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aardrian

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One hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.

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aardrian, to accessibility
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I have been reading through the State of HTML 2023 results site (https://2023.stateofhtml.com/) and I am so disappointed in the overall efforts — both in the questions and in the code.

This may become a blog post.

I filed 3 issues today, have filed 15 since late 2022, and only 2 have been addressed:
https://github.com/Devographics/Monorepo/issues/created_by/aardrian

But these surveys keep pushing problematic info in problematic UIs, giving the wrong impression of… everything.

aardrian,
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The issues I filed today:

  1. Control to view comments is inaccessible to keyboard
    https://github.com/Devographics/Monorepo/issues/368

  2. Tooltip triggers are inaccessible to keyboard users
    https://github.com/Devographics/Monorepo/issues/369

  3. Non-ideal ARIA tabs use
    https://github.com/Devographics/Monorepo/issues/370

I have learned in the past that I just get pressed into free consulting, debugging, and training. Eg:
https://github.com/Devographics/Monorepo/issues/308 and https://github.com/Devographics/Monorepo/issues/237

No more free consulting for people who fail to test.

aardrian,
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As for the four features, they made some interesting choices.

  1. Landmark elements (which excludes <article>, includes <section>).

  2. tabindex (with a terrible example).

  3. <search> (a landmark element, but not in #1 and of negligible import).

  4. focusgroup (not in the spec, but a nascent Open UI proposal and which no dev should have used, counter to ‘which have you used’ question).

So, 1 is wrong, 1 is mis-represented, 1 is frivolous, and 1 is a dream. Ugh.

aardrian,
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Then we get to “Other Accessibility Techniques” and, instead of maybe leaning on the results of the WebAIM million report (https://webaim.org/projects/million/#wcag), overlaps a few of them while adding some questionable ones.

prefers-contrast? I feel like the authors think that has more value (and support) than forced colors mode.

The not relying on pointer only entry is rich given how I opened this thread.

I am underwhelmed at the options and framing for each.

aardrian,
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At the screen readers section, things become clearer.

Respondents had a plurality using VoiceOver (though the survey does not distinguish between macOS or iDeviceOS, which have different behaviors). Far different from actual use in the wild.

There is also no discussion of browser pairing, of course, nor any way to filter for browser pairing.

I did not expect Narrator nor Orca, nor do I know if it was asked.

aardrian, to ai
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NPR story about faking human voices, at 3:06 cites a technology that “watermarks” a recording to establish a “chain of trust” (no transcript):
https://www.wwno.org/npr-news/2024-05-17/openais-new-chatgpt-talks-and-sings-but-how-human-is-it

Doing some digging, it is light on details:
• https://news.asu.edu/20240503-science-and-technology-asu-researchers-develop-special-microphone-verify-human-speech
• https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/OriginStory-Abstract.pdf (98k PDF)

My fear is folks might be deploying blockchains to deal with genAI scams, compounding their ongoing role in the climate collapse.

sbourne, to roadtrip
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We've been in London, doing a few London things. The other day, we went to Kew Gardens. We visited the Temperate (as in climate) House and Kew Palace, but spent most of the day walking around admiring their trees.

#roadtrip #london

Looking across the lake, which is reflecting the gray sky and the surrounding trees. A patch of yellow flowers is growing along rocks on the right.

aardrian,
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@sbourne For some reason I keep returning to Greenwich Observatory and the museum when I have time. A little bit envious now.

You hitting Cutty Sark? Or is my timezones offset such that you are long gone?

aardrian,
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@sbourne Well I hope you enjoy the remainder of your visit while I enjoy it remotely.

aardrian, to random
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I’m tthinking the guy next to me on the plane does not approve of my mask since as soon as the wifi became available he loaded The Drudge Report on his phone and looked for stories about masks (the NC law being the first hit).

aardrian,
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@jscholes Weird mile-high club, but probably the only one I’ll get to join.

aardrian,
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@troublewithwords He has middle seat, so I was considering taking the arm rest.

aardrian,
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@artlung If we are considering passive-aggressiveness to be good manners, I am fine with that. Still keeping this mask on.

aardrian,
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@rawrmonstar I somehow doubt that.

aardrian, to accessibility
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With Chrome announcing support for UIA, it might be worth retesting some of your patterns with Narrator, Voice Access, Magnifier: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/windows-uia-support?hl=en

I didn't think UIA was quite mature, but I am also old enough to forget Windows’ prior but somehow also current APIs. So I may simply be wrong.

aardrian,
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@jscholes I have enabled the UIA support in NVDA and found it lacking. But I am also not a true user so may simply be terrible at screen readering.

aardrian,
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@acarson
Glad to hear my neologisms amuse more than just me.
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jscholes, to accessibility
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Yesterday was Global #Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD). Today, some companies will be considering switching away from #Slack to a less #accessible alternative due to #AI bullshit.

aardrian,
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@jscholes Funny, I asked about that in the A11y Slack this morning — is there even an opt out, or does it being a donated instance preclude that?

aardrian, to accessibility
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Playing a little catch-up this week, so throwing this out sans context…

“Baseline Does Not Really Cover Baseline Support”
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/12/baseline-does-not-really-cover-baseline-support.html

Web Platform Baseline does not track browser support for features built into the web platform. If you need to understand whether browsers support accessibility features as your own base level set of requirements, for legal or other compliance reasons, then Web Platform Baseline does not represent a baseline.

siblingpastry, (edited ) to javascript
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Writing to handle browsing is interesting.

Since keydown only fires for targets that can be activeElement, the event target from caret navigating plain text is always <body>.

However you can identify which element contains the caret, by evaluating the range data, which you can also do from selectionchange events.

And get this -- Safari still fires those events, even though it doesn't support caret browsing ... because it actually does, it just doesn't show the caret!

aardrian,
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@siblingpastry Wut. Mac in another state, but macOS genuinely supports caret browsing but hides the visual cue? Or is your statement hyperbole?

aardrian,
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@siblingpastry That’s exactly the test I was going to try when I get home.

I look forward to updating my blog post about caret browsing.

aardrian, (edited ) to random
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I have been volunteered to run the “Practical and Complex Examples of ARIA Live” unconference session at . So come by 116 at noon with your lunch and… unconference.

aardrian,
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If you were in the ARIA Live Regions unconference session, thank you for the great conversation and letting me finally eat my lunch. I hope you all appreciated my moderation style of saying "No" to Zoltan a lot.

aardrian,
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@patrick_h_lauke I hope they read their homework.

aardrian,
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@jscholes No, but I would feel like I was using a banking site.

aardrian,
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@jyarbrough And I would have been in yours had I not been voluntold by the organizers to manage this one.

aardrian,
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put my name on the door for the unconference session I was assigned, perhaps as a warning.

The final location of that sign was oddly fitting.

The paper sign with my name has been casually dropped onto a small rubbish bin overflowing with lunch detritus.

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