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Does the <body> rule the mind or does the mind rule the <body>? I'm Martin Mengele, #a11y & web dev professional, IAAP-certified Web Accessibility Specialist. https://accessabilly.com/ Alt text for profile picture: Sunrise view up the river Rhine.

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Donate to Fundraiser for Paula Johnson's Medical & Recovery Fund, organized by Todd Libby My name is Todd Libby, and I am starting this on the behalf of my… Todd Libby needs your support for Fundraiser for Paula Johnson's Medical & Recovery Fund

New update and it’s been overdue that I get back on this. $2,400 to goal. gofund.me/33ce7c781

05.03.2026 01:03 👍 4 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

It costs $0.00 to uninstall that Big Tech browser you’ve always used and switch to a European browser that has no AI and doesn’t collect your data. 🫶🏻

04.03.2026 20:02 👍 139 🔁 47 💬 3 📌 2
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Frontier AI LLMs, assistants, agents, services | Mistral AI The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.

...and if you need to use AI, try European stuff:
mistral.ai

05.03.2026 08:17 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I remember being here, mostly because of their Rockabilly Diner style. But the food was great, too. This was before Covid though, maybe still okay today (looks the same).

maps.app.goo.gl/enNERWZdMpKQ...

27.02.2026 11:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Interesting. Just moved to Proton. De-Googleing made easy. Thanx for this reat article.

23.01.2026 18:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Überwachungsstelle des Bundes für Barrierefreiheit von Informationstechnik - Aktuelles - Unlimited – der neue BFIT-Podcast für digitale Barrierefreiheit Zum Internationalen Tag der Menschen mit Behinderungen am 3. Dezember 2025 startet ein neues Angebot der BFIT-Bund: Unlimited – der Podcast für digitale Barrierefreiheit.

🇩🇪 Ohrfutter! 🎧 Ein neuer Podcast zur Barrierefreiheit. Noch nicht reingehört, könnte spannend sein.

www.bfit-bund.de/SharedDocs/K...

03.12.2025 10:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Using the Ancient Evils for Debugging - HTMHell A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

O most gracious Lord of HTML, how cometh it that mine ears have not yet heard of <plaintext>? 🧐

htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

By my troth, I do hereby commend unto thee the most infernal Advent Calendar of Sir @matuzo.at, named HTML Hell! ☠️

03.12.2025 06:33 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Creating a more accessible web with Aria Notify We're excited to announce the availability, as a developer and origin trial, of ARIA Notify, a new API that's designed to make web content

Interesting stuff coming up:

blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/20...

27.11.2025 14:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Testing Methods: Three Flashes Testing WCAG 2.3.2 Three Flashes is most effective using a hybrid approach. Automated scans provide broad coverage, AI detects subtle flashes, and manual testing ensures real-user accuracy, creating safer, inclusive digital experiences.

Flashing content faster than 3x per second can exclude users. My latest piece outlines practical steps to meet “Three Flashes” and build safer, inclusive experiences. What’s your approach?

buff.ly/wU8Ge4T

#DigitalAccessibility #InclusiveDesign #WCAG #WebStandards #A11y

16.11.2025 12:30 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

How do you describe the accessibility profession?

"A spoilsport for developers that wants to be a mentor." 😍

30.10.2025 06:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Diese Schweizer Gemeinde-Websites sind nicht barrierefrei Viele Schweizer Gemeinden erfüllen die Standards für digitale Barrierefreiheit nicht. Unsere Analyse zeigt, welche Websites Nachholbedarf haben.

@correctiv.org and the Stiftung "Zugang für alle" have tested 70 municipal websites for accessibility with sobering results. 😱The Correctiv-page itself has some #a11y issues though... 🫠

correctiv.org/barrierefrei...

28.10.2025 07:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A guide to creating accessible PDFs using free tools If you really do (seriously, really do) need to create a PDF, Steve has your back to help you make sure you make that PDF accessible without having to fork out for Adobe Acrobat Pro.

A Guide to Creating Accessible PDFs Using Free Tools, by @stvfrnzl@mastodon.online (@piccalil.li):

https://piccalil.li/blog/a-guide-to-creating-accessible-pdfs-using-free-tools/

#guides #accessibility #pdf #tooling #testing

24.10.2025 06:30 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The `header` element gets the role "banner" on the root level but `sectionheader` or `generic` when being nested in a `main` element.

The `header` element gets the role "banner" on the root level but `sectionheader` or `generic` when being nested in a `main` element.

Today I learned `header` and `footer` elements lose their ARIA roles when being included in sectioning content.

www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-lear...

20.10.2025 05:46 👍 58 🔁 9 💬 6 📌 0

You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.

18.10.2025 19:16 👍 149 🔁 49 💬 0 📌 1
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mind the WCAG automation gap – HTML Accessibility

“Mind the WCAG automation gap” by Steve Faulkner digs into what’s possible (and what isn’t) with automated #accessibility tools. Machines help, but they can’t replace human judgment.

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/0...

#WCAG #A11y #WebDev #Testing #Automation #DigitalAccessibility

18.10.2025 15:45 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Most important #a11y read you will get today!

17.10.2025 20:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
dialog {
  /* The dialog itself is not semi-transparent at all */
  background: light-dark(white, black);
}

::backdrop {
  /* These values particular seem like very low values for a backdrop */
  background: light-dark(hsl(white / 20%), hsl(black / 40%));
  
  @media (prefers-reduced-transparency: reduce) {
    /* Should we increase them in reduce transparency mode? */
    background: light-dark(hsl(white / 60%), hsl(black / 80%));
    /* Would blurring the background actually help in this case */
    backdrop-filter: blur(10px);
  }
}

dialog { /* The dialog itself is not semi-transparent at all */ background: light-dark(white, black); } ::backdrop { /* These values particular seem like very low values for a backdrop */ background: light-dark(hsl(white / 20%), hsl(black / 40%)); @media (prefers-reduced-transparency: reduce) { /* Should we increase them in reduce transparency mode? */ background: light-dark(hsl(white / 60%), hsl(black / 80%)); /* Would blurring the background actually help in this case */ backdrop-filter: blur(10px); } }

Accessibility question

For ::backdrop's (dialog overlays) that have a semi-transparent bg to obscure the page behind them:

Should we make the backdrop more obscured for `prefers-reduced-transparency`?

Like if the backdrop is black/40% should we make it black/80%? 100%? Should we blur the bg?

16.10.2025 15:50 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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Common misconceptions about screen readers - TetraLogical Screen readers are familiar to many in digital, but how they work in practice can be less clear. In this post, we shed some light on the topic.

Thank you @tetralogical.com for the great article on misconceptions about screen readers! 👍
tetralogical.com/blog/2025/10...

Just at the right time for me to argue on a current #a11y issue in TinyMCE that most likely was caused by one of those: 👇
github.com/tinymce/tiny...

14.10.2025 18:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This article confirms my observations. Most developers hired by us (university, technical college, years of experience) have never heard of #a11y. Lack of knowledge and awareness is primarily an academic problem! 🧐

Serene impressively demonstrates how you can still start a career in this field. 👇

13.10.2025 12:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Interop Feature Ranking Rank the web platform features you care most about

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most.

So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion.

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

09.10.2025 17:00 👍 250 🔁 114 💬 19 📌 22

Super useful! 👇

09.10.2025 11:56 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Woohoo, thanx!

09.10.2025 11:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Graphic with pixelated, 3D-styled webpage icons radiating outward from a bright point. Center text reads: "Fundraise with us! Celebrating 1 Trillion Webpages Archived."

Graphic with pixelated, 3D-styled webpage icons radiating outward from a bright point. Center text reads: "Fundraise with us! Celebrating 1 Trillion Webpages Archived."

We’ve archived 1 trillion web pages via the Wayback Machine. Help us preserve 1 trillion more with P2P fundraising: donate.archive.org/1T

#Wayback1T

08.10.2025 20:02 👍 504 🔁 162 💬 2 📌 6
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WCAG’s Longevity · Eric Eggert It’s no secret: I like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Not only do they give us the four base principles of accessibility …

👁️‍🗨️ WCAG’s Longevity by Eric Eggert

"There are several reasons why WCAG 2 is such a long-living standard. The main reasons, in my opinion, are the very solid foundation it is built on, the accumulation of experience with the standard in practice"

#WCAG #a11y #standards

yatil.net/blog/wcags-l...

06.10.2025 13:43 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Donate to Fundraiser for Paula Johnson's Medical & Recovery Fund, organized by Todd Libby My name is Todd Libby, and I am starting this on the behalf of my pa… Todd Libby needs your support for Fundraiser for Paula Johnson's Medical & Recovery Fund

I am immensely grateful that we almost hit the 40% raised mark I was hoping for after the first week. There is more work to get this goal reached. I won't stop now so I once again ask for any and all shares and donations, no matter how small. Every little bit helps. gofund.me/24c249d90

06.10.2025 15:31 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
navy blue t-shirt. Big A in red overlaying a circle, next to the A &quot;11y&quot; line below &quot;ntifa&quot;

navy blue t-shirt. Big A in red overlaying a circle, next to the A &quot;11y&quot; line below &quot;ntifa&quot;

New Shirt

"for the discerning accessibility advocate and anti-fascist"

#a11y #antifascist

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

26.09.2025 10:33 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community

"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

02.10.2025 17:03 👍 34 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

Shitty prompt of today:

Find a video element with Cypress and Testing Library.

Shitty answers of today (GPT4, GPT5):

cy.findByRole('video');

Don't! De rien...

02.10.2025 18:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A guide to creating accessible PDFs using free tools If you really do (seriously, really do) need to create a PDF, Steve has your back to help you make sure you make that PDF accessible without having to fork out for Adobe Acrobat Pro.

If you really do (seriously, really do) need to create a PDF, Steve has your back to help you make sure you make that PDF accessible without having to fork out for Adobe Acrobat Pro.

piccalil.li/blog/a-guide...

02.10.2025 11:01 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Donate to Fundraiser for Paula Johnson's Medical & Recovery Fund, organized by Todd Libby My name is Todd Libby, and I am starting this on the behalf of my pa… Todd Libby needs your support for Fundraiser for Paula Johnson's Medical & Recovery Fund

Day 2 of posting this with hopes we can cross that line in 30 days.

My partner is in need of some medical assistance and future surgery and treatments.

We are 6% of the way there. More details and you can donate if you can here. gofund.me/231d524bb

Your help is greatly appreciated.

01.10.2025 10:39 👍 11 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 2