newmnhn

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by newmnhn 5y ago
> The end user interacts with the application visually. That's why we test visually. Not all users interact visually. Selecting interactive elements through accessible labels, not based on visual appearance, is a better practice imo
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by newmnhn 5y ago
Hi author, I found parts of this downright wrong, especially on the Cypress side, which is where I have the most familiarity: >Compare this to code-based automation solutions like Selenium or Cypress, where a coder would need to manually
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by newmnhn 5y ago
In a lot of places, _you can_ friend!
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by newmnhn 5y ago
Huge difference between "feeling depressed" and "being unable to function on a daily basis due to a medical condition called depression". Sick leave is appropriate if a person is sick. Depression can take over your life
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by newmnhn 6y ago
I'm not fond of big nested menus in general either, but they are good for quick exploration and can be pretty forgiving of poor categorization. I do wonder if sometimes the nested nav is too in-between. Maybe the solution is not to try
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by newmnhn 6y ago
I agree I was wrong, there's another reply to me that's a lot more coherent about what I was going for. I do think it's important to still understand and confront the problems of whiteness as an identity head on. > Being i
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by newmnhn 6y ago
I think this is a better way to put all of that than what I said, thanks.
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by newmnhn 6y ago
Sure, but the history of the term matters in this context & maybe should be taught a little more. Like when we grow up these days, we sorta get the idea that White or Black are these inherent traits that people naturally have and have a
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by newmnhn 6y ago
"White" isn't a racial group. "White" as an idea to describe a group of (roughly) light skinned European people, came about in order to justify enslaving and subjugating other groups. Various groups worked their way
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by newmnhn 6y ago
The problem is partly that page speed measurement tools care a lot about that first load. Even if everything after that is super snappy due to cached resources, if you are only using 5% of the total CSS file in the first page the user hits,
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by newmnhn 6y ago
I suppose I was reacting to this: "Authoritative reference documents of MDN are going to become cluttered with comments and disagreements" Which suggests previously authoritative docs are becoming less so due to being editable. I&
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by newmnhn 6y ago
MDN has never been "authoritative reference documents". It's a wiki. Anybody can edit and republish pages, change examples, do whatever. I noticed somewhere about a year ago that it was a wiki, and have made minor changes to
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by newmnhn 6y ago
There are a lot of useful comments already. Something that hasn't been pointed out yet as far as I can tell is that there are accessibility and quality errors on your website. If I am looking to hire somebody it's one of the thing
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by newmnhn 6y ago
I've had a rough time with GrandPad. Tried to set it up for a family to use during covid, the mother is in her 60s and pretty competent with tech - they use iPads, Kindles etc just fine. We tried to change the registration of the Grand
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by newmnhn 6y ago
This tool definitely seems very close in spirit to mavo, but paid. I didn't last long enough after the autoplaying video to learn if there's anything it can do that mavo doesn't do (maybe hosting services?) that's worth