Jay Pope

Web accessibility, websites, business, basketball, and life. Web Accessibility Specialist @PopeTechA11y

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

It is also a public quality. Its not in the background, you can't hide it. Accessibility is public information even if it is sometimes obfuscated. #a11y

[WebAIM @webaim]

Save the dates! The Web Accessibility in Mind Conference in partnership with @PopeTechA11y will be held September 16-17, 2025. Put a hold on your calendar for our free virtual conference on web accessibility! Registration information and speaker announcements soon. Tell a friend!

[Pope Tech @PopeTechA11y]

Want to know what updates are coming to the WAVE testing engine and Pope Tech? Join us and the @webaim team for an hour webinar on Oct 10th, 2024 at 12pm ET. https://t.co/YbkiZ7kMp1

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

A resource for creating accessible course content inside of Canvas.

[Pope Tech @PopeTechA11y]

Accessible courses need alternative text on images, heading structure, proper contrast, descriptive links, and accessible documents and videos. Check out our full guide for making accessible Canvas courses: https://t.co/b5zG3IMo1Z @Canvas_by_Inst

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

Loved @LeonieWatson's talk at #WebAIMConf today. Imagining a world with voice customization protected by guardrails of operating system settings and derivatives of user settings. Can learn more about it at https://t.co/WHQwojMaim

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

@pauljadam @mikedoise @voisineduvoisin Nice! I never had accessibility training either with onboarding, including when I was a developer. We have accessibility training with onboarding for all employees (even accounting etc) but in similar fashion we are an accessibility focused organization.

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

@mikedoise @pauljadam @voisineduvoisin Which employees that need cyber security training don't create digital content?

Email, slack, powerpoints, zoom presentations etc are all digital content and knowing a few accessibility principles can make a big difference.

[Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯 @aardrian]

Just like we should always ask “Could this meeting have been an email?”

…we should always ask “Could this PDF have been web page?”

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

@click2carney @gerardkcohen they also remove distracting content as well

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

@ScopicEngineer Oh no, even without the speaker notes you were great!

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

If you have wondered what WAVE's purple ARIA category means or how ARIA affects website use this article is pretty useful. The video linked in the article goes through some real world examples and how they affect screen readers.

[Pope Tech @PopeTechA11y]

First rule of ARIA is don’t use ARIA. Learn more in our beginner’s guide. #AccessibilityFocus #A11y https://t.co/XbTc6gTt1j

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

@aardrian Makes sense

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

@aardrian Just curious if you know, does the W3C promote all groups equally in their official social media account like this one?

[Pope Tech @PopeTechA11y]

We can't wait! The conference is free and will be held Sep 7-8, save the date and register today - https://t.co/cMcaqXCQwU. Speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

"Great alternative text is also succinct and considers the image’s purpose. In fact, depending on the purpose, the same image could have different alternative text."

[Pope Tech @PopeTechA11y]

As part of our Alternative Text focus for the month of April we created an in depth dive into alternative text. #A11y #AccessibilityFocus https://t.co/5zz7kFXU07

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

@Snubs Something I learned is don't trust the inspection results on a home that you don't own and can't control the environment. Radon tests are pretty easy to game and everyone is incentivized for it to come back good.

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

Just use a link is like a bad sequel to just use a button. HTML semantics matter.

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

I just stumbled upon 2 websites where all the links were divs and no you can't focus on them with a keyboard. The divs have classes called nav-link. Just use a link!

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

@marcysutton It can be quite the adventure to freelance. Congrats on your first year!

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

@jared_w_smith I saw some businesses sprinklers running today in the snow

[Jay Pope @j3ptech]

Simplify first #pdfPurge

[Steph Jury (she/her) @JurySteph]

Today was a good day. We’ve removed almost 1,000 inaccessible PDFs from our health information pages and converted the most used to webpages. Now the work begins to audit, consolidate, rewrite and recreate the 1,000 as beautiful, simple pages. Here we goooo… #a11y #ContentDesign