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#accessibility

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David O'Brien

To be fair to my colleague, when I explained it to them, they got it.

It literally hadn't occurred to them. Why would it? Their job was to sell out a conference on renewable energy or whatever it was.

But in my experience, almost everyone gets it once you give them context.

Almost everyone knows someone with #accessibility needs, even if they currently have none themselves.

#Ableism is a silent assassin in our culture. It pervades our discourse.

We must hear the voices of the #disabled.

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David O'Brien

I remember once, a long time ago, a colleague asked me to publish some content on our website.

It was marketing material, for a conference. PDF, of course. With no consideration to #accessibility whatsoever.

I declined, and we had a meeting. I explained why I couldn't publish the material in its current state and they said "But there won't be any blind people at this conference!"

To which I replied, "No, there won't, because your marketing means they can't possibly even know it is on."

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Nina Kiel

There's something I've struggled with for most of my career, but never could properly put into words – until now.

Thanks to @LauraKBuzz and her wonderful metaphor, it'll likely be much easier in the future to help colleagues and employers understand this issue.

"In regards to multitasking, many autistic individuals struggle with processing multiple tasks at once, or being expected to unexpectedly and rapidly drop one task and move to another. The way I try to explain this is that, for me, it feels like when I get deep into a particular task or activity wires start connecting between my brain and the task. Switching tasks or doing something else at the same time means taking a moment to safely disconnect those cables so they can pause data transfer, or free up bandwidth to try and process something in parallel. It’s not as easy as yanking a handful of cords out, they need unplugging carefully which can take a moment."

youtu.be/c-a2bEuAETs?si=8sFA6L

#Disability#GamesIndustry#Accessibility
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James Scholes

The Web #Accessibility Slack community attracts an unfortunate share of asks that go something like:

"I have an interview/have been tasked with giving a presentation/have been promoted to a role and need to become an expert in accessibility by tomorrow, but I know nothing. Can you please send me free resources?"

And like... it's up to every community member whether or not to respond to these, and I'm all for encouragement. But does accessibility really need people who aren't willing to pay for materials, have unrealistic expectations of how much there is to learn, and may have even lied their way into a position they clearly don't want?

I think not, personally.

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Random Geek

There's a special place in H E double hockey sticks for folks who set their site's base font size to 16px.

I'm sure it's fine on small displays, and I dunno it's probably adjusted for in HiDPI displays.

But me in between @ 5120 x 1440 and preferences adjusted for steadily aging vision such that default font size is 20pt, or about 26px?

My eyes hurt.

Just don't set base font size, or set it to 1rem if you must have a value.

#CSS#Accessibility
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Berin

Able to Play, a game repository that helps you find games that match your accessibility needs, just launched!

abletoplay.com

For gamedevs/game requests: Here's some info on how to make a game available on there:
help.abletoplay.com/docs/how-c

It's still a young platform, so please give them lots of feedback to help improve it!

@games

AbleToPlayAble To Play — The Easiest Way to Find Accessible GamesFind games that meet your personalized accessibility needs - quickly, easily, and for free!
#Games#Gaming#GameDev
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Casey Reeves

Well now that is really nice. TwBlue's latest version is getting to be a nice alternative to tweesecake. You can now get to filter posts, you can now specify the language in which a post is written... Definitely looking like a suitable alternative, more and more.
Now, if only one could make it so the enter key does not post but rather make a new line, and to send with something like shift+enter or ctrl+enter, that'd be perfect. I will have one hell of a hard time to adjust.

#accessibility#blind
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