superdavid

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by superdavid 16y ago
Most companies that try to do something about accessibility seem eager just to find a checklist they can go through. If access keys somehow turned up there, then they go into the website!
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by superdavid 16y ago
So many "new interface" ideas seem to forget that a large percentage of what people use computers for is in offices, producing documentation. Using your voice, or spinning 3D interfaces around with your hands, just isn't practical in an off
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by superdavid 16y ago
I think the idea that users that need/advocate these features can contribute fixes to an open source project is one of the unfortunate myths (for want of a better word) of the FOSS movement. The idea is noble, but, as with Mozilla, the item
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by superdavid 16y ago
Despite all the flack that Microsoft gets, its browser is far and away the strongest for accessibility, with Mozilla a close second. Sadly Opera, Apple and Google almost need not bother...
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Make Google Chrome accessible - info & petition(webdragon.com.au)
3 points by superdavid 16y ago|3 comments
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by superdavid 16y ago
Very few sites actually make use of <abbr> and <acronym> tags, when they would be handy for people without any disabilities, much of time.
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by superdavid 16y ago
We can only assume their own tweets won't be blocked by any content filter...
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Ask HN: Is Google down?
1 points by superdavid 16y ago|2 comments
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by superdavid 16y ago
It's amazing that only in 2010 are we reaching the point where the vast amounts of information that are inherently made public (like SSIDs) are actually sensitive information. Long gone are the days when public policy could be dictated by w
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by superdavid 16y ago
I get the feeling a lot of developers pick Ruby because it's cool, while businesses latch onto .Net because it's Microsoft. There really seems to be little more to it than that, most of the time.
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by superdavid 16y ago
Plenty of companies still have them, mainly when designers insist that a website needs to be compared to a magazine or print brochure. They're typically the same websites that have music playing on every page (and that can't be turned off).
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by superdavid 16y ago
Probably because Mozilla and Opera aren't easy targets for lawsuits from disability groups and governments in the same way that Microsoft has a bullseye painted on it.
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by superdavid 16y ago
They don't seem to want to admit that the problem is not how complicated it is to set privacy levels, but that there are things you just can't control any more. For example, whether your profile picture gets shown to people outside your net
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by superdavid 16y ago
Two major problems I see with people straight out of their course: 1. They've never heard of source control, let alone understand why or how it should be used. 2. They know exactly the frameworks they've been shown during their courses, and
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by superdavid 16y ago
The slides note that the new HTML5 doctype works in current browsers. Does it trigger quirks mode in older browsers (e.g. pre-2010 releases)? If so, that essentially makes it a lot less usable that the slides would suggest.
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by superdavid 16y ago
The problem with canvas, as correctly identified on the IE blog, is that no-one has yet worked out what to do with it from an accessibility perspective. Other browsers just report it to screen-readers (and other similar technologies) as a g
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by superdavid 16y ago
That would be for the initial release, but not for the service packs unfortunately. IE6 was still standard (and had some security enhancements) in XP SP2.
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by superdavid 16y ago
Even if IE9 catches up 100%, it will still be frozen in time at its point of release until IE10 is released several years later, where other browsers will be regularly releasing new versions every few weeks/months (with almost 90% take-up).
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by superdavid 16y ago
You can see they're between a rock and a hard place - they don't want to annoy business customers by cutting off support for XP, but they don't want to spend significant resources bringing new software to an incredibly old platform.
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by superdavid 16y ago
At least their own new apps (Sharepoint 2010, online versions of Office) won't run in IE6, so that's pushing people towards newer versions. The problem is, even if we get rid of IE6 today, IE7 will be the problem tomorrow, then IE8 the next
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by superdavid 16y ago
Exactly. Microsoft's enterprise business is built on backwards compatibility, and they've already had a few breakages in recent years, with (most things in) Vista, and the recent announcement that Windows Mobile apps won't run in Windows Ph
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by superdavid 16y ago
As a fully sighted user, I struggle with the buttons on touch screens. When once texting while walking was so easy, with an iPhone you have to stop and look at what you're doing.