…Convenience wants us to replace actual care and discernment with a machine generated image description which:
- includes text that isn’t present but was in the enclosing post anyway
- is of a cartoon that “May be a cartoon” and isn’t a “photo”
- cannot recognise characterisations central to the satire in the image
- repeats words that are there
- and mistakes drawn elements for non-existent Arabic text
and to tell people who need image descriptions that this is ‘better’
Writing image descriptions for AI slop is an exercise in recursion and arbitrary repetition
(see commentary in following posts)
![A cartoon drawing of a chicken with a Danish flag on its breast and EU flags on its wings, seated to the right of Donald Trump and JD Vance in a composition redolent of the February 2025 Oval Office meeting with Zelensky.
The Trump character has a speech bubble saying “We want Greenland and your eggs” and Vance’s says “Say thank you!”
The cartoon is displaying the AI generated alt text that accompanied its original posting, which says ‘Photo by Jake Broe on March 19, 2025. May be a cartoon of text that says “WE WANT GREENLAND AND YOUR EGGS. SAY THANK THANK YOU! YOU! [Arabic text] DENMARK.’](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/188/125/343/904/219/original/4ceec58e489efe00.jpeg "A cartoon drawing of a chicken with a Danish flag on its breast and EU flags on its wings, seated to the right of Donald Trump and JD Vance in a composition redolent of the February 2025 Oval Office meeting with Zelensky.
The Trump character has a speech bubble saying “We want Greenland and your eggs” and Vance’s says “Say thank you!”
The cartoon is displaying the AI generated alt text that accompanied its original posting, which says ‘Photo by Jake Broe on March 19, 2025. May be a cartoon of text that says “WE WANT GREENLAND AND YOUR EGGS. SAY THANK THANK YOU! YOU! [Arabic text] DENMARK.’")
In Defense of Text Labels: "While it may feel duplicative to add a text label, the reality is that few icons are self-sufficient in communicating meaning." #a11y https://www.chrbutler.com/in-defense-of-text-labels
Popping preconceived popover ponderings: "It does a lot in terms of not having to wrangle CSS overflows or z-index clashes. But by itself, it doesn’t do everything you may need for fully accessible custom popovers. It wasn’t meant to, nor should it." #HTML #a11y https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2025/03/14/popovers.html
Skip links: what, why, and how: "Ever noticed one of those “Skip to main content” links when you press the tab key? They’re important." #a11y https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/skip-links-what-why-and-how
JAWS 2025 has been nothing but trouble since I upgraded. It regularly considers a key as perma-pressed and swallows commands as a result.
The latest update errored on first load. Dead. Yay.
Anyone else reporting this @freedomscientific?
JAWS 2024 still works at least.
TIL: when I put a lot of checkboxes in a table, the current focus of VoiceOver on MacOS might get out of sync with the actual keyboard focus. Only on Mac. Only if they are inside a table. Back to div soup then…
Affinity Publisher 2.6 added a reading order panel:
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/whats-new/#2-6-reading-order-panel
Makes the PDF output easier to control. No, I have not tested it yet.
You know, for those of you who still are looking to ditch Adobe.
Are there any Fediverse clients available that support community-driven image alternatives?
For instance, consider a Mastodon post featuring an image that lacks an alternative description. In this case, the user interface (including the version rendered by assistive technologies) identifies #Alt4You proposals in the comment and prompts the reader to browse through them.
As another example, if you edit a post you previously made that did not have an alternative, the user interface can suggest utilizing #Alt4You alternatives that other users have proposed in the comments.
Would this approach make sense? #a11y
Made this a couple of years ago on @codepen but for some reason never shared it: a hopefully accessible base for a smooth elastic dropdown https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/qBJENKM
Based on a thing at a now dead link which did something of the kind with a huge div soup.
Hourra, la traduction en français des WCAG 2.2 du @w3c est officielle ! 
Access42 et ses 47 partenaires ont uni leurs forces pour mener à bien ce projet important pour l’accessibilité numérique. Découvrez les coulisses et la suite :
So in the meantime, let's be cautious and true: AI will help us improve things *gradually* for #accessibility and we have to welcome it as it progresses, not more. #a11y #AI
I agree with Karl Groves in his Linkedin post that AI can certainly help improve automatic testing and a lot of other things in accessibility *in the future*, but I do not believe it'll allow to test 100% of the WCAG criteria, nor allow tools to make websites accessible, provide fully relevant text alternatives to images and whatnot. Or at least not now. In 10 years, may be even more, may be? 3/4 #a11y #AI
Access Information News for Monday, March 17, 2025 - Volume 1006 
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I was thinking of starting a collection of #accessible patterns for the web. Such resources exist already. A million of them. All saying different things.
I think I need a collection of answers to common questions and patterns for common problems that is written in easier language and closer to the real world and patterns you could copy.
Before I start my own list of things, I’d love to know which of the existing ones are worth contributing? #a11y #Accessibility
Title II Today: Compliance & Accessibility Insights for Monday, March 17, 2025 - Volume 101
https://title2.info/newsletter-03-17-2025/
The Month's News in Title II Compliance
A Pneuma Solutions Publication
#TitleII, #Title2 #ADACompliance #DigitalAccessibility #WCAG, #WCAG21 #A11y #GovTech #PublicSector
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Mark your calendars: the 2025 edition of Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) will take place on the 25 September 2025! We've just opened our call for presentations (closing date 31 May 2025) - looking forward to your exciting submissions! https://inclusivedesign24.org/2025/ #a11y #accessibility #inclusion #inclusiveDesign
Outre l’absence de déclaration d’accessibilité, le nouveau site web de la Maison Blanche présente plusieurs problèmes d’accessibilité, comme le révèle l’audit rapide réalisé par Ashlee Jan.
Le gouvernement américain crée un précédent très inquiétant pour l'avenir de l'accessibilité numérique aux États-Unis.
Plus d'informations dans cet article en anglais : https://a42.fr/white-house
Aufgemerkt: Heute Nachmittag ist es Zeit für die nächste #technica11y-Episode, diesmal unter dem Titel „Barrierefreies Allerlei“ und mit Till Zipprich, der von seiner großen Liebe zum #Radio berichtet und uns an seinem Leben als blinder Student teilhaben lässt. Wir starten wie immer um 17:00 Uhr via Zoom und Youtube und freuen uns auf alle Zuhörenden. Die Teilnahme ist kostenfrei, die Episode wird live verschriftlicht. 
https://technica11y.de
Captioned recording (w ASL) of my #CSUNATC US digital #accessibility legal update talk. Trying to find the balance between risks and hope in this terrible time in the United States. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fQyWH3DiD9s #a11y #disability #law
