danielnixon

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by danielnixon 7y ago
Nor with a keyboard. https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20161007/F78
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by danielnixon 7y ago
This site recommends Tristan Harris's work pretty prominently. For a sober take on Harris and "tech humanists" more generally, check out "Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself" by Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel. https:
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by danielnixon 7y ago
They talk about inclusive design and then make it impossible to tell which element has keyboard focus. http://www.outlinenone.com/
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by danielnixon 8y ago
This[1] typechecks in Flow but not in TypeScript: /* @flow */ interface HasIdentityFunction { id<A>(a: A): A } class Example implements HasIdentityFunction { id<A>(a: A): number {
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by danielnixon 10y ago
As one counter example: you'll never make a modal popup accessible without JavaScript. The focus management required is impossible with "CSS only".
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by danielnixon 10y ago
Numerous accessibility issues here. Many of these examples can't be operated by a keyboard, for example. "CSS only" is not a virtue if it comes at the cost (as it always does) of needlessly excluding people from the web.
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by danielnixon 10y ago
Speaking of le Carré, you might enjoy this exchange between Rushdie, Hitchens and le Carré in The Guardian: http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/burning/le-carre-vs-rushdie.h...
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by danielnixon 10y ago
The first paragraph mentions Salman Rushdie, which reminded me of this[0]. For anyone interested in free speech, victim blaming and such, these Dahl quotes are interesting: 'In a letter to The Times of London, Dahl called Rushdie &quot
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by danielnixon 10y ago
Not true. Nullable values in a database can be dealt with (and I would argue _should_ be dealt with) using a maybe/option[1] type. This is exactly what Slick[2] does, for example. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by danielnixon 11y ago
As soon as I see "pure CSS" or "CSS only" this is the first thing I think of. This meme that "pure CSS" is a Good Thing is a shame.
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by danielnixon 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
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by danielnixon 11y ago
Follow-ups: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/MUMPS-Madness http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Revenge-of-MUMPS-Madness !
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by danielnixon 12y ago
Your a:hover styles should also be applied to a:focus [0]. You might also want to read about why using only color to differentiate links is bad practice [1]. [0] http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201004/wheneve
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by danielnixon 12y ago
Related[0]: "Many people with cognitive disabilities have a great deal of trouble with blocks of text that are justified (aligned to both the left and the right margins). The spaces between words create "rivers of white" runn
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by danielnixon 12y ago
Your question reminds me of Peter Suber's excellent book, The Paradox of Self-Amendment [0]. [0] http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/psa/
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by danielnixon 12y ago
For contrast, maybe check out either HTML_CodeSniffer [0] or Vision Australia's Colour Contrast Analyser [1]. Also this Bootstrap issue [2], which references a couple more. The problem with being pure CSS is that you're hiding inp
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by danielnixon 12y ago
Lots of accessibility issues here. * Keyboard accessibility is completely busted (other comments have pointed this out). * Color contrast doesn't meet WCAG 2.0 AA (Bootstrap is bad here too). * The <label class="button"&gt
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by danielnixon 13y ago
This [1] is the way Nick Cohen put it six months ago: "The official justification for oppression is, as so often, religious. Migrants and employers are bound by the kafala system – taken from Islamic law on the adoption of children. &q