Independent front-end engineer, accessibility advocate, inclusive designer and educator. Dataviz accessibility nerd. Sometimes drawing things with CSS. The type of person who makes having dogs their whole personality 🐕🦺🐑✨ Non-binary. Pronouns they/them/hen.
A `<section>` is a meaningless element. Stop using it.
UNLESS you give it an accName. Then it becomes a region landmark:
https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/#el-section
Do not use `aria-label`. Associate `<section> with its `<h#>` via `aria-labelledby`. If it has no `<h#>`, stop using it.
So mastodon.social feels incredibly slow, and also too big and random to have a usable local/federated timeline, so I’m guessing I should move over to something else. Which (queer friendly) instances do you recommend?
Lessons learned from being permanently banned on Twitter.
https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2022/your-account-is-permanently-suspended/
Can I ask a favour?
I'm really grateful to be recommended as a follow, but can you also mention the website (https://fedi.tips) when you do so?
At the moment getting a lot of questions which are answered on the site, and it's difficult to keep up with every question. I'm happy to keep answering, but also afraid I'll miss someone's question.
If they know about the site from the beginning, they will have a chance of finding the answers themselves if I do miss their question.
Thanks 🙏
I got an email that the "databases" of my Eleventy website were hacked. Damn, those hackers are good these days, hacking databases that don't exist, I applaud and make a $3000 transfer in Bitcoin.
Nothing like starting the week with a good therapy session 😌💛
On a more serious note:
If you’re navigating to a page or section: <a>.
If you’re executing an action, like submitting a post: <button>.
If you want to non-semantically group elements on a page to apply styling: <div>.
It’s always recommended to use the correct semantic element instead of changing the role and keyboard behavior of a <div>.
@moiety almost went to a Halloween party as a <div class=“button”> on Saturday, kinda regret not doing it
it looks like a button and it behaves like a button, it’s a
I wrote an article on #css layers. It's as condensed as possible as all the other guides I saw were over 6000 words. I have #ADHD, that's not gonna work.
So, less than 800 words on this new "feature". What, how and why.
There aren't any major alternatives to the biggest social media platforms today because growing apps are acquired, crushed or limited. TikTok is an outlier due it's location. If BeReal becomes more than novelty likely will be bought up or copied and made irrelevant (Clubhouse). The lack of viable platforms isn't through the lack of imagination or effort. It's the Tech world is a vastly different place when you had AIM, ICQ, LiveJournal, Friendster, MySpace and others in competition.
@benteh this is a great reminder that I have to go and get this years flu shot somewhere 😅
Honestly this would be the best time for an accessible, ethical social media platform to get the ball rolling.
Like imagine if accessibility and inclusion was a priority on day one for an app instead of coming way late.
I wrote about the potential downsides to over-using aria-label. https://ericwbailey.website/published/aria-label-is-a-code-smell/
Happy Halloween to everyone who has been affected by accessibility overlays!
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RT @ScopicEngineer
Not too late to grab a truly horrifying costume for Halloween next week! 🎃
https://twitter.com/ScopicEngineer/status/1585377947493761024
"In the same way an organisation chooses a logo and colour palette for its website, it stands to reason that they may also choose a particular voice that represents their brand." — @LeonieWatson@twitter.com
"Why we need CSS spech"
Excellent writeup and read by @LeonieWatson@twitter.com https://tink.uk/why-we-need-css-speech/
@GaelVaroquaux Well said!
Also, since the general public, investors, and tech-bros fall for his antics, they reinforce the perception that:
1. #tesla has already achieved #self-driving despite the evidence and
2. if-elon-cannot-then-no-one-can.
As a result, he is also killing funding for real #autonomous #driving research, all because he cannot really grasp how complex things are in reality.
