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For at least 30 years, we have had/practiced the "5-year-old robustness test":
Put the kid in front of a keyboard and a screen, and tell him: Do anything you want. If you make it lock up, and can show daddy/mommy what you did, you'll have an ice cream cone!"
I know of a few ice cream cones awarded that way 
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In my experience we web devs don't actually use or at least watch a video of a screen reader. This is bad. Very bad. Because we talk about accessibility, but it's amazing how many people still don't use aria tags, leverage semantic elements, etc.
Every web dev should watch this video. It's only 4 mins long.
Screen Reader Demo for Digital Accessibility
Not trying to sound preachy (but I am  ). The man is spot on. The world revolves around the Internet now. We can't forget about our blind brothers and sisters.
Side note, one of the cool features (as it pertains to the skip to content thread below) is the screen reader shown already has the ability to jump to a header. Also notice he skipped over the skip to main content link.
But even outside of that, peeps need to see a screen reader in action at least once. In particular how it allows him to scroll with a focus box over content.
Jeremy Falcon
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That's a really interesting video and provides great perspective on the issue.
I know that Bootstrap is really good about providing the aria tags as part of their controls, etc. and using Bootstrap helped me to gain some understanding of the importance.
This video was really informative and helpful and made me re-think about how important it is.
Thanks for sharing. 
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raddevus wrote: This video was really informative and helpful and made me re-think about how important it is.
What I find funny is they can already skip to the main content by virtue of headers.  And home dude just strait up ignored that link.
One of the peeves I had watching that video is whoever wrote that web page used spacer divs, images, or something without using an aria-hidden tag. Granted, it's a university and not a professional site, but still. You'll see some of those tabs tabbed over blank space for that reason. Spacers are so 20 years ago, but if you're gonna use one because you refuse to learn Flexbox, at least use an aria tag to tell the screen reader what's up.
raddevus wrote: Thanks for sharing.
Any time buddy.
Jeremy Falcon
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To be clear, I'm totally agreeing with you about the skip to main content link you talked about being implemented like garbage. It seems like something that would otherwise be a good idea was borked... and to top if off not even needed.
Jeremy Falcon
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A couple of hints to developers:
* Get hold of a pair of sunglasses (unless you want to do a cleaning job on your own glasses afterwards ), and smear them with vaseline or something similar. Carrying those, go through an entire procedure of booting up your PC, reading and responding to emails, running your application with all its features, and shutting the PC down.
* For handling tunnel vision: Make a large cardboard with a small hole, at most 1/8 of the screen width. Hide the screen behind the cardboard, but allow the user to move the boar up and down and to both sides to cover the entire screen, and let users run a boot up, running your application and shutting down.
* For color blindness: Reduce the color saturation to zero, creating a greyscale image (most display card drives allow this), and try to use applications - maybe your own! - using colors to convey essential information. (You may of course use web sites converting the colors according to a specific defect, but those are usually rather slow. Converting to gray scale is certainly not as exact, but it will give a rough indication.)
* Disconnect the mouse (and other navigation tools such as touchpads or joysticks), and go through the process from boot up, starting your application and using all of its features, and closing down, using the keyboard only.
* One nice way of demonstrating how suitable your application is to a blind (or near-blind): Turn the screen to the audience so that you cannot see it, but the audience can. Then demonstrate how you handle boot up, activation of different applications including you own, and shutdown.
* Find yourself a pair of mittens, as thick as possible, and try to handle your keyboard with those.
* Assuming that it is winter, at least 15C below freezing: Go out for at least half an hour without gloves or mittens, and when you come back, go directly to your keyboard and start operating your application.
There is one test that beats them all:
Make your test team include people with different kinds of disabilities: Various sigh impairment (tunnel vision, color blindness, retina defects), various motoric defects, and so on.
A lot of developers who claim that they have adapted their software to various disabilites would (or at least should) feel ashamed when observing how people with those disabilites cope with their software!
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Amarnath S wrote: Not sure whether this was commercialized.
That's cool. Hopefully, someone will.
Jeremy Falcon
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Very important. I'll be showing this to my daughter (who does some web development). My work is strictly at the back end, so it's less relevant to me.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I hate everything about web ui, pretty much.
That said, working on accessibility facelift WCAG stuff was one of the more interesting things I've ever had to do with it.
It also makes me just ever so slightly less enraged about the whole "let's cram everything into a browser because why not, it'll be awesome, guys, come on!?"
Because it does bring a sort of standard even with the DOM itself that lends itself to accessibility stuff like screen readers and input devices. That's pretty important, not just with the internet, but with computing/technology.
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Github has a nifty feature where you can just Open In Visual Studio and it will open VS and clone your repo for you.
I like this magic, but thing is it used to say Open In Visual Studio Code and well over half my projects are in VS Code.
Does anyone know how to get it back? Preferably I'd like both, but if nothing else, I just want it to work with VS Code.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Have you tried on the main repository page pressing the period key? "." It will open up a VSCode browser instance. Once that comes up if you go into the run/debug icon there is a button to continue which will ask if you want to clone the repo and open it in desktop VSCode.
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Thanks, I'll give that a shot!
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I asked Copilot about the "Skip to content" feature.
My Question
Raddevus asked: Why has the accessibility feature "skip to main content" become prevalent in my browser in the recent weeks, even though I'd never seen it before in past years?
Copilot Answer
Copilot answered: The βSkip to Main Contentβ feature has gained prominence recently due to increased awareness and emphasis on web accessibility. When keyboard-only users interact with a webpage, they rely on the tab key to navigate links. If a page has many links at the top (such as in headers or menus), users must tab through them to reach the main content. The βSkip to Main Contentβ link allows users to bypass these initial sections and jump directly to the main content, enhancing accessibility12. If you encounter this feature more frequently now, itβs likely because website developers are actively implementing it to improve accessibility for all users. π
Ok, whatevs! I know when I'm being gas-lighted (gas-lit?)!!
The Q-To-That-A (Question To That Answer)
Then why is no one else seeing this feature?
I must be the only one reading web sites, right?
Figured Out How To Recreate It Instantly
1) Go to github.com (or any site that uses the feature):
2) hit your tab key, one time -- you'll see it.
But why does mine recently show it if I don't tab?
Cease & Desist!
No worries, you won't hear about me talking about Skip To Main Content any more.
FYI - I posted a question to AskUbuntu[^] (Stack Exchange site).
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raddevus wrote: Ok, whatevs! I know when I'm being gas-lighted (gas-lit?)!!
This is my beef with "experts"... they're not really experts. It's more ego than progress. I'm sure Copilot is just regurgitating what it read online, which ironically is just like most people.
Given the fact that tabbing is the only place this makes sense. You'd think a smart dev would only make that appear after the first non-form tab key is pressed and the current tab index doesn't exist in the main content. That way, it won't interfere with anyone except those who would actually use it.
A little bit of knowledge is "dangerous" and this seems to be a another case of not knowing enough but still wanting to feel smart and throwing crap out there anyway.
Jeremy Falcon
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