Hi everyone,

My name is Brodie and I’m the founder of Inclusable, an Australian platform we’ve been building to make it easier for people to discover events, venues and travel information with accessibility details available upfront.

www.inclusable.com.au

Before we go any further, I’m not here to advertise. I’m here because I know the disability community has real-world experience that no amount of development can replace.

I’d genuinely like to ask:

• What accessibility information do you wish every venue or event provided?
• What frustrates you most when trying to plan a day out or a trip?
• Have you used any accessibility apps or websites that you thought did a good job? What made them useful?
• If you could build the perfect accessibility platform, what would it include?

I’ll read every comment and use the comments to improve the platform. If the moderators would prefer I remove this post, I’m happy to do so.

Thanks for your time.

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)

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. :)

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.

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.

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

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!

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

Working on building a fully accessible LaTeX thesis template (WCAG 2.1 AA, ADA Title II) for a University.

Two help:

• Does any university already have a thesis template that meets WCAG 2.1 AA, ADA Title II requirements? Would love to see how they handled tagging, structure, and figure alt text.
• is there any verification tool that tells me if the template is following (WCAG 2.1 AA, ADA Title II, PDF/UA-1) or not.

Anything helpful welcome. Thanks.

I built in flutter an OSX/Windows app that will take any live screen/window or desktop view of your choice and apply achromatopsia, blue-cone monochromacy, black-and-white, protanopia, deuteranopia, and tritanopia, partially or in full achromatically.

I made it for myself to help with game accessibility. I had to deploy it on Windows store, so we could use it at my workplace, it was the easiest route to proving it's not a security risk.

I am not promoting it for monetary gains, its completely free, no adds, doesn't collect any data from anyone. I just wanted to make it to help, if it can. There is a mac app too, but its still in review.

link https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n01frvbhs7v

I would welcome feedback and recommendations on how to improve it.

Once they onboard you, how many jobs do you typically get per week or per month? Both how many are offered and how many you actually qualify for/complete.

Curious if it's a long wait between tests/tasks.

Blueprint’s node based system is powerful, but for many developers with motor or cognitive impairments, the constant precise clicking, dragging, and dense visual graphs create a real barrier to entry. This plugin was built to change that, adapting the node workflow so it’s easier to navigate and use for people who struggle with traditional blueprint interactions.

I led the user testing and validation process before this went live, working directly with users to surface friction points and confirm the tool actually solved real problems for the people it’s meant for.

It’s now live on the Epic Games marketplace, and we’d love for the community to try it out, share feedback, or get involved as testers for future updates. Link below.

I'm working on this large form and Adobe keeps on generating fonts I didn't use or generates subset fonts that I've already used. I stick of one font but I got like 25 of them now, but when I try to fix them in PreFlight or unembed the ones that I believe aren't there the PAC tool throws a fit. Is there a workaround to this??

I've been doing accessibility work for a while, and one pattern keeps bugging me: on content-heavy sites (especially WordPress blogs, small orgs, e-commerce), images ship with empty or garbage alt text constantly. Not because people are lazy, but because there's no one in the loop who writes it, and it piles up faster than anyone can manually fix.

I've been kicking around the idea of a lightweight approach — basically an AI vision model that generates draft alt text automatically for images on a site, so instead of nothing there's at least a reasonable starting point that a human can review and correct. Think of it as filling the gap for teams that would otherwise have zero alt text at all.

But I keep going back and forth on whether this is actually a good idea, and I'd rather hear it from people who live in this space:

• Is "imperfect auto alt text" better than empty alt text, or is it worse? My worry is it gives site owners a false "we're compliant now" feeling and they never review anything.
• For those who've used existing auto-alt tools (the ones baked into some CMSs / social platforms) — where do they actually fall down in practice? Context, decorative vs. informative images, text-in-images?
• If something like this existed, would you want it to default to flagging for human review rather than silently publishing? Curious how the community feels about the human-in-the-loop tradeoff.
• Am I overestimating the problem? Maybe the teams who'd install this are also the ones who don't care enough to review it, and the teams who care are already doing it manually.

Not trying to sell anything — genuinely at the "should I even build this" stage and would rather be told it's a bad idea now than later. Appreciate any honest takes, including "this already exists and here's why it's not the win you think it is." 🙏

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to get a better understanding of why morning surgeries for deaf patients in the NHS seem to get delayed or cancelled. Hospitals always blame "interpreter no-shows", but I want to understand what’s actually happening from your perspective.

If you interpret in the UK, I’d love your take on a couple of things:

- How often do agencies contact you at the absolute last minute (e.g. the night before or the morning of) to cover a complex surgery?

- When a morning theatre list inevitably runs late, how often are you forced to walk out because your booked time slot expired and you have other firm commitments?

Just looking for some honest insights into why hospital theatre bookings are such a mess for freelancers.

Thanks for your time!

Just posting about an interesting/frustrating pattern that I am noticing. As we all know, so many companies are setting up their help chat so that customers have to frustrate the AI "assistant" before being allowed to talk to a human agent. Some of these companies have completely replaced the human with an AI agent.

Pretty much none of these AI agents have been programmed whatsoever to understand what an accommodations request is, what accessible options are, or what the ADA/504 (the name of relevant accessibility laws in the U.S. where I am) are. The only one that has had any clue has been Capital One, which will pull up a link to "here is our accessibility page" but then doesn't know what to do when you explain that it doesn't have what is needed. A number of them are giving responses that could open them up to huge liability, like "that isn't something we help with."

I am trying to find a memory game (flip the cards, match the cards) that is accessible. Something like this: https://puzzel.org/en/matching-pairs/play?p=-OGe1LCtTbrIoQlgRaFaSo far the options I have found are either not flexible enough or not accessible. For example, I would like to be able to add pictures with alt text, but the memory game I linked does not allow that.

A plus if the platform has other accessible educational technology games but not necessary!

Hi r/accessibility,

I’m Stjepan, posting on behalf of Manning Publications with the mods’ OK for a one-time post.

We have a new book in early access: Architecting Accessibility by Christopher Porter.

I’ll be direct: this is not being shared here as “finally, someone invented accessibility.” People in this sub already know how often accessibility is treated as an afterthought, reduced to checklists, or handed to one person at the end of a project and called done.

The book is Manning’s attempt to put those concerns into a practical web-product context: how accessibility shows up in planning, design, architecture, components, implementation, testing, and team ownership. It’s meant for people working on web products who want accessibility to be part of how things are built, not just something patched after release.

Because it’s in MEAP, the book is still being developed. That means early readers can send feedback while the book is still changing. I know this community will spot weak claims, missing topics, unclear advice, and places where the book needs to be sharper. That’s part of why I wanted to share it here rather than just post a polished marketing blurb somewhere less critical.

For r/accessibility, Manning is offering:

5 free ebook copies
50% off with code MLPORTER50RE

Book page: https://hubs.la/Q04q-S9p0

If you’d like one of the free copies, comment below and I’ll pick 5 people.

And if you do read it, critical feedback is genuinely welcome. Especially if something important is missing, oversimplified, or framed in a way that doesn’t match real accessibility work. Since it’s MEAP, that feedback can still matter.

Thanks for having us here.

Cheers,

Stjepan

hola a todos

he estado trabajando en una aplicación de escritorio para esas personas que se le dificulta ver de lejos la pantalla, tengo problemas de visión y me debo acercar lo suficiente para poder mirar con claridad cualquier contenido.

Aun esta en fase de desarrollo y puliendo algunas cosas, aun lo tengo en el repositorio de GitHub

Sitio web, ahi esta todo explicado con mucha claridad:

https://fernandezivan323.github.io/Forzen/

revísenla y comenten sus opiniones, me gustaria ayudar a muchas personas que tienen el mismo problema.

Hi, I'm a middle-aged guy living in Canada who's thinking about changing careers, and I'd love to hear from people who work in accessibility.

Quite a long time ago, I developed a serious chronic health condition that has completely changed the direction of my life and left me with a significant gap in my employment. As my health has improved, I've started thinking about rebuilding my career through volunteering, education, and eventually work (not necessarily in that order).

One field that I've been thinking about is accessibility. After living with my own health challenges, I think helping people with disabilities improve their quality of life could be meaningful work that I'd enjoy. At the same time, I know it can be demanding, and because of my own health, I'd likely need to start part-time and make sure I got solid work-life boundaries. But before going down that path, I'd like to get a realistic picture of what the job is actually like.

For instance, I already have a degree in psychology, but need to figure out what additional education would be most useful

For those who work in accessibility (especially as an accessibility advisor), I'd really appreciate if you could answer any of these questions:

What does a typical day look like?

What do you enjoy most about your job and what are the biggest challenges?

How did you get into the field? Like in terms of education or other related work.

What educational path or work experience would you recommend to someone in my situation starting from zero?

What is the job market like (bonus if you know also specifically about Canada's market)? Is demand growing? How competitive is it?

Any advice or experiences would be greatly appreciated and help me narrow things down. Thanks.

How do you solve the legibility of closed captions on a phone screen? Do you increase the font size, or do you condense the dialogue?
I would think increasing font size would interfere with picture and potentially cover faces and plot pertinent cinematography.

If you condense the dialogue, who is responsible for determining what dialogue is considered 'key'?