Daniela Kubesch<p>It's almost time for Global Accessibility Awareness Day and I can finally share my thesis in an accessible format 🎉</p><p>Due to the mandatory template used, the thesis PDF is not accessible. So there was no way I was going to share it with the world. It took a year, but I managed to create a website with an <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/accessible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessible</span></a> <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/version" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>version</span></a> of the 160-pages thesis on <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/AccessibilityOverlays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AccessibilityOverlays</span></a>, and some additional content! </p><p>You can find it here: <a href="https://overlays.dnikub.dev" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">overlays.dnikub.dev</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> ✨</p>
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Daniela Kubesch<p>If you want to hear me speak about <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/AccessibilityOverlays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AccessibilityOverlays</span></a> again, there are some more occasions: <a href="https://dnikub.dev/speaking" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dnikub.dev/speaking</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>And yes, the detailed 180-page research will be published soon. I'll keep you updated!</p>
Daniela Kubesch<p>2024 is the year I step out of my comfort zone. 😶</p><p>I am thrilled to share that I'll do my first-ever talk in exactly one month at the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@a11yclub" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>a11yclub</span></a></span> Summit in Amsterdam! 🎤🎉 </p><p>I'll share insights from my master's thesis on <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/AccessibilityOverlays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AccessibilityOverlays</span></a>, which I've worked on over the past one and a half years. My talk details the impact <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> overlays have on <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/usability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usability</span></a> and <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/UserExperience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserExperience</span></a>.</p><p>You can still grab a ticket and join on June 8 and 9: <a href="https://accessibility.club/event/accessibility-club-summit-2024" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">accessibility.club/event/acces</span><span class="invisible">sibility-club-summit-2024</span></a>.</p>
FeralRobots<p>Minor podcast-prompted epiphany/question:<br>Has anyone looked at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AccessibilityOverlays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AccessibilityOverlays</span></a> as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spyware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spyware</span></a>?<br>There's certainly energy devoted to examining them, but the people looking at them are interested in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usability</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> (which such <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/overlays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>overlays</span></a> almost invariably make worse). But think about what they are: voluntary cross-site script injections, with mysterious functionality. That'd be an utterly ideal way to introduce spyware.</p>
FeralRobots<p>The problem with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AccessibilityOverlays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AccessibilityOverlays</span></a>, I find, is that people DON'T BELIEVE they make things worse. 'Why would people continue to spend money on them if they just make things worse?'</p><p>To which I'm always tempted to reply: Have you paid attention to anything at all in your entire life?</p>
FeralRobots<p>I've personally never seen a case where an accessibility overlay didn't make the accessibility of a website worse than it would have been without the overlay.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AccessibilityOverlays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AccessibilityOverlays</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/a11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>a11y</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AccessibilityOverlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AccessibilityOverlay</span></a></p>
Daniela Kubesch<p>I am searching for <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/UserStudy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserStudy</span></a> <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/participants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>participants</span></a> for my master’s thesis 🤓</p><p>Topic: <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> & <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/AccessibilityOverlays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AccessibilityOverlays</span></a> </p><p>Prerequisite: <br>- visual impairment or <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a><br>- time in June or July for ~60min<br>- Online</p><p>If this sounds interesting, please fill out this pre-selection questionnaire or share it with others: <a href="https://forms.office.com/e/DGLK97G1aN" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">forms.office.com/e/DGLK97G1aN</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> (available in German and English)</p><p>Sadly I cannot offer compensation (I’m just a student), but I hope that some of you might still be willing to participate 🤗</p>
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