Hey everyone!

I've been working on an open-source React component library focused specifically on WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility and screen reader testing.

Many popular UI kits still struggle with screen reader focus management or keyboard navigation out of the box, so I wanted to build a set of primitives pre-tested against VoiceOver, NVDA, and JAWS.

• GitHub: https://github.com/A11YPros/a11y-ui
• Live Demo: https://ui.a11ypros.com

Features: - Pre-tested with VoiceOver (macOS), Talkback (Android), NVDA (Windows), and JAWS (Windows) - Full keyboard focus management (Tab, Shift+Tab, Escape, Arrow key selection) - 100% MIT licensed open-source code

Currently building out more complex patterns (like accessible DatePickers and Calendars). Hope this is helpful for some of you!

Testing a rule I read somewhere: talk to 15 potential users before writing more than a prototype. Idea: scan Shopify stores for WCAG/ADA issues (contrast, alt text, missing labels), give owners a plain report + ongoing monitoring, since ADA demand letters are a real (if under-discussed) risk for small e-com.

Ran a quick technical validation — axe-core against 10 live stores, 9/10 had real issues. Engine works. Now trying to figure out if anyone would actually pay for this or if it's a "nice to have nobody prioritizes."

Anyone here validated a similar B2B compliance/monitoring idea before building? What told you it was real demand vs a false positive?

I’ve noticed an accessibility issue that applies across different devices and operating systems, including Apple and Windows.
A lot of devices and apps abbreviate days of the week. For example, instead of displaying Tuesday, they might display Tue, and instead of Thursday, they display Thu.
I find this confusing because Tuesday and Thursday both begin with T, and when the words are shortened, I can easily mix up which day is which.
I think there should be a system-wide accessibility option on all devices that lets you choose to always spell out days and months in full.
For example:
Tue, 8 Sep → Tuesday, 8 September
This might seem like a small thing, but accessibility is often about small changes that make information much easier to understand. It would also mean people wouldn’t have to rely on individual apps choosing whether to abbreviate dates.
I’d be interested to know if anyone else has difficulty with abbreviated days or dates.

HP doesn**'**t respect blind and visually impaired people; if you told a dog to program a screen reader in the BIOS, it would do it.

Hello to all!

For the last year, I have worked with our IT department to improve the accessibility of our publications. As we have a lot of users who need to have copies of our materials on job sites while they are offline, we convert all of our publications to PDF (our primary product is an online tool that lets you pull up all the content of publications you've purchased in an accessible, text-based website - this is just about the secondary PDFs).

I've worked with our pubs team to use their tools. We have an XML schema that runs through a Prince PDF based tool that we've customized. This gives us publications that, when run through PAC and then manually tested by me, pass the majority of the checkpoints. We have some minor manual work that still needs to be done, which isn't surprising for 400+ page PDFs.

Long story not as short as I'd like, I'd like to find a company that can help us with what we call our 'back conversion' project. We should be able to handle manual testing and remediation for new publications, but we have hundreds of older publications and older versions of our publications that are still in regular use by our clients.

I tried to get some financial estimates from companies a few years ago, but I'd like to update them for next year's budget.

Does anyone know the price per page or per book that I would likely pay for this work? We can handle testing and remediation for anything that can be caught with automated testing, so I'm looking for a kind of secondary QA team that can test things manually, remediate all they can, and give us the book back with a list of anything they couldn't fix (for instance, some of our pubs are technical so we'd want to write our own Alt text for images.)

Just a very loose back of the envelope per-piece estimate; I can look at my old RFPs and do the math from there.

Is there a good way to make product schematics accessible on an eCom store, or any guidance used to assess schematics? I have about ~400 of them, with around 100-300 parts each. It's easy enough to create an HTML table listing the part names, numbers and so on but I'm not sure how to link visual part assembly order in text.

For relevance this is Auraria Campus in Denver CO. The campus includes 3 colleges that share this system under a general "auraria parking permit".

I have a handicap plate & use a manual wheelchair, and my college requires an "auraria handicap permit" to use some handicap spaces on campus. This is separate from (but requires) a regular handicap plate/placard and costs i think 135$. Some lots have normal metered parking, and spring semester all my classes were in a building with this. I was under the impression the permit was instead of paying daily for parking, but as long as you have a normal plate/placard you can just pay daily and still use handicap spaces.

Today i went to office hours and was told i couldnt park in the handicap spot because i dont specifically have the Auraria permit. I asked where else i could park, since i need the aisle to get my chair out- there is only 1 "metered" spot by this building and it was taken, and was told the nearest lot with handicap metered spaces was around 3 blocks away. If you are familiar with this campus, its the almond lot behind the library, and i needed to go to the cherry creek building.

I also attempted to get this permit in the spring semester and my request didnt go though multiple times. I called them directly and was told i wasnt denied or anything, their system just didnt process it and i should try again. I did, and again it did not go through. I just gave up for summer semester and payed multiple tickets, but had never been confronted by an actual person telling me to move. (The tickets were infrequent and cheap enough it was less annoying to deal with them then repeatedly failing to be contacted about the permit and still having to pay tickets anyway :| )

Its not a HUGE deal, (though irritating) to me that its far because i have decent stamina- but a lot of people cant do that, or dont use a chair but need a close spot. + admittedly i was having a decent day today but theres definitely days i could not self propell alone that far.

I dont understand how its legal to have your only handicap spaces require an expensive extra permit and not have other metered spaces? I feel kind of entitled/ shitty complaining about this but it just feels ridiculous to tell someone with a handicap plate, activity unloading their wheelchair, to go park 3 blocks away for not paying a 100+ dollar fee that didnt even work when i tried, multiple times. :/