Hello Mastodon! I'm Meghan, a reporter at @gbhnews, Boston's local NPR station. I do a little bit of everything, including reporting on #disability and accessibility. Looking forward to connecting with people here. #introduction#introductions#gbhnews
@mattwilcox Oof, this hits hard, because my interest in #accessibility completely agrees with you, but this is such an unpopular opinion that making such a transition will be a long and tricky process (not to say it's not worthwhile), and I'll have to work out how to configure various linters and code formatters to do the right thing.
Have you found code formatters can usually be configured to use tabs without too much trouble?
(In particular, I've not yet worked out if I can make autopep8 or similar go against its grain and not just do 4-space indents.) #indentation#tabs#spaces#tabsOverSpaces
I seem to remember a time, now lost in the mists of unknowing, when we were strongly encouraged to use semantic elements in our HTML markup. Lists, articles, sections, headers and footers, shit like that. To make it easier to parse, you know?
Seemed to make sense at the time. I tried to do it in the code I wrote, as much as possible.
@Green_Footballs Does anyone know if this hinders #accessibility ? I'd think it would be difficult to infer anything from just divs but I'm not familiar enough with tools to know if they could make sense of it.
Unfortunately, there are many actors here: site authors, web publishing software #developers, #browser developers, #ScreenReader developers, and tying it all together @wai and the #accessibility standards they publish and support.
Mostly everyone keeps up with #a11y standards now, but sadly you’ve run into a long-standing gap with #NVDA and soft hyphen #HTML entities.
Okay, so about Kindle for Mac and TTS. It looks like Amazon hasn’t updated its method for accessing the Mac’s TTS engine, so yeah it’s broken on Ventura. The function will start, but no sound will play, and the pages won’t turn, so it’s just sitting there stuck waiting on its TTS function to activate. It does have some good commands, for like continuous reading, reading the current sentence, stuff like that. Just needs updating. Meanwhile, you can use Voice in a Can for Mac to get Alexa to “read my Kindle book,” and everything Alexa can do.
Now when I miss alt text on pics I feel really bad, but it happens, and I hate when it does because you can't edit a pic's alt text (with Tusky that I use on Android?) you have to delete the pic, and add again, and if you have more than one pic on the post like I do in the most recent example, I'd have to delete both, re-add.. Whew. Anyway. Oops
It has full support for screen readers and tells them what to ignore, and / or read when dice are rolled. There's a source code link at the bottom.
#macos VoiceOver has a built-in tutorial that is extraordinarily well done. Turn it on, go through the tutorial, & you'll radically improve your #accessibility testing
So, I've finally bitten the bullet, reverted my jailbreak, and am upgrading to iOS 16. What 3rd-party speech synthesis providers are available for me to use without needing a Mac to install them from source? I know eSpeak-ng is one, but are there any others? #TTS#blind#accessibility#a11y#apple#iPhone#iOS16
while I'm really loving @MonaApp on iOS, came across a few low colour contrast and "use of color" issues with it... just fired off a tiny #a11y related email there about them. fingers crossed... #accessibility
David Smith is presenting the talk "Good form: How Django’s form rendering improved during the 4.x series" at the DjangoCon Europe 2023 in Edinburgh 🏴🦄🚀
Does anyone find it interestingly ironic (yet typical), that a profiling questionnaire to join an #accessibility#research panel was ... dare I say, somewhat #inaccessible? Why does this happen more often than not? Oh, I already know the answer. I just don't like it.
#accessibility / #a11y folks: Is wrapping an emoji in a <span role="img" aria-label="…"> still generally the accepted recommendation, or has it been superseded?