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patrick_h_lauke, 2 months ago to accessibility

as nice as https://www.getstark.co/wcag-explained might look ... i'd be careful verifying the advice given there. on a quick skim, found various tiny inaccuracies... #accessibility #a11y

patrick_h_lauke, 3 months ago to accessibility

a timely reminder to put things into context: annoyed that a particular #WCAG success criterion, glossary definition, technique etc doesn't cover your specific situation you're facing? keep in mind that the majority of WCAG 2.x was written almost 25 years ago (!)

you're trying to apply thinking and rules to your work today that were dreamt up a quarter of a century ago...

(damn, i feel old)

#a11y #accessibility

patrick_h_lauke, 6 months ago to Halloween

for #halloween i'll go dressed as the Ghost of 4.1.1 Parsing #wcag #a11y #accessibility

patrick_h_lauke, 3 months ago to accessibility

random musing: when somebody has "lived experience", it doesn't necessarily follow they have the same "lived experience" as other people with the same disability. if one person with "lived experience" says "this works for me/doesn't work for me", it's not necessarily true for all people with the same/similar disability ... because guess what, everybody's different and has their own likes/dislikes. take their "lived experience" as a data point, not as the only source of truth #a11y #accessibility

patrick_h_lauke, 2 months ago to random

Tired: passive income
Wired: passive-aggressive income

patrick_h_lauke, 11 months ago to accessibility

what #accessibility #a11y work boils down to...

patrick_h_lauke, 8 months ago to accessibility

yay, the schedule for next month's #a11yTO has been released https://conf.a11yto.com/playlist ... and glad to see they wisely put me on as the last talk of day 1 ... they know i'll inevitably overrun, so this way at least i won't mess up the schedule (and i'll have audience with torches and pitchforks "encouraging" me to wrap things up as they want to go) #a11y #accessibility

so maybe i should plan a "and if you want to hear the rest of my rant, join me in the CIBC square elevated park for an hour)

aardrian, 4 months ago to accessibility

Gonna save you the time of reading all those “top #accessibility errors of 2023” posts churned out by the marketing teams at your favorite corporate accessibility consultancy (and the odd overlay vendor) — they are the same issues AS THE LAST DECADE OR TWO.

patrick_h_lauke, 1 year ago to accessibility

early morning...and i'm emailing newsletter authors to pretty please not just slap images (particularly images of text) into their emails and calling it a day... /cc @Euromove #a11y #accessibility

patrick_h_lauke, 1 year ago to accessibility

for what it's worth ... a (rather handwavy/high-level, but seriously i'm all out of spoons, forks, knives, and other cutlery) first little meta-issue for #HTMX to at least get the examples in some kind of accessible state https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/issues/1431 #accessibility #a11y

patrick_h_lauke, 7 months ago to accessibility

amazed that some of the speakers were surprised about a recent missive from @inclusivedesign24 asking about payment details for their honorarium (with option to donate to a not-for-profit instead) for #id24 ... of course one of the main things we pride ourselves as a conference is that, regardless of how grassroots we are, we compensate our speakers for their time and effort :) #a11y #accessibility #inclusiveDesign

patrick_h_lauke, 7 months ago to accessibility

so...looks like https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/ is now listed as "recommendation" at last #a11y #accessibility

patrick_h_lauke, 7 months ago to random

i think the idea of sustainable web development is cute...but pointless if the planet is already on fire and Google and co now need the same amount of energy and water etc as a medium sized country to run each of their latest LLM monstrosity data centers. feels a lot like separating your rubbish into seven bins and feeling like you're saving the planet...

patrick_h_lauke, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

diversity in action at #id24 - me with @aardrian and Johan Huijkman @huijkman

patrick_h_lauke, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago) to CSS

PSA: :only-child. :last-child, :first-child in #css ignore text nodes ... so if you have something like <li>some text <a href="#">and a link</a></li> but you're trying to only target list items that ONLY contain a link and nothing else, li > a:only-child will still apply to the above...

https://codepen.io/patrickhlauke/pen/xxeNzvw

patrick_h_lauke, 4 months ago to pixelart

tonight's two-for-one #pixelfont recreation: the large font from technōs/leland interactive media's "double dragon V: the shadow falls" (1994) on the #SNES https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1340 #pixelart #retro

patrick_h_lauke, 6 months ago to pixelart

tonight's quick #pixelfont recreation: the primary small font from "super metroid" (1994) on the SNES https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1313 #pixelart #retro

patrick_h_lauke, 6 months ago to CSS

some sunday #CSS noodling (i'm sure somebody else came up with the same idea somewhere, but heck, wanted to see if it worked anyway): floating <label> using :has() https://codepen.io/patrickhlauke/pen/ExrNLzN (for improved screen reader experience) #a11y #accessibility

patrick_h_lauke, 3 months ago to pixelart

tonight's #pixelfont recreation: the in-game font from laser soft/telenet/atlus' super valis IV (1991) on the #SNES https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1375/ #pixelart #retro

patrick_h_lauke, 6 months ago to pixelart

tonight's #pixelfont recreation: the small font (used for in-game messages) from "super metroid" (1994) on the SNES https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1317 #pixelart #retro

patrick_h_lauke, 8 months ago to pixelart

tonight's #pixelfont recreation: mastertronic's "the curse of sherwood" (1987) on the c64, amstrad CPC, ZX spectrum https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1298 #pixelart

patrick_h_lauke, 5 months ago to accessibility

#a11y development discovery of the day ... if you have a live region that is updated correctly (i.e. the container is there first, then content injected into it) in the main page (in this case, as a page-wide/global "screen reader notifyer" type thing), but you're then inside an aria-modal="true" modal ... all browser/SR combos will still announce the live region, except Safari/VoiceOver and Chrome/VoiceOver ... so beware. only workaround seems to be to add the live region inside the modal

patrick_h_lauke, 3 months ago to random

love it ... my feed this week vacillated between "here's a prominent writer telling us that we should not give up hope about climate, as otherwise that leads to apathy", "latest data shows we're about to hit the tipping point where our entire climate is effectively irreversibly fucked at human timescale", and valiant Laura K/BBC "people just have lost appetite for net zero when it means they have to make sacrifices" ...

freezenet, 2 months ago to accessibility

Leave it to Mark Rober to put together a really heartwarming video about giving a kid a super wheelchair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpwJEYGCngI

#accessibility #wheelchair #engineering #Awesome #MarkRober