You may think that digital accessibility is unrelated, but I assure you that every successful effort to chip away at rights and protections will be followed by another.
Don’t wait until it affects you personally. Speak up. This is low-risk, so do it while you can.
Remember, Trump’s DoE is trying to roll back accessibility requirements for buildings (Section 504).
@LFLegal wrote about this and her 9 June update links to a newer comment template:
https://www.lflegal.com/2025/06/energy-department-rollback/#article-updates
All comments due 16 June 2025.
Peeking through the Liquid Glass: From usability to branding, we explore what Liquid Glass means for designers and developers in our latest post.
https://blog.iconfactory.com/2025/06/peeking-through-the-liquid-glass/
<div aria-label> equivalent of an elevator buttons
Oh cool. I'm filling in a reservation form for a restaurant and all the "agree" buttons - "Agreed To Booking Policy", "Agreed To Venue Specific Marketing Opt In", "Agreed To Venue Group Marketing Opt In" - are just buttons with no semantic state. Pressing them doesn't change the label. I can't even figure out the state using Dev Tools. So I just have to (possibly) agree to be spammed because of an #accessibility #fail. <deep breaths>
Apparently the Department of Energy is trying to eliminate accessibility/nondiscrimination regulations. If you live in the U.S., please take a few minutes to comment on DOE-HQ-2025-0015 and DOE-HQ-2025-0024:
https://www.regulations.gov/document/DOE-HQ-2025-0015-0001
https://www.regulations.gov/document/DOE-HQ-2025-0024-0001
https://bsky.app/profile/scottohara.me/post/3lrbkvowass2q
Mine are also linked:
https://open-ui.org/components/menu.explainer/
And they correctly note APG are not guidelines.
I appreciate the pre-emptive effort to appease me (yes, I know it’s not about me, but my ego doesn’t).
A bit amusing since these elements exist.
With support from @nlnet , we've addressed a tonne of tech debt (including #editor redo), and we're improving #dokieli's #UI, #accessibility, annotations, #security, and #offline support. But we have more work to do! See our roadmap: https://dokie.li/docs#roadmap
We are planning to implement collaborative editing, encryption, and develop #credibility features to combat #misinformation on the web, in collaboration with Fundacion Cibervoluntarios: https://www.cibervoluntarios.org/es/actualidad/post/dokieli-y-fundacion-cibervoluntarios-unidos-en-la-creacion-de-una-herramienta-que-permite-a-la-ciudadania-un-uso-reflexivo-de-la-informacion-y-el-control-de-sus-datos
Apple’s ‘liquid glass’ contrast hilarity is now a bullet on my post “I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did”
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/03/i-dont-care-what-google-or-apple-or-whomever-did.html
Please please PLEASE do not copy Aero, er, Glass in your Figmas.
Today's Web Design Update: https://groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/g/webdev/c/J-MIp3QCJdc
Featuring @aardrian, @SteveFaulkner, @deconspray, @sarajw, @heydon, @LFLegal, @yatil, @karlgroves, @sachagreif, @OddBird, and more.
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Imagine a technology that describes scenes to people who can't see them. But the description is not always correct.
Is that technology a good thing or a bad thing?
During the @w3c meeting in April 2025, Shadi Abou-Zhara discussed the relationship between #accessibility standards and regulations, particularly focusing on W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (#WCAG).
He urged recognizing policymakers as key stakeholders and called for a more granular approach in standards to better guide regulations and reflect the needs of people with #disabilities.
Watch "Accessibility and regulations": https://youtu.be/M7-u2UUR-wI
Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/apple-unveils-powerful-accessibility-features-coming-later-this-year/ #iOS #Accessibility #A11y
We’re looking forward to @craigabbott's talk tomorrow at @UXLondon 2025.
He'll be addressing common misconceptions about accessibility and giving a host of practical guidance in his talk "Accessibility is a design problem".
Check out the full lineup at: https://2025.uxlondon.com/
I’m looking forward to sharing this new content and exchanging ideas with the UXLibs community. And, honestly, it’s absolutely not into my comfort zone. I usually speak about digital accessibility only. So, yeahy, let’s do this?
Sustainable accessibility means embedding inclusion into everyday decisions - not relying on audits or individual champions. 
It's a long-term, strategic shift that works with existing systems, not against them.
Read more via @BetaNews: https://betanews.com/2025/05/29/why-now-is-time-to-build-sustainable-accessibility-into-organizational-culture/
Assistive Access is a truly amazing #accessibility feature, allowing apps to adapt for those with cognitive disabilities. And now it’s finally a new #SwiftUI scene type that YOU can use in your own apps. To learn how, Anne has a fantastic talk this #wwdc25: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/238
Quick #accessibility tip: Rather than writing an alt text that says nothing but "image", you might as well just write one that says "fuck you".
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