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I use fancy code display tools when making slide shows. Though in my case I have a plugin for Notepad++ that lets me copy syntax highlighted code from NP++ and

I use fancy code display tools when making slide shows. Though in my case I have a plugin for Notepad++ that lets me copy syntax highlighted code from NP++ and paste it into PowerPoint with all the highlighting and formatting maintained. Super cool plugin. I can't just screenshot my editor (VSCode) because I use a theme that many people find violently irritating (DOS Edit). Anyway, this looks like someone's fun little hacked together project to make something shiny. Making shiny things is fun. No one craps on shader toys for being inaccessible. If someone tried to use the linked tool to make screenshots and used them in an actual MOOC or any other place for public consumption, yeah, wrong tool for the job. Don't do that. Use one of the dozens of existing tools that pretty print and embed code in an accessible way.

Dangeranger 6y ago
The parent’s point is regarding accessibility of code examples, and your comment seems to be about the convenience of pasting an image of code into a tool that should make accessible text easy, but falls short when it comes to code. If this tool created an accessible SVG instead of a PNG then I think it would be getting a lot less criticism. There are accepted ways[0] to make SVGs accessible, and they are better for performance than the alternatives. When you give people shiny tools that make it hard for visually impaired people to consume information, then more of that sort of content will be embedded in blogs, presentations, MOOCs or whatever else. PowerPoint and Google Slides should really just get their act together with regards to rendering code blocks. It’s quite sad that in today’s world they still don’t have a built in way to show code on slides in a formatted and colorized way. [0] https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG-access/ https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG-access/
- saagarjha 6y ago
  Sadly, many places will only accept images in PNG (or heaven forbid, JPEG) format :( SVG export would be cool, though.
akdor1154 6y ago
I just googled your VSCode theme and can provide another anecdote of violent irritation.
- danwills 6y ago
  I got mildly pleasant nostalgic feelings looking at screenshot of DOS Edit theme myself, but I still wouldn't want it as my daily driver. Can totally understand about screenshots of that not really being cool to chuck in a presentation too.
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- com2kid 6y ago
  It is remarkably usable, promise. But then again I wear blue light filtering glasses so maybe they reduce some of the excesses. :) My Slack is similarly setup, to the limits that the themeing in Slack allows. :)

Dangeranger 6y ago

The parent’s point is regarding accessibility of code examples, and your comment seems to be about the convenience of pasting an image of code into a tool that should make accessible text easy, but falls short when it comes to code. If this tool created an accessible SVG instead of a PNG then I think it would be getting a lot less criticism. There are accepted ways[0] to make SVGs accessible, and they are better for performance than the alternatives. When you give people shiny tools that make it hard for visually impaired people to consume information, then more of that sort of content will be embedded in blogs, presentations, MOOCs or whatever else. PowerPoint and Google Slides should really just get their act together with regards to rendering code blocks. It’s quite sad that in today’s world they still don’t have a built in way to show code on slides in a formatted and colorized way. [0] https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG-access/ https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG-access/

saagarjha 6y ago
Sadly, many places will only accept images in PNG (or heaven forbid, JPEG) format :( SVG export would be cool, though.

akdor1154 6y ago

I just googled your VSCode theme and can provide another anecdote of violent irritation.

danwills 6y ago
I got mildly pleasant nostalgic feelings looking at screenshot of DOS Edit theme myself, but I still wouldn't want it as my daily driver. Can totally understand about screenshots of that not really being cool to chuck in a presentation too.
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com2kid 6y ago
It is remarkably usable, promise. But then again I wear blue light filtering glasses so maybe they reduce some of the excesses. :) My Slack is similarly setup, to the limits that the themeing in Slack allows. :)