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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 random
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Oh the irony … Freevee shows on Amazon now have fewer ads than Prime 🤦🤦

tomw, to random
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Does a word processor exist (regular app or web app I suppose) that displays a section outline with 'live' word counts next to each section? Like:

Introduction (434 words)
Chapter 1 (942 words)
etc

This seems so simple but searching turns up a) other people asking the same question and b) bodgy scripts/plugins.

siblingpastry,
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@tomw If you don't mind spending a bit, then Scrivener has these kinda features and lot more besides -- https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview

freemo, to asd
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If you are well organized, it is a healthy trait. no one would say you are "on the OCD spectrum".. but when that trait gets out of hand we would say you have OCD, and likely would be diagnosed as such.

I see (autism) ASD and ADHD as much the same way. Most people diagnosed with it who are high functioning dont really have it at all. It is just a personality trait and all in all a positive one. high-functioning ASD are just people without social hangups, good. And people with ADHD who are high-functioning are largely just amazing multi-taskers.

The harm in putting people on a spectrum is they see themselves asa diseased, broken, something that needs "consideration.. they arent, in most cases in the right proportions these "diseases" are in fact just super powers, things more people should wisht hey have really.

siblingpastry,
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@freemo A few things:

  • Cognitive disabilities are not "super powers". This is (with respect) an ableist take. There can be benefits (I get a lot of utility from ADHD hyperfocus) but they come with a heavier cost.

  • Autistic people do not have "social hangups". See https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/professional-practice/double-empathy

  • The concept of "high functioning" is relative to social expectations, which are exclusionary and largely arbitrary. This term is not useful or accurate. But I'm curious to know how you would define it?

siblingpastry, (edited )
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@freemo I didn’t call you ableist, only that a thing you said was ableist, not you in general, and I stand by that.

If you want to think of yourself in the terms you’re describing, then fair enough, I only object to generalising such dismissiveness on broader communities. That’s the harmful attitude in my opinion, because it provides an excuse for the majority to ignore our need for social equality.

siblingpastry, (edited )
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@freemo I do agree with what you’re saying about the cultural relativity of personality traits. This makes it harder to define objective diagnostic criteria, but it doesn’t make them not diagnostic criteria.

Being materially disadvantaged relative to the majority because of the way we’re hard-coded to think and communicate, is not a personality problem, it’s a disability. It’s a disability because society doesn’t accommodate our needs. This is true for most disabilities.

siblingpastry, to random
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Latest season of is such a circle jerk. Every single episode is a rehash of a TNG-era plot. Easter egg threads? Yeah that stopped being cool a couple of seasons ago, how about some original stories?

deconspray, to accessibility
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Understanding and implementing the Web Accessibility Content Guidelines (WCAG) can be difficult for even trained experts. Catherine helps us with WCAG 2.2′s newest guideline by explaining the requirements and providing examples of how to improve our user interfaces.

https://buff.ly/3UbC65F

@WebDevelopment

siblingpastry,
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@kaveinthran This may be of interest — https://www.tpgi.com/new-success-criteria-in-wcag22/

@deconspray @WebDevelopment

dgar, to random
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Is it weird that God made seven days and named them after other gods?

siblingpastry,
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@dgar He was just crediting his source material. It’s more than Elvis did.

jochenwolters, to ADHD
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Large animations can easily be highly distractive for folks with #ADHD. Being able to pause them individually doesn't make things much better, especially if reloading the page starts them all over again.

It's really disappointing to see a design-focused company like #Figma use that type of purely gratuitous graphics on their #Config conference website, and do so without offering a way to disable them all at once across the site.

That’s a sad lack of consideration for true #A11Y. 🙁🤨🤬

siblingpastry,
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@jochenwolters If they've implemented it properly (via prefers-reduced-motion media query) then you can filter them out at the system level.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/

siblingpastry,
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@jochenwolters I just checked https://config.figma.com/ using MacOS with the "Reduce motion" setting, and they have done it correctly -- the animations are gone. (At least by default, though they still happen if you hover, so they've got it half right lol)

siblingpastry,
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@jochenwolters Tangentially, you might be interested to read about the cognitive load theory around this issue -- https://www.tpgi.com/the-impact-of-motion-animation-on-cognitive-disability/

dgar, to random
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Sometimes, the road less traveled is that way for a good reason.

siblingpastry,
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@dgar Sure sure, but I’m hardly gonna take your word for it, I wanna see it myself. 😝

joelanman, to random
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What about a Bioshock TV series? What videogame show would you like?

siblingpastry,
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@joelanman Horizon Zero Dawn.

dgar, to random
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My friend taught me how to label graphs and maps.

Legend.

siblingpastry,
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@dgar Life is not so much a set of spectrums, as a venn of scattergraphs.

dgar, to random
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If you're a hammer, all your problems look like nails.

siblingpastry, (edited )
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@dgar

For want a nail, the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe, the horse was lost.
For want of a horse, the rider was lost.
For want of a rider, the message was lost.
For want of a message, the battle was lost.

And all for want of a logistical strategist who'd realize the battle was already lost because there's zero scope for failure in the system.

But sure, blame the blacksmith.

siblingpastry, (edited ) to writing
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"That’s the trouble with confession and denial — confession always sounds like the truth, and denial always sounds like a lie.

"If someone lies, and you deny it, your denial makes the lie seem more credible. If you confess, nobody asks if it's true. Which way round that happens doesn't make any difference."

siblingpastry, (edited ) to harrypotter
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is basically

siblingpastry, to accessibility
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Writing up some best-practice patterns for form controls, and I've assembled this list of native HTML controls that should never be used (because they're not universally supported, and/or their native UI has accessibility problems):

<input type="color">
<input type="date">
<input type="datetime">
<input type="datetime-local">
<input type="number">
<input type="time">
<input type="week">

Any debate on those? Anything I've missed?

siblingpastry,
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@cwilcox808 I’m not sure I’d relegate those buttons to just affordance, they’re functionality that should be supported directly or by equivalence. I’ll do some testing on Monday see what the current state of play is.

@yatil

siblingpastry,
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@yatil @cwilcox808 Interesting, so then that would tend towards just considering them superfluous. And they wouldn’t fail 2.5.8 even when author sized too small and close, because they do have equivalence.

siblingpastry,
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@yatil @cwilcox808 Only if the input isn’t author-sized, as soon as you set dimensions, that UA exception no longer applies. But equivalence would still pass it.

siblingpastry,
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@yatil Yeah they’re separate targets, but the size of the spin buttons is determined relative to the size of the field, so I reckon that would still count as author sized.

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siblingpastry,
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@joelanman @cwilcox808 @yatil fyi. putting aside the inputmode ux -- I can confirm there are no accessibility issues with the "number" type now.

siblingpastry,
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@joelanman

It would pass that exception yeah. I'd assumed the spinbuttons would size with the field, but now I test that, they don't, they're always the same small size.

However it still passes 2.5.8 either way, because of equivalence -- the spinbuttons are not actually necessary. Which is also why their lack of direct keyboard accessibility doesn't matter.

@cwilcox808 @yatil

siblingpastry,
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@aardrian @joelanman I'm gonna go with this advice:

Disabling the button will cause it to lose keyboard focus, which could be confusing or annoying for keyboard users, if the page is still usable while it’s waiting for a server response.

A better solution for cases like this is to block the form’s submit event:

form.addEventListener('submit', (e) =&gt; {  
 e.preventDefault();  
});
siblingpastry,
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@aardrian

Right yeah, it could be aria-disabled and visually dimmed, without being disabled

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