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vayiam

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Accessibility & Usability Consultant. IAAP Certified Professional in Web Accessibility. Information Forager. Curious. Sourdough Bread Baker. Cat Servant. UK-based and missing the Mediterranean Sea.

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patrick_h_lauke, to random
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people of lahndahn...fair warning, i'm travelling down to you, and am unashamedly wearing shorts. lock up your daughters and shield your eyes from the exceeding glare of my super-white skin...

vayiam,
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@patrick_h_lauke What, just shorts, no top? 😳

aardrian, to accessibility
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Looking for TalkBack bug confirmation before I file an issue. Test page:
https://cdpn.io/pen/debug/ExzxwxW

TalkBack does not expose the contents of the tabpanel in the first example (“Auto Tab Panel sans Interactive Child”). Looking for confirmation from another Chrome 124 / TalkBack 14.2 / Android user. Or prior experience.

vayiam,
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@aardrian I confirm, contents of the first tabpanel are not exposed.

patrick_h_lauke, to random
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is it the wet weather? or maybe...the fact we're in a fucking cost of living crisis and everything's fucked in this country? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68634774

vayiam,
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@patrick_h_lauke Nah, it can't be possibly related to the fact that 18% of the UK population are in absolute poverty, it must be the rain...

(shocking stats: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/21/poorest-uk-families-hardest-hit-cost-living-crisis-official-figures)

aardrian, to UI
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While Apple’s Round Checkboxes of WTF are not in UIKit, they are in the Figma file Apple has on its site, linked from this post:
https://tonsky.me/blog/checkbox/

Makes me recall this article about the enshittification of UIs:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/24/rise_and_fall_of_cua/

Anyway, don’t do what Apple does just because it’s Apple.
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/03/i-dont-care-what-google-or-apple-or-whomever-did.html

vayiam,
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@aardrian Chameleon-belly-button?

aardrian, to Espresso
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Today's fika is a sloppy con panna (with whipped cream). I did not make the whipped cream (I am only mildly ashamed), but the stuff I used at least was not a syrupy dense flavored offense.

A close-up of the espresso and whipped cream in the glass mug, showing the whipped cream melting at the surface of the espresso with tiny narrow pillars of white plunging to the bottom of the glass.

vayiam,
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@aardrian Looks delicious!

tink, to random
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I am warm for the first time today. Happiness is jeans and boots, plus a t-shirt, a thin polo-neck, three cardigans of increasing weight and size, and a hot water bottle 💜

vayiam,
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@tink Ah, layers of clothing, that sounds easier than moving the desk into the airing cupboard, which I was thinking of doing soon!

vayiam, to accessibility
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A super cool course: Accessible Technology Design, by AccessibleEU (free, online, self-paced, in English).

This introductory course consists of 6 modules:

  1. Accessibility and Inclusive Design.
  2. ICT Accessibility Laws and Standards.
  3. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
  4. Digital Accessibility Myths.
  5. Avoiding Non-Inclusive Design Patterns.
  6. Creating Inclusive Designs.

https://accessible-eu-centre.ec.europa.eu/content-corner/news/sign-accessibleeus-new-accessible-technology-design-course-2023-11-10_en

patrick_h_lauke, to random
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painful realisation that it's probably time for me to update my avatar photo ... as sexy as it is, i'm far fatter and grayer in real life these days ... don't want to be accused of catfishing people here...

vayiam,
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@patrick_h_lauke I'd say not bad at all and the glasses still look like brand new! Defeating time.

SteveFaulkner, (edited ) to Cats
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on Sunday

vayiam,
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@SteveFaulkner Poor Lola...

vayiam,
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@SteveFaulkner Doesn't she sometimes settle down next to these two little heaters?

vayiam, to accessibility
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The best, publicly available, view from the trenches, talking about WCAG, ambiguity, interpretations, personal views and agendas: slides from @patrick_h_lauke talk at Accessibility Toronto Conference, "These (still) Aren't The SC You're Looking For..." https://patrickhlauke.github.io/wcag-interpretation/

aardrian, to random
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I may have angst-eaten an entire coffee cheesecake while updating WCAG 2.2 testing materials.

Weird fika.

vayiam,
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@aardrian It also looks as if you have eaten the fourth tine of the fork 😳

aardrian, to random
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This Eurostar screen at Gare du Nord is supposed to show info on my train. The Windows XP screen it is showing instead does not fill me with confidence.

vayiam,
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@aardrian I hope you focused on the sign below instead, Alain Ducasse chocolates are to miss your train for!

aardrian, (edited ) to random
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Made it to !

The morning crowd is hanging out speaking French, trying to be polite to the only monolingual in the room.

[Edited to adjust photo of people at table where table did not want to be in pic but was not wearing the no-pic lanyard.]

vayiam,
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@aardrian Orateurice.. Now that's an easy word to pronounce correctly (not!) 😳

SteveFaulkner, to animals
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Very sad day. Our lovely dog Lola has been diagnosed with an inflammatory brain disease which has made her unable to use her back legs. Came on very suddenly. Am hoping medication will improve her condition and give her some quality of life. 😭

Lola waiting for me to throw her ball, wagging tail and tongue out.

vayiam,
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@SteveFaulkner Fab news!!!

tink, to random
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Today we're having solar panels fitted 😊

vayiam,
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@tink Please bring the solar (panel) fitters back!

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