Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! A fitting occasion to announce Django’s new accessibility statement ✨ https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/may/15/our-new-accessibility-statement/
This statement improves transparency, directly linking to known issues in Django. It clearly states our intentions. And we hope it encourages our community and the industry at large to more widely consider accessibility!
For Global Accessibility Awareness Day we are launching a new settings page that lists all of your media without alt text, so you can easily update any missing alt text in a single, easy to remember place.
You can also enable the Require Media Descriptions setting in Settings -> Media.
Today is the Global Accessibility Awareness Day - and so Apple sat down with me to talk about how I build truly accessible apps. 🦾
The interview is now live on the *front page* of the App Store 🥹
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@prism/116597464382403391
This is a great take. I CAN write a bunch of tools to make games, websites, tools and applications more accessible. Doesn't mean that I SHOULD BE FORCED to do so. This is people who have given up on their fellow man actually caring enough to include them when planning, designing and developing things, not a first-line solution. This is people who fall back to their last resort before getting fired because #accessibility apparently wasn't sexy enough for the devs making the tool they use at work. I'll give a free summary before #GAAD even kicks off: We all need to do better, preferably yesterday, because quite honestly, the state of #accessibility all across the board is abysmal right now.
Ok I am truly sorry to be that guy. BUT:
Can we PLEASE, leave the "#AI improves #accessibility" talks to people who actually benefit from #accessibility?
I see SO MANY articles, On LinkedIn, on Slack, on Medium, about how AI improves #accessibility metrics, compliance, automates all the things.
Newsflash: your metrics are likely incomplete or inconclusive, compliance is at best an illusory snapshot, and automation for #accessibility is still a pipe dream, and that's coming from someone who actually uses these tools OUTSIDE a presentation room.
I don't care if you're #microsoft, #salesforce or whichever other big name that makes you feel authoritative. You're wrong, sorry to say.
Want ACTUAL stories from ACTUAL people using #AI to improve #accessibility? Hire me and I'll talk your ear off. That's been me for months now.
Don't want to, right before #GAAD? Welp ... that tells its own story then, doesn't it?
I created the Accessible Gaming Wiki, a wiki where people can create and share pages surrounding all aspects of game accessibility. This has been a huge passion project of mine because while there’s a ton of info out there, much of it is fragmented or lost to time. The goal of this website is to be run by the community and for the community. Check out my next post for some of my favorite pages I’ve made so far and feedback welcome!
