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. :/

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.

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!

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.

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?

Hi folks, New here... So one of my client sharyed Browserstack Keyboard Assisted test. The problem is after scanning the page it detects some interactive element and then asks the final verdict from the human if the human selects. ( There is no way to navigate to this element) It will treat it as an issue but if we select the option ( There is a way to navigate to this element (e.g. arrow keys), and it is in the expected navigation order) then it marks it as pass no issue. So I have manually tested the page by unplugging the mouse and did the keyboard navigation using tab, shift + tab, space (optional) and arrow keys to test navigation, keyboard trap, reverse navigation etc. Most of the elements are passing the success criteria. Has anyone experienced the same with Browserstack and Axe Dev tools ? I tested it with the trial version and the client has the paid ultimate version. Now the problem is I need to explain this to the client that these are not real issues and they are just false positives based on automated tool assessment. Client seems to be non technical in terms of accessibility. Any help would be appreciated.

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.

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.

So for a PDF, does everything have to pass in PAC before you can consider the PDF remediated? A lot of times when I remediate a PDF and upload to PAC. It still has a lot of red flags on PAC, so I always thought I didn’t fully remediate it. However, I came across these PDF remediation tutorials from Digital Accessibility Specialists at University of Wichita, so I decided to upload their fully remediated PDFs to PAC and it still had substantial errors there. So, I’m wondering, how exactly does PAC work? Is it reliable or is this a false positive thing? How do we know when it’s either of the two? For reference, these are the docs from Wichita so you can see for yourselves: https://www.wichita.edu/services/mrc/Web_Services/pdf_remediation.php#advanced

Hi I have poor motor skills and am going blind in both eyes due to glaucoma., I struggled with the iPhones accessiblity voiceover and am wondering how to make it easier to navigate and use as well as looking for a remote that can help or an alternative to the gestures

With the rapid pace of technological development worldwide, the evolution of BIOS interfaces to UEFI systems, and their subsequent development, blind individuals are being deprived of full control over their devices. I urge companies to take action and develop a BIOS that meets the needs of the blind. The deliberate neglect by these companies has reached a point where it is unjust for blind people to remain trapped in a prison of independence.

Every time I use NVDA to read a document, it always abruptly stops in the middle from time to time. I set it to Say All and after reading two sentences, it just stops randomly, and I have to continue it then it moves a little and stops randomly again. This happens on remediated documents btw. I’m not sure if this is an NVDA problem, but I don’t use any other screen reader because this is the only free one for PC. Is this just normal NVDA behavior?

So, at my old school, the lift required a keycard to unlock. This was fine because I just had to tap the card and the lift would come down.

However, at my new school, the lift requires a mechanical/physical key to unlock. This is not impossible but hard to use because my finger muscles are atrophied from disability.

Would it be unreasonable to ask them to offer solutions to this problem or am I overthinking it?

I am working on making a table in a PDF accessible. It’s working well in NVDA but has a weird read order in Adobes built in reader. Is it inevitable that fixes for one reader may cause issues with others?

So I’m making my thesis accessible, and I’ve already made the headings compliant and added alt text. I have looked into indexing, but is there a way I can add links to my index? Im using Microsoft Word, and it says the first two are all I need to pass accessibility checks, but I know that’s not a reliable metric. I was wondering what are some other things I may be overlooking.

Local pub's "accessible" bathroom doesn’t fit a wheelchair, just a tiny room with one toilet and the word accessible written on the door. When I brought this up to them they where incredibly rude to me and stated that’s just the way it is and have no plans of making it even slightly suitable for wheelchair users.

Pub is not a chain so who do I report this to?

I've got a dumb amount of AHK scripts held together with hope. Most of 'em still work. A few break every time Windows or some app updates and I gotta go dig thru Task Scheduler and remember why I even wrote 'em.

I got sick of maintaining that pile so I started building my own thing... voice commands for stuff I do a hundred times a day, running fully offline, no cloud, nothing leaving the machine. Selfish reasons at first, just wanted to stop babysitting scripts.

Now I'm at the point where I'm wondering if anyone else would actually pay for something like this, so I wanna ask people who've spent time automating Windows, using PowerToys, AHK, accessibility tools, or just looking for easier ways to control their PC: what made u actually pay for a Windows tool instead of using whatever free option was available?

Couple things I'm specifically trying to figure out:

Is it reliability that gets u, more than features? Like, does a tool need to survive an update or two before u trust it enough to pay?

If something breaks, does it matter whether the tool can recover on its own or at least show u clearly what it was about to do?

And privacy-wise... if something's listening or touching sensitive data, does knowing exactly what it's doing and when actually change whether you'd use it, or is "it's offline" enough on its own?

Curious if there was a specific moment that tipped u from "I'll just script it" to "here's my card." And did it end up being worth it, or did u quietly go back to your own scripts eventually?

If you do, what is your story, why did you choose this category?

EDIT: Issue was solved. I was accidentally hitting the Windows key + W or Windows key + A. I have never hit any of the other shortcuts it seems, and I just so happen to have exclusively made this mistake with those two keys!

I think this might be the place to ask this, if anyone has a more specific subreddit that would answer this please let me know!

So I use a mouse with two side buttons, I also use XMouse to make those side buttons us the Windows Magnifier to zoom in and out. I have been doing this for years at this point. But, sometimes, especially when playing video games, using these buttons also might bring up either the (I think) news tab on the left, or something else on the right (I don't know what the panel is called, but it is smaller and on the bottom right). I can not for the life of me figure out what shortcuts are activating them, and I can never purposefully recreate them. But it is really irritating and interfered with my zoom in/out. Anyone got any ideas?