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Questions tagged [accessibility]

Questions that discuss the usability of Stack Exchange sites by people with disabilities.

25 votes
5 answers
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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. ั–๐— ั–๐‘ˆ ั€ะพ๐‘ˆ๐‘ˆั–แ–ฏโ…ผะต ๐—ะพ ิั–๐—‹ะตั๐—โ…ผัƒ ๐‘ˆะต๐— ๐—ีฐะต ะฐิิ๐—‹ะต๐‘ˆ๐‘ˆ ะพ๐–ฟ ะฐ ๐‘ˆัƒ๏ฝแ–ฏะพโ…ผ ีฝ๐‘ˆั–ีธ๐—€ โ…ผั–ีธ๐—„ะต๐—‹ ๐‘ˆั๐—‹ั–ั€๐—๐‘ˆ...
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3 votes
0 answers
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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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1 vote
0 answers
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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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69 votes
10 answers
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New Focus Styles & Updated Styling for Button Groups

New Focus Styles Weโ€™ve 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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12 votes
0 answers
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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 ...
11 votes
0 answers
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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 ...
John's user avatar
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23 votes
1 answer
820 views

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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1 vote
0 answers
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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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0 answers
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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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31 votes
1 answer
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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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70 votes
22 answers
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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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76 answers
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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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5 votes
0 answers
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Button visibility on not-logged-in panel [duplicate]

It took me about a week to realise this was a dismissible popupโ€”the 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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15 votes
1 answer
264 views

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 ...
agarza's user avatar
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19 votes
1 answer
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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 donโ€™t trust them" is interesting, I don't do great with audio only ...
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