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siblingpastry

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Technical consultant at TPGi, JavaScript accessibility specialist, writer, musician, neurodivergent (ADHD), vegetarian, socialist.

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siblingpastry, to javascript
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Here's a very-niche but then-very-useful trick I realized today -- you can create empty text-nodes to use as node references, for things like DOM insertion, range boundaries, or whatever.

I needed this to set the end of a range immediately before an element's closing tag, when references to existing child nodes might be invalidated by race conditions.

You don't even need to persist the references for removal, since a single call to context.normalize() cleans them all away.

siblingpastry,
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@ollicle Interesting, I hadn't considered using comments. They'd have to be manually cleaned-up though. Could probably use cdata nodes as well.

What do you mean by, play alongside?

siblingpastry,
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@ollicle Oh you were asking about dealing with sibling text nodes? Yeah, that :-) Normalizing isn't something you tend to need very often, but it's uniquely useful when you do.

That's a good point about spotting in dev tools, I guess it would depend on what you needed. If the nodes need to be around for a while, it would be more useful to be able to inspect them. My use-case is very transient, they're added and gone again in the space of a synchronous function call.

urlyman, to random
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Policy stealing between Labour and the Tories seems to be more of a two-way street than it should be.

The texture of Labour’s response to the National Service thing is going to be… informative

siblingpastry,
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@urlyman It’ll be the same principle, except that conscriptees will be made to do content moderation and social services risk assessments.

urlyman, to random
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Wonder if anyone will keep track of appearances gifted by mainstream media to Farage et al during campaigning, vs visibility given to the Green Party

siblingpastry,
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@urlyman gammontracker.co.uk is available 💡

siblingpastry, (edited ) to random
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Remember how we used to worry about kids being able to find harmful content?

And now we worry about kids being unable to avoid harmful content, because social media algorithms thrust it in their faces to support addiction-engagement strategies which exist solely for the purpose of selling user data and advertising space.

How about we ban that for under 16s?

How about we legislate that user tracking, algorithmic feeds and advertising, have the same legal status as alcohol.

urlyman, to random
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Good thread. Thanks Geof and Matthew https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/112502615002807247

siblingpastry,
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@urlyman That diagram has its x-axis the wrong way round

siblingpastry, to random
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What goes through his head when he announces stuff like this ... haggard old copy-of-a-copy of cliched hypocrisy, which he already knows is never going to happen, would achieve almost nothing but logistical and cultural chaos in the armed forces, and probably violates ECHR law anyway.

I mean why even say it? It's not even vaguely believable. All it achieves is a flutter of dust and feathers, while arrays of pundits pretend to take it seriously for five minutes. Ugh.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo

urlyman, to random
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regex search within in-page search – cmd-F (ctrl-F) – would be handy

siblingpastry,
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@urlyman Fancy building a Chrome extension? The core functionality would be fairly trivial, the tricky bit would be learning how to use the extensions API lol.

(Which I'm presuming is mostly great with a side-order of intensely frustrating in some randomly specific ways.)

siblingpastry, (edited ) to random
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fyi. Sonoma 14.5 includes some changes to the QuickNav feature in VoiceOver, and after I updated, it was turned on by default.

Some hours of confusedly testing why none of my JS key handling scripts are working anymore, turned out to be that -- unmodified arrows and navigation keys aren't passed through to JavaScript when QuickNav is on.

(You have to hold Option. I don't know if that was always the case, I didn't know about QuickNav until today.)

siblingpastry,
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There was also a Heisenbug where aria-live regions completely stopped working. But I can't reproduce that now, all variants work fine, so no idea wtf.

siblingpastry,
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But in the course of testing to determine this, I've also learned that interactive grids work in VoiceOver now (e.g., https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/grid/examples/data-grids/)

That's definitely new, right? I didn't just hallucinate it not working for the last couple of years??

siblingpastry,
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@meduz I think that's the usual default, yeah.

whitingx, to random
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🌄 The Problem with .

“The history of fiction proves that we can’t even imagine a better world.”

https://quillette.com/2024/05/23/why-we-must-walk-away-from-omelas-the-problem-with-utopias-authoritarianism-science-fiction/

siblingpastry,
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@whitingx Even Star Trek couldn't keep it up. Roddenberry's vision of utopia is riddled with hypocrisy and holes, it side-steps privacy and diversity questions (or handles them crassly), and its economics completely fall apart if you give them more than a cursory glance.

siblingpastry, (edited )
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@otfrom @whitingx I can’t speak to the general point, but this article is very clear in denouncing Utopianism as a bedfellow of eugenics.

urlyman, to random
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Been wielding font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums which makes things line up proper.

Was going to make a shit joke about CSS numchucks but then realised it’s nunchucks – which also sounds like a cruel sport

siblingpastry,
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@urlyman Makes me think of It’s a Knockout

siblingpastry, (edited ) to keyboard
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I've been playing around with keyboard scrolling of overflow regions, and I was interested to note how Firefox's native behavior doesn't expose any additional semantics -- i.e., it doesn't apply a role or accessible name when the scrolling region becomes focusable.

And I think that's the right thing to do -- that our standard workaround of including role="region" and aria-label or aria-labelledby (along with tabindex="0") creates unnecessary verbosity.

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siblingpastry,
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Because navigating an element with the virtual cursor isn't affected by scrolling. Virtual navigation already allows for keyboard access to the overflow, and it makes no difference to navigation or spoken output.

Tab navigation is affected of course, because it's the difference between whether an element creates a Tab stop or not, but this also doesn't require a label, I don't think, because Tabbing to such an element causes the first line to be read anyway.

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siblingpastry, (edited )
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I've created a demo script on that basis, which doesn't add a role or label, it simply adds or removes tabindex based on whether the region actually has overflowing content.

It's triggered by a ResizeObserver so it continually updates in response to anything that changes the element's size (and you can test this by resizing the window, increasing zoom or font-size).

https://cdpn.io/pen/debug/dyEXeKg/32a2f63b9f70a8727dc0c6bf9e5e69a7

Thoughts etc.?

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siblingpastry,
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@cwilcox808 Not that I know of, it doesn't seem to expose anything in the DOM. There's a change in the accTree (the element gains a "focusable" state) but nothing that JS can read, as far as I know.

siblingpastry,
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@ben Exactly so, it still defaults to -1 (which is silly really, the default for that property should be null, but that ship has long sailed lol).

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siblingpastry,
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@ben

There is blue-sky talk of providing API access to the accTree, but I'm not sure when or if that will happen, and I'm not convinced it's a good idea anyway, too much potential for good-intention breakage.

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joelanman, to random
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https://www.eurogamer.net/senuas-saga-hellblade-2-review

siblingpastry,
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@joelanman I really loved the first game, but I couldn't finish it, because of the ambiguous perma-death feature. Each time I die, I'm one step closer to perma-death, but I have no idea when that will actually happen. The further through the game I got, the more I stood to lose, so the less inclined I was to carry on.

Plus the combat was kinda janky -- I can't deal with fixed-camera combat, it makes me feel trapped and impotent. Maybe that was the point lol.

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