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(he/him) Digital Accessibility Specialist at @NDIS #a11y

Launceston, Tasmania
Joined May 2017
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Matthew Putland retweeted
WebAIM's popular Contrast Checker is now available as a bookmarklet - webaim.org/resources/contras… The bookmarklet presents a mini-contrast checker within any web page. Use the eyedropper tool to extract foreground/background colors from anything on your screen.
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Know someone or an organisation who's making waves in digital accessibility? Nominate them for the Australian Access Awards before it's too late! #a11y
One more week to go to nominate your favourite websites, apps and people in digital accessibility, for the Australian Access Awards! Go on, be part of it! #AustralianAccessAwards #CFAAustralia #Ally #accessibility
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A very well written article detailing how you can't rely on AI to provide alt-text for logos, and what to do about it. #a11y
Last week I tweeted about (#accessibility) problems we can encounter when writing alternative texts for images with the help of #AI. I dug a little deeper over the weekend and summarized my findings in a short blog post: dnikub.dev/blog/2023/the-pro…
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Matthew Putland retweeted
Twitter has removed my API access. My accessible Twitter app is officially dead. ☹️
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I was pleased to hear an announcement on my train this morning about @metrotrains joining the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower program. Wear a sunflower pin to tell staff you might need assistance or more time. 🌻#Melbourne
🌻 Metro Trains is proud to launch the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower on our network. We encourage passengers who need extra support to wear the Sunflower to show Metro Trains staff you may need assistance, or approach our team during your journey. Visit: metrotrains.com.au/sunflower
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Australian Access Awards - 2023 Nominations now open! Do you know of any exceptional websites or apps, or people doing amazing things in the digital space? youtu.be/uSmGJmhv9FI via @YouTube #AustralianAccessAwards #CFAAustralia #Ally #accessibility #EmpowerAccessibleDesign
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Coming soon! The first ISO Plain Language Standard will help all communicators provide their intended readers with the information they can easily find, understand, and use. #PlainLanguage #Standard #accessibility #a11y
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There's a huge alt-text bug when coverting Word documents to PDF on the latest version of Adobe Acrobat (2023.003.20201). If you export using "Save as Adobe PDF", all images in your PDF will have nonsense alt-text like "P1#yIS1". youtube.com/watch?v=uXZulHVX… @Adobe #a11y
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If you use the "Save as" method when exporting your Word document to PDF, then the bug won't occur.
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Do you know of a website or app that you find really accessible? Nominate it for the Australian Accessibility Awards! I'm excited to announce I'll be one of the judges!
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I married my favourite accessibility nerd!! To share with our a11y audience, @beepbooprosie has wrote an article on personal insights regarding how we made getting married more accessible! It's a great read, and includes some stunning photos! #Accessibility #Disability
These two accessibility nerds got married! And in true a11y professional tradition and for Autism Acceptance Month, I've written an article about planning an accessible wedding for me as an autistic person: linkedin.com/pulse/autism-ma… #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAcceptanceMonth
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1/2 A few years too late, but ARIA Authoring Practices Guide finally has (only) four support tables: w3.org/blog/2023/04/answerin… Mind, a year ago it re-branded as a copy-ready pattern library without any data on support. #a11y #accessibility
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Matthew Putland retweeted
Doing a call out to any people with cognitive and/or learning disabilities and Neurodivergent folks, over 18 years old, based in Australia who is interested in paid opportunities to give feedback about apps and websites! If you are interested please send me a message! 1/4
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Matthew Putland retweeted
TIL about the CSS property "text-decoration-skip-ink", which tells the browser if the text underline should skip the underhanging bits of text. I did not know about this, but now I know I need this for my funky blog redesign 😍 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/…
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Today marks my final day as a Senior Digital Accessibility Consultant at @visionaustralia A big thank you to the super supportive Digital Access Team, I'll miss you all! For what's next, I'll be starting as a Digital Accessibility Specialist at the @NDIS #a11y
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Replying to @beepbooprosie
@beepbooprosie presenting on accessible comms and alt text at #LGProSM22 . Very informative and helpful!
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The latest WCAG 2.2 editors draft (28 July 2022) has dropped the proposed Page Break Navigation criterion… 👀 w3c.github.io/wcag/guideline…
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These two accessibility nerds got engaged! #a11y #engagement
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Matthew Putland retweeted
Your annual reminder that #react-select is not accessible to screen reader users and does not follow the ARIA specification for custom controls. This library is the reason for many #a11y blocker issues on the web. It affects us all. github.com/JedWatson/react-s…+
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