@brucelawson@plexus the last few weeks for me have been sitting in workshops about all of this stuff. It's still unclear how we are going to comply with it all, but we want to - but if every company comes knocking at our door demanding access to Smart Home data on behalf of their users that could get tricky - here it would be good to have standards for this IoT and customer data (we are currently investigating Data Pods)
@brucelawson is it terrible that initially I thought that was just a picture in front of you. Not entirely dissimilar to the wall paintings you'd find at a travel agent.
brb, emailing "You shouldn't need to know all the specifics of web accessibility, Susan. The Agency, however, should. When I had a central heating boiler installed, I didn't say to the gas engineer "I assume this conforms to BS8871, BS 2328 and the Don't Blow Up The Neighbourhood Directive 1993", because I trust that they would know the rules and adhere to them.
Sadly, web agencies don't have the equivalent of CORGI registration."
@brucelawson thankfully, gas boilers don't have to abide to the "Elastomeric parts for parenterals and for devices for pharmaceutical useโ or the โFork-lift trucks. Hook-on type fork arms and fork arm carriages. Mounting dimensionsโ dimensionsโฆ
(Sorry, you nerd-sniped me thereโฆ I actually looked up the Donโt Blow Up The Neighborhood Directive 1993โฆ)
Just back from A&E. I had a terrible pain in my bum. The doctor made me touch my toes, put his hand up and, after a few minutes of strenuous effort, he pulled out a lettuce leaf. "It feels much better, thank you!" I exclaimed. He replied, "I'm sorry, Bruce, but this is just the tip of the iceberg".
@brucelawson randomly, know that your joke about the french guy who invented the beach shoes, philippe feloppe, still lives rent free in my head to this day every bloody time i see a pair
"WhoFundsThem is our new project looking into MPs financial interests. With your help, weโll answer a set of important questions for each MP, then publish what we find in a clear and accessible way on TheyWorkForYou, and as a spreadsheet, for anyone to reuse."
Was there ever a proposal to add the ability to "light dismiss" an open <details> element with esc (like HTML popover & <dialog>) or did I make it up in one of my perviest dreams?
@brucelawson I read this somewhere yesterday and am almost certain there are plans to back-fill it from Popover. Looking to see if I can find where that was...
Dialog was shipped well before popover and many lessons were learned. One of which is how nice it is to declaratively open and close popovers with an invoker. To resolve this, the invoketarget property is being discussed and prototyped for a more declarative dialog toggle trigger, much like with popover
brb, explaining to someone that just because the contract didn't expressly say "The project should not contravene Equality Act 2010", it doesn't mean accessibility wasn't "in scope".
At the weekend I took the kids to the zoo. There were no pandas. No lions. No tigers. No giraffes. No elephants. No crocodiles. Just a tiny little dog in a cage. It was a Shih Tzu.
Why did none of you tell me that my code was failing in Firefox because I was trying to style details:open rather than details[open] ? Fine bloody mates you lot are.
It's not just computers that are crap rubbish technology. Look at this daft toaster from Tesco that is too small too accommodate standard Tesco own brand bread. I might stick a React sticker on it.