The Past, Present and Future of Web Accessibility

In this episode of For a Better Web, Bruce chats with Léonie Watson, accessibility advocate and director of TetraLogical. They dive into Léonies journey from web designer to accessibility champion, her work with the W3C, and the challenges of making the internet better for everyone. From navigating accessibility standards to why keyboard testing is a game-changer for developers, it’s a mix of tech insights and great stories (including the time Léonie accidentally hugged Tim Berners-Lee!). Whether you’re a web developer or just curious about how the web works behind the scenes, this episode has something for you.
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Léonie’s personal website tink.uk
Léonie on mastodon w3c.social/@tink
TetraLogical website tetralogical.com
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) www.w3.org/TR/...
Web Applications Working Group www.w3.org/gro...
Draft W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 www.w3.org/TR/...
HTML design principles www.w3.org/TR/...
Web Incubator Community Group (WICG) wicg.io
“The remediation gap” blogpost www.tpgi.com/m...
W3C Board of Directors www.w3.org/gro...
Eloas v Microsoft patent case en.wikipedia.o...
Keyboard testing video tetralogical.c...
“Accessibility Unlocked”: TetraLogical’s introduction to accessibility
tetralogical.c...
Maguire v Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2000): en.wikipedia.o...)

[@chasapple4]

I know of many sites with their forced auto reload and auto play that break screen readers, some sites have know about the violations for years. The auto play causes audio to play over screen reader, and auto reload breaks screen readers as it interrupts middle of reading the page when it is force reloaded.

[@VivaldiBrowser]

This is why we have the audio and transcript hosted on the Vivaldi site where we can control autoplay etc; we can’t on RUclips. Vivaldi desktop has a “Block autoplay” setting for just this reason. Site permissions doesn't fix every issue, but it can help quite a bit. 🙂

[@ПавелБирюков-ж1з]

У меня тариф всего 30гб в месяц, не знаю как вы это сделали но ваш браузер расходует в 2 раза меньше трафика, чем остальные браузеры, для меня это важно, дома у ви фи бываю редко

[@KylieHall-m8j]

Well hmmmm

[@VivaldiBrowser]

Hmmmm 🤔