Hello! I had a question about aria-describedby and its proper usage. I have a custom UI form element that is difficult to make accessible using regular semantic means. I was thinking about using aria-describedby and adding additional context to parts of that UI element to be read by screen readers, and hiding that text by using display: none. Is this a valid approach or am I using aria-describedby in a bad way?
I also noticed that I don't get this issue with NVDA.
That was my next step, but I gave up and moved onto other ADA issues. There was an instance where this occurred when a link was within a link. Perhaps there was some bad semantics somewhere. Not having a issue in other applications made me move on, will swing back eventually.
General accessibility question, but does anyone know what the uptake of the Braille keyboard on iOS has been? I see Android added a similar one this year: https://www.cnet.com/news/google-debuts-a-braille-keyboard-for-vision-impaired-android-users/
I am hosting a free webinar on accessibility, if anyone is interested to join
https://my.demio.com/ref/U0eLLHgngfEzRFLB
https://my.demio.com/ref/U0eLLHgngfEzRFLB
Hi @stevefaulkner, I used to be in the web-a11y Slack, but it was attached to an old work email. Could you invite soma@somaholiday.com to the workspace please?
@stevefaulkner can you add me to the web-a11y slack channel? gelatti.paola@gmail.com
done
thank you!
Hey all - I have a question for you. My company is creating a marketing funnel page that would be accessed from an external site (LinkedIn, for example) but not accessed from our website itself. The page will exist on our website and have the same branding. However, our marketing team is insisting on not having a main menu to keep a user focused on the page's call to action. Our accessibility team insists that this goes against accessibility in terms of creating a page that doesn't have a main menu and traps a user on the page. So now it's a conflict of accessibility 101 VS. marketing 101. The two teams are at an impasse. I'm curious if there is a solution or point we're not seeing here and was hoping having an outside pair of eyes on it could help us.
Reading up I realize there may be an actual Slack channel now? Anytime I go to the invite page, it says down for maintenance - how does one go about getting an invite?
