Questions tagged [accessibility]
Questions that discuss the usability of Stack Exchange sites by people with disabilities.
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Answer containing special characters to allegedly prevent AI from training on it
I came across this answer that says:
The following text is special to prevent AI from training on it.
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ผะต ๐ะพ ิั๐ะตั๐โ
ผั ๐ะต๐ ๐ีฐะต ะฐิิ๐ะต๐๐ ะพ๐ฟ ะฐ ๐ั๏ฝแฏะพโ
ผ ีฝ๐ัีธ๐ โ
ผัีธ๐ะต๐ ๐ั๐ัั๐๐...
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Add comment guidance has very low contrast text [duplicate]
This showed up the first time I added a comment:
The black on dark blue is very hard to read. I think it should use the standard code colour of code. so it would look like:
Comments use mini-...
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Hide search tooltip when focus moves away from search [duplicate]
I wanted to test out the new focus styles using the guidance on this comment. When I tabbed into the search box, the tooltip showing how to search popped up, which is fine. But when I tabbed out of ...
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New Focus Styles & Updated Styling for Button Groups
New Focus Styles
Weโve released a design update to focus styles across the many components within our design system and as well as a new design for our button group component. See more details on how ...
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Tapping on username while commenting after @ symbol with a high probability leads to invalid system response on touch screen devices
It's very hard to correctly select user name while commenting on mobile devices. Even when tap is marked inside the tooltip with username, as the result system decided that I tapped on the link from ...
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Improve accessible in-page navigation (e.g., for screen readers) by having header elements for answers
When using a screen reader, it's difficult to navigate between answers on question pages
I'm wondering if there is any way that each answer could be marked as a heading to make it easier to skip ...
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Your gifs make me sick: Please disable auto-play
On Stack Exchange, gifs play automatically. See the lower part of this answer for an example without too much motion/flashing.
To many people, autoplay is merely an annoyance. However, to ...
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I am not able to figure out whether I voted or not and this is wasting my effort [duplicate]
I am not able to figure out whether I voted or not because of the colour of up and down buttons and this is wasting my effort because I do try to vote and then it tells me that I have already voted. ...
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Differentiating clickable and downloadable links in Stack Overflow Blog post
When accessing the Stack Overflow Blog post via mobile data, it becomes crucial to distinguish between clickable links and downloadable PDFs. The ability to identify and ignore PDF links can help ...
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How do I write an accessible Stack Exchange post?
Accessibility is important for making sure that posts and content on the Stack Exchange network can be read and understood by as many people as possible, including people with disabilities. Because ...
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Update: New Colors Launched
November 22, 2023: To help with internal managing issues, you may see a reference number added next to the status tag on your post. These numbers don't determine the order or priority of issues but ...
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New colors launched
November 21, 2023: To help with internal managing issues, you may see a reference number added next to the status tag on your post. These numbers don't determine the order or priority of issues but ...
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Button visibility on not-logged-in panel [duplicate]
It took me about a week to realise this was a dismissible popupโthe button is extremely well hidden. Is this the right way to raise an accessibility issue?
The HTML is:
<div class="flex--item ...
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Is there a consolidated source of accessibility guidelines for users posting questions/answers? [duplicate]
While Stack Exchange itself tries to be as accessible as possible, I have been unsuccessful in finding anything to help users in their posting accessible questions/answers.
Is there a consolidated ...
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Podcast Episode Ep. 586 doesn't have a transcript
The transcript for this podcast seems to be the episode notes - and while the title "Developers use AI tools, they just donโt trust them" is interesting, I don't do great with audio only ...