Mark Steadman
@steady5063.bsky.social
Squad Leader, Accessibility Squad
at Fidelity Investments
Accessibility automation, Mobile iOS/Android A11y
Check out my articles: http://dev.to/steady5063
at Fidelity Investments
Accessibility automation, Mobile iOS/Android A11y
Check out my articles: http://dev.to/steady5063
Never did I ever think I would see the northern lights in central Illinois. Unreal
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Never did I ever think I would see the northern lights in central Illinois. Unreal
On vacation in Northern Wisconsin. Might not come back with these temps!
August 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
On vacation in Northern Wisconsin. Might not come back with these temps!
Its pretty amazing the trend of testing frameworks for web flipping over the last 5 years. In years past, WDIO, selenium and Puppeteer were tops. Now Cypress, Playwright are far and away the leaders. The dope part is Cypress and Playwright both have #Accessibility testing features :)
July 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Its pretty amazing the trend of testing frameworks for web flipping over the last 5 years. In years past, WDIO, selenium and Puppeteer were tops. Now Cypress, Playwright are far and away the leaders. The dope part is Cypress and Playwright both have #Accessibility testing features :)
Super pumped to be doing this talk at WebAIM's, 'Web Accessibility in Mind' Conference. It's virtual and free on September 16th and 17th!
If you wanna see what happens when you don't care about semantic HTML and just use ARIA, then check this talk out!
#Accessibility #A11y
If you wanna see what happens when you don't care about semantic HTML and just use ARIA, then check this talk out!
#Accessibility #A11y
July 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Super pumped to be doing this talk at WebAIM's, 'Web Accessibility in Mind' Conference. It's virtual and free on September 16th and 17th!
If you wanna see what happens when you don't care about semantic HTML and just use ARIA, then check this talk out!
#Accessibility #A11y
If you wanna see what happens when you don't care about semantic HTML and just use ARIA, then check this talk out!
#Accessibility #A11y
For the longest time, I have been using other sites to write my articles and blogs. No more! I am taking control of my content I create and making my own site!! Mobile, #Accessibility automation, code samples and more!
SteadyAccessibility.com is coming soon!
SteadyAccessibility.com is coming soon!
July 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
For the longest time, I have been using other sites to write my articles and blogs. No more! I am taking control of my content I create and making my own site!! Mobile, #Accessibility automation, code samples and more!
SteadyAccessibility.com is coming soon!
SteadyAccessibility.com is coming soon!
This burrowing owl is screaming for you to make your digital content accessible! (Yes #Accessibility doesn’t stop on vacation 😀)
June 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This burrowing owl is screaming for you to make your digital content accessible! (Yes #Accessibility doesn’t stop on vacation 😀)
Super excited to have gotten the opportunity to speak on GAAD and at AccessU as part of an #Accessibility panel. Thank you @scopicengineer.bsky.social for allowing to me to get this opportunity. You are awesome!
May 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Super excited to have gotten the opportunity to speak on GAAD and at AccessU as part of an #Accessibility panel. Thank you @scopicengineer.bsky.social for allowing to me to get this opportunity. You are awesome!
Only 9 hours worth of delays but I am here in Austin! #AccessU2025 starts tomorrow!
May 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Only 9 hours worth of delays but I am here in Austin! #AccessU2025 starts tomorrow!
May the 4th be with you! The great holiday of the year! #StarWars
Sharing my favorite image. Of boba fett bounty hunting for #Accessibility issues
Sharing my favorite image. Of boba fett bounty hunting for #Accessibility issues
May 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
May the 4th be with you! The great holiday of the year! #StarWars
Sharing my favorite image. Of boba fett bounty hunting for #Accessibility issues
Sharing my favorite image. Of boba fett bounty hunting for #Accessibility issues
#Acessibility conference season begins today with axe con! Got my coffee and my note app taker ready to roll!!! I love learning from all you dope #A11y folks, gunna be a fun week at #Axecon!!
February 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#Acessibility conference season begins today with axe con! Got my coffee and my note app taker ready to roll!!! I love learning from all you dope #A11y folks, gunna be a fun week at #Axecon!!
Was watching basketball today on Hulu and gunna go with the auto captions weren’t working. #Accessibility fail!
February 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Was watching basketball today on Hulu and gunna go with the auto captions weren’t working. #Accessibility fail!
Was messing around with generating some quick images using AI, accidentally misspelled the word "draft" and instead put "daft" when making an #Accessibility based image. Well, I have to say this may be my greatest thing accidentally made. Daft Punk and #A11y
February 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Was messing around with generating some quick images using AI, accidentally misspelled the word "draft" and instead put "daft" when making an #Accessibility based image. Well, I have to say this may be my greatest thing accidentally made. Daft Punk and #A11y
Got a bunch of Star Wars coasters while at galaxies edge. So naturally I use them at my desk now :)
January 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Got a bunch of Star Wars coasters while at galaxies edge. So naturally I use them at my desk now :)
Love that both “Star Wars: Outlaws” and “Indiana jones and the great circle” start the games with #Accessibility features and settings before you even play the games!
January 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Love that both “Star Wars: Outlaws” and “Indiana jones and the great circle” start the games with #Accessibility features and settings before you even play the games!
Looking back on my #Accessibility journey for 2024, I am very grateful for the opportunities I have received and very much thankful to all of you who continue to listen to me nerd out on #A11y. I got to speak at AccessU, M-Enabling, and Wordpress A11y day! Here’s to 2025!
January 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Looking back on my #Accessibility journey for 2024, I am very grateful for the opportunities I have received and very much thankful to all of you who continue to listen to me nerd out on #A11y. I got to speak at AccessU, M-Enabling, and Wordpress A11y day! Here’s to 2025!
Day 24 of the #MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Today I want to take a chance to shoutout some awesome talks!
Building Accessible Android Apps w/ Jetpack Compose by Devanshu Chandra
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm8...
Intro to Mobile App A11y By @ryomtoob.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQH0...
Today I want to take a chance to shoutout some awesome talks!
Building Accessible Android Apps w/ Jetpack Compose by Devanshu Chandra
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm8...
Intro to Mobile App A11y By @ryomtoob.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQH0...
December 24, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Day 24 of the #MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Today I want to take a chance to shoutout some awesome talks!
Building Accessible Android Apps w/ Jetpack Compose by Devanshu Chandra
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm8...
Intro to Mobile App A11y By @ryomtoob.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQH0...
Today I want to take a chance to shoutout some awesome talks!
Building Accessible Android Apps w/ Jetpack Compose by Devanshu Chandra
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm8...
Intro to Mobile App A11y By @ryomtoob.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQH0...
Day 23 of the #MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Want to continue to learn more and more about mobile accessibility every month? Subscribe to the monthly newsletter Accessible Mobile Apps LLC! (by Robin Kanatzar). One of the best!
accessible-mobile-apps-weekly.ghost.io/accessible-m...
Want to continue to learn more and more about mobile accessibility every month? Subscribe to the monthly newsletter Accessible Mobile Apps LLC! (by Robin Kanatzar). One of the best!
accessible-mobile-apps-weekly.ghost.io/accessible-m...
December 24, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Day 23 of the #MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Want to continue to learn more and more about mobile accessibility every month? Subscribe to the monthly newsletter Accessible Mobile Apps LLC! (by Robin Kanatzar). One of the best!
accessible-mobile-apps-weekly.ghost.io/accessible-m...
Want to continue to learn more and more about mobile accessibility every month? Subscribe to the monthly newsletter Accessible Mobile Apps LLC! (by Robin Kanatzar). One of the best!
accessible-mobile-apps-weekly.ghost.io/accessible-m...
Day 22 of the #MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Allowing for users to adjust their text size can help a variety of users be able to interact with your apps in ways they may not have been able to in the past. There are still MANY applications that do not resize AT ALL, causing frustrations for users
Allowing for users to adjust their text size can help a variety of users be able to interact with your apps in ways they may not have been able to in the past. There are still MANY applications that do not resize AT ALL, causing frustrations for users
December 24, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Day 22 of the #MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Allowing for users to adjust their text size can help a variety of users be able to interact with your apps in ways they may not have been able to in the past. There are still MANY applications that do not resize AT ALL, causing frustrations for users
Allowing for users to adjust their text size can help a variety of users be able to interact with your apps in ways they may not have been able to in the past. There are still MANY applications that do not resize AT ALL, causing frustrations for users
Day 21 of
#MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Have you ever used an app, tried to tap a button on the screen and it won't work?
iOS and Android each have their own touch target sizes for action items that must be met to ensure proper size.
iOS Dimensions: 44 X 44pt
Android Dimensions: 48 X 48dp
#MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Have you ever used an app, tried to tap a button on the screen and it won't work?
iOS and Android each have their own touch target sizes for action items that must be met to ensure proper size.
iOS Dimensions: 44 X 44pt
Android Dimensions: 48 X 48dp
December 24, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Day 21 of
#MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Have you ever used an app, tried to tap a button on the screen and it won't work?
iOS and Android each have their own touch target sizes for action items that must be met to ensure proper size.
iOS Dimensions: 44 X 44pt
Android Dimensions: 48 X 48dp
#MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Have you ever used an app, tried to tap a button on the screen and it won't work?
iOS and Android each have their own touch target sizes for action items that must be met to ensure proper size.
iOS Dimensions: 44 X 44pt
Android Dimensions: 48 X 48dp
Day 20 of
#MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Orientation matters!
A lot of mobile apps currently only work in portrait, but need to work in both portrait and landscape. Landscape allows ALL types of users to interact the way they want. Some users mount their device and others like large screens
#MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Orientation matters!
A lot of mobile apps currently only work in portrait, but need to work in both portrait and landscape. Landscape allows ALL types of users to interact the way they want. Some users mount their device and others like large screens
December 24, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Day 20 of
#MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Orientation matters!
A lot of mobile apps currently only work in portrait, but need to work in both portrait and landscape. Landscape allows ALL types of users to interact the way they want. Some users mount their device and others like large screens
#MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Orientation matters!
A lot of mobile apps currently only work in portrait, but need to work in both portrait and landscape. Landscape allows ALL types of users to interact the way they want. Some users mount their device and others like large screens
Day 19 of #MobileA11yAdventCalendar
iOS #A11y inspector fun facts!
1) You can inspect ANY app for accessibility issues.
2) Ability to see all the information in the #A11y tree (Traits, Labels, Hints)
3) Nav inspector can show how VO users nav your app
4) 7 automated checks through “run audit”
iOS #A11y inspector fun facts!
1) You can inspect ANY app for accessibility issues.
2) Ability to see all the information in the #A11y tree (Traits, Labels, Hints)
3) Nav inspector can show how VO users nav your app
4) 7 automated checks through “run audit”
December 20, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Day 19 of #MobileA11yAdventCalendar
iOS #A11y inspector fun facts!
1) You can inspect ANY app for accessibility issues.
2) Ability to see all the information in the #A11y tree (Traits, Labels, Hints)
3) Nav inspector can show how VO users nav your app
4) 7 automated checks through “run audit”
iOS #A11y inspector fun facts!
1) You can inspect ANY app for accessibility issues.
2) Ability to see all the information in the #A11y tree (Traits, Labels, Hints)
3) Nav inspector can show how VO users nav your app
4) 7 automated checks through “run audit”
Day 18 of the #mobileA11yAdventCalendar
Lets talk about tables!
One misconception in mobile apps is tables announce the EXACT same way as they do in web.
In mobile, there is NOT a semantic tables like web. #A11y labels must include the row and column header text, along with the data text.
Lets talk about tables!
One misconception in mobile apps is tables announce the EXACT same way as they do in web.
In mobile, there is NOT a semantic tables like web. #A11y labels must include the row and column header text, along with the data text.
December 20, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Day 18 of the #mobileA11yAdventCalendar
Lets talk about tables!
One misconception in mobile apps is tables announce the EXACT same way as they do in web.
In mobile, there is NOT a semantic tables like web. #A11y labels must include the row and column header text, along with the data text.
Lets talk about tables!
One misconception in mobile apps is tables announce the EXACT same way as they do in web.
In mobile, there is NOT a semantic tables like web. #A11y labels must include the row and column header text, along with the data text.
Do you think I’m holiday festive enough for my team holiday party? :)
December 18, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Do you think I’m holiday festive enough for my team holiday party? :)
Day 17 of #MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Let's talk #Android assistive technology!
In the previous post, we talked about only testing with screen readers, in this case TalkBack. The truth is there is a load of different AT that users use that you should be testing on Android, lets jam on them!
Let's talk #Android assistive technology!
In the previous post, we talked about only testing with screen readers, in this case TalkBack. The truth is there is a load of different AT that users use that you should be testing on Android, lets jam on them!
December 18, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Day 17 of #MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Let's talk #Android assistive technology!
In the previous post, we talked about only testing with screen readers, in this case TalkBack. The truth is there is a load of different AT that users use that you should be testing on Android, lets jam on them!
Let's talk #Android assistive technology!
In the previous post, we talked about only testing with screen readers, in this case TalkBack. The truth is there is a load of different AT that users use that you should be testing on Android, lets jam on them!
Day 16 of #MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Let's talk assistive technology!
A mindset we tend to get into with mobile app #Accessibility is testing only with screen readers. In theory, it SHOULD catch most issues in your app, however you need to test with multiple AT's. Let's start with iOS!
Let's talk assistive technology!
A mindset we tend to get into with mobile app #Accessibility is testing only with screen readers. In theory, it SHOULD catch most issues in your app, however you need to test with multiple AT's. Let's start with iOS!
December 18, 2024 at 3:01 AM
Day 16 of #MobileA11yAdventCalendar
Let's talk assistive technology!
A mindset we tend to get into with mobile app #Accessibility is testing only with screen readers. In theory, it SHOULD catch most issues in your app, however you need to test with multiple AT's. Let's start with iOS!
Let's talk assistive technology!
A mindset we tend to get into with mobile app #Accessibility is testing only with screen readers. In theory, it SHOULD catch most issues in your app, however you need to test with multiple AT's. Let's start with iOS!