Questions tagged [accessibility]
Questions that discuss the usability of Stack Exchange sites by people with disabilities.
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Is there a consolidated source of accessibility guidelines for users posting questions/answers?
While Stack Exchange itself tries to be as accessible as possible, I have been unsuccessful in finding anything to help users in their posting accessible questions/answers.
Is there a consolidated ...
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Podcast Episode Ep. 586 doesn't have a transcript
The transcript for this podcast seems to be the episode notes - and while the title "Developers use AI tools, they just don’t trust them" is interesting, I don't do great with audio only ...
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Colors update: A more detailed look
A few months ago, we let you all know that in order to progress our goal of being more accessible, we would need to redefine our colors within our design system, Stacks.
Before I walk you through the ...
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I can't see if I've already voted on something
On many sites, I can't see the slight color change that indicates I've already voted unless I look very carefully. This seems like a massive accessibility issue, given that my vision is above average ...
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It’s hard to tell how I’ve voted on meta sites. Please make selected and unselected vote buttons different colors
The only indication of how I have voted on a post is the thin black circle around the vote I have selected.
Whereas before, it was much more clear:
Please make the unselected vote button arrows the ...
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The "Describe why you would make a good moderator" box uses "►", creating less-accessible "lists"
This is my third report of the same phenomenon (one, two) and it's the same deal. The sidebar list items look like they're a list to a visual user. However, a screen reader will be unable to interpret ...
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Add a warning about the inaccessibility of spoilers to the editing help
As I pointed out in October 2017, Spoilers are inaccessible to keyboard-only users. That question has two answers suggesting more accessible alternatives, including one that relies on native HTML ...
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Unable to view exact view count on questions with many views on touchscreen devices [duplicate]
For questions with many views (when a suffix is used) there isn't any way to get the exact view count on touchscreen devices. E.g.:
On devices when the mouse pointer is available you can see the ...
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Which of the Stack Exchange sites is the best site to ask questions on about how to make large button in a GUI for the visually impaired?
I want to make buttons in GUI very large, but it is unclear which Stack Exchange website to ask this question on.
Potential motivators include:
creating easy-to-read buttons for persons with ...
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How to view (or browse) simplified pages on Stack Exchange
How can I access simplified Stack Exchange pages? I was browsing, and a clickable popdown tab at the top came by, allowing the switch. However, I am unsure about how to bring it back. Simplified pages ...
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No tooltip or any other info why the bounty is not awardable for immature bounty on iPad
Before the bounty gets mature (allowed to award) on desktop browser or even on Android I can see the tooltip:
Android 13 Chrome (touch screen) after tapping on the icon:
But I can't see any tooltip ...
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Keyboard shortcuts aren't marking inbox messages as read
When you click on an unread inbox message with your mouse, it brings you to that item - be it comment, answer, chat ping, mod message reply, etc. - and marks the inbox item as read. However, that ...
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What percentage of images on SE have a meaningful alt-text?
As a follow-up question of Stop image upload completion from stealing cursor focus, I wonder what percentage of images on SE have a meaningful alt-text.
Edit: by meaningful, I mean useful.
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Accessibility Update: Colors
As you may already know, we were working on accessibility last year. We took a break about a few months ago to assess how we were approaching the problem and rethink that approach. We never want to ...
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Add a keyboard shortcut for the Winter Bash dropdown
When it comes to inboxes on Stack Exchange, I've gotten pretty used to using the keybaord. I use i for the inbox, r for the achievements notifications (rep / badges), and there's even a shortcut for ...
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User feed URL text has insufficient contrast
I tried the User feed link in the profile page (leading to <site>/feeds/user/<userid>) and I think the background shouldn't be greyed out because if you unselect the URL its text becomes ...
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Font size in the Stacks Editor when editing Markdown is too small; please increase it to match current editor
I've been using the Stacks Editor's Markdown preview mode, and I've found the font size to be a bit too small, which makes the text harder to read for me.
Here's how it looks like in Microsoft Edge on ...
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How to find the meta place of each site with a screen reader
I do know the basic question of where to find the Meta of each site has already been asked and answered, but I am still having difficulty finding it. I use a screen reader, and, until I read the ...
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Font of Moderator Agreement is too small (especially on mobile)
For some reason, the font size on the Moderator Agreement page is too small compared to other articles under /legal, the Help Center, or other text throughout the sites in general.
This is true for ...
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The "What are Tag Wikis?" editing help uses "►", creating less-accessible "lists"
Related: "How to Format/Tag" uses "►", creating less-accessible "lists"
After the previous feature request was posted and implemented, I realized that there was another ...
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New inbox notifications have broken keyboard shortcuts
As of rev 2022.10.27.42994, with the changes to inbox notifications, the keyboard shortcuts for the inbox have been slightly broken. With the old behavior, pressing i will open your inbox, and esc ...
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Close search "help" box on unfocus
I don't specifically require any accessibility features, but I prefer to use the site with my keyboard sometimes. When I tab through the link/input fields the help box that appears below the top-bar ...
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Links should not look the same as plain text
This image shows three users in the comments on German Meta:
One of them is deleted and therefore lacks a link to their profile. However, all of the links look like regular text so it's impossible to ...
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Recent color contrast changes and accessibility updates
Last month, we kicked off an initiative around accessibility. We made the announcement on MSO because originally we had intended for the rollouts to only happen on SO and on the Teams product. Once ...
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My brain cannot ignore the ignored questions due to contrast change. Please change it back
A recent change made ignored posts way more visible than it used to be, up to the point that my brain just can't filter them out anymore.
The reason I don't want to hide them is two-fold.
Posts are ...
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Code samples in recent blog post about Perl are difficult to read when system is in dark mode
Apparently in the past there have been difficulties with color issues in the blog. The recent blog post This is not your grandfather’s Perl contains some code samples. Two of the first samples, under ...
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Light gray link text in “Share” pop-up is almost illegible
The “Share” button at the bottom of a question or answer produces a pop-up, with the link being selected in a (read-only) input field:
The link text is almost illegible. Would it be possible to ...
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Please test design / colour changes in dark mode and site themes
It's become painfully obvious that design changes, especially around colours, are never tested in Dark Mode, at least not for https://stackoverflow.com.
These changes affect other themed sites as well,...
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Give us back the light green box for accepted answers. It can be accessible too!
Today the box that indicates if a question has an accepted answer has changed colour. This was done in an effort to improve the accessibility of the site. A noble goal which I generally applaud.
If we ...
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"How Rust manages memory using ownership and borrowing" blog post contains numerous errors
First, a quick disclaimer: I don't know Rust (or Go). So I'm going to focus on only things that are obvious to a programmer unfamiliar with the languages discussed in the post. I'm sure a Rust or Go ...
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How to avoid solutions in answers with foundational accessibility issues, in line with Stack Exchange’s policies
Stack Overflow, User Experience and other Stack Exchange (SE) sites are where developers come to get unstuck with their issues, and to learn developing. This target audience are the people who shape ...
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Using the Space key to upvote/un-upvote a comment does not work
Upvoting and un-upvoting a comment is not possible using the Space key. This used to work before: Space triggers confirm dialog regarding reversal of vote on comments
Here's a GIF showing how upvoting/...
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New styling on 'bottom-share-links' elements is completely illegible [closed]
The new styling on the bottom-share-links elements cannot be read. It has bad colors and ultra-low contrast. Here it is on ELU for example:
First, you cannot have red text on a red background. There ...
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Use "Review your question" for something useful: Encouraging accessible images [duplicate]
When you use the image uploader, it creates something like this:
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
This text is invisible to most people in the preview and serves no obvious purpose, so many ...
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User avatars are noisy in screen readers
The user card currently has "user avatar" as the alt text for the profile picture. This is problematic for two reasons:
It's on the image, not the link, so it ends up as both the text for ...
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Achievements icon color slightly too dark in top bar when earning a new badge
I just received a new badge on MSE and was surprised to notice the badge notification color is darker than the reputation notification color. I think this is a recent change and the colors used to be ...
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The [un-]bookmark and "Unfollow" tooltips for deleted posts are barely visible
In light of some recent design changes regarding the Following and Bookmarks tabs, for questions/answers which have not been deleted, the [un-]bookmark and "Unfollow" tooltips show just fine:...
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Link to candidate you voted for on election page not completely working
In the "Your final votes" section of election pages, when you hover over the name of a candidate you voted for, the mouse pointer seems to suggest you can click on it, but nothing happens. ...
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Images in "Agility starts with trust" blog post have no alt text, making it less accessible
If we have any hope of making technology more diverse and inclusive, we have to make technical learning resources accessible to all.
That's a direct quote from "Agility starts with trust", ...
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Option to remove fuzzy outline and restore clarity to the counts on new top bar
I don't normally care much about these things, but the new fuzzy outlines (and related changes) on the numbers of unread messages / rep delta really hit my eyes wrong (and my eyes are already ...
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Can we make post editors and answerers more visually distinct?
I genuinely mistook a post editor for a post answerer. Admittedly this was on mobile view (the layout, not the alternative site mode, as that mode has been removed as far as I can tell) but it's also ...
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Major accessibility regression: question title headings
I'm a screen reader user, and am extremely sad to notice today that on a page presenting questions, questions are no longer inside an heading tag <hX>.
Example of such a page with the tag ...
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Questions with ignored tags are displayed in grayscale instead of lower opacity [duplicate]
I just noticed that along with the recent changes to questions lists, questions with ignored tags on the home page are now displayed in grayscale instead of showing them in lower opacity1.
This is how ...
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User Popover avatar img element in chat has no alt text for users
I was trying to figure out what hat smokie was wearing, and I noticed one of the instances of the chat avatar is missing any alt text.
I've snipped out the svg source for the hats, so you'll have to ...
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Bug in tabbing order of Share Feedback modal
I've discovered a bug in the tabbing order when the Share Feedback modal is shown from the Review Queue.
Select "Share feedback"
Click "Submit" to open the modal
Ensure that "...
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Selecting "Delete profile" clears selected item in dropdown; keyboard-only users cannot select most options in dropdown
There is a list of topics on contact page:
If you select "I need to delete my user profile" the current selection will be cleared:
Here's an animated GIF for some details:
This also ...
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Text in table in blog post Stack Overflow Badge Feedback is hard to read in dark mode
I was reading the blog article Stack Overflow Badge Feedback.
The text in the second column of the table is tough to read in dark mode because of the grey background colour.
Please fix the background ...
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Please make voting in an election keyboard-accessible
Voting in an election requires drag-and-drop interaction and is currently impossible using only the keyboard. This mode of interaction excludes anyone who cannot use a pointing device, such as blind ...
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"How to Format/Tag" uses "►", creating less-accessible "lists"
The "How to Format/Tag" boxes that pop up on the right sidebar when on a question edit page use less-accessible "lists" with the "►" character. For example, there's this ...
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Blue text on blue background for usercard has insufficient contrast
The colors in light mode have a contrast ratio of 3.22:1:
And in dark mode, they have a contrast ratio of 3.59:1:
Both are normal text (smaller than 18pt and not bold), which W3C accessibility ...
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