A couple of months ago a family friend had a very serious health issue and he couldn't move or speak much. So I put together a web app with a set of phrases, connected to a game controller, in a way that he could just select phrases from the list to communicate. Luckily this person got better quickly, and this app was no longer needed, but I decided to improve this experiment and publish it as an Open Source project.

So, this is VoxEase. It can be operated with a mouse, a touch screen, a computer keyboard, a game controller using a single hand, or you can set it to scan the list of phrases automatically so you only need to press one button to pick your phrase.
It only requires a modern browser and once downloaded it works offline.
It supports multiple languages and it can also be used by people with sight impairments (it works with screen readers).

Any suggestions on how to make it better are welcome!

Link: https://turisc.github.io/voxease/

#openSource

@SamiMaatta @Netux @NVAccess @igalia We certainly come across it a great deal through the work we (@TetraLogical) do with platform and/or content providers in the education sector.

#AudioEye claims it can find more issues than other #overlay vendors:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/02/audioeye-will-get-you-sued.html#comment-399346

It makes this claim on a page with 44 WCAG issues according to axe (or 83–111 “valid issues” if AudioEye is to be believed).

Report is linked so you can judge the methodology, outcome.

@SteveFaulkner In and of itself though, I'd be surprised if AI models didn't use entropy as part of their word probability distributions, so the answer is almost certainly yes I should think.

@SteveFaulkner Not sure if the web counts as an isolated system exactly, but I suspect accessibility will continue to flow towards high entropy (as it's been doing since the early days of the web), per the Second Law of Thermodynamics 😊

👏 #Firefox 148 has improved support for screen readers and MathML content in PDF!
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/148.0/releasenotes/

@vasilis Hugs.

@aardrian Hum. I wasn't going to because I was supposed to be somewhere else, but plans changed. Will investigate possibilities.

@aardrian 'Fraid not, but when are you in London?

What is The Web You Want? We want to know.

☞ https://vasilis.nl/nerd/2026/the-web-you-want/

"It’s official – Reform UK think discrimination should be legal. Scrapping the Equality Act would be a sledgehammer to hard-won rights working people fought for over generations.

“If you’re discriminated against because you’re a woman, black, disabled, pregnant or gay – that’s fine with them. This is a blank cheque for bad employers to mistreat their staff. And it wouldn’t stop there. Scrapping the Equality Act would just be the start.

“From ripping up equality protections, to backing fire-and-rehire, to opposing a ban on zero-hours contracts, Reform UK have made it clear whose side they’re on – and it’s not working people.”

Paul Nowak,
General Secretary,
TUC

#UKPolitics

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/reform-uk-would-repeal-equality-act/

Another zinger from @timbl’s “This is for Everyone.” #Privacy

The @TetraLogical team has released a new set of videos to help everyone design and build more accessible websites; Accessible Building Blocks for Web:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/02/06/accessible-building-blocks-for-web-videos/

#accessibility #a11y #UX #design #build #code

If you were previously following the TetraLogical team on a11y.social, we're no longer there (the instance isn't being maintained and we lost access to our account), but the good news is that you'll find us here instead: @TetraLogical 👏

@yatil @TetraLogical Thanks Eric. Unfortunately, the instance we were on wasn't being maintained and we lost access to our account, so we're having to do it the hard- way 😒

@kaveinthran It seems OK. Can you get here:
https://indieweb.social/@TetraLogical

We've moved the TetraLogical Masto account to @TetraLogical where we'll continue to share articles, videos, and other things #accessibility related.

We've moved the TetraLogical Masto account to @TetraLogical where we'll continue to share articles, videos, and other things #accessibility related.

@kolombiken It is. It's possible they're OOO or on vacation or something, but I'm at a bit of a loss really.

@kolombiken No, I'm afraid not. Realised I was logged in still in the browser, but unable to post, export follower lists etc. No response from the maintainer, so we're having to move our account, most likely without being able to migrate properly. It looks like the Masto version hasn't been updated for a couple of years, so assuming at this point it's not being maintained anymore.