Home | Teodora Chiosa Web development focused on accessibility

Hello! 👋
I'm looking for work, preferably design systems or accessibility related. Feel free to reach out!

#designSystems #accessibility

It's hard to be amidst the holidays looking for work, but if you're looking for 8yrs of #accessibility designer , a #UX designer, or are up for a pivoting junior product manager - I'd love if you kept me in mind.

It's even worse if the video has text on the bottom.

Screenshot showing YouTube's playback controls over the white background of a video. A color contrast analysis tool sits on top, comparing the color of the icons + text, with the color of the background of these controls. The color contrast fails with a ratio of 2.12 to 1.

Yikes. A little itty-bitty shadow isn't going to help this horrendous contrast, YouTube... #a11y

"It's not about X — it's about Y."

"It's not just X, it's Y".

"Impactul contemplating sentence X.
short sentence A.
short sentence B.
short sentence C."

"It's not X — it's Y, which makes it A, B and C."

I'm sick of LinkedIn AI-generated brainrot.

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#a11y #Accessibility #EAA

Original photo:

A gouache painting of a solitary tree standing in the middle of a rural landscape under a moody, stormy sky. The composition features shades of indigo, turquoise, and pale orange towards the horizon, where the setting sun is hidden behind clouds. The ground is covered in green grass, with some areas in the center flattened by tire track marks. On the left side, there's a small field of flowers.

The unfinished state of the same painting, where only the clouds are fully painted. The bottom part of the painting features just a few blobs of green color.

A photo of the same painting, the paper sitting on a grey surface, showing the white border around the painting due to using masking tape.

I only paint like twice a year so um... see ya in 2026 for the next one I guess! 😅

#gouache #art

Sarah L. Fossheim I'm an experienced independent developer, designer and educator. I specialize in building accessible and inclusive products, and have a particular focus on dataviz accessibility.

Hehe, you might be onto something. I can think of one more person.

@fossheim.bsky.social
fossheim.photography

Oooh!
Avatar!

Damn, it took me a while.

Who's the monolingual tech bro that decided it's a good idea to auto translate and auto dub YouTube videos by default, while also not providing an option to change the audio track on the mobile web version?

#rant

One thing I mistakenly assumed starting out was that assistive technology only meant screen readers. I wasn't aware of voice commands. Of course this led to some issues with 2.5.3 Label in Name and an overuse of aria-label.

Dashboard DigiToegankelijk Hoe toegankelijk zijn de websites en apps van de Nederlandse overheid? Check het zelf!

I'm not Dutch (so someone please double check the links) but from my experience I can link you to:

The Digital Accessibility Dashboard
dashboard.digitoegankelijk.nl

Dutch government - list of all organizations, sites and apps
dashboard.digitoegankelijk.nl/zoeken

Divs 🫠

Thank you, Figma! That's exactly what we need more of: unmaintainable inaccessible AI-generated code. And it's a paid feature!

"Publish high-quality websites", my ass. This could at most be used for prototyping.

Creating a more accessible web with Aria Notify We're excited to announce the availability, as a developer and origin trial, of ARIA Notify, a new API that's designed to make web content

The web platform has been missing an imperative way to let users of assistive technology know that something has changed on the page, when no DOM changes occurred.

The Aria Notify API aims to bridge that gap. Try it out and let us know what you think!

Links with href attributes not keyboard-focusable I think there actually is still a bug here because the "Focus All Controls" setting is available under both Keyboard and Webpages (and it seems that only the...

@vivaldibrowser.bsky.social Disabling link navigation via keyboard Tab key by default is the worst thing you could do for accessibility! Please reconsider! I had to look up a fix to feel sane again... forum.vivaldi.net/post/409607

Signed. Go sign.

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Finally finding the time to watch more Axe-Con 2025 recordings. There are some insightful and eye-opening presentations (e.g. @ashleyshoo.bsky.social, @ericwbailey.website), and then there are the ones that feel like AI generated ads...

#accessibility #axecon

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To give my eyes a break, I've been listening to articles by using this text to speech Firefox addon (on Android in my case). It also helps me multitask.

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If it's for the good of the people, of course I'm all for it. I just find it hard to believe we'll ever get to 100% with AI, automation and zero human professional knowledge. Screenshot from the presentation:

I agree the AI generated images were a bad decision. I know we're all aboard the AI train in the dev world, but that doesn't mean the art community feels the same way about it.

They backtracked a bit in the Q&A, saying we still need a professional to check the AI's work and make the final call. But at the same time they said we can achieve 100% automation and zero false positives. Huh? That doesn't make sense if AI isn't always reliable.

Wait, I'm confused about this one, when would it be used?
Isn't the purpose of aria-hidden to hide content from assistive technology only? "Display: none" visually hides as well.

Oh wow! I didn't even notice the ♿ icon at first, I just thought it was the letter "b". It blends in very nicely!

Didn't know about this! Thank you for sharing!

Oh, I see, that makes sense.
Thank you for the reply and for the data!

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Another 20 top European Accessibility Act (EAA) questions answered | Deque Our digital accessibility experts have answered a new set of 20 urgent European Accessibility Act (EAA) questions. Get the compliance info you need!

Deque writes: "Failing to comply with the EAA could mean fines as high as €500,000 and even jail time". But this is pretty vague.

My last option is probably to talk about the lawsuits in the US...