Mike Gifford
Mike Gifford
Can you provide a reference on your assertion about `alert()`, I just did a quick search but didn't find anything backing it up. There are definitely better ways to alert...
Ok, so accessibility may or may not be a reason to avoid using `alert()` messages, but I don't know that many people find these to be a good user experience....
It isn't uncommon to have the profile picture just to be someone's name. Not as good as a description of the photo/image, but generally that is ok. The hero image...
I don't know if Mastodon has a way to easily hide content from sighted users, but display it to keyboard only users but this is what Drupal has done: https://www.drupal.org/docs/accessibility/hide-content-properly...
@samnabi Ya, it's just too long and unorganized a list to maintain right now. Without order it's really hard to even know what is missing. I forked it here: https://github.com/mgifford/inclusive-design-checklist...
@Heydon Ya the sections I came up with were just a first hack based on the list. The list is just too long. Like the idea of a JSON list...
Should add that this is when you have https://mastodon.social/settings/preferences/appearance Media display set to "Always hide media":  It makes this a bit less addictive (which is good)....
Wanted to draw attention to https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/1424/files In this PR there was also a label to provide a textual equivalent for the image. That is fine, if there is a label,...
Can you give me an example of what No. 2 looks like. I can't envision what this would look like in HTML. If there is going to be alt text...
@erbridge `alt="user-plus"` is bad alt text. This has been tried as a fallback with image names. If you stripped out the - it would be a bit better `alt="user plus"`...