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patrick_h_lauke

@patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social

WCAG trash panda, web evangelist, ronin, sour kraut. uninvited expert. vague, but exciting. antifascist. european. #toryScum #a11y #pixelart #pixelfonts #photography #cisgender he/him

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patrick_h_lauke, to random
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whenever somebody talks about my mind goes to this...

patrick_h_lauke,
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not sure if i already posted this over on masto... but as search here is so abysmal ... apologies if this turns out to be a doubler

brad_frost, to random
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I'd watch a documentary about jQuery.

patrick_h_lauke,
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@brad_frost only if there's a bit about mootools and other competitors in the early days

patrick_h_lauke, to random
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today's quick recreation: bits laboratory/tokuma shoten's "ghostbusters" (1984) on the NES https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1247

aardrian, to accessibility
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Apropos of nothing in particular:
“Accessibility ‘Gaps’ in MVPs”
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/11/accessibility-gaps-in-mvps.html

If your MVP does not have accessibility factored in, it is not viable.

patrick_h_lauke,
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@aardrian toot toot

patrick_h_lauke,
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@aardrian no need to be polite with me ;)

feudjais, to accessibility French

Bonjour !

J'ai une question sur l'accessibilité concernant les graphiques. Un ami développe un outil qui fait des graphiques. Les graphiques sont une cartes de Paris avec des points de différentes couleurs : bleu, vert et rouge.

Étant daltonien·ne, je ne vois pas d'un coup d'oeil les "groupes" qui se dessinent. Or les couleurs ont un peu un sens dans les graphiques (le rouge est connoté négativement par exemple).

Quelles sont les recommandations d'accessibilité ?

patrick_h_lauke,
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@feudjais utiliser quelques indications visuelles en plus, pas seulement la couleur, pour les differencier? des icones, des differentes bordures, des motifs. sinon, choisir des couleurs qui ont un tres fort contraste entre eux?

SteveFaulkner, to internet
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Does have a web app 🤨

patrick_h_lauke,
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@SteveFaulkner @peterdutoit amazeballs... <div tabindex="0" ...>. brave new world...

patrick_h_lauke,
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@SteveFaulkner "the vibes are much better though..."

patrick_h_lauke,
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@peterdutoit @SteveFaulkner beta, staging, etc... sure, they might improve it later, but if they start with inaccessible controls, then they need to add extra stuff on top to make them accessible. smart devs use the right elements to begin with... but hey, i'm not a 10x vulture capital funded engineer

patrick_h_lauke,
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@peterdutoit @SteveFaulkner if isn't baked into your MVP/beta, all signs point to "you don't actually care about it / see it as a nice-to-have-maybe-down-the-line" aspect. which is par for the course, sadly... (and usually then the first thing that gets dropped or deprioritised when "more important" things come up after launch)

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@belwerks @SteveFaulkner @peterdutoit they either don't think the actual markup they use is important, and/or they export it from their figma or whatever without consideration for cleanup afterwards (full confession: i have no idea if figma actually outputs things nicely or not, just guessing here)

patrick_h_lauke,
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@belwerks @SteveFaulkner @peterdutoit i keep meaning to take it for a spin, but i'll hazard a guess that it's garbage in, garbage out...if the designer/dev didn't specify that something's an <a href="..."> link, or a <button>, it'll just vomit out div soup...

whalecoiner, to random

It’s spring cleaning day here at Casa Whalecoiner. The doors are open, the furniture is in mad disarray, and Mrs Whalecoiner is playing filthy jungle at a level guaranteed to ensure a visit from the Polizei.

patrick_h_lauke,
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@whalecoiner no jungle, but your mention of the five-oh made me flash back to this bullshit gem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSy2DcATYUo

patrick_h_lauke, to accessibility
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when you overengineer your HTML custom widget for no reason, and slap all the ARIA on it too for good measure...

hikingdude, to photography German
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It's the age of ai - wtf do I still have to write alt-texts for photos??

patrick_h_lauke,
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@hikingdude AI can't infer intent. it may be able to describe "what" is in a picture, but not with certainty why you as an author took it or what you're trying to draw attention to/convey. but yes, feel free to use AI tools to make an initial suggestion ...

polarity, to random
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the infamous comment. and maybe..... he was partially right?

patrick_h_lauke,
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@polarity ah, i remember that...and that first point still makes me chuckle in a "oh, linux users..." sort of way

tommorris, to random
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The best thing we could do to improve technology: replace almost everything that uses touch sensitive panels with actual switches.

Light switch on a bedside lamp? Actual switch not a touch sensor.

Play/pause on Bluetooth headphones? Actual switch not touch gestures.

You know you’ve pressed it because you can see, feel and hear it. You don’t need to learn a bunch of gestures.

Physical switches: good, actually.

Also a slide out Blackberry style keyboard for iPhone already.

patrick_h_lauke,
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@tommorris for the iphone keyboard...not even going to search, but i bet there's a custom phone case with that already out on the market. AND IF NOT WHY NOT YOU COWARDS

patrick_h_lauke, to accessibility
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irrationally irritated by people who proudly announce how inclusive they are in their language choices...but then it's clear they haven't actually talked to the people they're trying to "help" and just make assumptions on their behalf... https://twitter.com/lauraparkerux/status/1651561367646748673 ... (with hat-tip to @davidofyork who still clearly scours twitter/the nazi bar)

patrick_h_lauke,
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@gnomicutterance I always advise folks that if they can use something more general than "click" or language like "view", in a very natural way, sure go for it. but don't go out of your way to reinvent language and end up with very stilted constructs...

quiffboy, to random

@patrick_h_lauke waves in zoom

patrick_h_lauke,
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@quiffboy i was so fire, made your computer spontaneously blackscreen

aardrian, to accessibility
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1/2

A few years too late, but ARIA Authoring Practices Guide finally has (only) four support tables:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/04/answering-what-aria-can-i-use/

Mind, a year ago it re-branded as a copy-ready pattern library without any data on support.

patrick_h_lauke,
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@yatil @aardrian it's infuriatingly pointless. i don't doubt that whoever was involved with it worked really hard or whatever, but yes the conclusions/framing of results is supremely pointless. why not actually present it like ... caniuse do for browsers? instead of fucking numberwang https://youtu.be/0obMRztklqU

patrick_h_lauke,
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@yatil @aardrian is this supported in browser X with AT Y? yes, no, partial - and for partial, clearly list what currently fails/is missing. it's not rocket science

patrick_h_lauke,
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@yatil @aardrian just expand the approach and presentation of https://a11ysupport.io/ basically...

patrick_h_lauke,
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@yatil @aardrian wonder if it's worth me just crafting a diplomatically worded (HAH) issue on their github repo...just to at least put it down "on paper" how currently the resource is less than ideal and what would actually help authors. sure, it'll be ignored or "we'll look into it at some point" ... but at least it's there for reference

patrick_h_lauke,
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@yatil @aardrian just to put it on record...i think i might. then in future i don't have to repeat myself and just point to the issue (like i do with most things that are borked...sigh)

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