I joined host Peter White on BBC Radio 4's In Touch programme ast night, to chat about the forthcoming European Accessibility Act (EAA) and what impact it might have on blind and low vision people in the UK (if any):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002cdh4

Inclusive Design 24 is on 25 September 2025, and our Call For Presenters (CFP) is open until 31 May:
https://inclusivedesign24.org/2025/

#id24 #a11y #accessibility #UX #inclusion #InclusiveDesign #code #gamedev

#Eurovision could be within reach for #UK #Iceland #Netherlands or #Denmark, or #Austria could come out of leftfield, but #Sweden will probably take it.

#SanMarino owning the spirit of #Eurovision

#Eurovision 36 thousand people belting out Waterloo!

#Sweden has the beat, the catchy bit in the middle, and the requisite key change, but I'm just not convinced it'll win #Eurovision

OK #Denmark going for the drop at #Eurovision 🙌

I think #Finland has got the bloke doing the #BBC #Eurovision #AD all a bit flustered.

Well done #Netherlands - can't go wrong at #Eurovision with an "ooh la la" chorus.

Absolutely no idea what #Latvia is up to for #Eurovision. Not a clue.

#Iceland appear to be completely wrapped in tin foil. #Eurovision

#UK channelling Bucks Fizz #Eurovision

My Meta Ray-Ban Glasses apparently think #Eurovision is a "Ukranian TV show".

#Ukraine sounding suspisciously like the theme tune from a dodgy 80s TV show. #Eurovision

Pass me the scissors, I'll sort that tie right out #Estonia #Eurovision

Kudos to the #BBC for live Audio Description for #Eurovision tonight!

#inclusive #TV

@mayank I do, yes. Is something up?

The Privacy Principles are now an @w3c Statement:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-privacy-principles-20250515/

#privacy

We're looking for an Associate Accessibility Specialist to join the @TetraLogical team:
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4229804620

Also here if Linkedin is not your thing:
https://misc.tetralogical.com/careers/2025-05-associate-accessibility-specialist/

Closing date is Wednesday 21 May.

#accessibility #a11y #UK

There are still a few tickets left for the London Web Standards meetup on Tuesday 13 May:
https://londonwebstandards.org/events/lwsmay2025-gaad-week/#tickets

The @TetraLogical team will be there - hope you will too!

Today is the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day.

Remembering my Grandparents who served during World War II in the Merchant Navy, Home Guard, Women's Land Army, and as a hospital Nurse.

Also remembering those forgotten by the history books: the 2.5 million South Asians (including Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims), the 1 million Africans (notably Kenyans), and the 10s of thousands of Caribbeans (notably Jamaicans).

When they fought Fascism they fought it together.

Thank you. #VEDay

Heading to Düsseldorf for @btconf
https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2025

#BTConf

It is [checks watch], Saturday 26 April, and PerlBod just iced the Christmas cake.

No, not next Christmas' cake.

To be fair, it was the spare Christmas cake we made last year; experimentally fed on Triple Sec instead of Brandy.

Though, after feeding it for 6 months, I'm not sure how much we'll care what it tastes like, after the first slice or so...

The splendid @JoeLamyman (member of the @TetraLogical team) is running in the #London #Marathon this weekend, and raising money for #CancerUK whilst he's at it:
https://2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/ca1bf/2025LondonMarathon#!/

Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive
https://blog.archive.org/2025/04/17/take-action-defend-the-internet-archive/

"At a time when digital information is disappearing, being rewritten, or erased entirely, the tools to preserve history must be defended—not dismantled."

I've signed the petition.

Can generative #AI write contextual text descriptions?
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/03/24/can-generative-ai-write-contextual-text-descriptions/

Tesla sales unexpectedly plunge after #Elon #Musk backlash:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g4zp3z1p3o

And all of a sudden, and for absolutely no reason at all, I find myself humming a bit of Fats Domino:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pqs_WZdUdM&t=19s

The WebAIM Million 2025 report is out:
https://webaim.org/projects/million/

I remain bemused to find that https://tink.uk is one of the million; number 792,234 by popularity, with a WAVE accessibility rank of 23,256.

0 #accessibility issues detected through automation 😅

We're looking for someone to join the @TetraLogical team as an accessibility Specialist.

If you're resident in the UK, you can apply on Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4197046475/

Or directly:
https://misc.tetralogical.com/careers/2025-03-accessibility-specialist/

#accessibility #a11y #assessments #audits #jobs #jobsearch

The Atlantic posts Signal chat with attack plans from Hegseth:
https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-atlantic-war-plans-signal-yemen-houthis-c0addd08c627ab01a37ea63621cb695e

That useful British phrase "couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery" comes to mind.

Can't imagine why, really.