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A11y Slackers Gitter Channel Archive 18th of September 2015

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke
  1. zakim-robot
    Sep 18 00:39
    [Marcy Sutton, a11y] I’d also give the dialog a title, my colleague found in Chrome/VO that if you don’t give it an accessible name it will try calculating one, with unpleasant results.
  2. MichielBijl
    08:09
    Godmorgen slackers :)
  3. stevefaulkner
    09:48
    @MichielBijl :smile:
  4. stevefaulkner
    09:50
    @cryberg difficult to respond without a) code example b) knowledge of UA/AT versions
  5. MichielBijl @MichielBijl waves at @stevefaulkner
  6. MichielBijl
    10:22
    I wasn't aware there was a difference in meaning for <main>…
  7. stevefaulkner
    10:32
    @MichielBijl yeah between whatwg and w3c HTML there is
  8. MichielBijl
    11:35
    Funny thing is that where Hixie links to for data on his stand point; there is no data.
  9. MichielBijl
    11:36
    Just a vague description with use cases for articles and sections.
  10. MichielBijl
    11:37
    But let's not bash, I just don't get it. So either I'm stupid, or his argument isn't defined well enough.
  11. MichielBijl
    11:42
    “those of us who are too old to be hipsters can legitimately claim that we were doing Progressive Enhancement, before it was cool.”
  12. MichielBijl
    11:42
    Haha, that's hilarious.
  13. MichielBijl
    11:42
    http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2015/anachronistic-beard-a-new-methodology-to-make-sites-work-anywhere/
  14. aardrian
    14:05
    I am not a regular AT user, but I am struggling with using the example forms on this site work: http://www.typeform.com/examples/ Has anybody heard of or used this service?
  15. schalkneethling
    15:07
    @stevefaulkner http://schalkneethling.github.io/blog/2015/09/17/using-paciello-group-colour-contrast-analyser/ :)
  16. stevefaulkner
    15:49
    hey @schalkneethling nice one - thanks!
  17. zakim-robot
    17:50
    [Darryl Pogue, a11y] Is it normal that if I have <section aria-labelled-by=“regionHeading”> <h3 id=“regionHeading”>Title text</h3> that VoiceOver reads out the heading twice? Once as the region title and once as an element?
  18. zakim-robot
    18:50
    [sarbbottam, a11y] did you mean aria-labelledby?
  19. zakim-robot
    20:33
    [dylanb, a11y] @dpogue: yes
  20. zakim-robot
    21:58
    [Marcy Sutton, a11y] That <main> thread….. my head and my heart
  21. zakim-robot
    23:19
    [Marcy Sutton, a11y] haha classic @karlgroves "More mains === more problems"
  22. zakim-robot
    23:19
    [Marcy Sutton, a11y] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/100#issuecomment-141592146
  23. zakim-robot
    23:20
    [Marcy Sutton, a11y] still…ouch
  24. zakim-robot
    23:50
    [nschonni, a11y] @marcysutton: that is a pretty depressing read