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@mfairchild365

Creator of a11ysupport.io Eater of donuts Advocate of inclusion Player of games Technical Program Manager at Microsoft Reader of Sci-fi Father of children Silly talker of things

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A11y LLM Eval

I just launched an open source LLM evaluation tool/report for accessibility. microsoft.github.io/a11y-llm-eva...

19.11.2025 19:09 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I keep hearing that AI could eventually make assistive tech like screen readers obsolete. For example, the AI could generate an audio interface on the fly. I have my own thoughts on this, but I’d like to hear yours. Is there a nugget of truth to this? Risks? Is it a viable future?

12.06.2025 16:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve updated it with some more models that are supposedly better at coding. Meh. github.com/mfairchild36...

28.05.2025 14:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

😲

27.05.2025 15:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - mfairchild365/a11y-models-playground Contribute to mfairchild365/a11y-models-playground development by creating an account on GitHub.

Spent my friday making this. How good is AI at generating and fixing accessible code? github.com/mfairchild36...

Feel free to poke holes or contribute or just ignore and enjoy your life. Whateves.

23.05.2025 20:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Enjoy!

10.05.2025 00:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just a video of my graceful cat falling from my second story balcony while trying to catch a bird. Zero brain cells. But, he is okay.

10.05.2025 00:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What in your life led you to this moment?

10.05.2025 00:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Understanding Success Criterion 1.4.10: Reflow | WAI | W3C

This has been a long time coming - but I'm glad to report that the vast majority of WCAG's Reflow Understanding document has been rewritten.

Lots of work and discussions in our attempt to make what Reflow actually requires more... well... understandable.
www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/U...

04.04.2025 15:52 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Click here to forget more!

13.03.2025 19:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hmmm I wonder which session this was πŸ™ƒ

12.03.2025 21:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, cute dogs are much better than web semantics.

10.03.2025 22:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll be at CSUN - who else? #CSUN25

09.03.2025 21:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unless I’m eating a runza

11.02.2025 14:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m embarrassed to live in Nebraska.

11.02.2025 12:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Factor in w3c process time and it’s more like 5 years worth of edits πŸ™ƒ

06.01.2025 16:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, 1mil isn’t a whole lot here. That alone would just be a slap on the wrist. The more important aspects of this have to do with the FTC explicitly barring them from misrepresenting their product and its capabilities.

04.01.2025 04:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The State of this thread is just sad. It has questionable Value. My Role here is over. 🀣

18.12.2024 02:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hah! Oh my… that’s a bad one. Give yourself a VPAT on the back.

18.12.2024 01:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Canned bread is the best thing since this TMNT episode.

12.12.2024 14:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What do #a11y pros do when they order a drink?

They put it on the tab.

… sorry πŸ™ƒ

#a11yJokes

12.12.2024 12:34 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone know of a good accessible β€œsee more” implementation? You know, the kind that truncates content. Click it and it expands all of the content and the button either disappears or turns into β€œsee less” now positioned at the end. So far, I’m convinced this is an anti-pattern.

10.12.2024 14:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Customers don’t want your product to be WCAG conformant. They want the damn thing to be usable! They want to have an efficient and effective experience. We put too much focus on minimal compliance for #a11y.

25.11.2024 15:47 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Wasteland Warrior "The Wasteland Warrior"[2]Β is the eleventh episode of the fifth and final season of the 2012 TV series, and is the one-hundred and fifteenth episode overall in the series. Production-wise, it is the e...

Did you know that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has a 3 part episode that is essentially a spin off of Mad Max? It’s the best thing since sliced bread! turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/The_Was...

21.11.2024 18:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If I was a billionaire, I’d establish a trust fund to send everyone a free Runza on the regular. Not run for office and gut the government.

21.11.2024 17:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, I didn’t authorize that either 🀣

20.11.2024 22:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pizza!? I did not authorize this.

20.11.2024 22:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Now you just need to reward yourself with a runza.

20.11.2024 20:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Soooo uhhh how’s the #a11y community round these parts?

15.11.2024 14:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0