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Marconius

@Marconius@mas.to

#Blind #Accessibility Specialist and #Usability expert. #coffee nerd, #SJSharks fanatic, Bay Area native and #Oakland based, former animator and VFX artist, now help companies make apps and sites #Accessible. I built BlindSVG.com and am a blind #Designer and #TactileArtist. Love #Coding with #HTML, #SVG, #CSS, #Python, #JS, and #SwiftUI. #InclusiveDesign #ENM #Pianist Left-leaning #Atheist

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Marconius, to random
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If you are in or around NYC on May 31st and June 1st, come check out the Tactile Teach-In at the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Books Library run by @ChanceyFleet! We have an awesome team of instructors who will be teaching tactile drawing and artistic techniques to and low-vision creatives. It's free, open to anyone who wants to learn and create with us, and will be a ton of fun! Time to get in touch with art again! :) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0vWNiEbP3n5ojgIkUe-r_E8u-dwttBT47iy-gy1iA09tkaw/viewform

Marconius, to design
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It's been a few weeks, but was a blast! It was fantastic meeting and networking with folks in person who I've only ever interacted with virtually. I made a lot of AeroPress coffee for those that visited our suite, had a lot of great conversations about and while showing off my work, played with some cool tech, and came to the realization that I should have started coming to this event earlier in my career. Looking forward to it again next year!

Marconius,
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@aardrian Yup, I always bring my coffee gear and a fresh bag of beans from my local roasters when I go on trips. :) This time I had single-origin medium and dark roasts from Bicycle Coffee, plus I always have my Comandante grinder with me.

Marconius, to accessibility
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Note to devs: if I wanted to use a website when using your app, I'd just go to the mobile website. While web views may be faster to deploy, they are still slow and annoying to navigate with assistive technology. Rife with keyboard/desktop patterns, little or no support for the system API, too many swipe stops, the list goes on. Please leave the websites to the browsers and just build native apps natively!

Marconius, to random
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I launched my new Projects page today, including my SVBraille text file which lets you create properly formed braille in your file without external fonts! I put copious notes in the comments and on the Project page on how to set it all up, but if you can make SVG groups and know how to set up the Use element and can do a tiny bit of math, you are good to go! :) https://blindsvg.com/pages/projects/

Marconius, to random
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I've been having trouble getting the Braille29 font to register when referencing it in an file, so I took it upon myself to build a little braille character library that can be pasted into a defs section and referenced within a drawing if you need braille anywhere in it. It uses circles and unit measurements set to the NLS standards, and embosses out perfectly from my Delta. Still cleaning up the documentation, but will put it up on BlindSVG.com soon!

Marconius, to random
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Come register for this event to check out a lot of great talks regarding and curricula! I'll be demoing coding and giving a BlindSVG.com walkthrough; we'll be releasing our Tangible Art & Design Adventures (TADA!) curriculum from CATT-NW; @ChanceyFleet will be giving a keynote on the second day; lots of activity to get folks excited about coding and digital creativity! https://aphconnectcenter.org/coding-symposium-3-0/

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Marconius, to vscode
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Currently taking a course for folks, and all I can say is that is a prime example of why engineers should never be trusted to build good usable apps. No usability nor good design considerations at all, just a mish-mash of awful choices that aren't using common nor accepted design patterns over on MacOS. Desktop apps aren't and shouldn't be websites and should take full advantage of what AppKit or what the native OS offers you in terms of controls.

Marconius,
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@TheQuinbox I'm speaking specifically on how VS Code works on a Mac for VoiceOver users. The Settings flow alone proves that they aren't testing with VoiceOver at all, along with missing post notifications for basic layout changes, interface clutter with labelled containers/regions that aren't necessary, modals and notifications that don't focus the cursor or contain them so they stack and stay open until you figure out where the hell they are before closing them, I could go on!

Marconius,
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@TheQuinbox Per WCAG, and especially if they insist on this being a web wrapper app, we need to be aware of when things change in the interface. I just went through a walk-through to edit the JSON file that controls settings for R and the R path, and so many steps left VO silent and unfocused upon task completion, I had to keep wondering if I was actually doing anything with the shortcut commands or just typing to nowhere. Native menus and patterns have that feedback built in.

Marconius,
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@TheQuinbox No, not aria-live regions. I hear those. I mean just general interface actions. VO doesn't get focused when saving and closing a document, so it stays silent when doing major actions like that. Any instance where you perform an action and VO stays silent is a failure of design. Oh, and interactive toasts like the restricgted code warning, etc., must grab focus and not just be an aria announcement, for another example.

Marconius, to random
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Last weekend I sketched ideas with a Sensational Blackboard to build and show logo ideas to a friend who wanted one for her business. She picked the one she liked the best, and now I have it built digitally in code. I emboss it out, feel the results, tweak the code, emboss it again and repeat until I'm happy with the . All in all, I'm a Blind making logos for a Blind business owner and this is all just awesome! Can't wait to show it off!

Marconius, to Claudeai
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So I gave a try to see how well it handled education, and sure enough it finally helped me wrap my brain around how the viewbox attribute works. I wrote up a new section on BlindSVG.com to show how you can leverage both that and the width/height attributes to control the overall scale of your when outputting them! Viewbox actually defines the canvas size,, and width/height defines how big or small the actual output will be: https://blindsvg.com/pages/setup/index.html#viewbox

Marconius, to accessibility
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Had a great time in the room here at yesterday. Doing the same thing again today, teaching and holding an coding class at 6pm in Room 344 in the Hilton Americas. Come learn a fun way to illustrate in a non-visual way!

Marconius, to random
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If you are attending in Houston and would love to learn coding as a non-visual way to build and , come swing by the tactile art and picture book Room (Hilto Americas Room 344), on July 1st and 2nd from 6pm-7pm CT! I'll be teaching a crash course for us creatives and anyone else interested. Will be going over tips and tricks that I also have up on BlindSVG.com and go over bestpractices. Bring a laptop and let's create together!

Marconius, to accessibility
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A brilliant article by @ChanceyFleet on the importance of and how they can be used to combat image poverty for people everywhere. Being able to touch, understand, and create design, art, data, conceptualizations, layout, and more helps us all understand and participate that much more in the world, and work like this is making that outreach and education possible. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/15/1074036/ending-image-poverty/

Marconius, to accessibility
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I just launched a new site devoted to teaching how to create and using code. The focus is on and opening up creativity to and -vision folks who want to participate in building graphics, iterate on ideas, and use SVG for projects ready for embosser, swell-form, 3D print, and CriCut output. Come check it out! https://blindSVG.com

Marconius, to ChatGPT
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With the advent of building sites, apps, and writing code via , it seems like there could be some form of compendium to contain the growing number of conversations that can be used as a guide to engage with the AI effectively. I broke out my exact conversation with ChatGPT when building the AI-only site, and anyone can use my script to get them on the right track! https://marconius.com/chattySite.html https://marconius.com/chattySite_convo.html

Marconius, to Futurology
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I love and so very much, especially when Teams decides to hard crash my laptop right as I'm called on in a meeting to discuss issues for an upcoming product. And by love I mean Hate. Can't wait for my new work Pro to arrive in the next few days so I can actually be productive.

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