Thanks to Rose Peruski
and Nikki Volpenhein from Kroger, a USA supermarket chain, for discussing training at #CSUNATC2023.

They described setting up 15 minute "Snack Talks" to deliver focused training to designers at Kroger. These fun sessions complement more formal training courses, and can be a benefit for folks who learn in different ways.

One session they had everyone write #AltText for the same image, then compare to see what each person found important.

https://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/sessions/index.php/public/presentations/view/1419

#a11y

Computers used to be so easy. The screen would give you a menu of options; you picked one using the keyboard. But then graphical interfaces came along and made things more complicated, especially for screen reader users.

What if any modern e-commerce website could be accessed using a simple menu interface? This is the dream of researcher David Cane.

Read the @NVAccess team's writeup of this intriguing session at #CSUNATC2023: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-24th-march-2023#tab

#a11y #AssistiveTechnology
#UserInterfaces

At his presentation on ARIA at CSUN, Mark Steadman of Fidelity Investments mentioned that he's seeing an increase in websites using a <div> tag with the ContentEditable attribute, when an <input> or <TextArea> tag would do.

#HTML #SemanticHTML #a11y #CSUNATC2023

Are you coming to #CSUNATC23? It's on in just over two weeks in Anaheim, California! NV Access will be there, sharing the latest news and info about your favourite #foss screen reader, NVDA! If you're going, we'd love to see you there! Please drop us a line if you'd like to organise a time to meet. #NVDA #NVDAsr #conference #screenreader #csun #csunatc #csunatc2023