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A11y Slackers Gitter Channel Archive 23rd of June 2017

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke
  1. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 23 14:18
    [cameron] hi friends, anyone done work with accommodations for deaf/hard-of-hearing in Voice apps?
  2. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 23 15:00
    [tink] Cameron, is there a specific thing you're curious about?
  3. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 23 16:22
    [cameron] @tink not really anything specific. I’m building Voice UI design tools, and thinking about accessibility opinions we can bake into the tools.
  4. [cameron] @tink I did a cursory web search and also asked in the Alexa Slack group about accessibility for people who are deaf, and came up pretty slim
  5. [cameron] I did discover Silent Echo via the Alexa Slack though
  6. [cameron] https://silentecho.bespoken.io
  7. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 23 16:28
    [tink] cameron: If you mean in terms of accessibility to Deaf people of interfaces that are speech only, I'm not sure there has been much/any research.
  8. [tink] The only possible approach would be for there to be a small screen that was capable of outputting the spoken content as BSL/ASL/whichever language.
  9. [tink] I think Amazon recently announced an Echo with a small screen, so that might perhaps be an avenue for exploration.
  10. [cameron] @tink yes, the Show
  11. [cameron] the ASL output is interesting to me. Also captioning.
  12. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 23 16:33
    [tink] Yes, captioning would be possible to using the same approach I should think.
  13. [tink] It might be worth looking at what Skills are capable of doing with regard to the Echo + screen devices.
  14. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 23 17:47
    [car] @cameron The DeafSpace people at Gallaudet University might be very interested in speaking with you. They rearchitected their physical space:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNGp1aviGvE
    So I bet they would have some ideas about rearchitecting their digital space (contact email on this page):
    https://www.gallaudet.edu/campus-design-and-planning/deafspace
  15. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 23 18:08
    [spell] @allenski Here it is in action! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUj9-MnRfxc
  16. [tink] Cameron, something I forgot... text output from the Echo is already displayed by default in the app/website.
  17. [cameron] @tink awesome, thanks! I’m hoping the Echo Show will have similar support as the companion app for text output. I’ll post when I find out more!
  18. [tink] Cool :)
  19. [cameron] @car very cool, thanks for the tip!
  20. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 23 19:55
    [quidkid] hey guys! so apparently anchor links in a nav on click placed focus on the entire main section rather than just the section that the anchor is linked to but only for IE. The report came back saying: Focus for same page links
    It looks like programmatic focus movement on IE requires tabindex=“-1” on all the target elements (much like focus movement when using JavaScript).. and I’m not sure what to make of it