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I’m just getting the release candidate for Able Player 4.8 ready. This isn’t as large a release as the last one, but it does include some pretty significant changes! The most significant changes are in internationalization and in my progress towards removing jQuery and cookies. The release is currently scheduled for February 2nd, 2026; but could get pushed if there are new bugs in the release candidate that need fixing first. Internationalization Until this release, translations have existed as properties […]
We tend to agree easily that all accessibility issues are important, but we also acknowledge out of necessity that some issues are more critical than others. What we don’t always agree on is how to judge severity. There are very good reasons for that: it’s complicated! There’s no pretending that figuring out how important something is has an undercurrent of judging who matters more. But that’s not really what we’re doing when we try to decide what issues are more […]
I’m approaching this story from the starting assumption that accessibility overlays are a problem. So I’m not going to spend time on arguments for or against the technology. I’m also making the assumption that we all agree that the tool itself must be accessible, and won’t discuss that question here. I am interested in one key question: where do we draw the line between a potentially useful tool and an evil overlay? What are the characteristics that make an overlay […]
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