all front end devs and designer should watch this video

Nov. 26th, 2022 01:17 pm
deborah: the Library of Congress cataloging numbers for children's literature, technology, and library science (Default)

From [profile] heydon, What Happened To Text Inputs.

I cannot yell loudly enough that (thoughtless, ill-considered) innovation and standing out are nearly always incompatible with usability, user experience, and accessibility. Web designers and front end devs who don't have a functionality-first attitude need a new career, or they need to do work on art projects instead of usable websites. Heydon yells this with the assistance of wolves and cursing, so maybe more people will watch and pay attention.

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the power and the danger of WAI-ARIA: speech recognition edition

Jul. 5th, 2018 10:46 am
deborah: the Library of Congress cataloging numbers for children's literature, technology, and library science (Default)
tl;dr: Use ARIA, and use it wisely.

This spring, I gave a tutorial at Ebooklib, "WAI-ARIA In Practice: E-Books That Are Dynamic, Beautiful, and Accessible". My whole session basically boils down to "look at all these awesome things you can do with WAI-ARIA, but look at all of these terrible things you can do with WAI-ARIA, so please use it, but pretty please with sugar on top only use it mindfully -- read the documentation!" (Powerpoint slides with notes, PDF reading list.)
( aria-roledescription, speech recognition users are not screen reader users, and button labels )
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