Eric Eggert

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Accessibility Advocado

http://yatil.net

Outline Consulting · Axess Lab
formerly: Knowbility, W3C/WAI

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#accessibility #a11y #humanrights #germany #ebiking #webdev #design #typography #fedi22

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2024-11-10 14:33:52

Just a quick blog post, I said. *sigh*
Here are too many words about focusable elements:
https://yatil.net/blog/focusable-ui-elements

2024-10-31 10:43:04

Apart from creating custom UI elements, you shouldn’t need to use the role attribute at all.
Edit: Oh, and live regions. role="alert" and role="status" are often a better choice than using aria-live.

2024-10-31 07:28:08

ARIA is great. /s
If aria-current had an HTML equivalent, this person probably wouldn’t have found aria-activedescendent and used it wrongly. It’s one of the main reason I want stuff that works well to get HTML equivalents. This should be a no-brainer.
https://github.com/swiegmann/kirby-menu/issues/1

2024-10-16 06:13:47

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@npub1zyl…t54n Navigation Menus in APG should have a big “do not use” text on it, but subtle “caution” hints are good enough because everyone reads everything on a page. Always. 😢

2024-10-05 06:25:41

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@npub1lvx…4zqw Wenn der Zug leer ist finde ich das unproblematisch solange der Platz frei gemacht wird, wenn er benötigt wird.

2024-09-23 08:28:36

Found out that my prepaid phone plan is now crediting unused data from the previous month. I pay 100€ per _year_ for it, it has 8GB of data inclusive. Because I’m a client for so long, I get an additional 7GB of data for free every month that I need to activate in the app and that is used first. I never use the 7GB of data, meaning I pay less than 10€ for 23GB of potential data use every month.
It’s so cheap! (For Germany.)
https://www.telekom.de/mobilfunk/tarife/prepaid-jahrestarif

2024-09-07 14:43:16

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@npub1zyl…t54n Phew. That’s why I disallow autoplaying videos in my browser. They should really know better. 😬

2024-09-05 21:58:08

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@npub1zyl…t54n It’s really bizarre that some of these issues are with us for so long. 😟

2024-08-30 11:42:36

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@npub1zyl…t54n <ruby> <ruby> <ruby> <br> <a> <a> <a> <a> <a><a><a>

2024-08-29 05:30:03

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@npub1zyl…t54n So cringe, as the kids say!

2024-08-16 11:55:10

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@npub16u7…uend That Merchants of Record are needed is really a failure on EU legislation. This should all be easy and handled by the financial institutions of the countries, instead of by individual merchants.

2024-08-16 05:07:55

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@npub1c35…9pmh The fun of using multiple devices 😃
(Uncheck “share across devices” in settings should “fix” this.)

2024-08-15 14:55:28

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@npub1zyl…t54n I try to be brief. But to be honest I still probably wouldn’t have the patience to read through most of my articles 🤣

2024-08-15 10:58:42

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@npub16u7…uend I mean, the unprocessed photo also loses about 90% of the leafs at the top due to no HDR available and the bright light shining over it.

2024-08-12 10:05:32

Let’s not remove 3rd party cookies, but let’s remove features for people who speak multiple languages. – Chrome https://mastodon.social/@simevidas/112944567814615155

2024-08-10 06:53:19

Together with many, many other Germans and Greenpeace, I sue the Republic of Germany for better ecological policies and holding it accountable to the Paris climate agreement.
I’m a Zukunftskläger, a “plaintiff for the future”.
You can be one, too. It’s free. https://zukunftsklage.greenpeace.de/
#zukunftsklage
https://cdn.masto.host/yatilsocial/media_attachments/files/112/936/405/981/966/423/original/030c7379cc420152.jpeg

2024-08-06 21:42:53

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@npub1zyl…t54n It’s glorious! I should extend mine and blog about it.

2024-08-04 20:22:57

COVID is over unless you’re old or have preexisting conditions, or apparently if you’re a highly trained and fit Olympic athlete.
😒
#COVIDisNotOver

2024-08-01 18:44:39

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@npub1ugk…t43u Drücke die Daumen, dass es einigermaßen Reibungslos klappt, Anna!

2024-08-01 18:44:39

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@npub1ugk…t43u Drücke die Daumen, dass es einigermaßen Reibungslos klappt, Anna!

2024-08-01 14:55:46

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@npub1zyl…t54n *sigh* Plus also the people who say “I’m not supposed to put everything in # general, so I put it in # specific but immediately share it to # general”.
🤷‍♂️

2024-07-30 18:31:18

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@npub1zyl…t54n *register*

2024-07-29 08:59:47

Environment conversations:
“I did <this> to improve my environmental impact! Really happy about the progress.”
“But why don’t you live in a cave without running water and electricity?”

2024-07-25 12:02:23

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@npub1zyl…t54n Sometimes I have the impression that people are paid per fail. That’s not the metric we should go for. 😞

2024-07-08 18:04:31

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@npub1zyl…t54n LOL Did they just hand over all their user data to a third party? Possibly without asking? Feels… unfortunate.

2024-07-04 10:45:06

Why I hate hidden accessible names, exhibit 398:
aria-label="[object Object]"
#ariaSerious

2024-07-03 13:33:17

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@npub1xed…yg9w should really be space-unary-oops

2024-06-28 18:05:00

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@npub1zyl…t54n Yeah. There are probably also volume licenses. And then there is the revers psychology of companies where things are perceived more trustworthy when they are more expensive.

2024-06-28 17:56:31

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@npub1zyl…t54n Ooof, those prices. (Not criticizing, economics are what they are. But I wonder how much impact it could have when the ebook was just £10.)

2024-06-27 13:54:56

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@npub1zyl…t54n I think the company motto is “An AudioEye for an AudioEye.”

2024-06-27 13:42:17

„Veganer indoktrinieren die Kinder!!!“
Willkommen zum Malwettbewerb „Die Milchkuh der Zukunft“ für vierte Klassen.
https://www.ak-kurier.de/akkurier/www/artikel/144258-schueler-der-franziskus-grundschule-in-wissen-gewinnt-malwettbewerb--die-milchkuh-der-zukunft-
#vegan

2024-06-27 05:45:19

AudioEye people seem great and ethical to me. /s
Lawsuit Accuses NASDAQ-listed AudioEye CEO and its Executive Chairman of Stock Manipulation
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lawsuit-accuses-nasdaq-listed-audioeye-ceo-and-its-executive-chairman-of-stock-manipulation-302182921.html

2024-06-26 13:52:50

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@npub1zyl…t54n Thanks for linking to my wee article. 🤩

2024-06-23 17:44:06

I blogged a massive blog post this weekend. Can I have another weekend? This one even has demos and explanations of half (!!!) of Success Criterion 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast.
Thanks to my supporters who make these blog posts possible.
Block a few hours 😜 and read this: https://yatil.net/blog/non-text-contrast-in-detail-ui-components

2024-06-10 18:32:34

These generative “AI” images are all so bad. 😔

2024-06-06 17:56:05

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@npub16u7…uend Next step is going to “K”.

2024-05-29 13:03:07

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@npub1zyl…t54n If the date on the page wasn’t cited as March 2020, I would assumed so, too. (I am not cynical enough to think that “they” would fudge dates on AI generated content.)

2024-05-29 07:24:20

Filed a bug on a pretty inacurate web·dev article today. I appreciate the drive to explain WCAG rules, but you need to be accurate. Text MUST have a 4.5:1 contrast ratio (unless >24px or bold and > 18.6px, then it MUST be 3:1). Don’t weasel word a “should” in there.
https://issuetracker.google.com/u/1/issues/343229137

2024-05-17 07:25:05

Will we honestly talk about the fakery in the “Be My Eyes Accessibility with GPT-4o“ video? Like the taxi that uses the signal way before the passenger signal and actually basically passed the signalling passenger before the signal and still coming to a stop? Or that we don’t see any real processing time? Or that the voice is clear despite standing in London with speakers on? (1/3)

2023-12-20 20:56:07

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@npub1zyl…t54n Can I pay you to be more of an asshole? (Then it’s not just me who is an asshole, which can only be good for me 😂)

2023-12-20 20:54:29

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@npub1zyl…t54n Where’s your Patreon?

2023-09-23 17:28:09

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@npub1zyl…t54n Apparently they are also not interested that people who don’t want to be tracked fill out the survey. I have the Vercel tracker blocked and everything I see is a spinning loading animation.
*sigh*

2023-08-30 19:01:07

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@npub1zyl…t54n Sending supporting thoughts, and as always: Don’t hesitate to reach out if you need to talk or other support.

2023-08-17 16:19:45

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@npub1zyl…t54n There are numbers (which devs use) and marketing names. You know, like Android! (Tiramisu!)
(OK, looks like Android is not using the marketing names for a handful of years now. But of course everyone’s entitled to their pet-peeves 😂)

2023-08-17 13:27:59

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@npub10qr…44mn Sad that this does not include the @npub1ah7…ww9a Accessibility Tutorials, which we put a lot of time into. I figure they are not flashy and also a little outdated around the edges, but I still find it sad… :-(
https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/

2023-08-13 21:47:46

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@npub1zyl…t54n Safari 16 is available for macOS 11, 12, and 13; I think three OS versions has been pretty standard for the last 10 years or so. I think it’s pretty safe to assume that Safari 17 will be available for macOS 12, 13, and 14.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_version_history

2023-08-10 20:10:58

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@npub1zyl…t54n This felt super hard to do during my time at W3C. I wanted to do it, and our WG was fairly diverse, but I never had the feeling that we did it deliberately. We did diversify the names in “How People with Disabilities Use the Web”, but in hindsight it really bugs me that nobody is using “they” pronouns and that culture does not play a bigger role.
Ah well. Hopefully next time!
https://www.w3.org/WAI/people-use-web/user-stories/

2023-08-10 10:19:43

Filing bugs and proposing fixes for a project I have not worked with in three years because… well… that stuff should just work.
(And yes, I know that having a JavaScript based search is not the best in the first place, but there were constraints, OK!)
https://github.com/w3c/wai-website/issues/357
#a11y #accessibility