Men that can dish it out but not take it can kiss my fat white ass, zero apologies. Fuck you and anyone like you. Lecture me about a sense of humor? I’m not the right sense of humor? Lol. Go fuck yourself.
I always want to start conversations about WCAG/guidance changes that I would like to see in the A11y Slack, but I feel like most folks want to talk about compliance instead.
For example: I want a link element to respond to the same keyboard keys as a button element does.
Another example: I think if you have alt="" and role="none" it is an acceptable demonstration of author intent and should not fail validators.
So these Boeing whistleblowers dying brings back the harsh reminder of the realities of whistleblowing.
My husband was just about to wrap up his PhD — a novel method for imaging that would have applications like detecting arthritis early enough…to reverse it. 🧵
When "accessibility testers" start testing on a page, then zoom in, then file bugs because things on the page are in a different place, or they consider focus order to have changed, this really grinds my gears.
We learned how to consume but not how to be good consumers.
When I think about the purchases I've made over the years, I may have expressed a disappointment in quality and returned some products, but a lot of it I put up with because who has time for that?
Now we have AI and we're not learning how to write prompts that will give us the outcomes we want, we're just complaining that it's terribad.
It's not our fault but it's partially our responsibility.
Documentation: "However, when a hint is used for something more complex, such as a dialog that appears on hover, or a data table, then the user needs to be able to learn it’s there and navigate to it...."
Me: what the fuck are you doing making a dialog appear on hover, or a data table appear on hover? Stop it.
Like, for serious, just don't do this. It's terribad.
So, story time: a long time ago in tech years, I got hired to work at LinkedIn. Specifically, my job was to improve accessibility in Ember, the framework used at the company.
There was a ton of work involved and people mostly didn’t understand what I did or who I was, but that was fine bc legit I was able to lead and strategize and we made progress. 🧵
So...I wrote a cheeky blog post about what I thought some reasonable additions to WCAG should be. I didn't post about it on socials because it wasn't technical, it was "in my experience" and more practical.
Someone seems to have found it and then it ended up in a newsletter that someone at work reads and then ended up in a work chat channel.
Folks are being supportive, maybe I should work on having these clarifications added to spec 🤔
Listening to this week’s Shoptalk Show episode and kind of intrigued!
I’ve loved Ember for years but the recent changes are making it more like other things that I hate.
Hearing about lightweight stacks where I could go back to/stick with writing more HTML instead of more JS is attractive to me (and what drew me to Ember in the first place).
