Léonie Watson @tink@toot.cafe
Accessibility engineer, W3C Web Platform WG co-chair, writer and speaker, screen reader user, tequila drinker and crime fiction junkie.
.@BristolUni@twitter.com students gift a cleaner £1,500 for a holiday, as a thank you for giving people a reason to smile https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-44628549 😊
A short note on progressive #ARIA, on the @PacielloGroup blog https://developer.paciellogroup.com/blog/2018/06/short-note-on-progressive-aria/
"admitting the problem is the first step in solving it." This and much else to agree with, in @Zeldman's Cult of the Complex https://alistapart.com/preview/cult-of-the-complex
Hello @NextOfficial, are you aware that your accessible alternative website has several accessibility problems, including missing product descriptions, custom controls that are broken for screen reader users, and missing or badly implemented content structure?
Looking forward to the IA team joining the @PacielloGroup crew!
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TPG is excited to announce our acquisition of Interactive Accessibility, one of the world’s leading accessibility consulting organizations. Learn more about it here https://www.paciellogroup.com/events/2018/06/tpg-acquires-accessibility-consultancy-interactive-accessibility/
https://twitter.com/paciellogroup/status/1009478922688483328
Hello @UserWayOrg@twitter.com, it's gratifying to be quoted by other people, but would you remove the quote of me from your website please? Patching accessibility after the fact is not something I condone. Thank you.
Hello @userWay, it's gratifying to be quoted by other people, but would you remove the quote of me from your website please? Patching accessibility after the fact is not something I condone. Thank you.
CSS 3 Color is now an @W3C Edited Recommendation (addressing erata raised on the original specification) https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-css-color-3-20180619/
The @W3C Accessible name and Description Computation 1.1 is an @W3C Candidate Recommendation https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/CR-accname-1.1-20180619/
Whoop! Looking forward to this!
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In case you are not on the #btconf Newsletter and haven't seen it: 6 more speakers for the next #Berlin edition revealed incl. @bigmediumjosh, @LeonieWatson, @hj_chen, @glyphe and more. Check https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2018 and get your pass.
https://twitter.com/btconf/status/1008580775850270720
Get the complete #DeltaVconf talk playlist on #YouTube http://www2.whiteoctoberevents.co.uk/e/168012/WTxqQHq52UYQJVPrDBI7YOZNWlp1en/2dm5l1/181029922 #web #performance #pwa #a11y #teams #products #more
"There's more to performance than meets the eye" - my #DeltaVconf talk about the impact different browser processing models and different screen readers have on web performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1sXj9oAXFU&t=0s&list=PLGUWTxqQHq52UYQJVPrDBI7YOZNWlp1en&index=4 #web #performance #a11y #youtube
Playing @DarioG@twitter.com's Sunchyme at full blast! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L32jaCsFeb8
Not to be missed... @aardrian is one of the most informative and entertaining speakers I know!
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If you're at #WCEurope, make sure you get to @aardrian's workshop on "Prototyping accessibility", tomorrow at 2pm CEST https://2018.europe.wordcamp.org/session/prototyping-accessibility/ #Belgrade
https://twitter.com/paciellogroup/status/1007665244297195521
.@Microsoft@twitter.com @Google@twitter.com @Amazon @Uber@twitter.com and others are funding a bid to kill a Californian privacy initiative that would let consumers opt out of having their data shared/sold https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/15/17468292/amazon-microsoft-uber-california-consumer-privacy-act?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Tory MP Christopher Chope has blocked legislation to criminalise up-skirting (the act of taking crude pictures of women without their knowledge/permission). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44496427 @Conservatives@twitter.com, get your house in order!
Do it! Do it! Do it! If you only do one major #accessibility gig in 2018, make it #A11yToConf
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You still have time to submit your awesome talk idea to #a11yTOConf! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJB33cIvgQN-Lwq587hkSEi1dhiDL5gcV-tGIFYGNZ59bOIQ/viewform
Early bird tix still available: http://a11ytoconf2018.eventbrite.ca/
Want to sponsor? sponsor@a11yto.com
https://twitter.com/a11yTO/status/1004770993557123078
15 experts (plus me) share their web performance advice for 2018, on @KeyCDN@twitter.com https://www.keycdn.com/blog/web-performance-advice-2018/ With @CSSWizardry @Mishunov @AaronGustafson@twitter.com @SmashingMag @chriscoyier@twitter.com & others #performance #a11y
The @W3C JSON-LD Working Group has been chartered to update the JSON-LD 1.0 specifications https://www.w3.org/2018/03/jsonld-wg-charter.html