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Covid Competent Accessibility Advocado

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

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Ah, die drei Gender.
Formular mit einem verpflichtenden Anredefeld und den Auswahlmöglichkeiten “Herr”, “Frau”, und “Sonstiges”.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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I was outside today. 😅
A foggy fall scene. In the foreground a street seemingly winding up the hill between two fields, which now only contain low grass. Two trees frame the image from the left and right, only their crowns are seen. On the left, barren branches, while the right tree still contains small leaves. In the middle a wind turbine, painted in rings from the bottom in muted green, darker at the bottom and then lighter until only the gray mast remains. The rotor blades are almost invisible due to the fog, giving the whole photo an even more gradient look. A red car drives from the left towards the turbine, seemingly on a street nearby the turbine. You can only see the side of the car.
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Übergangsweise ein Parkplatz. Nicht ein Park. Weil das wär ja Nix für Autofahrende. 5,5 Millionen Euro. Erstmal für Parkplätze.

"Schandfleck der Innenstadt": 15 Jahren stand diese Ruine leer, jetzt will die Stadt etwas ändern […]

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Text Shot: Die Stadt möchte das Gebäude abreißen. Etwa 1,5 Millionen Euro werden zusätzlich dafür fällig, so Weigel. Als Übergangslösung soll ein Parkplatz entstehen. Ab Ende 2026 soll dieser nutzbar sein, so Weigel.
October 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Visuals of the new logo notwithstanding, I find it irritating that it is applied to old specs as well.
WCAG 1.0 W3C superseded recommendation with the new W3C logo very small at the top and the heading: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 W3C Recommendation 5-May-1999 superseded 18 May 2021 (Don’t ask me why one date has dashes and the other does not.)
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Stunning new livery of the Porsche’s this year. #formulae #fiaformulae
Black car with purple and light blue accents in a random-ish pattern. VALENCIA, SPAIN - OCTOBER 27: A general view of the car of Pascal Wehrlein of Germany and Porsche Formula E Team in the Pitlane during Formula E Pre-Season Testing at Ricardo Tormo Circuit on October 27, 2025 in Valencia, Spain. (Photo by Simon Galloway/LAT Images)
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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This must be one of the least loved screens in the whole history of computers. Nothing screems more “go away” than this.
White text on a blue background: “Installing Windows 11” “Your PC will restart several times. This might take a while.” Then an animated spinner with the text “77% complete” and a “Cancel” button. All text and UI is smushed to the top left of the screen leaving a wide space of light blue on the screen. In contrast, the text, apart from the heading, is really, really small.
October 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Just playing around with the new Spotlight and the Shortcuts integration on macOS Tahoe and OMG this is amazing.

Did you know that you can change what you need to type in Spotlight by clicking on the letters it suggested and change it to any string you want […]

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Search Roselli Action with the “sr” phrase assigned. Search Roselli Action with the “roselli” phrase assigned.
September 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Oh, Mailmate, they really done you dirty in macOS Tahoe!
Mailmate’s postage stamp icon, with a white border and an at symbol on purple. The icon is angled and not square, so macOS Tahoe put a grey roundrect around the symbol. It looks terrible.
September 16, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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[uspoli, Charlie Kirk]

Kirk would have been a terrible president, especially for all the minorities out there. Imagine the ethnic cleansing he would have loved to do.
msn.com teaser with the text: “I worked with Charlie Kirk for more than a decade. America lost a future president.”
September 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Opens the new WCAG 3.0 draft, finds this section. Closes the WCAG 3.0 draft.

Requiring an image text alternative only if it is for understanding is bad. There are so many non pure decoration images that would have no requirements for alternative texts.
Users have equivalent alternatives for images. • Which foundational requirements apply? For each image: 1. Would removing the image impact how people understand the page? • No, Decorative image is programmatically hidden. Stop.
September 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Reason number 7349 why knowing HTML is useful:

Being able to hack the ePub of an accessibility book so its title does not say “Fisrt edition” instead of the real title in my e-reader.

(Typos happen, there is no shame in that. But there was no way to change […]

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Colorful book titles on a screenshot from my e-reader. Three folders: Disability and Accessibility with readable titles for Against Technoableism, Demystifying Disability and Giving a Damn About Accessibility. A folder “Dan Moren” with only one book visible: All Souls Lost by Dan Moren. A folder “Brigitte Sharp” with the three books by Antony Johnston in the “Brigitte Sharp” series: The Patrios Network, The Tempus Project, and The Exphoria Code. Next to it a 0% read book with the title on the image “Inclusive Design for Accessibility” but the programmatic title “Fisrt edition”.
August 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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NDR so: „Immer diese Kosten nur um im Notfall die paar Behinderten zu retten!“

Bauarbeiten für U4-Verlängerung zur Horner Geest geht voran - trotz EU-Vorschriften im Zeitplan https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/richtfest-rohbau-der-neuen-u4-haltestelle-horner-geest-steht,ubahn-124.html
Text Shot: EU schreibt breitere Fluchtwege vor Bei der Umsetzung der Planung macht der Hochbahn zu schaffen, dass es immer neue Vorschriften der EU gibt. So braucht der neue Tunnel überall breite Evakuierungswege - auf Fußbodenhöhe. Projektleiter Dirk Göhring sagte: "Man baut größere Tunnel, um breitere Evakuierungswege zu haben. Man sagt immer man will Kosten sparen, man will weniger Beton. Aber das widerspricht sich dann natürlich, denn dadurch kommen mehr Kosten dazu." Kosten, die enstehen für den Fall ein zu hundert Millionen, dass Fahrgäste einen barrierefreien Notausstieg brauchen.
August 26, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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“Schattenspiel” #fotovorschlag
Sonnenuntergang, die Strahlen der Sonne brechen durch Bäume am Horizont. Die Schatten der Bäume und von Gänsen fallen über eine Wiese in deren Mitte ein Weg verläuft, der golden glänzt. Im Vordergrund eine Palme im Topf und ein Tisch mit Metallstühlen, die im Schatten liegen. Auf der linken Seite reflektiert die Glasfassade eines einstöckigen Gebäudes das Bild in Facetten.
August 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Fuck off App Store! The home page is all scams now.
App Store Screenshot with a feature for the ChatGPT app: " Try now. Sort your life out with ChatGPT. Action plans, powered by AI. The official app by OpenAI." Underneath an ad for “Robinhood: Crypto & Stocks. Explore BTC & US Stock Tokens”
August 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Ach ja, die vier Gender.
Ausklappmenü: Anrede: (*) Herr Frau Divers Firma
August 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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I put all non-WCAG EN 301 549 requirements into an Obsidian vault today. A lot of work, but I hope to connect the different requirements together in a way that makes them testable or at least decide what to advise to clients.

Some seem redundant to WCAG SCs (at […]

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Cloud of requirements with three big spheres in the middle, EN 301 549, Mobile Apps, and Websites. Thin lines connect and cluster related requirements.
August 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I created a little shortcut that takes selected text of the EN 301 549 and formats it nicely for Obsidian, so I can sync it to there and write my thoughts on the different requirements.
It’s called *ENSYNC. Screenshot shows macOS Shortcuts splitting input into parts along new lanes and then repeats with that split text. The rest of the script is cut off.
August 13, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Just to summarize this: You wrote a table yourself, added an entry, I suppose and instead of inserting the entry at the right point, you asked “AI” to sort it, which it failed at. You then review and notice the error and ask it to write a python program to do it […]

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Text Shot: (Here’s a good example of a GPT-5 failure: I tried to get it to output that table sorted itself but it put Nova Micro as more expensive than GPT-5 Nano, so I prompted it to “construct the table in Python and sort it there” and that fixed the issue.)
August 8, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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@sarajw Polypane says it should work. Maybe a nice edge case for @Kilian?
Polypane OG preview image that shows the image of a brown cafe with yellow and white stars. Sarajoy.dev – Farmors Chokladkaka – Mastodon logo – More from Sara Joy :happy_pepper: – Sara’s profile photo precedes her name.
July 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Deutschland wehrt sich mit Händen und Füßen gegen das Fortschreiten der Zeit.

Bericht: EU plant Verbrenner-Verbot für Firmenflotten und Mietautos https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/eu-verbrenner-mietauts-firmenflotten-100.html
Text Shot: Ab 2030 will die EU-Kommission einem Medienbericht zufolge bei Firmenwagen und Mietautos nur noch die Anschaffung emissionsfreier Fahrzeuge erlauben. Das Bundesverkehrsministerium kündigte Widerstand an.
July 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Tagesschau-Kommentar so: Manchmal ist die Würde des Menschen halt doch antastbar.

🫣

Kommentar zur Enquete-Kommission: Wenn aufklären, dann richtig https://www.tagesschau.de/kommentar/corona-pandemie-enquete-kommission-100.html
Text Shot: Ebenso sollte klar sein, dass der Blick nicht nur auf die gerichtet werden darf, die besonders gefährdet sind. Von Beginn an müssen auch Kollateralschäden im Blick behalten werden. Welchen Preis sind wir bereit zu zahlen, um Menschenleben zu schützen?
July 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Ich so: “Mal weniger Lego kaufen und vielleicht sogar so einiges los werden…”

Lego so: “Was ist denn eigentlich mit dem Typ der die Concorde und das Space Shuttle gekauft hat, weiß man da was? Vielleicht machen wir das:”
Lego Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft mit Space Shuttle Enterprise auf dem Rücken der Boeing 376, die speziell dafür umgebaut war Space Shuttles zurück zum zu bringen. (Die konnten oft nicht dort landen wo sie gestartet sind. So viel info im Alternativtext!!)
July 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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REWE so: “Hier ist unsere Erklärung zur Barrierefreiheit.”

Ich so: “Hier ist eure Tastaturfalle, und der Fokus ist auch nicht einmal nicht zu sehen. xoxo”
June 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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#doctorwho
Distracted boyfriend meme. The boyfriend is identified as “Doctor Who Fans” holding hands with “a chance for young new showrunners”. He turns his head and looks at another women in a red dress. She’s identified as “J Michael Stracynski”.
June 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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And another one. @glsbank with accessibility updates.

(I hope they make their sign up process on the web accessible, too!)

#eaaupdate
App Store description: Mit dem neuen Update darfst du dich auf weitere Optimierungen zur Barrierearmut und technische Verbesserungen freuen. Außerdem hat der ein oder andere Bug Fix Platz in diesem Update gefunden.
June 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM