My latest blog for the European Next Generation Internet Project. The Web is essential to modern life for work, learning, shopping, banking, healthcare, & staying connected. However, for millions, digital spaces are obstacles instead of opportunities. #axschat spaces.fundingbox.com/spaces/ngi-c...

This was a great conversation, we are big fans of accessible gaming at #AXSChat

Gain new skills and use EU law to advance disability rights! Join the LITI-GATE Mentoring Programme to explore legal strategies on Personal Assistance with experts. ✅ Free & interactive 2 online sessions 🔗 Register now: enil.eu/call-for-par... #DisabilityRights #PersonalAssistance #EUlaw

We are kicking off the Cloudfest Hackathon 2025 with Accessible Infographics! 👍 Follow us and help make the web more accessible! alt: Anne-Mieke Bovelet and Nina Jameson on the stage pitching to the developers #CFHack #CloudFest #Visua11y #a11y

Learn about our #CFHack2025 #Visua11y project: a11y.im/video #CloudFest

👀 Our Jury members who will be monitoring social media: Carole Olinger, CloudFest Lucas Radke, Automattic Laura Kyongo, Groundbreaker Talents Olivier D. TYPO3, Association Vytautas Dilba, Omnisend Darius Sveikauskas, Patchstack Marvin A, Hetzner Alain Schlesser, Yoast Thierry Muller, Google

You! yes YOU! If you want to support us win this Hackathon with the extra of showing off to the world out there how important it is to invest in open source and accessibility, please do show your love and share our hashtags: #CFHack #CloudFest #Visua11y #CFHack2025

Blog - Accessibility: how do we make sure our information meets patient-safety standards? www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #HealthInformationWeek #patientsafety

A3. Volunteering key but it is also a privilege. Goes & Companies should invest in volunteering hours for their employees-both for internal/external work. No one can expect colleagues/PwD to do extra unpaid work: #disabilityTax. Also: expertise must be paid, specially lived experience #AXSChat

A2. By inviting people with lived experience and accessibility expertise to participate. Think-tanks should be inclusive, welcoming & safe places for trans disciplinary innovation. There is no innovation without #a11y. Good innovators welcome new challenges #ARCInnovators feels like home. #AXSChat

A1. By working in a team with lived experience & safe space. By providing time/budget to learn with an experienced buddies & fostering community that shares resources & has good tools. Bringing in experts (and experts in life) from different areas in disability inclusion & accessibility. #AXSChat

Very informative post on alt text. Written with lots of love: thanks @annabookwriter.bsky.social 🤟 #a11y #altText

There’s even a hashtag (hashtag alt4me) and a kind volunteer will add alt text. Just blurting your posts out into the world without giving that context of intending to include people gives the impression you can’t be bothered. And that’s not terribly inclusive. Just ask. There’s no shame in it.

It always amazes me just how much money people are prepared to spend to avoid doing the right thing.

Looking forward to this at 1pm ET today.

Wow, yes this can be huge for other digital industries' efforts on accessibility 😍 Thanks for sharing @chrisbush.bsky.social ! #axschat

Just been relooking at this. One of the first tools to be released is Fonttik github.com/electronicar... A tool for reviewing accessibility of type and fonts with in games. I can already see the potential for these patents stretching beyond gaming & affecting the development of digital services.

This is cool. Representation matters :)

A6 I do very much believe in involving students in projects I'm a big fan of this idea from #TEDxOttawa - Jim Davies - Don't Waste Student Work www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Gd... Why don't we get students involved in fixing #OpenSource projects as part of their school work? #AXSChat

In an evolving digital workplace, trends shaping the #FutureOfWork can be aligned with #accessibility & inclusion. A maturity assessment can help a company leverage its #DigitalTransformation to live up to its commitments to employees & customers with disabilities. More here... spr.ly/6044tNAdO

If you use your voice to navigate websites, the #W3C Accessibility Conformance Testing Rules Community Group and Task Force want your help to test 27 controls: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... It'll help them understand which patterns work (and which don't) for #WCAG 2.5.3 Label in Name

For those who can speak German or use a translation tools: German speaking Starter Pack fur accessibility and disability inclusion : go.bsky.app/Huk8USe #AXSChat #Barrierefreiheit #Inklusion #Behinderung #inclusion #disability

Hi, hier gibt es ein Starterpaket mit unterschiedlichen Accounts zum Thema Inklusion und Behinderung: go.bsky.app/Huk8USe (habe euch natürlich auch schon hinzugefügt) :-)

Meeting the needs of all students with accessibility tools for the classroom Blog www.microsoft.com/en-us/educat... #edusky #dyslexia

Hey @il.ly please add: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Good maturity models can lead to accelerated accessibility journeys! #A11y #Accessibility #DigitalInclusion @neilmilliken.bsky.social @scotiatec.bsky.social @batish.bsky.social @akwyz.com youtube.com/watch?v=d1Lo...

So happy to attend my first #CloudFest #Hackathon. Can't wait to work with Anne-Mieke bovelett.bsky.social 💙! Thx for inviting me to collaborate on your #accessibility #A11y project! Thx a lot to Carole Olinger 💜 as well! In Europa-Park 🎢 #CFHack2024 #CFHack hackathon.cloudfest.com/project/can-...

#DevHelp needed: Which UI Development FW do you use most? Context: hackathon.cloudfest.com/project/can-... Bootstrap/Tailwind/Foundation/other? Please Reply! #CFHack #CFHack2024 #canEveryoneUse #FrontEnd #dev #developer #a11y #WCAG #accessibleWeb #react #Bootstrap #tailwind #framework #foundation

Aber gerne doch. Dafür sind wir hier. Wir wollen erklären, wir wollen aufzeigen wie das ist mit dem blind Leben. Und wir wollen eure Fragen beantworten. Unter dem SuchBegriff BiBeschBSP findet man gute Bildbeschreibungsbeispiele.

Neue Studie des IW Köln zum Thema #Arbeiten mit #LongCovid! Der Fokus liegt auf der #Wiedereingliederung von Long-COVID-Betroffenen nach Arbeitsunfähigkeit sowie auf Möglichkeiten der #Arbeitsgestaltung: ▶️ www.iwkoeln.de/studien/mare...

Doppelte Expertenpower für digitale Barrierefreiheit beim nächsten Online-Seminar A11y Profis Live am 30. November 2023 um 15:00 Uhr. Wir freuen uns auf Annett Farnetani und Stefan Farnetani von der Digitalagentur mindscreen GmbH. iaap-dach.org/veranstaltun...

Embed inclusion in corporate culture, develop robust policies, and cultivate diverse leadership to sustain efforts. #AXSChat #Accessibility

Saving this Custom Chat GPT apps for Educators by @aliciabankhofer.bsky.social for a rainy day #AI

Cool stuff for non verbal folks, and people with speech impairments: thoughts to speech translation… I guess ADHD verbal folks don’t need this tech #NoFilters 😂😂 I’m curious how this would work for Deaf signers. #brainComputerInterface #a11y #AT #assistiveTech www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news...

Wir können zwar hier noch nicht barrierefrei mit mischen. Aber: wir sind hier, wir sind da. Für euch, für Inklusion, für Teilhabe, für Barrierefreiheit. Der Himmel ist nicht barrierefrei. Noch nicht. ABER Gemeinsam sind wir stark!

M-Enabling @G3ict international cooperation panel links: e-Accessibility Policy Toolkit: g3ict.org/what-we-do/i... dare-index: g3ict.org/digital-acce... country index: g3ict.org/country-prof... Procurement: buyict4all.org smart-city: smartcities4all.org @IAAPOrg @IAAPEU @IAAPDACH #MEnabling23

Really engaging opening keynote speech from @jennylayfluffy at #MEnabling23 - 1.7million people have taken the #accessibility training created by Microsoft and all of Microsoft staff have to take #a11y training. Mandatory training changed the culture at @Microsoft #MEnabling

I’m attending #MEnabling23 in Washington this week, if you are around come and say hi! #IAAP #Accessibility #Access #A11y #g3ict #Barrierefreiheit #accessibilidad

In 2012, I fell ill. Abrupt dizziness. It took a while to realise it had been triggered by OS X. iOS 7 was worse. Ten years ago today, my piece ‘Why iOS 7 is making some users sick’ was in The Guardian, kicking off a fight for better vestibular accessibility. reverttosaved.com/2023/09/27/a...

Bluesky peeps: please go to Settings > Accessibility set the "Require alt text on images" switch to on. For screen reader users this comes as a button. This reminds you, to put alt text to your images before posting and you help make this place more usable for blind people! #a11y #accessibilty

Happy to share the launch of the new Draft Web Sustainability Guidelines from the W3C SustyWeb Community Group. This is a big step forward to allow teams to build websites which have a lower impact on our planet. www.w3.org/community/su... #SustyWeb #WebSustainability #GreenWeb

“To change the students mindset accessibility needs to be part of the teaching & the curriculum. Not an elective subject. Every IT student and students of other disciplines must learn about accessibility and assistive tech before leaving university“ @kmiesenberger at #AccessibleEU in Paris today

„Die Welt geht auf- wenn man weißt wie Barrierefreiheit gemacht wird, geht es in deinem Bereich oder anderen ganz weit“ @Anne_Bovelett bei #froscon23 redet über Barrierefreiheit ud WordPress

Or even the AXSChat feed 🙃

TIL about Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu, a disability doula.

Welcome @christinapap.bsky.social ! @neilmilliken.bsky.social @akwyz.bsky.social and @alexandranothn.bsky.social are also around! You can check out this Accessibility feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dwrnnpkk5ziskl5czpfkik64/feed/blusky-a11y-fee

Saving this for a rainy day… https://dev.to/westbrook/testing-accessibility-with-shadow-roots-55cm

Inclusive Leadership is about fostering an environment where all individuals feel valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. It promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion, driving innovation and better decision-making. #FutureOfWork #axschat