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Accessibility Expert https://t.co/kURKYxWKVB @_outline, @AxessLab. Views are my own. https://t.co/ozyUggQp6T Ⓥ he/him/his Fedi: https://t.co/HBenTDMMjo
Nov 2, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
It’s a huge issue that many industries (including my own) built communities in these closed walled gardens. Twitter will change extremely, and small communities will lose out because there isn’t enough value for Twitter. What happens when accounts like… … the one from @UncannyMagazine are restricted in who they can reach until they pay? Or when every conversion on Kickstarter needs to pay 20% to Twitter because the transaction is WeChat style happening in Twitter.
Jul 14, 2021 12 tweets 4 min read
Too bad that @AccessiBe’s overlay does not make this organization’s website accessible. Text with 1.31:1 contrast ratio (minimum for text this size/weight is 3:1) while having the “Vision Impaired Profile” switched on. Screenshot of website wit accessibe’s visual impaired prof And if a person with low-vision is also using a screen reader, the “vision impaired profile” is switched off. You really have to decide to which bucket of disabled person you belong to.
Jul 2, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
For the people in the back who need to hear this:

1. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are a Web Standard.
2. If you want to make websites you need to follow them as much as you follow other Standards like HTML or CSS.
3. They are an integral part of the Web. I know “Guidelines” is a bit easy to misunderstand as non-binding, but it is not. The guidelines are in place to help you keep track but it also has Success Criteria that tells you exactly when you have left those guardrails and made something inaccessible.