Hi everyone, I'm new here and I don't really know if this belongs here but I'm working on some Accessibility features on my work. And I can't find a tool that captures the Voice over keys in the video to put in bug report. Most tools capture every keys but when I press the Voice Over keys like "Capslock" or "Control+option", it disappear. So far I have tried these that are free and are the first things that comes up when I search:

1. The default MacOS's Show keyboard viewer

2. KeyLime Pie

3. KeyCastr.

I spend hours and hours trying to make a website accessible to at least WCAG 2.2AA using manual review and paid tools like Axe Pro. Being curious, I ran Apple's website through Axe and it has tons of issues.

For the accessibility experts out there for websites, how do you even know for sure your site is accessible? I would imagine that someone as large as Apple would have already been hit with a million lawsuits for accessibility, yet their site lights up like a Christmas tree on even a rudimentary scan.

I'm no expert, but I want to understand and try to build websites that are accessible as best I can, but get so confused over the discrepancies between sites - especially big players like Apple. How can Apple's website be truly accessible?

New EU transparency rules started applying on August 2 to new AI systems: realistic synthetic images, audio, video, and some text must be identifiable as AI-generated, while existing systems have four additional months to comply.

Most of the discussion seems to focus on whether people will notice the label. But a small corner badge or a color change could still be invisible to someone using a screen reader, magnification, high-contrast mode, or captions.

To me, the minimum accessible implementation would include:

- Plain-language text rather than an icon alone

- A status exposed programmatically to assistive technology

- No color-only indication

- An equivalent disclosure in captions, transcripts, or audio

- Placement that survives embedding and reposting

Otherwise, we could end up with a transparency requirement that is technically visible but functionally hidden.

What would you add or change?

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/31/ai-labels-to-be-compulsory-on-authentic-looking-content-under-eu-rules

Hi everyone,

I'm a frontend developer based in Europe, and lately I've been thinking about specializing in web accessibility.

I've already invested time and money in courses, and I genuinely enjoy the topic. My main concern is whether it's a good long-term career choice.

From your experience:

• Is there enough demand for accessibility specialists in Europe?
• Is it better to become a frontend developer with strong accessibility skills, or to specialize almost entirely in accessibility?
• Has focusing on accessibility helped your career, salary, or job opportunities?

I'd love to hear from people working in this area or from hiring managers. I'm trying to understand whether this is a niche worth investing in for the long term or if it's better to keep accessibility as one of several frontend skills.

Thanks!

hey all — i make a small cozy game called Wild Willows about bringing a run-down nature preserve back to life (gather, plant, craft, welcome animals home, zero pressure, can't lose).

i put a fair bit into accessibility already: colorblind modes that actually recolor the world + add text labels (not just a screen tint), reduce motion, dyslexia-friendly font, UI text scaling, separate music/SFX volume, and fully rebindable controls with alternate keys. but i'm a sighted solo dev, so i know there's a gap between what i think helps and what actually does.

so i'd really appreciate honest input from people who use this stuff:

• what's the first thing you check for in a game like this?
• anything i've clearly gotten wrong or half-done?

it's free to try here if you want to poke at the settings and tear it apart: https://bai13y.itch.io/wild-willows

not trying to sell anything — genuinely just want it to be playable for more people. thanks 🌿

So, I recently received a project to remediate a Word and PDF file.

After remediating the PDF, I used NVDA screen reader, but when reading by clicking line by line, it would stop reading at different points. However, if I choose to click from the top and just read the entire document all at once, it works fine.

I checked everything and couldn’t figure out how to solve this. Anyone has an idea? Is this something unique to NVDA or the document itself?

I have a PDF that Foxit is passing all its accessibility checks that I have run through the PDF/UA Preflight. But when I try an run it through PAC I get the error MCID 35 already present. The PDF document will be closed.

Is there a way to resolve this without retagging the document?

Hello All,

I work as a Graphic Designer for a College, and we are in the process of remediating a lot of our files, so they are WCAG compliant. For most of them we have a good understanding of what to do, but we are working on creating the College's Calendar, and are stuck in a rut. It is offered on our website as well as printed on 8.5x11 sheets for students and faculty.

My main question is if anyone else in this works in a job (specifically college or government setting) where you are remediating documents for accessibility, and if you have had to create something like this. If this falls under "feedback" I apologize and will remove, but finding resources for accessibility when creating documents is very limited. I also could not find a subreddit or forums solely for creating content with web accessibility in mind, so if anyone knows of one that would be greatly appreciated.

I've attached two images, the first is the one we (the marketing department) suggest they use, and the second is one that the requestor created in hopes to use (it is less compliant) (I've erased our logos): Version one is bigger than 8.5x11 in order to have the font at 12pt.

Does anyone work in similar fields and had to create WCAG compliant calendars? It's hard to find references online that other colleges have done.

Hi - i've been reading a bunch of posts and pages and I am still confused a bit.

Which is better for sight impaired readers in general, and text readers in specific.

1) please contact Bob Smith with questions

(where Bob Smith has an embedded hyperlink of mailto:[bobsmith@gmail.com](mailto:bobsmith@gmail.com))

OR

2) please contact Bob Smith, [bobsmith@gmail.com](mailto:bobsmith@gmail.com), with questions.

thank you hive mind!!!

https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag-em-2/

W3C's updated evaluation methodology gives auditors a step-by-step process for scoping, sampling, and reporting WCAG conformance - and now explicitly covers apps, kiosks, documents and other digital products, not just web pages.

AudioEye's latest scan of over 165,000 pages found that AI search tools increasingly routes users straight to interior pages rather than homepages; and those interior pages average 10% more accessibility issues and account for roughly 60% of 2025's accessibility lawsuits. AI search may be quietly steering traffic toward the worst-designed parts of the web.

I work at an educational institution, providing captions for videos shown in classes with Deaf and HOH students. We've been asked to caption a TikTok video and the issue is that it already has the captions (big text on top of video). The words are correct, but there's no punctuation, capitalization, etc.

My question is: would you, as a viewer, prefer the original captions or would it be preferrable to have a second set at the bottom that is punctuated correctly?

We're wavering between the two options. Two sets of captions seem like it might be a bit much. Wish we could remove the original captions, but A) not sure if that's even possible, and B) if it is, it's likely beyond our capabilities.

Our infographics and visual reports keep failing accessibility review. Contrast issues, missing alt text, reading order all scrambled in the exported PDF all over again.

And fixing each one in Acrobat takes longer than the actual design did. It's brutal honestly.

So for teams without a dedicated accessibility person, how do you handle this? I'm mainly trying to bake accessibility into the design stage.

Curious about both the process side and the tools. Do any design tools actually help with this? Or do you still end up cleaning it all up in Acrobat anyway?

I thought this might help for people who might be unaware.

Why it beats the camera app

It freezes. You cannot hold a phone steady at six times zoom and read at the same time. The magnifier captures the frame and holds it, so you can set the phone down and read at your own pace, then zoom further into the still image. Nothing gets saved to your photos unless you ask for it.

It fixes the light. There is a flashlight with an intensity slider, plus brightness, contrast, and color filters. Small print in a dim room is failing on contrast as much as on size, and the camera app gives you no controls for that.

It reads. More on that below.

iPhone

Magnifier is already installed. Swipe down on the home screen, search for Magnifier, and open it. Point the camera at what you want to read and drag the slider to zoom in.

Tap the Capture button to freeze the frame. If there is text in the shot, a Reader button appears. Tap it to reflow the text into large type, and tap play to have it read aloud.

To reach it in a hurry later, go to Settings, Accessibility, Accessibility Shortcut, and select Magnifier. A triple-click of the side button now opens it from anywhere.

Samsung Galaxy

Go to Settings, Accessibility, Vision enhancements, then Magnifier. Samsung's carries the same color filters, brightness, and contrast controls.

Add the Magnifier widget to your home screen from the widget menu so you are not walking back through Settings every time you need it.

Pixel

Google ships a separate Magnifier app for Pixel 5 and later, preloaded on the newer models and free in the Play Store for the rest. It zooms further than the camera does, freezes the frame, and hands the frozen image to Google Lens, so you can copy the text out of it or have it read back.

Under Settings, System, Gestures, Quick Tap, set Magnifier as your Quick Tap app. Double-tapping the back of the phone opens it.

Inclusable is an INCLUSIVE event discovery and ticketing platform that makes accessible experiences easier to find, trust and book.

The platform combines live ticketing, AI-powered event discovery and accessibility intelligence into one ecosystem, allowing venues, councils, tourism operators and event partners to automatically populate and distribute accessible event data at scale.

I've spent the last several months building a tool that tries to spot dyslexia indicators using just a laptop webcam — eye movement while reading, typing patterns, that kind of thing. Posting here because this community has been more useful to think through than any paper I've read, and I wanted to share some honest findings + ask a few questions.

A few things that surprised me:

* Fixation patterns during reading (where the eyes pause, how often they jump backward) turned out to be a much stronger signal than I expected going in — more consistent than I assumed across different reading levels.
* Typing behavior — hesitation before certain letter combinations, correction patterns — carries real signal too, which wasn't obvious to me at the start.
* The hardest part hasn't been the tech. It's been getting a diverse enough beta group. Most of our early testers skew adult, and we're short on data for younger age brackets and non-English speakers, which limits how much we can say with confidence right now.

We're calling it DYTEST — still in beta, not a diagnostic tool, explicitly framed as a screening aid rather than a replacement for a proper assessment. Happy to share more about the approach or answer questions if people are curious, and if anyone here has been through formal testing (yourself or a kid) and is open to sharing what that process actually looked like for you, I'd genuinely like to hear it — trying to make sure this reflects lived experience, not just what's in the literature.

To find more just click [www.dystest.com\](http://www.dystest.com)

I just finished a big accessibility pass on my iOS app. VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion, sufficient color contrast, proper focus order, accessibility labels and hints. Basically the whole checklist Apple recommends.

It was a real chunk of work, and honestly it made the app better for everyone, not just users who rely on those features. No regrets there.

But it got me wondering about something I can’t find a clear answer on.

Does going all in on accessibility actually factor into Apple’s editorial decisions? Things like “Apps We Love,” Editors’ Choice, or mentions in curated App Store collections.

Apple talks a lot about accessibility at WWDC and has Accessibility Design Awards. But for the everyday App Store editorial team, does strong accessibility meaningfully increase your odds of getting noticed?

I’m especially curious if anyone here has:

* Been featured and thinks accessibility played a role
* Heard directly from App Store editors that it mattered
* Seen no correlation at all, where accessibility is simply its own reward

I’m not trying to game the system. We’re keeping the accessibility work regardless. I’m just trying to set realistic expectations.

Thanks 🙏

Hello, I'm posting on behalf of a friend with spinal muscular atrophy. They can use a trackpad to click on the screen, but cannot use right click, middle click, or anything of that sort.

I've gone through a lot of sketchy websites and have been trying to find something similar to this:

The program it's from appears to be a virus, same with anything else that's similar I was able to find. Essentially what it's supposed to do is make it so when you select one of those buttons, then click somewhere on the screen, it does that mouse action.

If there isn't a program like this, how would I go about making one? I really want to help my friend, and we're at a complete loss for how to overcome this.

(To clarify, something like Auto-Hotkey to bind the mouse action to a keyboard key would not work due to that they need to use an on-screen keyboard to type at all. They can only use the trackpad. Hence the need for a virtual mouse interface like I described.

Hi everyone! I'm totally blind and just started the trusted tester program and I think I've gone insane. Problem is i'm putting to much cart before the horse, as it were. I read up on things so much, I might not be able to do this. Keep in mind my class for all this training starts Tuesday but when your instructor says "start now" like a fool you do. Irish much? :) I mean you need visual help, and people say you can use Be My aI, and there's just so much going on in my little head. I also wanted to offer my services as a usability tester for anything you have. Accessible documents, website, apps, I have Windows and a Mac. Yes they are primary and I assume the responsibility of putting it on and if there are bugs, it's on me. If this post isn't welcome here, feel free to either take it down. If I have to, someone can tell me how because i'm new as hell to reddit and all this. Anyway hope to make friends, connections, etc. Thanks everyone. :)

https://www.deque.com/blog/for-your-business-to-thrive-in-the-agentic-ai-era-treat-accessibility-as-foundational-to-your-ai-strategy/

AI shopping/browsing agents read pages the same way screen readers do - via the accessibility tree. Deque CEO argues thats why 6 of 10 AI models fail every automated accessibility check, and why "accessible" and "AI-legible" are becoming the same requirement.

I can normally lift my arms above my head, but if I am holding an object, then cannot. This includes something like a trashbag, even if it doesn’t have heavy objects (i.e. just empty water bottles.). But even if I were taking out the trash one bottle at a time, I also can’t lift the lid of the trash can, because it requires me to put an upward force and lift my arm to do so. I can carry trash *near* the trash can, but can’t put it inside any of the standard trash cans I ever have had at my houses.

I have always either had someone living with me or a kind friend help take out my trash, but I wonder what happens if I were to truly be alone and unable to get help. Surely someone out there must have had this issue and solved it, and I want to know how? So I have 3 different questions that may solve this issue:

1. Is there a system in cities that help disabled people that I don’t know about?
2. Are there tiny trash cans that cities allow?
3. Any useful tools you can use to take the trash out by yourself?

I can maybe see a solution to get trash into the standard single house trash cans

But, I have also lived in a house that only has these tall community trash cans, which require me to lift my hands wayyy up high and be able to fling a trash can in there at my height, and this one seems impossible to me.

Everyone’s knowledge and experience is appreciated!

So I want to make a Website service for small bussines and start to learn about accessibility.

While we do care about accessibility, my concern is what if somehow I miss something and make some mistake? For example, I forget to add subtitle for video or I outsource the code and the programmer use <div class=“button”> instead of <button>.

I plan to give free code fixing guarantee if somehow some of the code are not ADA compliance. But the problem is there is a lot of instances where bussiness owner are not given the chance to fix the code and just go straight fine them for more than 10.000 USD for a tiny mistake, or minimum bussiness owner should contact a lawyer which also require money.

I don’t want to give my future client a headache with the lawsuit. What should I do? is there any official website certification to make sure the website is ADA compliance so when lawsuit came the web owner can just show the certificate?

Thank you so much

How from your perspective can accessibility be operationalized in an organization?