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Steve Faulkner

SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social

<p>Accessibility is Political<br />I have done stuff on the web for a period of time, some of which I am pleased with <br />I also sell Web Standards leisurewear<br />All toots are my personal perspectives only, no inference to my employer</p>

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/117014849030952794 &quot;Everyone currently beating the drum for AI is, in effect, also saying: “Too bad about your environment, your intellectual property, your digital sovereignty, your employees, and your inability to get electricity for your new home.” Because apparently we simply have to press on.&quot;

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    👺 https://office.eu does not mention the accessibility of its software, anybody have any insight? #accessibility #EAA

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    🙇‍♂️UK bending the knee to fascism will only result more than 200,000 avoidable deaths of patients. #uk #us #NHS #politics of #death https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/01/us-uk-drug-deal-could-result-in-229000-excess-deaths-in-england-analysis-suggests?CMP=share_btn_url

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    Screen Reader HTML Support – Lookup updated 7th May 2026 #JAWS #TalkBack #VoiceOver #NVDA #Narrator #HTML #accessibility https://tetralogical.github.io/screen-reader-HTML-support/lookup/lookup.html

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    🤔 &amp;lt;table&amp;gt; used for content layout is a WCAG SC 1.3.1 fail or so i have thought as long as I can remember, some argue that it is not a fail... #WCAG #a11y #Semantics #Nerdvana https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3566#issuecomment-4366290065

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    🥳 Will be presenting at #a11yTO in October, along with @patrick_h_lauke and many others. Hope to see you there 🖖 #a11y #accessibility #ai #aging #HTML https://conf.a11yto.com/

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    AI effluent never stops OpenAI the billion dollar company fails to make its UI accessible #ChatGPT #AI #HTML #accessibility https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/04/23/ai-effluent-never-stops/

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    LAST WEEK IN WAI #4 #a11y #WCAG #AI #HTML &amp;quot;My reaction to this claim continues to be: what a load of bollocks which is why I have not commented on the discussion&amp;quot; https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/04/14/last-week-in-wai-4/

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    coffee and the New Christs to start my day 🖖🏼 #music youtu.be/e-8hee8Cndg

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    Subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines in HTML Article from 2022 where I outline the changes in how headings are specified in #HTML #a11y #webDev https://vispero.com/resources/subheadings-subtitles-alternative-titles-and-taglines-in-html/

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    in @w3c Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) meeting, someone mentioned ATAG (Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines)

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    Gerard does Fireside &amp;quot;@gerardkcohen is one of those people that has consistently championed, and acted professionally to improve the accessibility of the web.&amp;quot; #a11y #worker https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/04/20/gerard-does-fireside/

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    Articles by @lloydi - The TPGi years and yes that is @davidofyork in his bird form, nesting on @lloydi&amp;#39;s chicken hat #HTML #ARIA #WCAG #a11y https://vispero.com/resources/author/lloydi/

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    Articles by @onsman - the TPGi and Vispero® years #a11y #design #accessibility #practice https://vispero.com/resources/author/ronsman/

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    &amp;quot;European leaders have been reminded the hard way that the erosion of international law – with this latest manifestation in the Middle East – is bad news for the world, Europe included.&amp;quot; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/09/iran-is-a-turning-point-for-europes-liberation-from-donald-trump?CMP=share_btn_url

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    I am excited to be visiting the Netherlands next month and presenting on the WCAG-em at NCDT 2026 along with @hdv talking WCAG3 https://www.ncdt.nl/programma/ #a11y #WebStandards #WCAG

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    Current status: in WCAG 2 backlog meeting, listening to folk doing the work

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    Some articles from my TPGi years #HTML #ARIA #accessibility #WebStandards https://vispero.com/resources/author/SteveFaulkner/

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    &amp;lt;h1&amp;gt; to &amp;lt;h6&amp;gt; are HEADINGS &amp;lt;header&amp;gt; is a HEADER &amp;lt;th&amp;gt; is a TABLE HEADER &amp;lt;thead&amp;gt; is a TABLE HEADER GROUP &amp;lt;hgroup&amp;gt; is HEADING GROUP file under #HTML terminology

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    Articles by Brothercake AKA @siblingpastry : the TPGi years #a11y #html #expertise #aria https://vispero.com/resources/author/brothercake/

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    Articles by Brothercake: the TPGi years #a11y #html #expertise #aria https://vispero.com/resources/author/brothercake/

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    Drink from the mug of truth #a11y is #political Use code PIGGYTRUMP for 20% off https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1095457471/accessibility-is-political-mug-with

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    Mike[TM]Smith AKA Sideshowbarker – fireside talking #WebStandards #W3C #Browsers #HTML #ARIA #Japan #politics https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/03/29/miketmsmith-aka-sideshowbarker-fireside/

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    👂🦻loong weekend listening/reading: #a11y #politics #people #webStandards https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOVkzxjLKLJU5nV0918unSmLQ49qFfSLv&amp;amp;si=Y8dTJevX7fvwVtf3

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    AI captions do not conform to #WCAG they usually require a lot of work to make them usable The highest-risk areas for real harm are: (1) named entities/numbers, (2) multi-speaker attribution, (3) timing/readability, and (4) hallucinated “corrections.” #deaf #multimedia #justsayin #a11y

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    🐷 Use code PIGGYTRUMP for 20% off all #merch #webStandards #accessibility #HTML #politics https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/HTMLZ

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/116183398725901701 In which I liken @karlgroves and my relationship with him to Jim and Wilson (not Milson) &amp;quot;Despite always being with Wilson and loving the dog, Jim was also clearly terrified of him and could barely bring himself to touch him (despite the fact Wilson never showed any hint of aggression). Although Wilson was ostensibly a good dog, he also caused tons of chaos, from licking bodies in coffins to dolloping in the Goodmans&amp;#3...

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    🤖 WebMCP (web machine learning) accessibility considerations #llm #ai #accessibility https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp/issues/65

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    “Tech industry leaders have heavily promoted “agentic AIs” – systems that autonomously carry out multi-step tasks for their users – as the next wave of artificial intelligence with the potential to automate routine white collar work” #agentic #ai #deviance https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/mar/12/lab-test-mounting-concern-over-rogue-ai-agents-artificial-intelligence

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    @heydon fireside 2 – can’t shut the fucker up #norfolk #a11y #music #gender https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/03/12/heydon-fireside-2-cant-shut-the-fucker-up/