WebAIM Million Results Show That Shopping Sites Have Worst Accessibility, by @cerovac_a11y:

https://cerovac.com/a11y/2025/04/webaim-million-results-show-that-shopping-sites-have-worst-accessibility/

The #GAAD Foundation is partnering with #WebAIM to collect and share anonymized salary and other job-related data with the first annual Global Digital #Accessibility Salary #Survey (GDASS). The goal is to inform both organizations investing or ready to invest in accessibility, as well as the people who make technology or digital products accessible as they start or progress in their careers.

Complete the survey at https://gaad.foundation/what-we-do/gdass
#A11Y

Just did the "Global Digital Accessibility Salary Survey" by #WebAim. Looking forward to the results!

If you want to participate, go here:

https://webaim.org/projects/salary/survey

The link on the website shown after submitting the survey is wrong, by the way...

Barrierefreiheit wird bald zur Pflicht: Was Firmen an ihren Websites ändern müssen

https://www.golem.de/news/barrierefreiheit-deutsche-webseiten-sind-versetzungsgefaehrdet-2409-188655.html

listening to the #WebAIM #accessibility conference today! https://conference.webaim.org/schedule

Used my Saturday morning rainy cafe run to work on my #WebAIM conference slides. The first time I have brought anything other than a book with me. I must be panicking. At least this time none of the 7am crowd asked me what kind of pedestrian book I was reading (though there was a side conversation about remote gaming and VTTs).

1½ weeks to me rambling about tables:
https://conference.webaim.org/schedule

The votes are in, looks like #biden won this one, sorry #trump

"Both sites are better than average pages found in the #WebAIM Million, but both could improve significantly with a few relatively simple changes that would not require throwing out an entire widget or design. They would just involve tweaks to what’s already there."

https://webaim.org/blog/2024-campaign-site-accessibility/

While I am on my #accessibility soapbox, happy 10th anniversary to WebAIM for their recently released screen reader user survey at https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/ I have learned so much from #WebAIM over the years back when I was in the vibrant accessibility community on the bird site. If someone asks for a starting point to learn about accessibility, I will give them links to WebAIM. It's perfect for developers, engineers, and my own #TechWriting community. They have advice on colour contrast, font sizes, linking, and so much more that is just the teensy tiny tip of the iceberg.You have to start somewhere, and the small things can actually make a big difference and encourage you to learn more. #techcomm

As a front-end developer, there are some things that jumped out to me in the recent screen-reader survey. I'll share a couple of them, but keep in mind that I don't typically use a screen reader myself. You can take a look at the results yourself at:

https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/

@frontend #a11y #accessibility #WebAIM #frontend

#WebAIM: Screen Reader User Survey #10 Results: https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/ #ScreenReader #Blind #VisuallyImpaired

A few words on the results of the #WebAIM Screen Reader #a11y survey, as they have just come out:

The results are likely not very representative of current screen reader usage at all, as the survey targets the same audiences each year. They are completely missing out on #blind people who are not as competent with computers - and to become competent gets harder and harder each year.

Continues as a thread.

Oof!

> Respondents without disabilities were nearly 3 times more likely to use Mac OS than respondents with disabilities.

https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/

The tenth #WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey results are out!

https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/

Is anybody out there a master at using the Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool WAVE from WebAIM? I'm working on contrast issues on this dev project. It finds SOME low contrast but seems to think the stats buttons for OK and entropy are just dandy when they’re clearly super low contrast.

Finally got around to completing the #WebAIM Screen Reader Survey and noticed that they still list Window Eyes as a choice for primary screen readers. Is anyone still using Window Eyes in 2024? Surely updates to UIA and #accessibility APIs in Windows 10 have rendered it almost unusable at this point for real productivity, let alone Windows 11.

#WebAim #Screenreader survey is open until January 31, 2024. If you're a Screenreader user or know someone who is, ask them if they want to participate.

I always found the results very interesting, especially when it came to headings / heading levels. It helped to make a point why this is so important (and easy to implement and fix).

https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/

I don't think #WebAIM has an account on the fediverse yet, but the 10th iteration of their Screen Ready survey is now live.

The vital #a11y insights created from these surveys help inform our understanding of the technological and usability landscape. This helps to shape how accessible, and importantly usable experiences are created on the web.

If you use a screen reader, I hope you'll please consider filling it out: https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/survey

Voice of contention: my slides from the #WebAIM conference today:
https://decks.tink.uk/2023/webaim/WebAIM_Voice-of-contention.pptx