductions en français des WCAG 2.1 et 2.2, après des mois de travail fournis par le comité de traduction piloté par Access42.

Pourquoi ces traductions avaient-elles besoin d’une mise à jour ? Et quels sont les principaux changements ? On vous dit tout !

https://a42.fr/maj-trads-wcag-2026

#a11y #WCAG #W3C

Le @w3c vient de publier une mise à jour des traductions en français des WCAG 2.1 et 2.2, après des mois de travail fournis par le comité de traduction piloté par Access42.

Pourquoi ces traductions avaient-elles besoin d’une mise à jour ? Et quels sont les principaux changements ? On vous dit tout !

https://a42.fr/maj-trads-wcag-2026

#a11y #WCAG #W3C

登壇用に、Flutterのアプリ開発が「アクセシブルにして」という指示だけで どう変化するか実験していますが、少なくとも、この指示だけでは実用的にならないどころか、ある程度、詳しく指示しても足りない箇所があり、やはり人間が実機確認すべき、という結論になっています。 #a11y #accessibility

ブログを書きました。結構な大作になってしまった... #a11y #accessibility

EUでWeb・アプリを提供する企業が知っておきたいアクセシビリティ法制 ― EAAだけではないB2C・B2B・公共調達 https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/eu-digital-accessibility-laws/

The Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group has published ARIA in HTML as an updated W3C Recommendation.

This spec's primary objective is to define requirements for use with conformance checking tools used by authors (i.e., web developers). These requirements will aid authors in their development of web content, including custom interfaces and widgets, which make use of ARIA to complement or extend the features of the host language HTML
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/updated-w3c-recommendation-aria-in-html/
#WebStandards #a11y

W3C Invites Implementations of EPUB 3.4, EPUB Reading Systems 3.4 and EPUB Accessibility 1.

EPUB® 3 defines a distribution and interchange format for digital publications and documents. EPUB Reading Systems 3.4: This specification defines the conformance requirements for EPUB 3 reading systems. EPUB Accessibility 1.2: This specification specifies content conformance requirements for verifying the accessibility of EPUB® Publications.
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/w3c-invites-implementations-of-epub-3-4-epub-reading-systems-3-4-and-epub-accessibility-1-2/
#EPUB #a11y #WebStandards

The @w3c "EPUB Accessibility 1.2 Explained" guide help publishers understand how to apply the #EPUB Accessibility 1.2 standard and #WCAG requirements to create accessible, discoverable EPUB publications. #ebooks #a11y #GroupNoteDraft

▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-a11y-explain-12/

Feedback welcome: https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/issues

W3C Invites Implementations of EPUB 3.4, EPUB Reading Systems 3.4 and EPUB Accessibility 1.

EPUB® 3 defines a distribution and interchange format for digital publications and documents. EPUB Reading Systems 3.4: This specification defines the conformance requirements for EPUB 3 reading systems. EPUB Accessibility 1.2: This specification specifies content conformance requirements for verifying the accessibility of EPUB® Publications.
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/w3c-invites-implementations-of-epub-3-4-epub-reading-systems-3-4-and-epub-accessibility-1-2/
#EPUB #a11y #WebStandards

The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published WCAG Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0 as a Group Note.

This document describes a methodology with a step-by-step process to evaluate how well digital products conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/group-note-wcag-evaluation-methodology-wcag-em-2-0/
#a11y #WebStandards

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/meta-showcases-how-ai-glasses-help-people-with-disabilities/ #a11y

The @w3c Publishing Maintenance #WorkingGroup invites implementations of three #EPUB specifications:
▶️ EPUB 3.4: https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-34/
▶️ EPUB Reading Systems 3.4: https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-rs-34/
▶️ EPUB Accessibility 1.2: https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-a11y-12/
#timetoimplement #ebook #a11y

Feedback welcome via #GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/issues/

Read more to discover the key features and benefits of EPUB 3 through a high-level overview designed for a general audience: https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-overview-34/

What does “Baseline widely available” mean to #developers?

A recent survey, run by @lolaodelola, found that 29.9% believe that it guarantees that a web feature works with assistive technologies like screen readers or voice control (it doesn't!), while 47.2% of respondents familiar with the term Baseline know it doesn't... or simply don't know whether it does.

45.3% also assume that it means support in WebViews (it may not!).

#a11y #WebView

W3C is honored to announce that the Ford Foundation has renewed their support of our work on web accessibility.

W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategies, standards, and supporting resources to help make the web accessible to people with a diverse range of cognitive, hearing, movement, sight, and speech ability, thus enabling everyone to participate equally on the web.

Read more at:
https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2026/w3c-web-accessibility-initiative-receives-renewed-ford-foundation-support/
#WebAccessibility #a11y

W3C is honored to announce that the Ford Foundation has renewed their support of our work on web accessibility.

W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategies, standards, and supporting resources to help make the web accessible to people with a diverse range of cognitive, hearing, movement, sight, and speech ability, thus enabling everyone to participate equally on the web.

Read more at:
https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2026/w3c-web-accessibility-initiative-receives-renewed-ford-foundation-support/
#WebAccessibility #a11y

Hello dear fediverse,

I would like to make a career change and am in need of your support.

I'm working as a Senior Software Engineer at the adesso SE.
My focus is on frontend ux development with the web platform, web standards and #a11y.

#GetFediHired

Hello dear fediverse,

I would like to make a career change and am in need of your support.

I'm working as a Senior Software Engineer at the adesso SE.
My focus is on frontend ux development with the web platform, web standards and #a11y.

#GetFediHired

During the WebEvolve 2026 conference in #Hangzhou 🇨🇳 in April 2026, @dontcallmeDOM (@w3c #AI strategist) outlined AI's potential impact on front-end development, #WebApps and #WebStandards. #a11y

🎬 Watch "Web Standards and AI-driven development": https://youtu.be/scWHFYeG-m8

Slides: https://www.w3.org/2026/Talks/dhm-webevolve-ai/

During the WebEvolve 2026 conference in #Hangzhou 🇨🇳 in April 2026, @dontcallmeDOM (@w3c #AI strategist) outlined AI's potential impact on front-end development, #WebApps and #WebStandards. #a11y

🎬 Watch "Web Standards and AI-driven development": https://youtu.be/scWHFYeG-m8

Slides: https://www.w3.org/2026/Talks/dhm-webevolve-ai/

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD, we encourage you to share videos that show how accessibility is essential for people with disabilities and useful for all.
#a11y

#W3C Web Accessibility Perspectives Videos illustrate the impact of accessibility on disabled people and the benefits for everyone in a variety of situations.

Each of the 10 short videos includes info on:
- the issue from users' perspectives
- what designers and developers need to do.

See: https://www.w3.org/WAI/perspective-videos/

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD, we encourage you to share videos that show how accessibility is essential for people with disabilities and useful for all.
#a11y

#W3C Web Accessibility Perspectives Videos illustrate the impact of accessibility on disabled people and the benefits for everyone in a variety of situations.

Each of the 10 short videos includes info on:
- the issue from users' perspectives
- what designers and developers need to do.

See: https://www.w3.org/WAI/perspective-videos/

👏👏 Congrats to editor Pierre Lemieux for the newly published @w3c #WebStandard "IMSC Text Profile 1.3" #timetoadopt

▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/ttml-imsc1.3/

This specification defines a modern TTML2-based text profile intended for subtitle and caption delivery apps worldwide, supporting translation, #accessibility captions, forced subtitles, #multilingual rendering, and broadcast/streaming #interoperability. IMSC covers a wide range of world #languages 🌍 and scripts, and rich styling. #webi18n #a11y

The web is designed to work for all people, whatever their device, language, location, or ability. When the web meets this goal, it is accessible to people with a diverse range of hearing, movement, sight, and cognitive ability.

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategies, standards, and resources to make the web accessible to people with disabilities.

Support W3C's work to make the web work — for everyone.
https://www.w3.org/support-us/
#GAAD #GivingTuesday #WebStandards #a11y

The web is designed to work for all people, whatever their device, language, location, or ability. When the web meets this goal, it is accessible to people with a diverse range of hearing, movement, sight, and cognitive ability.

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategies, standards, and resources to make the web accessible to people with disabilities.

Support W3C's work to make the web work — for everyone.
https://www.w3.org/support-us/
#GAAD #GivingTuesday #WebStandards #a11y

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD, we encourage you to share videos that show how accessibility is essential for people with disabilities and useful for all.
#a11y

#W3C Web Accessibility Perspectives Videos illustrate the impact of accessibility on disabled people and the benefits for everyone in a variety of situations.

Each of the 10 short videos includes info on:
- the issue from users' perspectives
- what designers and developers need to do.

See: https://www.w3.org/WAI/perspective-videos/

Respecter les normes d’accessibilité numérique est essentiel, mais ce n’est pas suffisant ! ⚠️

Une interface conforme peut rester difficile à utiliser pour des personnes handicapées car les parcours sont souvent conçus sans elles.

La solution ? Les inviter à tester vos outils lors de tests utilisateurs.

Notre panel de testeurs et testeuses en situation de handicap peut vous aider à compléter votre recherche utilisateur :

https://a42.fr/recherche-utilisateur

#a11y #Accessibilité #UX #UXresearch #Handicap

Hey, I'm Tony. Totally blind musician, podcast host, assistive technology instructor, and founder of Inclusive Pulse.
I've got 18 music releases out there, a podcast called The Tony Gebhard Show, and I built NVDA Coach — a free, open-source add-on that teaches NVDA right inside the screen reader.
I care about accessibility, disability advocacy, LGBTQ+ inclusion, sobriety, and keeping it real. I make things, I break things, and I talk about all of it.
Based in the west coast with my guide dog Norris.
Music, motivation, and positively obnoxious.
https://tonygebhard.me
#Introduction #Blind #Accessibility #A11y #AssistiveTechnology #Musician #Podcast #NVDA #NVDACoach #OpenSource #DisabilityAdvocacy #LGBTQ #Inclusion #InclusivePulse
Stay groovy.

Too late for CSUNATC, but not too late to be the envy of your co-workers.

Available in multiple colors and styles (can add more if you have a request).

• Black text: https://aardrian.threadless.com/designs/pourf-neue-helvetica-black/mens/t-shirt/classic?variation=front&color=yellow_haze
• White text: https://aardrian.threadless.com/designs/pourf-neue-helvetica-white/mens/t-shirt/classic?variation=front&color=maroon

#WCAG #overlay #accessibility #a11y

How should text-to-speech handle ruby annotations like furigana in Japanese or pinyin in Chinese so screen reader users get the intended experience?

We just published a new W3C draft note from the Internationalization Activity: Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements

This explores diverse reading strategies across writing systems and defines essential user needs.

https://www.w3.org/TR/ruby-tts-req/

#Internationalization #A11y

Astuce UX 💡

Ces racines de numéros de téléphone fictives, réservées pour le cinéma en France, peuvent être utilisées comme exemples de saisie dans vos formulaires :

01 99 00
02 61 91
03 53 01
04 65 71
05 36 49
06 39 98

Source : https://a42.fr/numeros-fictifs (article 2.5.12)

#a11y #accessibilité #formulaire #UX

🤳🏽a brief professional history of me

#a11y #HTML #ARIA #WebStandards

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/11/02/a-brief-professional-history-of-me/

We hereby challenge _all_ other messaging apps, FOSS or not, to provide a more convenient private onboarding experience than #deltachat

1. Install app
2. "Create new profile"
3. Enter nick name, tap "Agree and continue"
4. Tap "+" and "new contact" and provide/scan qr code/link

Voila! A secure private chat, familiar to those coming from Whatsapp or Telegram (without "AI", with #a11y).

Note: chat identities are private and can not be queried or discovered. Servers keep no track or metadata

Vous avez une expérience significative en accessibilité numérique ? Rejoignez le jury de certification d'Access42 ! 📣

Faire partie de notre jury, c’est :

- participer, selon vos disponibilités, à quelques sessions d’évaluation par an ;

- échanger entre pairs sur les pratiques et les métiers de l’accessibilité ;

- faire avancer le niveau de maîtrise de l'accessibilité en France.

Rejoignez-nous :
https://a42.fr/habilitation-jury

#a11y #certification #accessibilité #numérique #RGAA #emploi

W3C WAI invites you to comment on the updated W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 Working Draft. This in-progress draft has more guidelines, requirements, and assertions ready for review. There are some sections that are not yet updated.

For background, timeline, and up-to-date information, see WCAG 3 Introduction: https://www.w3.org/WAI/wcag3

For review questions and how to comment, see the section 'About this draft'.

WCAG 3 Working Draft: https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag-3.0/

#wcag3 #accessibility #a11y

/me sighs in what problem was `word-break: break-all` trying to solve here.

This is maintained by @wai but I see no GitHub link and ugh I don’t want to go file a PR so someone please just share my post with them:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/02/techniques-to-break-words.html

#a11y #accessibility

Reintroducing a thing I tried during Corona lockdowns.

Lea's Open Office Hour. Need someone to talk to? Distraction from shit on social media? Talk about #webdev or #a11y, or creative coding? Or a rubber duck while debugging something? You can book a meeting with me.

https://calendly.com/learosema

Hello ! 👋

Je cherche à améliorer mes connaissances en accessibilité web ! Je vois que ça ne manque pas de ressources en ligne et de livres mais difficile de s'y retrouver...

Je crois qu'il y a pas mal de fédinautes compétent·e·s en la matière dans le coin, je suis preneur de vos lumières 🙏 !

Ne pas hésiter à booster, j'ai pas l'impression que je suis le seul dans cette situation 😅 🙇

#a11y #AccessibiliteWeb #rgaa

of course, these musings are nothing new. if you've followed me, you probably know of my little "these aren't the SCs you're looking for..." talk. i'm actually really happy about the last iteration of this presentation at last year's #a11yTO conference...which is why it really shits me that that conf decided NOT to release the video recordings of the talks publicly, and seem to have no intention to in future... but at least my slides are here https://patrickhlauke.github.io/wcag-interpretation/ #a11y #wcag #accessibility

and of course, one of the main parts of my job (and often also spare time) is to try and unfuck some of the clearly wrong, vague, handwavy, incongruous, outdated mumblings of some #WCAG success criteria. so I'm probably "part of the problem" here. i often wish WCAG was just a set of suggestions/aims, rather than the kudgel it turned into to force some sort of compliance. but hey ho ... #accessibility #a11y

not going to lie, one of the worst side effects of #WCAG has been the obsession with reading the tea leaves of what a particular SC means (many of these written almost 20 years ago), which SC to fail things under, and generally an obsession (from industry/product owners) to satisfy WCAG ... rather than focusing on actual #accessibility (which often goes beyond WCAG, or involves things that simply fall between SCs, or are just "best practice" rather than hard fails). but it is what it is... #a11y

Talking accessibility with a stakeholder.

#a11y

Petit rappel qu'à la question "avez-vous un handicap", il y a seulement deux réponses possibles :

- Oui
- Pas encore

Les questions d'accessibilité nous concernent toutes et tous. Pensez à donner une alternative textuelle (alt text) à vos images. 🥰

#accessibilité #accessibility #a11y

📣Find out what other W3C Groups or areas are up to:

• @w3cdevs developers relations
• @w3cx training
• @wai Web Accessibility Initiative #a11y
• @webi18n Internationalization of the Web #i18n
• @wot Web of Things #wot
• @tag Technical Architecture of the Web
• @ab W3C Advisory Board
#FediFollows

#Introduction

I'm a senior web professional sharing knowledge about #WebQuality mostly #WebPerf and #a11y.

I use #boostmarks to tag resources that are also available in this RSS feed: https://bookmarks.boris.schapira.dev/feed/rss?do=rss&searchtags=boostmarks

To talk about politics, my children or home-made pizzas, mostly in French, I'm @borisschapira.

Oh, I guess I need to redo my #introduction for this new space.

As the instance name suggests, I'm from #Walthamstow, #London #E17

Work interests: #contentdesign #accessibility #a11y

I enjoy #retrogames (more interested in talking about them than playing tbh)

My nerd claim to fame is giving Steve Ballmer his monkey boy nickname

I am a #TottenhamHotspur season ticket holder, so I am pretty much immune to pain and disappointment. #coys #spurs

My old account was here: https://mastodon.cc/@matsimpsk

#Introduction #IntroductionFr

Citoyen intéressé par la politique (option tamagauchiste), sensible aux questions d'égalité, de parentalité, de féminisme (intersectionnel).

J'aime le web, Légifrance, la Dordogne et les pizzas, et ne booste que les publications dont les images ont une alternative textuelle #NoAltNoBoost.

***

Pour discuter de qualité Web (majoritairement #WebPerf and #a11y), principalement en anglais, vous pouvez me retrouver sur @boostmarks