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by jscholes 7y ago
The developers of JAWS may have added the code needed to detect it, but that still leaves several screen readers without such an implementation (thankfully because this is a terrible idea).
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by jscholes 7y ago
There are a number of people on this thread suggesting that the arguments in this article are fairly weak. That may be the case for some (or most) of them, but the accessibility concerns are right on point. I work in digital accessibility
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This approach was used for years by Spotify[1], to allow websites embedding their player to load content directly into a running instance of the desktop app. [1] http://cgbystrom.com/articles/deconstructing-spotifys-bui
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by jscholes 7y ago
> "People sleep in their apartments, but the rest of the building is part of their house too," This is the definition of renting a bedroom, not an apartment.
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> Initially I thought my work had used my card to book a trip for me or something similar. I didn't even imagine someone could have gotten my card details somehow. I must be missing something here. Is sharing your card details with
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> If you enjoy reading on the web chances are you’ve been forced to login to Medium at some point in the last week. I've never once logged into Medium. I see a "Pardon the Interruption" notice every time I want to read so
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by jscholes 7y ago
Well, other than the fact that it only supports Linux and MacOS.
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> a software package or a lifestyle upgrade. I'm unclear what you mean by this. Could you clarify?
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These are great resources, thanks so much.
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> I never earned any money from this hobby and have no plans to change it Except for the bug bounties you've received, presumably. Unless you consider those a separate part of what you do. All great work in any case!
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> drag and drop Lists are notoriously difficult to implement because browsers provide little help when developers have to build drag and drop interactions. Developers using Base Web have the peace of mind that keyboard navigation is reli
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by jscholes 7y ago
The screen reader I'm using includes modern accurate OCR. I'm very interested in this, though. How do you suggest a screen reader should recognise the often subtle differences between control types and states across every applic
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by jscholes 7y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but these widgets are custom-drawn, making the "modern" world completely inaccessible to and unusable by the majority of disabled users.
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by jscholes 8y ago
> This is a big release that includes ... important changes for the much awaited ... windows features. Then the article doesn't say another word about Windows.
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by jscholes 8y ago
> After thinking about it, I'd be willing to lose some speed (if at all) if I never had to look down to type ()=>{}; Losing speed isn't a given. I recognise that my situation is completely different from someone who has lea
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by jscholes 8y ago
I don't understand America's fascination with these. I first visited the US over 15 years ago and they were everywhere, but since then I don't think I've even seen a single one in the UK.
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The Worst API Ever Made (2014)(caseymuratori.com)
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by jscholes 8y ago
To me this was a well written, no bullshit, super helpful piece. My thanks to the author, from someone relatively new to freelancing. I feel extremely lucky to have landed an 80-hour monthly retainer as one of my first gigs, but this arti
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by jscholes 8y ago
I use an Osprey Farpoint 40 for international travel. Packing cubes are absolutely essential for fitting in all my clothing, and there's no denying that I have to sacrifice plenty of things that I would otherwise be able to fit in a s
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by jscholes 8y ago
Gender issues aside, speaking as a daily text-to-speech user this voice doesn't sound particularly natural or pleasing. The accent seems to constantly shift between American and British, and there is some weird audio phasing going on.
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by jscholes 8y ago
> though BBC Sounds remains unavailable to non-UK listeners I'm a non-UK listener and use the BBC Sounds app all the time. The only thing that's unavailable are program downloads.
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by jscholes 8y ago
> there’s no credit card number, CVV, expiration date, or signature, with all that authorization information stored directly in the Apple Wallet app. I understand the point is to increase Apple Pay usage, but how would I use this card wi
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by jscholes 8y ago
> WebAim is the highest authority on accessibility. I'm not sure that's strictly true nor measurable, or really matters in this case when we're discussing a survey filled out by users.
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by jscholes 8y ago
> It would be interesting to hear from people who use assistive tech for HN how much of a problem it causes them in practice. I use a screen reader and am a frequent reader of HN. Obviously, much of the site's content is textual -
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by jscholes 8y ago
As an additional comment for people coming across this thread in future and anyone else it may help. Please make sure that your accessibility tools are high quality, as you would when assessing any other dependency or service used in the d
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by jscholes 8y ago
> JAWS + IE is the most popular combination It's worth keeping a few points in mind when reading these results: 1. The survey was carried out in October 2017. Things can and do move quite rapidly in this area, especially given the
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by jscholes 8y ago
There is a great Chrome extension called aXe[1], as well as tools like Tenon[2] which also has a rest API so you can potentially set it up as part of a CI workflow. It's worth remembering that "accessibility" is a broad term.
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> That is an absurd barrier. It may be absurd for someone who has always lived in a location with access to the education, job opportunities and other services which allow them to live the life they want. It's not quite that absurd
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> It's not really that different that opening a website or business for business in one country (or part of the country) and not another. It is, because people can choose to move to a part of the country where your business operates
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> localization > accessibility Speaking as a disabled (visually impaired) user here: Chrome can translate many websites while keeping their functionality intact, to the point where for many tasks, understanding the local language of t

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