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A11y Slackers Gitter Channel Archive 29th of July 2016

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke
  1. Job van Achterberg
    @jkva
    Jul 29 08:15
    Good morning slackers!
  2. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jul 29 08:30
    [michiel] Morning Job :)
  3. James Nurthen
    @jnurthen
    Jul 29 08:46
    Good morning.
  4. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jul 29 11:12
    [michiel] Cycling in the UK: Oh it's quite nice out, let's get ready for a quick round. puts on cycling clothes runs outside with bike, DAMNIT, rain again :(
  5. Job van Achterberg
    @jkva
    Jul 29 11:13
    @michiel surely that's no different in NL
  6. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jul 29 11:13
    [michiel] I'm starting to suspect it is a bit worse here.
  7. [michiel] On the other hand, only had rain twice this week.
  8. Job van Achterberg
    @jkva
    Jul 29 11:14
    And great food
  9. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jul 29 11:15
    [michiel] Tell me about it, just had really good eggs royale <3
  10. Job van Achterberg
    @jkva
    Jul 29 11:15
    That sounds French :P
  11. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jul 29 11:15
    [michiel] You go bankrupt if you do it every morning, but if you do every so often <3
  12. [michiel] Yeah I don't like British breakfast :x
  13. Job van Achterberg
    @jkva
    Jul 29 11:15
    You probably die of heart failure before bankruptcy
  14. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jul 29 11:16
    [michiel] It's salmon with about 8 eggs, how is that not healthy :P
  15. Job van Achterberg
    @jkva
    Jul 29 11:17
    Hmm actually that's pretty healthy. Well, if you need the nutritional value of 8 eggs
  16. I just ate 6 :)
  17. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jul 29 11:19
    [michiel] Yeah I didn't count the eggs, it was just a lot of egg.
  18. Andrew
    @apulley
    Jul 29 11:45
    Question: Anyone have experience or guidelines on preventing character input on fields? An example: Preventing non-number input in a field labeled as "Date", which will have hint text mentioning something like "Please enter your date as MM/DD/YYYY".
  19. Mallory
    @StommePoes
    Jul 29 14:12
    It just seems to be a usability thing along the lines of "guiding your users to doing what you want"
  20. "what you want" being users filling in
    • the right field
    • with the right data
    • in the right (or a right) format
    • the first time
  21. If the hint shows non-numbers though you need to allow those
  22. if I actually type a / it either shows up or it was already added as I go
  23. same with phone numbers, don't gimme a +xx (xxx) xxx-xxxx and then yell at me for plusses, parens, spaces or dashes
  24. and if I add an "x8765" at the end, if the system can't deal with extensions, just strip it.
  25. It would of course be the most awesome thing evar if you could totally Postal's Law that input
  26. let people put in all sorts of things and the system translates it.
  27. Mallory
    @StommePoes
    Jul 29 14:17
    But that can get tricky as heck.
  28. Andrew
    @apulley
    Jul 29 14:47
    @StommePoes Thanks for the thoughts. Yea, where I think I'm headed is outright preventing of invalid characters (and attempting to go over max-length) for fields that need to be formatted (dates, phone, maybe ZIP codes, credit card numbers). For fields where data can be somewhat variable (name, address, etc) allowing everything invalid and then showing the appropriate error messages. I just want to make sure I'm doing my due diligence concerning accessibility ... properly informing the user of specific formatting.
  29. Mallory
    @StommePoes
    Jul 29 15:26
    It's an area where you can easily stop a user and they can't go further
  30. like the guy who's last name is Hu and his field stated "Last Name Must Be At Least 3 Characters"
  31. Hm, for some reason my increase/decrease voice rate shortcut keys are not working in NVDA on this Windows machine
  32. it works on my Linux/Windows machine, but not on my work machine
  33. Michael Fairchild
    @mfairchild365
    Jul 29 20:54
    Can anyone recommend a PDF accessibility checker?
  34. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jul 29 21:23
    [joe-watkins] @mfairchild365 other than the tools in Adobe Acrobat?
  35. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jul 29 23:48
    [jason] I’m responsible for doing a bias training in my office, specifically regarding those with disabilities. Would love to know of any materials you all may have on the subject, or even if any of you have real world examples of bias you have seen or experienced that I could share.
  36. [jason] Feel free to DM me if you do.