diff --git a/content/notes/re-blindness-awareness-month-ama.md b/content/notes/re-blindness-awareness-month-ama.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a5d7fad --- /dev/null +++ b/content/notes/re-blindness-awareness-month-ama.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +title: "Re: blindness awareness month AMA" +date: 2022-10-07T11:35:57-07:00 +replyURI: "https://mspsocial.net/@bright_helpings/109104639750302917" +replyTitle: "October is Blindness Awareness Month, AMA" +replyType: "SocialMediaPosting" +replyAuthor: "Erik" +replyAuthorURI: "https://cosmolinguist.dreamwidth.org" +--- +The most common and major accessibility (a11y) issues tend to be documented and well-known among a11y practitioners; however, "smaller" or "niche" issues (for lack of a better term) tend to go unnoticed. For instance, I recently learned that over-use of soft-hyphens can trip up the speech synthesis of the NVDA screen reader, and styling superscripts/subscripts a certain way can stop screen readers from announcing them. I also learned about how performance issues can cause delays in screen readers, making content exposed to screen readers fall out-of-sync with the actual page. We won't learn about this in accessibility tutorials or W3C documentation! The only way to discover these issues is to use many screen readers for a long time. + +What are some accessibility hazards---or even mild annoyances---you experience, that you _don't_ think most a11y practitioners learn about? Is there a common annoyance you wouldn't normally bring up because it seems "too minor"? +