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Screenshots of issues is something we support in many of our paid offerings, but not in axe-core itself. It sounds like the Slack folks implemented their own version of it. If you …

I am one of the maintainers of the axe accessibility testing engine the Slack team is using. It's awesome to see such a detailed writeup of how folks are building on our team's wor…

I think that even just on private machines, this would make some types of legal compliance needlessly difficult. If you ever need to delete that data, for example to comply with a …

I used the Matias Ergo Pro for exactly 14 months. After the first month I bought a second for home. At 13 months (ie, one month out of warranty), the first one started having relia…

This is a neat tool, but unfortunately, text art like this generates is extremely unfriendly to folks that use screen readers. If you do use this for comment documentation, conside…

This is a neat concept! One not-so-obvious accessibility issue with keyboard shortcuts on websites is that if they're too simple (especially single-character), it's easy for them t…

Living in constant fear that a Google algorithm may someday decide to ban our extension without providing a reason, advance notice, or a meaningful appeals process. It feels like t…

My team is still using yarn v1 because we want both dependabot support (rules out yarn v2+ and pnpm) and support for overriding transitive dependency versions to force security fix…

Yes, navigation links that don't behave like normal links are also an accessibility problem[1]. That's a separate issue, though; I don't think it is a reasonable argument against s…

I don't think the article is using unclear wording; I think it is clearly arguing the exact opposite of what you're describing. I think the clearest demonstration of this is the co…

This article starts with a pretty big assumption: > Now, I think we can all agree that, on our desktop computers, we prefer viewing the full-width layout of most web pages. This as…

The article explains the technical details of the render process escape. Contrary to all the current replies to this comment, it does not look to me that this is using a generalize…

I work for Microsoft on a moderately complex chromium extension. We've investigated porting it to Firefox (we've had a small but nonzero minority of users ask about it, and several…

The article notes near the top that extensions are supported, and also answers your other questions.

On Android I use an app called Materialistic, which has a dark mode

Highcharts has put a lot of effort into designing charts to be accessible. They did a presentation about it at my workplace a few months ago and I was impressed by the passion and …

My team at Microsoft maintains an open source browser extension for this called Accessibility Insights ( https://accessibilityinsights.io ), which is what Microsoft recommends inte…

The most popular FOSS screen reader by a very, very large margin is NVDA ( https://www.nvaccess.org ). It is Windows specific, though.

Rolling your own CAPTCHA is very , very likely to introduce accessibility issues for your site. It is the accessibility equivalent of "rolling your own cryptography" for security. …

There are lots of options for automated accessibility scans, but there are many common accessibility issues that aren't feasible to test for with automation. My team at Microsoft r…

Microsoft recently open sourced[1] one of the main tools they use for web accessibility testing. Accessibility Insights for Web ( https://accessibilityinsights.io ) is a Chrome ext…