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sarajw, to random
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You're a new web hobbyist, wanting to code accessibly. You don't run Windows (for NVDA or trial JAWS), only have access to VoiceOver (different to other screen readers, less used).

You can follow a11y rules that you have read about, you can run lighthouse or open the accessibility tree in devtools.

Would it help to have an online web page checker which outputs in text what would otherwise be spoken by a screen reader in a "read all" mode?

The SRs have a sort of reading and other mode, right?

sarajw, to random
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πŸ₯°

sarajw, to random
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I feel the need to introduce people to @mk.

The website: https://melonking.net
The forum: https://forum.melonland.net
The mission: https://melonking.net/melon?z=/thoughts/lets-make

Enjoy!

sarajw, to random
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My home from is of course going to end up delayed. Might be stuck in OsnabrΓΌck for a while! Anyone else?

sarajw,
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Woohoo, hopefully I'm on the last train of the day! Along with a raucous hen party hahah, at least they're down the other end of the carriage...

sarajw,
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Home sweet home πŸ₯°

sarajw, (edited ) to random
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Just watching some youtubes on my trip home and as always I get a weird twitchy swipy feeling when I watch Last Week Tonight.

I wish those few lights by John Oliver's elbow would go away! They remind me how much I am conditioned by common web patterns 😬

sarajw, to random
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Huh. I looked out of the window of my train and saw what looked like an African savannah. Then I watched more landscape pass by, and it started to look like a little the sandy pine forests you get near sandy beaches in Scandinavia. I went to Google maps to see if we were by the coast, and nope.

Apparently it was Het Kootwijkerzand. In inland desert reserve in the Netherlands. TIL.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/wDzYeEdgZgin2W2U9

Anneke,
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@sarajw waving back! Have a good trip :)

sarajw,
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@Anneke thank you!

sarajw, (edited ) to random
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From years of being bored, unsatisfied, or struggling in various jobs and industries, I finally feel like I have come home.

I'm so happy to join an industry with such brilliant, interesting, and gloriously nerdy people - I mean this in the best possible way!

I have attended both Beyond Tellerrand DΓΌsseldorf and CSS Day 2024 and, wow. Huge thank yous to the organisers, speakers, and to the many warm and funny fellow attendees I had the joy to socialise with.

This is my church.

#BTConf #CSSDay

Anneke,
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@sarajw thank you for sharing your enthousiasm! It was really nice meeting you :)

mxbck,
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@sarajw I heard something by Conan O'Brien once where he says how important it is to "find your people" in life. Find a community that is excited about the same things you are, and welcomes your participation. I think the web enables us to do that, and the front-end bubble (to me) absolutely feels like "my people". So many friends here that I've never met IRL, but I know we would hit it off instantly.

sarajw, to random
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Yaaaay @Suuskehh welcome!!

sarajw,
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@Suuskehh in case you also find it useful, I like this site for Mastodon orientation:
https://fedi.tips/

Also this one specifically about our instance:
https://about.front-end.social/

Suuskehh,
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@sarajw thank you, will be reading today haha!

sarajw, (edited ) to random
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T shirt twinsies! @paul @heydon

heydon,
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@sarajw @paul Haha fantastic

sarajw, to random
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If anyone at #CSSDay wants to know the story about the little slightly creepy bell pepper stickers :happy_pepper: -

They're based on this thread: https://front-end.social/@sarajw/109994451332222396

The design is by @andycarolan πŸ’–

rem,
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@sarajw oh my, just read through this thread πŸ˜† :happy_pepper: super stuff! (heads to kitchen with knife)

sarajw,
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@rem hahaha! Every time I look carefully at a pepper and consider where I should cut it, I never get a good face. Left up to chance, I get a good one (or sometimes a pair, on both sides), every 2 or 3 months :)

sarajw, to random
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In her closing talk @stubbornella is asking for input of what we want out of our Masonry CSS properties.

I feel like we could forever get input into how it should work, and the CSSWG might be able to put something out that covers 99% of wants...

BUT as soon as it's released with whatever constraints it may have - the people that have ideas and can bend CSS to their will (paging @stephenhay and @kizu!) will start subverting it to do something new and different!

Bring it on :)

#CSSDay

stubbornella,

@sarajw I love that!

stubbornella,
sarajw, (edited ) to random
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Re @stubbornella and special language within companies (her example was πŸ‘ for "ship/sheep it"):

People in my company in Germany react with a πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ on any announcement of someone being off sick.

The code for this in slack is :flag-gb:
German for "get well soon" is "Gute Besserung". GB. Great Britain.

sarajw, (edited )
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And when someone caught COVID we also started getting πŸ‡²πŸ‡». Because we wished them a mild course of COVID - or a 'milder Verlauf'. :flag-mv: Maldives.

sarajw, (edited ) to random
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Thanks @joshtumath for all the tooting, you are embodying the BBC - Busily Broadcasting CSS

#CSSDay

sarajw, to random
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Front-end.social peeps want to do a team photo?!

sarajw, (edited )
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@jonpearse @mia I'm too late though - maybe after the last two talks? @hdv and who else is here...

Edit: oh lol several of the speakers and other people are all on f-e.s but obviously quite busy

rachelandrew,
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@sarajw @jonpearse @mia @hdv I'll be on the CSS Help Desk after the last talk, totally up for a f-e.s group photo, general silliness, or even sensible CSS questions.

sarajw, to CSS
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Is this... Is this written by AI? CSS mixins are not (yet) a thing... https://www.csssnap.com/working-css-mixins-beginner-guide/

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