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:eyes: Find schools by location
Some school descriptions are outdated. For example, Yowie Bay PS currently displays the below:  And the most recent dataset description has the following: _"Yowie Bay Public School provides a...
We're re-querying unnecessarily To see it, search for a school (e.g. Darlinghurst Public) and clear your console. No nearby schools are shown. Click to expand the nearby schools control. You'll...
When you search for a primary school, we highlight the catchment for that school, and we also show the faint outlines of surrounding primary schools. Likewise for secondary schools, we...
To reproduce: 1) Search for a primary school, by address. 2) When the results map appears, expand the nearby schools filter widget. 3) Show nearby schools and change from 'Primary'...
If user searches for school like 'russell', then shift clicks on map, this sends app.level = undefined to query. Shift clicking is mostly a secret power user feature anyway, so...
@reekypete [pointed out](https://github.com/CodeforAustralia/school-finder/pull/194/commits/16bd14ddb233001a5426c12e411588946c4c1a8a#diff-eacf331f0ffc35d4b482f1d15a887d3bR60) that button controls could have labels which are more self contained (so screen reader users wouldn't have to have surrounding context to make use of the buttons)....
I've noticed people click the back button instead of scrolling up. That's perhaps understandable since they're clicking a button instead of scrolling down. We could use the [History API](http://diveintohtml5.info/history.html) to...
 Sighted users are able to use their eyes and a mouse to quickly see which schools are nearby. However, the source order of the map markers is not based...
Currently we have:  We might instead do this (sidenote: we can also get rid of the asterix on "`home location*`" above and change the attempted footnote into a parenthetical...
# idea https://github.com/blog/2112-delivering-octicons-with-svg Think about: - screen readers - browser support (Opera mini) - bandwidth See also: - https://cloudfour.com/thinks/seriously-dont-use-icon-fonts/ - https://speakerdeck.com/ninjanails/death-to-icon-fonts - https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/144