mastodon 4.7.3One hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.
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/me starts reading post on building an accessible modal dialog using ``.
/me comes to this sub-head about five paragraphs in.
Me: “Ok then.”
/me ignores remaining 2,000 words, closes tab, adds site to block list.
Me: “That was a good use of everyone’s time.”
RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116992048337520434
I appreciate this both acknowledges the error and credits the resources. Something I’d like to see more of from browsers (looks askance at Chrome).
Key takeaways:
• `aria-label` is code smell,
• testing in only VoiceOver is always insufficient (as is testing in only one SR in general, but VO compounds it).
Went to a show with a lot of hippies in the crowd for the first three acts and was afraid I’d have to do all the skanking for the ska final act but then the 2 tone started and skankers came out of the woodwork and I may have thrown out my hip.
Available now. Today.
“Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech”
Info:
https://AccessibilityEthics.org/
Links to other sellers:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/11/pre-order-digital-accessibility-ethics.html#CtA (anchor)
Add to your StoryGraph to-read pile:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/42da2fec-4ee9-462f-adbd-6396dc112a19
I updated “Don’t Disable Form Controls” with a suggestion on what to do with submit buttons:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/02/dont-disable-form-controls.html#SubmitInstead
And no, making them read-only is not it, so don’t:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/11/avoid-read-only-controls.html
Trying to explain the WCAG 2 conformance model to a WCAG testing team in as few words as possible.
(Ref if unknown to you: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/conformance)
With alt. Also top of page 2: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.601006/gov.uscourts.njd.601006.12.0.pdf
What you get when the agents & agency get incentives to detain and the detainee is sent to a private prison that gets paid to detain him.
The government scamming taxpayers and counting on racism to let it go unnoticed.
I assume he’s going to announce that Saudi Arabia needs to be expelled from NATO as well?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/116991169497136323
A was a big fan of the original aViewer, so I look forward to trying this one. Probably on a VM to start.
I missed that Georgetown not only purged posts from its former provost, it also took down the entire blog. So this banger exists only in the Wayback:
“Eating our Seed Corn” (about ‘AI’)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240703032246/https://blog.provost.georgetown.edu/eating-our-seed-corn/
Found because I was updating a post on my site and this link was dead.
My sixth level cleric, Ned, likes to sell swag.
He already has tees and stickers and notebooks:
https://aardrian.threadless.com/designs/ned
But now he’s handing out autographed Woodford Reserve bourbon (signed “N€D #6”).
He ships it in church caravans and will use Detect Lie on you if he thinks you tattled.
This is one way to get rid of your Real Doll overstock:
“New York School District Shells Out $58K for a Robot Teaching Assistant”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-robotic-teaching-assistant-is-heading-to-a-new-york-state-school
I’m driving through Salamanca this weekend. Well, I might route around it, actually.
Are you a screen reader user who relies on F6 navigation? Maybe you have an opinion on navigating landmarks on web pages via a proposed `focuslandmark`?
https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/1472#issuecomment-5062013011
RE: https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/116528011675724654
Yesterday.
[12/5]
Accessibility Firewall ‘fixed’ one of the 133 issues axe DevTools identified on Vercel’s home page. By adding a useless aria-label to the logo link.
Meanwhile, it introduced more WCAG issues, while also removing subnav, login, sign in, “Ask AI”, etc.
Impressive.
I’m now afraid this shit-crony will come back to Buffalo to lick his turd-crony wounds and leave poop-crony stains all over town again as he works to crony-up once more.
Thanks to this case, I now know that in NY, calling someone a “crony” is non-actionable rhetorical hyperbole.
Crony.
https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3ml54ifdlrk2x
I know nothing about LabX Media Group. Is my decades-old subscription to Scientific American about to bring me enshittified content instead? Anyone have experience with LabX Media Group beyond what I can find on its site?
“LabX Media Group Acquires Scientific American, Expanding Global Science Media Portfolio”
https://www.prweb.com/releases/labx-media-group-acquires-scientific-american-expanding-global-science-media-portfolio-302807304.html
