r/accessibility

Hi everyone! I am the developer of CastKeeper for iPhone, iPad and Mac, a podcast app dedicated to making podcasts forever. One of my major focuses now is giving people with disabilities the opportunity to enjoy podcasts as much as possible.

My app currently supports on-device transcriptions, translations of transcripts and audio only for video podcasts.

I'm already testing a new on-device AI generated live closed captioning for audio and video podcasts for those hard of hearing, but I'd love some feedback from the community on what other features I could consider to bring to the app that you feel are areas where others have ignored or should be there so everyone can enjoy podcasts, not just those who are able-bodied.

Thanks!

I am getting an MCID error in PAC testing. Is there a way in Foxit or Acrobat Pro to search for that tag do I can remediate it without Retagging the whole document?

Hey there.

I work in a high school teaching digital technologies to low ability students. Some of the students have trouble remembering left from right. I'd love to be able to buy them some mice with nice big clear lefters for "L" and "R" to assist them, but I haven't had any luck searching for this online. Does anyone know where I could find this? Or suggest an alternative that might work?

I just wrote an article on my travel blog about how ableist the term "short walk" is. Most people don't even realize it either. Would love to see that phrasing disappear from all travel marketing.

On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we want to highlight recent and upcoming improvements in JetBrains IDEs: magnifier support on Windows, enhanced keyboard navigation to previously unreachable IDE parts, and Orca support since 2026.2.
From the linked blog post, you'll learn what's already available and what we're actively working on to make our products accessible.
Developers who rely on accessibility features in your daily work, we would appreciate your feedback!

Has anybody else heard about this?

It looks like they might still be working on the capital but it would be cool if it goes through!

I’m at the beginning of my web accessibility journey, and I’d love to join the channel. Could someone please invite me?

I just set up a Chief of Staff Agent by integrating chatgpt to gmail. This means that you should write to me more often, and ask for resources. Don't say we the Autistics are selfish. We are dedicated to helping parents make informed choices.

Assistive Technology Saves Lives.

How-To Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNZqFMh1xOk&t=1s

I am going back to college. I was not getting responses to my emails about my ADA requests, so I called another person that is helping me (they basically have a little support team of advisors). The person said to call, instead of email and ask what was going on.

It turns out my accessibility counselor, who makes sure I have everything I need, went on vacation for 2 weeks. This is immediately prior to me starting summer classes. She didn't even tell me, so I was emailing her a few times, expecting an answer. No out of office emails either.

So now I have to meet with the accessibility office director to discuss what I need. It's honestly hilarious how ridiculous this is... At least let me know you are out!

EDIT: I received a reply from the director of the accessibility office and I sent a very strongly worded email... This is NOT ADA compliment. I should be allowed to buy textbooks for a cheaper price on eBay and get the PDF files...

"Ivapologize for the difficulties you have had for this request. As I believe you were told, ______ is on vacation, but you should definitely have had a clear path to proceed with this request.

Unfortunately, all three of the books you are seeking are available in e-book format commercially, therefore we are not able provide them in alternative textbook formats for you. We are only able to acquire textbooks in alternative formats if none are available to you through commercial or free channels. This limitation is clearly stated on our Alternative Format Textbook Request Form. If you were not directed to this form, and/or this was not clearly explained to you, I apologize again, and please rest assured that I am taking action to make sure that our procedures are clearer and more clearly explained going forward.

Please believe me when I say I understand your concern about changing formats with existing e-books. However, these concerns do not constitute a barrier that we can take action to remove."

I checked my certification portal and saw that my test score was added and that I passed the exam. I still haven't gotten an email telling me that I passed. Does anyone know when we will be notified via email?

Also will we get an actual certificate?

Trying to understand what people are actually using today for automating PDF data extraction/tagging/remediation workflows at scale.

I’m specifically talking about “flat” PDFs that become painful manually:

• scanned docs
• inaccessible PDFs
• inconsistent tagging structures
• tables/forms
• large document batches

I’ve mostly seen teams patch together OCR + Acrobat + manual QA, but that starts breaking once document volume increases.

While researching, I came across tools/platforms like:

• CommonLook
• axesPDF
• PREP by Continual Engine
• ABBYY
• Foxit
• various OCR + AI pipelines

But it’s hard to separate marketing from what people are actually using in production.

Curious about a few things from people handling real document workflows:

• What tools have genuinely reduced manual remediation/data-entry work for you?
• What completely failed despite looking good in demos?
• Are most teams still heavily dependent on manual QA?
• How are you handling complex layouts/tables/forms at scale?

Especially interested in higher-ed, publishing, government, healthcare, or accessibility workflows where document volume gets messy quickly.

Hi,

I need to transcribe a magazine to an audio stream.

Is a YT video with chapters (in description) a good solution to navigate inside the audio flux? The audio file is 2 hours long...

I could split the audio file into 17 audio files. Is it a better solution ?

TLDR;

Is A accessible to AA WCAG standards if there is an action in the overflow menu for "View Trip"? Or do we need to use B to be considered accessible?

A: The \"View Trip\" action is in the overflow menu / B: The \"View Trip\" action is on the tile.

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We're designing tiles for a client to be used on both a chat canvas and a traditional page. Tiles all have an image, some sort of text content, and some set of actions. 

These actions usually present as either save, add to trip, or an overflow menu with a short set of secondary actions.

Tapping on these cards will always take you to a detail page for the content on the card.

If our goal is to be AA WCAG compliant...

• Is it recommended (or required) for a tile like these to have a button on the tile itself for viewing the detail page, like a "View details"?
• Or can the card itself solely act as the action to do that

If we need a clearly stated action to do that, could that be in the overflow menu (for the clearly stated version) AND have the card itself be tappable and do the same thing?

Hey everyone,

I’m a wheelchair user and recently started building a small platform focused on helping people with disabilities connect with caregivers/support workers more easily.

I’m still super early in development and honestly just trying to learn what people would actually want from something like this.

For those in the disability community, what’s something existing platforms/services get wrong or make frustrating?
I’d really appreciate any feedback or ideas.

We are working on an online photobook-editor which runs in a <canvas>.
As you can imagine, this is quite complex, since it may have a huge amount of dynamic interactive elements with several context-menues etc.
Since it has to be WCAG 2.2 compliant, one of the main challenges is, to implement a good and usable keyboard accessibilty.
I know the requirements of standard keyboard accessibility but within a canvas, it's a special case.
I am especially unsure if it's better to navigate inside the canvas with the arrow keys or with the tab or both. And also i want to provide custom context-menues to offer a possibilty to quickly jump to different tool-bars directy from anywhere inside the app without tabbing endlessly.
Does anybody know a good example of a similiar application that is build with canvas and which has a good keyboard accessibility?
Thanks!