Detlev Fischer

Focuses on accessibility and usability testing. Manages the Team Usability project. Invited expert of W3C's WCAG Working Group.

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

To sum up I feel like I've been whinging here while others are much more positive... I just retract to a position of not knowing. #axschat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

A6/4 @@Unuhinuii Maybe it's sa different category of tool to be used to detect or even remedy cognitive issues - but I know too little about that field. #axschat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

A6/3 Then there are the automated tools of the big accessibility players that can be integrated into the dev environment , and browser plugins like Axe dev tools or ARC Toolkit, and bookmarklets that support checks in the browsers. #AXSChat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

A6/2 This includes the WCAG standard and its Understanding docs, the APG ARIA patterns, the MDN Web docs, the Webaim mailing list, https://t.co/IB9sALtKk3, or the accessibility archives of CSS tricks, etc., to name just a few important ones. #AXSChat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

A6/1 There's tons of information out there. Businesses must emphasize the importance of taking accessibility on board, then their developers (inhouse or external) will follow suit and find the useful stuff. #AXSChat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

@AXSChat A5/4? I hope there will be more accessible and publicly available design frameworks around, and that they will get used more - not the common div/span soup #axschat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

A5/2 I hope technology can help weed out deep fakes (or do I really enjoy fakes and don't want them weeded out?). Perhaps the biggest bonus will be the increased availability of simple language versions and summaries, something AI is already quite good at. #AXSChat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

A5/1 I guess AI will provide or remedy alternative text for images or subtitles or audio-description for videos. I can't quite see AI fixing the frequent lack of keyboard accessibility, focus order, and reading order issues, but maybe I'm lacking imagination here. #AXSChat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

@NeilMilliken No one is retweeting this... (is it still called retweeting?) #axschat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

@NeilMilliken @NeilMilliken Wouldn't it be nice if all businesses were public services? #axschat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

@NeilMilliken @NeilMilliken I get too much bogged down in technicalities and forget those other things: skills, affordability & connectivity as well as attitudes & age appropriateness. You are right. #axschat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

A4/2 However, accessibility often still loses out when other strategic goals seem more pressing – especially in a fast-moving multi-team development environment with a high churn rate. #AXSChat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

A4/1 Businesses pass on the legal pressure of the EAA on to their technical providers. And the smarter ones embrace accessibility as a thing that sits well with other strategic goals like general usability, and also, of course, equity and diversity. #AXSChat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

@AXSChat A4 (aside) they play catch-up...

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

@NeilMilliken In a country with Federal States like Germany, you also get plenty of diverging interpretations and testing procedures - now try to harmonize across EU! :) #axschat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

A3/2 so the demand is there, but then you also have the wild west of overlay vendors flogging their shit to unaware public bodies and other organizations #axschat

[Neil Milliken @NeilMilliken]

A3 #Accessibility is a part of digital inclusion but shouldn't be confused as being the same as it. Other things need to be considered like skills, affordability & connectivity as well as attitudes & age appropriateness. The EAA forces companies to think about the topic #axschat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

@debraruh "Cross-country EU collaboration can align regulatory approaches..."
There is less of that than you would like to believe. It starts with monitoring bodies staff not getting permission and funds to travel abroad to meet... #axschat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

A3 Many players now realise they need to conform when offering public-facing services. So their software suppliers are now faced with requests that their next version of intranet, chatbot, reservation system, travel management system etc has to be accessible. #AXSChat

[Detlev Fischer @wcagtest]

@NeilMilliken @NeilMilliken small inconsistencies may not matter much? Or do they, taking you international business as an example? #axschat